A New Chemical Light with Twelve Secret Chemical Tables

PREFACE.

Therefore, just as the seed of gold original: semen auri; the generative essence of the metal in its first generation drew its origin from celestial influence: so too natural reason dictates that for its regeneration and multiplication, the Philosophical Mercury Philosophical Mercury Not common quicksilver, but a purified, spiritualized substance used by alchemists as a universal solvent must be borrowed and sought from the rays of the Sun In alchemy, the Sun often represents gold or the active, masculine principle and the Moon The Moon represents silver or the passive, feminine principle and other stars. This, therefore, will be the solvent, and the other the thing to be dissolved. This is volatile, the other fixed. From their conjunction is born for us that most noble and Royal infant, the son of the Sun original: filius Solis; a common metaphor for the Philosopher’s Stone, representing the perfect union of spiritual and physical forces.

Furthermore, because the astral influences—serving as the other, or material, principle of the stone—are all universal and spiritual, they do not fall under our senses or touch without an appropriate body. Therefore, their bodily receptacle must also exist in a universal nature or state, and be as close as possible to the excellence of the simplicity of the elements. Since, moreover, the Element of Earth original: Elementum terræ is of such a kind and is the general receptacle of all influences.