The Text of Alchemy and the Green Dream

PREFACE.

gestion. Everything comes from a Whole. Everything returns to one: original: "Ad unitatem fit regressus, quando ad denarium factus fuit progressus." Return is made to unity when the progression to the number ten has been completed. Such is the sphere of the Saturnine Heaven, which contains within its circle the true sign of unity in the Deity, and of the Deity in the Trinity, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. It is then that the divine ternary, joined to the quaternary, gives perfection to the number seven. In a word, through a mysterious harmony, one must proportion the point to the parallel, to the triangle, and to the square.