Manly P. Hall Collection, Box 4, Ms 19, Vol. 4

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...and thus can be changed into the four living and life-giving principles of the art. This also gives the third one, born of it, the power to awaken the dead to life. For the four flames and their number show that everything that originates from the primordial, central core within the four mothers of the elements must again be reduced through these $Δ$ (Triangles) and their opposing actions back into the Prima Materia (first matter) of the triangular flows and cores. After a thing has been sufficiently measured in its numbers and stands in the 4th central house of the $Δ$, it becomes pure, powerful, and virtuous, and possesses higher and faster action. Indeed, all brilliance and luster, with its distinct degrees, consists in this square. But beware, for it looks like blind darkness; therefore, use the grimness of the four central $Δ$ as a wise man, and not as a fool. Also, do not let your soul Revelation 10:4 unite with the dark smoke that has become $\nabla$ (corporeal/physical), otherwise you will become a hellish Magus Cabalista (Cabalistic magician) and Philosophus (philosopher). You will elaborate, instead of the Radix (root) of life, a Radix of hell and death, in which the Wisdom 17:4-6 wonders of darkness are seen all too publicly until the terror of death—of which there is no more to be said here. For if your soul becomes fixed with the darkness or the hellish matrix, it remains eternally locked within it and works according to the nature of the poisonous basilisk. But if it goes into a fixation with the mother of light—as the $\nabla$ (water/dew) has stood upon the sweet heaven—it remains sealed in the light forever. Therefore, look carefully at what center you unite your spiritual soul with, for...
The text utilizes alchemical symbolism: $Δ$ for Fire, $\nabla$ for Water/Dew, and $\odot$ for Gold/Sol.