The Golden Themis

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Deucalion is the other lion, not in body but in soul, not in form but in passion, with which he rages against his wife until he kills her and clothes himself with her lion skin. Only a few have approached the meaning of this oracle of Themis, since everyone interprets it through history or moral exposition, which have no place here. The reason, therefore, becomes clear why I have inscribed this treatise, dealing with the golden Laws of the Rosicrucian Fraternitas R. C. Fraternity of the Rose Cross, as the Golden Themis, which I offer to your candid judgment. For since it is the nature of man to reason and to discourse in his mind upon doubtful things, just as it is for a bird to fly and for horses to run through the fields, therefore, so that the truth may become more manifest to the one who understands, I have not neglected to undergo this writing. It is said of the touchstone that, although not sharp itself, it sharpens other things, and of steel that it strikes fire from flint, which is not in action in either; such I may appear to be, provided that some benefit comes to you from this, which, whatever it may turn out to be, you will accept and interpret in accordance with your equanimity and sincerity, no otherwise than humanly and skillfully. Farewell.