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"As they are strange the
manuscripts of this Friend, grandvoyager of the unknown, they
reached me separately, however they form a whole for him which knows
that the colours of the rainbow give the white unit, or for the
Artist who under his brush, fact of the six colours of its magic
pallet, to spout out the black."
Le Serpent Rouge
Aquarius
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"Take heed, therefore, not to be deceived here; for it is a truth, that in
each work the Wise Artist ought to dissolve the body with the spirit; he
must cut off the Raven's head, whiten the Black and vivify the White; yet
it is properly in the First operation that the Wise Artist cuts off the
head of the Black Dragon and of the Raven.
Hence, Hermes says, What is born of the Crow is the beginning of this Art.
Consider that it is by separation of the Black, foul, and stinking fumes
of the Blackest Black that our astral, white, and resplendent Stone is
formed, which contains in its veins the blood of the Pelican. It is at
this First Purification of the Stone, and at this shining whiteness, that
the work of the First King is ended."
(The Philosopher's Stone, p. 105-106, originally The Six Keys of Exodus,
from The Hermetical Triumph by A.T. Limojonde St Didier (English
translation 1723)) |
