The Secret Fire: An Alchemical Study - The Golden Dawn by E. J. Langford Garstin, Tony Deluce
By E. J. Langford Garstin, Tony Deluce
This can be a reliable evaluate of a constrained set of views on what many name Sacred hearth. i believe the author's event used to be possibly too restricted in viewpoint. a lot of the focal point is on info coming from the center East and Western Asia. that won't a unfavorable even though, simply whatever to concentrate on. this can be a very huge subject and that i imagine a latest assessment of it's going to necessitate additional information from Africa, Australia, and the Americas.
Sometimes those "white certain" gnostic books could be tough to learn and excessively wordy. a part of that being as a result of expectancies of where and time the writer is coming from. This paintings stretches in that path from time to time, yet isn't difficult to comprehend.
This is an effective beginning for individuals drawn to Sacred/Secret fireplace, specially in the event that your heritage incorporates a lot of familiarity with Judeo-Christrian origins.
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These are all, as we have said, our sulphurs; and we must confess that they are used for both the Internal and the External. This, however, should not occasion surprise, for it is essentially logical that it should be so, seeing that our Hidden Sulphur is that which impregnates and coagulates the Mercury, fixing and tingeing it into most pure Gold. Yet, as we have pointed out, it requires itself to be stirred into action by its own Exter-nal Vulcan before this result can be achieved, so that it is Male with regard to the Mercury, but Female in the relationship which it bears to its own activator.
CHAPTER X We have now arrived at a stage where we must consider the Operations of the Fire, which, broadly speaking, are three-fold. It is, in the first place, the mysterious solvent; next it is the agent bringing about the sublimation; lastly it is the coagulator. Eudoxus, in his First and Second Keys, which are really only two sections of one operation, namely the Solution, and an introduction to the Sublimation, tells us that "the First Key is that which opens up the dark prisons in which the Sulphur is shut up; this it is which knows how to extract the seed out of the body, and which forms the Stone of the Philosophers by the conjunction of the spirit with the body—of sulphur with mercury.
He says: "Our fire is the true sulphur of Gold, which in the hard, dry body is imprisoned, but by the mediation of the water is let loose, by rotting the moles of the body under which it is detained; and after separation of the elements (of the same body) it appears visibly in our Third Menstrual. But the means to discover this is not a light work, it requires a profound meditation: for this is the seed of Gold, involved in many links, and held prisoner, as it were, in a deep dungeon; he that knows not our two first menstruals is altogether shut out from attaining to the sight of this Third and last: yet he who knows how to prepare the first water and to join it to the body in a just pondus, to shut it up in its vessel philosophically, until the infant be formed, and, what is greater than all, to govern his fire dextrously, so as to cherish internal heat with external, and can wait with patience till he see signs; he shall perceive the first water will work on the body till it hath opened the pores and extracted partly the tincture of Sol.