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Water flowed! Just as the first labour of the Magnum Opus was a work dissolution
and Death, the second labour is a restoration of Life and a work of rebirth.
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The Preparation of the White Lapis
When the dissolution has properly occurred, a subtile, black Ash forms on the top of
the Mercurio, like a fog above the Water. In Genesis (1-2), it says:
" ... and the darkness was upon the face of the deep, and the Spirit of
God moved upon the face of the water."
This blackness is the Tincture which we seek! This is our Ravenshead, the black Sun
of the Alchemists, which we must cook in a gentle fire until it sinks in the water and
remains on the bottom of the container as a thick, black water. This is called Oleum
Philosophorum. This is, in reality, a fatty, black powder, an incomprehensible dust,
which can only be seen in the Rays of the Sun. This is our black Elixir, which must be
whitened.
In this manner, the water received something other than its own nature, so that they
can no longer be separated from each other.
There are three operations in every Work:
1. To dissolve the Body with the Spirit.
2. To cut off the Head of the Raven.
3. To make the Black white, and the White red.
Before we take a closer look at the details of the second operation, we should also
mention what Paracelsus had to say about these procedures.
He writes in his Handbook the following regarding the Philosophers Stone:
"When your Electrum is broken, then take the Electrum which was
made broken and fleeting and set it into a philosophical egg and seal it
well, so that it cannot evaporate. Let it remain in an Athanor long
enough, until it begins to dissolve by itself without any addition and
until an island can be seen in the middle of this ocean, which reduces
daily and eventually turns into a cobbler's blackness. This Blackness is
the bird, which flies by night without wings, which also has inverted
the first Heaven's dew through constant cooking and ascension and
descension into a Blackness of the Ravenshead, and afterwards
becomes a Peacock's tail, and then acquires Swan feathers, and
eventually accepts the most Redness of the whole World, which is a
sign of his fiery nature. This production occurs, in accordance with the
opinion of the Philosophers in a utensil, in an oven, in a fire, without
cessation of the vaporific fire. Thereupon, such medicine is heavenly
and complete. Therefore, be serious about this; nobody can
comprehend or understand this Arcanum divinum without divine Will.
That is why, its virtue is infinite, so that God can be recognized
therein. It is forbidden to write more about this secret and it is reserved
for the divine Might. Because, this Art is actually a Gift from God, and
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that is why not everybody can understand it. Therefore, God gives it to
whom He wishes, and He will not let anybody extort it from Him with
force, but instead, God alone wants to have the Honour; His name be
praised eternally. Amen!"
-(Paracelsus, Manuale de Lapide Philosophorum)
Paracelsus calls the Raven of the Alchemists, a Bird, which flies at night without
wings! This is the up-to-now unaware, dream-like Depth-soul, the transcendental
Subject of a Human Being, which now no longer is separated, but instead, it is being
exalted to the consciousness of the Spirit and entered into a gentle communication
(coagulation) with the Spirit.
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This unification with the Divine Spirit is, however, for the animalistic Principle, that
is for the lower Astral Soul, the old Adam within us, to a certain degree deadly, he is
suffering through a condition of death, where he looses his up-to-now demonic Astral-
form and enters again into the antenatal Limbus, that is, into his first creative
indifference, into his materia prima! Now he became Earth again, from which he was
taken, that is, APHAR min ha-ADAMAH, a red tinctorial Gold-dust, united with the
Dew of Heaven.
-(Genesis 2-7)
At this point, his holy Earth is still dark, desolate and empty, but the Spirit of God is
already moving about it to impregnate the divine Light-Seed which is concealed
within it, with the upper Spirit-Water. Previously, during the ascension and return of
the Spirit of Vinegar, the materia which was below remained constantly moist and
was boiling in a continuing movement and evaporation. Artephius says:
"The whole Mastery is depending upon the boiling and driving away
of the spiritual smoke or vapour, which takes approximately 6 weeks."
First the steamed-out water ascends white, like a Phlegma. As soon as the inner
Central-Fire is aroused, the ascending steam turns yellowish and gilds the Glass inside
like with subtile gold flakes. These fine gold flakes gradually sink as a yellow powder
to the bottom, which little by little turn ash grey, become dryer and dryer, and
eventually turn into an incomprehensible pitch-black dust.
From this moment in time, the steaming-out ceases for approximately 6 weeks.
Because when the water which escapes through the evaporation is no longer
colourless and phlegmatic (but instead coloured yellowish and is sour like vinegar),
that is a sign that the salt is sufficiently satisfied and dissolved, so that now, it
accommodates in itself its subtile Spirit volatilem.
The fine and fleeting parts of the body have become mixed with the subtile parts of
the Spirit, with which they ascended. The coarser parts of the body on the other hand
joined the fixed parts of the Spirit on the bottom.
The adamic Earth is now a middle substance between the body and the Spirit, an
intermediate thing between the fixed and the volatile. It is not as fixed, that it would
be like gold, but also not as fleeting as mercury. Nevertheless, this new body is fixed
enough, that it can endure the fire, which is necessary for this work and all the torture
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and pain of this purgatory of the Alchemists, wherein it remains for 40 days and
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