Epistle of the Sun to the Moon

In the year when the Moon begins to be joined together with the Sun in its lowliness and illuminated by it.

Letter from the Sun to the Waxing Moon

from Senior - De Chemia book

In great weakness I will give you light from my beauty till I have reached perfection. The Sun will be exalted to the greatest height.

The Sun first says:

In my sister the Moon changes the degree of its whiteness and not with another except my servant.

Then I am like a seed sown on a well-pure and pure land or dirt which sprouts and sprouts and multiplies and brings usury to the one who so sown.

And the Sun continues to say to the Moon:

I want to give you my beautiful one, namely the sunshine when we are in the slightest together.

Then the Moon says to the Sun: O Sun, you need me as the cock needs the hen, and I need your good food, and I need your works.

O Sun, without interruption, because you are of perfect character in your customs, the father of all lights, a father of the bright ones, the high Lord and great Power, the great Master and Lord.

I am the Waxing Moon, Moist and Cold, and you are the Sun, Warm and Dry.

When we are joined together in the equality of status and stay in which nothing is then the easy thing that that has difficulty with it in which dwelling we will be idle by staying and we will be equal to the man and woman who strive for noble birth and discipline then I will take from you the nature with hypocrisy that is the soul and wants through yours relatives become lowly and then we want to be happy and merry at the same time with spiritual joy, that is in the way of the sublimated spirit, when we will ascend into the order of the highest ancient ones and the lightness of the light, namely the Sun, will be poured into my luminaries (Lucernæ meæ - Lucerne honey) that is the light of the Moon outside you, namely the Suns and outside me Moon will be an infusion of the light into the light, that is a mixing of the lights namely the wine with the water and I namely the moon will forbid it from flowing before you become my swords in color like of black ink, have put on after my solution and coagulation when we will go into the house of love then my body will be coagulated and on my birthday I will be the rising sun and my body will be transformed into the adornment of the suns.

When we have united in an equality of the status of our house, in which nothing happens except that the heavy has the light with it, in which we will stay, then I shall be like a woman who is open to her husband and that is true in word, and when we have been united, staying in the belly of this closed house, then I will receive, by flattering you, your soul, and you will take away my beauty and through your closeness I will become thin and we will be exalted in a spiritual exaltation, or heightened in a spiritual exaltation.

When we go up in the order of the highest ancient ones, or the old men, the glowing substance of my light will be united with my light and you and I will be like the mixture of sweet wine and water, and I stop my flow and afterwards I will be wrapped in your blackness and that will have the color of black ink, but after your dissolution and my coagulation, when we have entered the house of love, my body will coagulate and I will be in my emptiness.

Then the Sun replied to Moon:

O Moon, when you do what you said and do not harm me, my corpus will come back, then I will give you a new power of penetration, which is the tincture through which you are powerful in the battle of the fire of liquefication and purgation and there will no longer be any diminishing, or darkness, as it is with the copper and the lead, and you will not fight me anymore because you will not be rebellious anymore.

You will be in the battle of the sea of melting and purification, from which you will go without reduction outside the darkness like the Sun and you will not be attacked or overcome like the Lead, Lead if you are not stubborn and resist.

Blessed is the one who understands something in these statements and words of mine, he who thinks about my words: my dignity will not be taken away from you and will not become cheap, as a Lion will not become cheap, being weakened by the flesh - the Lion here is another image for the Sun, but if you follow me then ?

I will not deny you or take away from you the increasing of the lead, but then my light will be extinguished, but they will take from the Copper of my pure body and from the fatness of the Lead by verifying in the syllogism of their weight, but without Goat's Blood, and then will make a distillation between what is false and what is true.

I am the hard dry Iron, I am the strong ferment, every good thing is in me, the Llight of the Secret of Ssecrets is generated through me, and every active thing is my action.

What has Light is created in the Darkness of the Light - everything that shines has been created in the darkness - but after I have been led to perfection I will recover from my illness and from my weakness, and then will appear that great liquid from the head and the tail and those qualities and the ten orders or weights, five of which are without darkness and five of them are shining in beauty.