PHYSICO-CHEMICAL SYMBOL
Henry Khunrath
Whoever wants to be a physico-chemical philosopher (that is to say a true lover of this divine Wisdom which has been divinely written by Jehovah himself in the Great Book of Nature) and to acquire the Physico-Chemical, Catholic and Great Stone of the Philosophers, must necessarily have, above all things, the Universal Mercury of the Philosophers.
If you do not know this Mercury in its healthy, pure and whole state, and if you do not know how to prepare it Physico-Chemically to use it, you will undoubtedly perish, in wanting to acquire the sovereign good of nature and art, which exists in alchemy.
Now, the truly philosophical doctrine, touching the Catholic Mercury of physico-chemical philosophers, is this: we must establish and have in hand one and only natural chaos, Catholic in its tri-unity of essences; knowledge of body, soul and spirit, and that we establish this trinity in the unity of a single subject, by not confusing the essences and by not separating the coexistences which are in a single subject and in a single thing.
Other is the essence of the body, other is the essence of the spirit, other is the essence of the soul. But yet body, mind, and soul come or proceed from one which is neither made nor extracted by human artifice: but is only brought to light by the hand of nature.
The soul is neither made nor drawn nor begotten from the body and spirit of the world; but it proceeds out of the very deep bosom of the world (as an epitome of perfection, that is to say as possessing all perfection, or as a perpetual movement of nature); it is an igneous spark of the soul of the world, that is, of nature, and it is synoptically Catholic.
There is therefore one body and not three bodies, one spirit and not three spirits, one soul and not three souls.
And in this trinity of our chaos (which physico-chemical philosophers call Magnesia) there is naturally nothing preceding or following, nothing more or less necessary; but all the three essences are naturally and together coexist, as also co-necessary.
So that (as it has been said) it is necessary to believe that in all things the trinity in unity and the unity in trinity is found nowhere else than in the Catholic Mercury of the philosophers.
Whoever therefore wants to be a true philosopher and acquire the catholic and great physico-chemical stone of philosophers, let him be assured of what has been said above, touching the chaos of physico-chemicals which is Magnesia or Azoth; that is to say, the Catholic Mercury of the sages, true and natural subject of the universal and great stone of the philosophers and of their unique and divine matter.
But to obtain Catholic salvation from the Chemical Art, it is necessary that the true philosopher also faithfully believe, indeed know and know wisely and beyond doubt, what it is to embody the Ruach-Elohim, that is, the Spirit of the Lord, which (in the first chapter, verse two of Genesis) was born upon the waters.
So the theosophical philosophy of truth is that we know and confess that Magnesia (which preserves this universe), coming from the macrocosm, Ruah-Elohim, meaning Spirit of the Lord or tri-one breath of the Lord, knowing of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit (which is a divine virtue or an emanation of a divine virtue), is also a macrocosmically small world.
Ruah-Elohim proceeds from the essence of the Spirit of the Lord, from this spirit which (in the first chapter, verse two of Genesis) was carried on the waters, and which (in the first chapter, verse seven of Wisdom) is in all things as being made corporeal, that is to say, corporeal salt of Wisdom, in the belly and center of the virgin earth, namely in the very secret belly of the great World:
macrocosmically kneaded world, born in the age of bodily substance or prime matter; that is, earth and spring water: that is, the macrocosm.
The perfect spark of Ruah Elohim (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) is synoptically Catholic.
The perfect little macrocosmic world, son of the macrocosm through the sperm of the great world, synoptically Catholic spark of the divine soul of the world, is a tri-one by earth and by water, by the macrocosmic body, that is to say by the ethereal Spirit or by means of the sky.
This little world is equal to its father, according to its essence and substance, in soul, spirit and body, and is less than its father according to its individual or (so to speak) according to its person.
Which, though he be Ruah Elohim and little world, son of the great world, yet is not two things, but naturally and catholically, by the natural and catholic oil of jubilation, he is a Maschiah, that is, a christ or natural anointed; and also he is (after the passion of his preparation) a natural, physico-artificial, and conservative Catholic of the great world.
Now he is a Ruah Elohim, not by confusion or confusion of the first matter, but by the assumption and extraction of the first matter, from Ruah Elohim.
He is absolutely one, not by confusion of substance, but by the unity of his individual (or so to speak, by the unity of his person). For as well as the rational soul and the flesh, by means of the spirit (according to Saint Luke, I, 17 and Thessalonians V, 23 and Hebrews IV, 12) is a man; likewise Ruah Elohim and the primatial sperm of the great world is an anointed, that is to say a natural, Catholic Christ, preserver of the great world and its Redeemer, since he delivers superfluities contrary to his pure nature: son of the macrocosm, Magnesia.
Who after having physically and chemically suffered for the salvation of the great world, descends into hell from his sepulchre, physically very artificial, and after the third operation of this above-mentioned honest art, rises from death to life, without stain or corruption.
He ascends to the heavens of unparalleled perfection and clarification. He befits the dexter of the power and virtue of the macrocosm, which is his father, much mighty in crystalline severity and carbuncle redness. He is like everything quintessential in body, soul and spirit. From there, he comes to judge physico-chemically the healthy and the sick and the microcosmic, at the advent of which all the fruits, of all the elements, namely plants, animals and minerals are examined tested and judged in their bodies, spirits and souls.
And each of them, according to its mode, bears witness to its own goodness or malignity.
And what is good in them is received in the state of glorification, and what is bad is consumed by fire.
Here is the true and Catholic doctrine of the sages, touching the universal Mercury of the Philosophers, which if each one of the chemicals does not believe faithfully; even if he does not know and observe firmly, he cannot be a true physico-chemical philosopher, nor ever acquire the Catholic and great Stone of philosophers.
Doctor Khunrath said theosophically this symbol, by the instigation of Ruah Hochmael. Phy to the devil! Amen.
Art has no hater but the ignorant.
Who doesn't know, learn, shut up or go away. I said.