on the foundation of high art

Voarchadumiæ

against the false and unfaithful alchemists.

Kurtzer's report

By:

Johan Schaubert Chimi:

Zu Northausen etc.

In the year of Christ 1600.

A warning to rivals of the same art. - Admonitio ad eiusdem artis æmulos.

Anyone who wants to know our philosophical art must reveal what is hidden and hide what is revealed (or turn the inner out of the very inner ) otherwise he will never achieve the end.

Anyone who cannot understand this may well forgo art and remain idle in it go. Following this, the materia lapidis philosophorum is displayed in a parabolic manner. The operation is also sufficiently discovered through allegories.

But dearest of all, you should know that the one who has not recognized the natural beginnings is now far from our art. Therefore, let nothing be more dear to you and more important than that you learn to understand what the philosophers meant and wanted to say with their sayings and so resort to practice in the name of the Holy Trinity. May God Almighty give happiness and blessing to all Filijs dignis doctrinæ who desire from their hearts knowledge and knowledge that they can achieve it with a sound understanding, so that such things may be of divine praise, praise and honor and to help and benefit the poor in need , Christian and well use Amen.

A beautiful conversation about the foundation of high art Voarchadumiæ contra Alchymistas falsos & sophiam probatio (Voarchadumiæ against the false Alchemists and proof of Sophia).

Listen to me, you children of the wise, incline your ears to hear and pay attention to what I say, for I tell you truth. Behold, I was sitting in my Musæo and, resting, I looked at my work for myself with great astonishment because wonderful and various rambling philosophical speeches came to mind, why do philosophers use such strange parabolic speeches and hold you back for so long? Because you soon get the truth could open in just a few words.

In that came two ancient philosophers, as Acissanus and Arnoldus de Villa nova, dressed entirely in white in silver colors, comforting me, brought to meet me Mariam Prophetissam, surrounded with an extremely beautiful gold mirror through which the daylight was lost, towards me but I kept awake because of a lot I had become completely tired and thought I was delighted and ready for God's face was posed: And behold, the seven planets came by God's command and crowned their first-born brother as king, showing due honor and each of them complained about his infirmities, then almost all of them were afflicted with leprosy and remorse. But the king, in the spirit of consoling his dear brothers, said to them thus: It is useful and beneficial for us and the earth that an blameless person should die before the common people outside of us, so that the whole world does not perish.

Then when you are sprinkled with his blood, you will be like that Therefore, it will achieve perfect health (then it will only be given its form according to any material suitability or incompetence, as every planet itself must confess).

When the planets heard this proposed to their king, they said: Yes, which one of us is blameless? then we, as we are, conceived in sins and our mother gave birth to us in sins: who can make that which is so contaminated by and with the seed in conception pure?

Can't you do it alone because you are pure alone? Because nothing else is found in anything that is not there.

To this the king replied: Dear little children, there are six bodies created, among which the first is beautifully shining and undefiled, the king and the head of all the planets and there is nothing neither too much nor too little in it because its complexion is naturally warm Coldness and moisture are so tempered and tempered that no combustible thing can burn it, no destructive thing can destroy it and neither the earth nor the water can transform it: since it is then created in such perfection, it cannot die either.

Then they began to weep bitterly and said: Alas for our great suffering. Why then did you beget us so unclean and that one so perfect? Oh woe to us. Why have you made us children of bitterness and pain? Why didn't we die in our mother's womb? or why are we not corrupt at birth?

And the old man said: I have carefully considered and created everything in whiteness. And he said further: He who gave the advice may also help: then a good shepherd will save his life for the sheep: for this reason the king must be born again.

To which the king replies: How can I return to mine? mother womb go?

And the old man said, Are you a master in Israel and do you not know this?

Don't you know that in Mercurio, nothing but gold can be sunk?

Because you have to be added to your mother and her breasts there is nothing better or better then and through this she will put her fleetingness to rest and begin to understand and preserve your entire substance and being within herself so that the heavy things do not emerge without the light ones , nor the light ones may be suppressed without the heavy ones: Henceo see that I have created nothing without a cause nor good means.

Therefore whoever loves his soul will lose it and whoever loses his soul for my will in this world will keep it for eternal life. And how could he believe that he had lost what was there when it first began to break down that wasn't there? Then what causes the destruction also improves it and therefore the corruption comes, hence the pretext: and such things are signs of art:

The king said: LORD, if it is possible, this kingdom will pass from me: But if it cannot be otherwise I will then drink it and so may your will be done: Then whoever is not first grieved may not judge anything of true joy, and he who is afraid to fight for it is not worthy of the kingdom.

That's why I want to accept the full moon as a mother so that I can become a true son of the red one and I don't want to fear anything.

Then all the brothers rejoiced deeply that the king had agreed to the wedding vows and prepared him a beautiful, wonderfully round and shiny bed which was surrounded by the sky and, as befits such a king, they appointed nine beautiful, adorned maidens to serve him, who stood up in fear were waiting for his salvation.

Now that everything was in the middle of the quiet calm, behold, there came a very beautiful, shining light from the royal throne (like the beautiful and most beautiful precious stones like the Carfuncle), which said to the 9th virgins : I have to go through the Fire and Water will refresh me and thus be born again again: but I only fear that the poison of the annoying snakes will do this to me the all-too-great violence in my tender youth does not overwhelm nor transcendent: Therefore, take good care of me diligently, bite as long as I am born again and brought to perfect old age, then I will transfer you with me into my kingdom and we will all become equal be immortal.

The maidens agreed to him in the most sincere manner.

Thereupon the king happily went into his little bed with great love and lay sleeping next to an extremely beautiful maiden (the most beautiful in the entire world), who was his mother's daughter.

And behold, the same woman was clothed with the sun and the moon stood under her feet and on her head a crown of twelve stars was comforting and at once she swallowed her bridegroom so that he was completely exhausted.

When the virgins saw this and thought that the king himself was despondent about his life, they also decided to do the same.

But when the hot-tempered snake became aware of this, it used its old hostility against the woman and crept into the sleeping chamber and poured her poison in and out slowly so that she did not wake up the sleeping ones and in doing so she poured her poison a little and more Having learned little, she poisoned the sagging man's entire body. But all this happened on the first day of Octobri.

The woman loved her husband because of her heart, so she refreshed and refreshed him as much as possible and forced herself to drive the poison out of him: But the great jealousy of the malicious old snakes of the Trache did not want to let up in pouring out their poison more and more so that as much as she could think of, she would destroy the woman with the fruit.

However, the more the snake added its poison to the fruit, the more it hid itself in the innermost parts of the mother's limbs so that it would not be driven away by such heat and fear: then the full moon overshadowed the sun with its own and independent moisture and drove the flame of the fire towards it the shadow away from her.

Then the time came that white should have its way and she gave birth to her first son: so that he would not be killed by the snakes, she had to use great care and therefore take wings on her and carried him into the upper room in search of an exit but no one came back down to her house because she had gone out but she didn't want to find such peace as she was looking for, she swung herself again and opened very high up (to see the sky) a place to stay from because of the heat of the footsteps ) until she finally couldn't find an exit and decided to stay.

Then the feathers of her wings became completely black like a raven because it had been obscured in such a busy flight: Then the beginning of the art is the raven's head, which indeed flies but falls back down into its nest from where it comes. And by making such an effort to fly out, our new-born son of the three virgins succeeded in preferring his wing feathers to them and having to show himself as well as himself to all flight .

When the rest of the nine virgins saw this, they were very afraid and gradually tried to get into the air.

But when he dried himself in the sun, he was changed from the black color into the white color (as the swan).

And this happened the next day in front of Mertzen.

When the serpent realized that it had suffered a disastrous fall, it became very bitter and at first became much more heated.

But he drank more and more of the fountain of salvation and at the same time devoured the nine virgins one after the other and, according to the usual custom, he coagulated with them in such a way that within 40 days he was completely transformed into earth.

And when he waited in the same heat for another 40 days, he was finally surrounded with the whitest of clothes, but he changed his form very open and varied, sometimes in black and red, sometimes in yellow and know that the thing whose head is black, the feet are white and the eyes are red is our magisterium.

Since he had now transformed himself in the permanent way, we knew that it was useful and necessary to pre-flour with his sister Luna, so we added her to him and thus had a positive effect on the other bodies. See, 100 of his parts were sufficient.

Now the snake saw that from now on it wanted to be completely undercut, so it tried to the very last, with a bitter heart and everyone else knew whether they were to cause harm to the white-clad king and thereby overthrow him: But the king, who was now strong in his strength and well-fortified in his white, resisted the snakes and knightly trampled them under his feet and destroyed them to such an extent that he led himself to death before their poison Eternity no longer had to fear: However, through the anger and the arduous conflict of great work, he was so extremely heated that he turned from the white color into a completely blood-red color.

Then he took back his reign, triumphed over everything and redeemed all his own, and also let no one's crime go unpunished. When we finally conjoined Solem cum Sole and projected onto other corpora, one of its parts transmuted from the other thousand and so in the end I saw my work, what I desired at the beginning, does not require much effort, if you follow me like that, let this little book be dear to you .

That's why you want to abstain from all wrong paths, prepare the work that nature requires, let all processes go then there is a certain way, learn to understand this little book then in this parable the practice, the days, the color, the regiment of the path, disposition and foundation are registered in the most formal way .

And this has now been done because our dear God has opened his eyes to a diligent discipline in his search for the praiseworthy art that he feels to God Almighty in heaven, praise, thanks, honor and to the benefit of the next poor and needy.

So this work is completed by the grace and mercy of the Creator who wants to give all lovers of this art the power and understanding through the illumination of the Holy Spirit for the will of Jesus Christ, our one Savior.

For this is not difficult to understand and is written out of my heart Warn yourselves, flee from your hearts and avoid more evil company than the devil himself and admonish you in the LORD, with your eyes opened to keep your silence against those who hate and envy this art.

Praise be to God the Father of our Lord Jhesu Christ from eternity Eternity

Amen.