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The Treasure of Treasures

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THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE

Golden & Rosy

Cross

OUR SIGNED TESTAMENT & WILL

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was Laid to Rest in the Ark of the Covenant of its

Schools Alumni & Elected Brothers

- YEAR 1580 -

RESTORED IN 2012 BY ADAM GOLDSMITH

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Copyright © 2012 by VITRIOL Publishing & Adam Goldsmith

Translation by Adam Goldsmith

Further Revised, Edited, Compiled, and Restored to Glory by Adam Goldsmith

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INTRODUCTION

Here

Here follows the

follows the

follows the Testament of the Brotherhood of the

Testament of the Brotherhood of the

Golden

Golden Rosy Cross

Rosy Cross

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which includes

which includes the

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the trustworthy revelation

trustworthy revelation

trustworthy revelationssss

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the secret

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secret operations

operations

operations of

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of the Art

of

the Art

the Art, by

the Art

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, by which manifests the mystery

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which manifests the mystery

of the wisdom of

of the wisdom of divine magic and the angelic cabala

divine magic and the angelic cabala

divine magic and the angelic cabala....

divine magic and the angelic cabala

- J.W.R. Jehovah Year 1580

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ear brothers & lovers of the Art, our beloved ancestors, after careful consideration, having consulted with themselves on how to hide the secrets that only God is worthy to give, thus then they agreed to investigate a number of those here who were worthy of the mystery. These are those who fear the

presence of the M ost High with all their heart, and would be able to keep their mouth sealed & stay silent. Yes, accordingly, those who were designated to the mystery & magic were born to the Cabala. But so that a work comes to the Almighty, who knows the hearts, examines them thoroughly, because all his good gifts are instilled in the heart of man, and so it happened, for a particular destiny, that our dear ancestors with the help of the Almighty, and a few others, found around the year 576 after the beginning of the world, and they were descended from the seed of Noah, that Japhet, from these came Thubal, from Shem knowledge & wisdom was preserved up to 100 years after the Flood, as was evidenced by one

Arphachsad. As one reached his proper age, then he was instructed into the mystery. From this you arrive at Arphachsad & his son Salah, and the wisdom remained with this family until the time of Abraham and Lot. From Abraham to Isaac, from Isaac to Jacob, from Jacob to Joseph and Benjamin, these arrive from among the Egyptians, M oses and Aaron were of the learned cast. Under M oses and Aaron, Bezaleel was filled with knowledge & wisdom.

This was the first imperator, but at the same time, the great Jehovah filled not only the son Asisamat with the spirit of wisdom, but many others were also filled with wisdom. In the Mysterium, they brought to light many miracles, as M oses taught them to recognize the center of light, the fire of Nature, and he instructed them, while he took the idol golden calf and destroyed it into a thousand pieces, he poured it on the fire which burned its metal form thus turning it to a red powder, and he gave it to the sons of Israel who had been struck by the Lord for their sins. Similarly, he also drew a cross with a bronze snake, an image of magic. It is this image that watched over the sons of Israel in order to ease their pain,

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with this image, it would help in time of their illness and still many more wonders, how indescribable, are produced by the power of the M ost High.

But M ary, the sister of M oses, became reckless, learned through the wisdom and profaned the Lord and the Lord punished her with leprosy. M oses took M ary and her locked away for 7 days, a magic number. After this period, she was pure again.

M oses, Aaron, Bezabel, arrived at Joshua. For because of their sins, and time they had turned away from God, the wisdom was taken from them and given to others. This is because the Almighty wishes his secrets to remain hidden and used in fear of Him. This Joshua gathers the 12 priests and found 12 men and more who were filled and endowed with the wisdom from the Almighty, a sacred number. He ordered them as priests, being full of strength and wisdom.

They had to carry the sacred ark, but the other twelve had to remain, after the Jordan was divided, the priests crossed it and arrived at the middle of the Jordan and each one had to lift 12 stones depending on the number and carry them with them from the Jordan, as a sign that the Lord was with them and that after the division of water, from it all is made, 12 stones can be prepared, for the son of knowledge, like a miracle.

In this way, they follow this one (knowledge), for they love it and even desire it. This is why the Lord God commanded to show and teach it to the descendants. With this force Joshua circled Jericho 7 times. In magic, this means a force multiplied by seven, and Jericho had to fall into ruin, because with a curse like this, it could not exist. The powerful Jehovah was very moved by the fact that he had to bring Jericho to ruin.

During that time, we find, according to our secret tradition, many, if not a great number of priests, mages and sages. Because after Joshua and Judas and Simon were provided and prepared . It (knowledge) long remained among the son of Israel and from there she came even among the heathen, as among the first we find much. Thus they were born with magic and through these the Almighty and his secret is manifest.

For Joshua, also came Gideon. Here, you can still see the collaboration of the Great Spirit of Jehovah, for it is here at Gideon that the Lord showed him who would have baptized his own Word with water (of the philosophers). He chose the latter, since they were born to magic. It was thanks to them that Gideon defeated its enemies, a figure based on the number three of the Kabbalah. From Gideon, she came to Jephte at Sanson. At the time of the high priest Helis our dear ancestors were divided and many wise men died. So, Samuel became great before the Lord and was filled with the Spirit of the Lord, and actually much, if not a great quantity of it.

Among them Saul, a man born of the M ysterium became king of magic, but however, he was too proud, and had great pride, and thus he abandoned the Lord. After him, was chosen in the M ysterium, like a well provided hero, David, son of Jesse. He was reinforced in the power of the Spirit and he received the power over all creation as nobody else had before him, and he had the help of the prophet Nathan. But since he did not remain within the limits of the Spirit, he received no orders from the priesthood of magic, whereas his son, Solomon who came from his loins accepted them. M any wise men were born here, because Solomon was powerful, as also the mystery in the Mysterium in his hymn which he described in limpid and clear words, as the first teacher and philosopher, the resolution of the coarse to fine, the discovery of the hidden, the change from wet to dry and the metamorphosis of the fluid into fixed, to call the matter by its name and thus it manifests the same form.

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"I am black, rather pleasant, you daughters of Israel, you do not look at me, so I am black, as if I was sunburned. The sons of my mother, that is to say, the 7 metals, among which I am the eighth, are angry with me. She made me keep the vine, but as for my own vineyard I did not take care of it, namely I let the juice run from the grapes and you forgot me like the Subjectum Universale, i.e. like the other which can be used as a key for the first. When he (Solomon) said: "you do not recognize yourself among the most beautiful of women, walking on the trails of sheep and feeding your kids beside the shepherds' houses, as Hermes says: the sick is similar to that and much higher.

Further, "the lily and the dove of Diana: like an apple tree among the wild trees, such is my friend among the lilies ", i.e. it has the other seven metals. "I am found with the lower part of the shade ", namely one can find me in an obscure dark place in the mountain. "Whoever desires me will find that my fruit is sweet to her throat": it is the Lilium Artis who sublimes in the dry way and in the wet crystallizes; in the same way here, he learns the dry way and the wet way. The red flower teaches when it says: "I am a red flower to Sharon and a rose in the valley of the rocks. "

With "I am a rose in the valley" he means "I lie in the bottom and I am retained by the resistant worm, the enduring salamander as through a rock. But when the white lily softens, the rose is opened out in two ways.” First, when he says: "I dissolve in grape juice," then "Walk out on the trails of sheep, you do not recognize yourself as the most beautiful among women," as if he meant: seek a pure earth metal which must be taken from the lower part, on which we walk, of which one says to prepare a pure matter and to pour on an old, gray and black young man that is the wet way. As he goes even further the wet way and clearly teaches: he leads me into the cellar.

Because in this juice lies hidden the wine to be extracted, the same is the separation of the pure from the impure. Also, in the same way Solomon indicates the mastery of fire. In the conjunction when he says: "I implore you daughters of Jerusalem, for the goats and deer of the field, not to wake my friend but be excited as much as you please, "as if to say," But I warn you, in the preparatory work that you do not hasten the work with fire, to not wake it up before its time, as Hermes says: let it dissolve gently and with great discernment in a very special way in the completion so that you do not wake up my friend.

Further, when he says. "Arise wind of the north, and come wind of the south and blow through my garden, that its spices trickle off ", as if to say: Thus treat the right degree. "For when the air comes from the north it must make opposition there, and this is the first degree. But when he says, come wind of the south, and blow through my garden, that means to say: with another degree the heat should not be stronger than when the winds blow from the south, which makes everything green and lively, because with this degree you can see all the colors. This made it clear that its spices run off, for when the second degree is past, it has nothing to say.

In addition, he clearly and bluntly indicates the vessels when he says: "it comes and climbs on the mountains and the hills and he reaches his hand out through the hole so that my body trembles "as if to say: the lily climbs the mountains, and crosses them; at which time he reaches his hand out through the hole to indicate that we must carry it in a vessel like a hand to purify it in it, that my body will tremble for it. He also teaches the Hermetic seal, as he says, “why my sister oh my friend, is a barred garden, at the moment when nobody can break into her house, at his discretion.” Thus, it is a closed source, whether it is at the beginning or in the configuration, a sealed fountain. Further, he also teaches in the preparation the putrefaction, in the achievement of blackness, when he says: “I was looking for the night, that my dear friend loves, not to see blackness and the darkness that we want.”

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Thus, he also learns as it has already been before the sublimation and distillation, when he says, "who is he who comes out of the desert like a right smoke, a smoke of myrrh and frankincense, and various spices and medicinals". Thus it also indicates the true colors and origin which appear in the completion, such as black, white, and red. It shows blackness: "I am black, but beneath my blackness I am quite pretty, O’ daughters of Jerusalem, I am like the guards of Gotter, like the multi-colored carpets." Of white and red color, he speaks about it as follows: "My beloved is white and red, the white dove, the red lion."

Similarly he also clearly indicates the four months of the philosophers in the work of completion when he speaks as follows: “look at the passed winter, the rain is far gone" as if to say: the darkness has passed, it no longer rises, the flowers are out, i.e. the colors of nature, because spring is near and the turtle-dove is heard in the countryside. We rejoice when we see it. Of summer he says, "the fig tree gained shoots, vines have eyes and smell": Arise my friend, get up my dear." He indicates the autumn in the end of the work; the flowers came out: they reached maturity. In the same way he teaches with comprehensible words all the cooking, the multiplication and the increase as well as the projection and enjoyment of the work.

So far we have only wanted to show that Solomon paid for the wisdom that was given to him by the Lord. Through this King Solomon, it (knowledge) arrived even among the Arabs, because he had in his hand, thanks to his wisdom, the hearts of many people. From Solomon, it was passed on to other priests and prophets, and it spread, so that it came to the Romans.

Solomon was the first who, with the help of Mysterium, made of metal images according the influence of the stars, and he carried them to the top, and he sinned before the Lord his God, and our childhood has been retained through the power of God until this hour, as can be seen in our holy tradition, so that our brotherhood had to often renew itself, even because of it the brothers are still scattered all over the world.

And so Noah was the first. From him came Shem, Cham and from him Tubal. Shem, being the firstborn son, wrote on Emerald Tablets the great secret, obtained from his father, Noah. Cham, like the other son of Noah, was Hermes, from whom came the emerald tablet.

And the Egyptians, as true descendants of Cham, have possessed this great wisdom.

Cham fathered Chus or the young Campha, that the Egyptians called Saturn. And as can be read with astonishment in the secret traditions and in the (concreazione) of the Egyptians, where it says: "Seth was the father of Noah, as the old Saturn or father of all Campha and mages, Shem and Cham were called also Jupiter or Campha. Cham fathered Chus, the young Saturn or the young Campha. He begat M isram or Vulcan, Puth or Phaeton, as he was called by the Egyptians, he was also called Canaan or Tantus, and also Thoth or M ercury.

From M isram came Osiris; from him cane Isis, Horus or Apollo, and from him Heseulapius. The latter begat Tat, and from him Tatius. In this way, we find from one century the another that the wisdom of the Egyptians increased higher and higher, until at the end it became a profession and

become misused. And M oses learned from the Egyptians, thus one can even now find it with the Egyptians. From the Israelites, it arrived among the Arabs and Chaldeans.

Since Ananios and Daniel, M eshach and Azana were the leaders of Chaldea. Daniel was a master of them all.

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These heroes of ours were held together and were united by the Spirit of God until this hour. Since then, from our prophets and dear ancestors, it has come down to us from the Germans, through our Teutonic father. And it was kept secret among us until today in an often miraculous way. In this way, we have established with us this creditable practice and order of old, such as was prescribed to us by them, to maintain and to pass on the secret and like some ecstatic or secret operations, were left in heritage by the ancients. Until now some brothers, as the case of human life, reach eternity, and we cannot exceed the number of 77, in the same way the Brotherhood cannot exist without 77, then according to ancient custom, we chose specific places, both East and West, i.e. within the 4 corners of the world, for our meetings.

When one finds a soul who is worthy of being accepted, having been recognized according to a preliminary and sufficient examination, then such a soul must be in our assembly, and is committed like us to accept all of the following points and promises to make an eternal silence, after which he will receive the sacred priesthood and become skillful in magic through the accretion.

Because without the true concreazione, nobody can be a magician, since the internal and external anointing must proceed from it and therefore there is this: when a meeting was announced, after the

previous profession of the brothers, and brothers accepted among them a foreign brother also capable, then, if he is older, he can well give the sign to another, but he cannot carry it (the accretion) out on him, even not subjecting him to the oath, but he may well make silence before subjecting the following points to him, if he thinks of having them. Thus, he can reveal nothing without offense to his conscience of the extases or the secret operations, in this way they belong to the Mysterium, just as the other things of knowledge and of Tholio.

Since, however, in some writings here and there are some hidden things & covert operations, one must proceed with caution so that the seal is not forced prematurely, and the one turns his back on the Brotherhood and uses the gifts of God to commit injustices.

When a brother, in a meeting, is of a contrary opinion, one must ask him whether he knows what God is and of the same quality as Spirit. It proves at this time his heart and his interior strength.

This occurs before the Urim, but he must be covered, thus one will quickly hear what he will say and what knowledge he has of the Almighty.

At this point in time the following points will he read to him:

Rules of the Order

Ever since, accordingly from the very beginning, the Brotherhood has followed divine

providence, and the number of brothers has never exceeded 77 members. Such number cannot, and should not be increased.

Among us, no problems should ever arise due to causes of religion, or envy, but he must leave his brother to the recognition of his own faith and freedom of conscience, which judgment should only be reserved for God, so thus with this there is no hatred or animosity between us. And if you believe and know that God consists of 3 qualities - Father, Son and Spirit - and that we fear, we love him, and we consecrate ourselves to him, so that he may guide us, sustain and lead us. But others, who are still clinging to

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commandments, they are an abomination in the eyes of the Great Spirit, for they do not love God with all their heart, with all their soul, and with all their might. Since their forces, the most holy victims, they pour on the commandments, and do not love their neighbors because they are simulators, as the holy in Israel wants to have by himself your heart and make of it completely its own temple and property. So from the beginning of our society their have been in it many men of widely different peoples, thus they love the Lord and seek wisdom.

So thus, each brother should be free, whatever their religion and not be bound and should not have to be accountable because of his faith. If anyone should be pedantic, as to arrive at the carnal

knowledge and ask about religion, then the brother who has addressed this question should judge that he is not of the Brotherhood and that if he was a brother, he should really believe that he has become religious and that he no longer loves God with all his heart and depends on him only as a spirit in him. But if he is not a brother, there is no wonder that he knows nothing of the true constitution.

That after the expiry of the mandate of the King (Imperator Regent of the Brotherhood) another is elected. With one as with the other, we must subject ourselves, to remain faithful and obedient to him to the end. As we welcomed the new acquisition, which leaves (stems) the original election.

The Imperator should have on a list the names of each brother, as well as the where they live, so that we can help one another if necessary. Note also, that in the election of an imperator that one of the seven most oldest must be chosen, as this has been the custom from the beginning of the brotherhood, and it has been held firm and unwavering. Therefore we have no more than 4 houses in Europe, where we hold our meetings, or Ancona, Nuremberg, Hamburg and Amsterdam. Each brother, if he lives in a suitable place, can bring home the brothers to hold a meeting (if the imperator allows it).

We also share that when 2 or 4 brothers meet, they cannot elect another brother, except of course in the presence of a major bearing on their initials or in the presence of imperator. And if he were to find one that goes to a brother, but that has not received a sign of an older, or imperator, the brother should so be careful and not be recognized. That each student must obey his master and brother for 7 years and for the duration of his life he must stick with them like a brother until death. Several brothers live together during the week, they do not conjecture about their secrets, but they can do so from time to time as to work on some revelation, and they may also live together. Therefore we prohibit choosing a relative like brother, even as he is a brother of (blood) flesh since one must initially recognize and approve him. In any case, a brother should preferably choose an abroad, because art should not be hereditary. Even if several brothers find themselves together, it is not sufficient to have them make any profession without a senior or

imperator being informed of it. If, however, the brothers are together, they should not make the profession with anybody without the knowledge of the imperator, as we have already said. If the brothers want to make such a legacy, they should keep them after their recognition, seven years as apprentices, from time to time informing them of the size of the congregation and within reach to give the imperator the name of the apprentice, the first name, birth, country, occupation and origin, so that he can at the appropriate time host the concreation in our assembly and assign the sign. If the brothers are together, salvation must be normal, "Frater Ave." The other says, "Rosa Aura", in which the first replies, "Crucis". And when, they recognize each other, so they should contact one another. "Benedictus Dominus Deus noster, nobis signum to forfeit." Then to each other they are to show the seal even if they know their names, or cannot exchange the seal. It should be born in mind that if there is fraud, which may always happen, maybe the lack of care of a brother s seal is lost and fell into the hands of outsiders, or that the brother was discovered through someone else, he must behave with ignorance about the brotherhood and abandon the city, or place in question as soon as possible.

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It expressly provides that the brother gets cash and the Mysterium after he has made the seven years of learning, and thus will be accepted and received in one of our houses by the imperator and he will vow to silence, so that he can live 60 years and he may well apply to his work diligently. And if he finds something remarkable, he must inform the imperator, because in doing so, he is related to each brother, as it happened from the beginning, since the nature is inscrutable. The brother must also promise not to insult God through the Mysterium, not to hurt his neighbor, not to disturb or bribe a state by this means, do not use the Mysterium with bloodshed, and protect it from tyranny, and the brother should remain ignorant and always say that it is only a fraud on the part of men.

The brother should not write any books about our secrets, not even against them, so that he may not offend the mighty God.

If the brothers want to talk about the Mysterium, they must do so only in private, so that everyone can open their hearts and they can share & practice with each other.

A brother can and must give the stone for free, as God's gift should not be sold for money. It is forbidden to make projections before any man who has not been accepted by us (the brotherhood), since it is about the honor of the art. But be careful that it can occur safely, if not, then you must immediately leave the place.

The brothers should avoid foreign/idle conversation, especially with women; if, however, this is not possible, and a brother cannot live free (which would be best for him), he can take a woman to

marry/bond with her in the fear of the Lord. He must also avoid all the scandals against the Mysterium, and do not leave a brother alone with his wife to practice with him, it would follow, as has happened

repeatedly, disorder and adultery.

Please also do not hurt any brother by hatred, nor man, nor the state of souls, nor animals, trees and plants. It is these things that appear to be possible in the Mystery of transferring its miracles to man, but rather disturbing the order of nature.

For this reason, we admonish the gift of the stone to a pregnant woman because she happened to be carrying and gave birth prematurely. You should not use a stone with a strong excitation, so that the heat of nature does not do more harm, there would be a sudden death as has happened in some who have used it for hunting.

One also acts against the Mysterium by asking for favors and already having all.

One should also be careful to guard against making precious stones or pearls and carrying them with you. It is forbidden to betray someone from our home and also to confess to someone to know the terms of our blessed stone and reveal the manipulation, coagulation or solution of the Mysterium.

Because sometimes, in a place it is one of our brothers as they are almost always hidden, the first day of the feast of Pentecost, to the lifting of sun, they must depart at the door of that place, if he is Lord of the Golden Cross, he must fix a red cross on the stick, if he is Lord of the Rosy Green Cross, he must remain there until sunrise and remain alert, in case another brother arrives to meet him with the usual salutation and to inform the imperator. Because in war, when everything is uncertain and no brother may come and go, this is very necessary. We consider it necessary that the imperator change the place every 10

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years and share it during a meeting that the brothers should give it another name so that the Brotherhood is hidden.

It is also an express command that each brother, after he is accepted among us, change his name. He must also, if he goes back to a place where he has previously been for a long time, change his image with the stone of a sort that he is not recognized.

Each brother should stay away from his country for over 10 years, regardless of where he travels, and whatever the name that it bears is he must always inform the imperator of it.

Similarly, no brother should start working in a place without having previously lived there a year and he must know his surroundings, and must also avoid all the "ignorant professors."

A brother should not reveal his wealth to anyone and must particularly protect himself before all religious since they carry under the name of the high priests the devil in their heart. With the words of the Almighty they hide their easy way. That is why a brother must flee them, because there is seldom any good to expect from them, since they readily claim the esteem of the person before all men. Thus in 1641, in Austria, we lost two of our brothers because of their friendly and open attitude.

If a brother wants to work, he must be more willing to be helped by the elderly & able than the young, to the extent possible, they should not get to see the operation and should not understand.

When a brother takes a trip, he should not focus on women unnecessarily and should not hold a conversation with them, but he must have before his eyes only God, not to fall into mortal sin.

Similarly, a brother should not tell anyone, when he leaves a place for a trip, when and where he will go if he is asked. And when he wants to travel at daybreak, he must say “after midnight.” And if he cannot go back to this place then he can write to the owner of the house that the business he left behind be distributed to the poor.

It is necessary and better if the brother carries with him the powdered stone or crystals, since in oily form, it is not easy to take. No brother should carry with him our philosophical fire to whom a great misfortune could easily happen.

Also a brother should, when he would absent-mindedly stuck in a mishap and be discovered by a sovereign to commit suicide rather than him reveal the M ysterium, since God alone is given to reveal the Mysterium, but not us, men, and if the brother is faithful to Supreme God, he may have the more certainty to be honored before the throne of the Lamb.

Here it is asked of the brother if he wants to retain inviolable points and read them all if well understood. If he testifies with a yes, we must give the sign of peace, that is to say of the palm, then the new brother has to kneel and of them they must embrace three times and say, "Dear brother, we order you to silence." When this happens, the Imperator in his priestly clothing goes to him accompanied by two elderly (among these are the new brother).

At that time the brother should raise his right hand to the body Urim, raise his thumb and first two fingers, place his left hand on the heart and say what follows:

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"I, <insert name> promise to God and eternal life not to disclose to any man without permission of the secrest here present and all Mysteria, to me and taught me will be taught by you, but to keep it sealed in me for life with the seal natural not to reveal the smallest thing of any brother, even of the name, or the imperator, and not to show anyone the stone. This I swear to God's presence as eternal silence even in danger of my life. So help me God and his Holy Word."

When this happens, the whole congregation goes to meet him. Then he is ordained a priest and blessed magic and spirit of Jehovah is upon him & will meet him, so that cannot show himself for several days. Also, he will began to prophesy from the spirit all that is written. When they depart again from each other, everyone should say the words of the seal, "Frates Aurea vel Roseae Crucis Deus sit tecum cum perpétue silentio, Deo promisse et nostra santa congregationae ." Then are delivered to the new brother our secret operations of our predecessors and the degree with the sign by which we can recognize when the brother goes to another brother, or so he can show the sign. Similarly, he always gives the new brother the name of the last brother that died, as has been continued uninterrupted with us since the beginning.

Here follows the contents of the first part of the book in order, that is to say the secret extases and operations of the Mysterium.

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THE

THE SECRET E

SECRET E

SECRET EXTAS

SECRET E

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XTASES

ES

AND OPERATIONS

AND OPERATIONS OF

OF

THE

THE MYSTERIUM

MYSTERIUM

FIRST BOOK

FIRST BOOK:

:

How man after the soul and the body & blood the subject most

precious (in the image) like the Lord God has been made for the Mysterium and what

materials shall be taken of these stones of the ancients and what they achieve therewith in

the Mysterium.

SECOND BOOK:

How to prepare the true quintessence from the above and below,

as from the creator of all things.

THIRD BOOK:

How to prepare the very precious stone of the ancients out of common

mercury & gold.

FOURTH BOOK

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How from vulgar mercury one can prepare the true alkahest or

acetum acerrimum.

FIFTH BOOK:

How from magnesia or bismuth, which the ancients called electrum,

one can prepare the very high tincture, either in the dry way, or by the wet way.

SIXTH BOOK:

The

preparation of the salis circulati (sal gemmae).

SEVENTH BOOK

SEVENTH BOOK::::

Of the arcane mystery of the stone and the metals from the sky.

EIGHTH BOOK:

The secret magic of the Mysterium.

NINTH BOOK:

1)

The secret cabala.

2) Quid sit magia.

3) How a magus can prepare the magic stone.

TENTH BOOK:

This is the revolution, as a magician may return a soul, not in the

kingdom of the Lord. It takes once again a body for itself and serves the man, through

which it can arrive to its bliss/beatitude.

ELEVENTH

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TWELFTH

TWELFTH BOOK:

BOOK:

How a magus can move heaven and earth.

THIRTEENTH

THIRTEENTH BOOK:

BOOK:

How a magus can multiply all the plants, shrubs and

flowers in a particular way and to cause growth.

FOURTEENTH

FOURTEENTH BOOK:

BOOK:

How a magus can prepare a metal using (through, by) the

constellation and from it various wonderful mirrors which it is possible to see everything,

and this in its own room (to be used against enemies).

[How

to make fairy dust that operates by far against enemies. (excluded/unavailable)]

THE APPENDIX:

The handling of chemicals needed for this art.

All this has been transmitted by our predecessors. Therefore, we give it to our

brothers as a handling to which he may work to recognize the Great Creator, to rent it,

spread his fame and appreciate it.

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Manuscript Dresden (left), Manuscript Hamburg (right)

Manuscript Stuttgart (left), Manuscript Vienna (right)

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1 The First Book

The First Mystery

NOSCE TE IPSUM.

Know thyself.

First, as the soul and the body of men, the most valuable to subjective, such thus says the Lord God are created for the Mystery, and how these matters can be cast by the stone of the Ancients and reach the Mystery with this thing.

The human is the noblest creature created from the Great Jehovah in the same form and likeness. M an is the center and the focal point of all things that are created. However, so that the image can also be like God, the Almighty Spirit was blown into the living form of the Spirit, but in an incomprehensible and penetrating way.

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As the interior of the mind he has created one soul, the spirit in which lies hidden. And both are elusive without the will of the Almighty who can represent understandability of the manner of the spirit. They are trapped in the body and they live in a fragile state. The human has everything, all of nature, and all created in him: his life is a (global) heat of spiritual life that enlivens every moment of the divine spirit, as it animates and penetrates. Thus man is not only for himself, rather he is and he lives in the Great Spirit. Since man was created in the likeness of the Great Spirit of Jehovah, so much so that government about angels, so he may have the strength of soul and spirit, if he remains in a state of union with God, and not flesh, and his own will be invalidated.

However, it is carried away by that; although it can never be free so that the eternal spirit and Jehovah would give it up. For if that happened, even his life would perish, as all minds and forces spring forth from the inexhaustible spirit which is God Himself. That is why man cannot part with him, even when disobedient, because the spirit is the image of the Great Creator. But what makes the man if by

disobedience with the pleasures of the defiled flesh he were made impure before the eternal spirit? Nothing other than to deny his conscience and contradict Him who created and loved him with all his heart; and by himself he makes a figure similar to the devil. Since he profanes the image of the Almighty and makes it monstrous. And just think, how can there be courage (heart/gall, impudence) to speak to the Lord in a human way, since man must submit himself wholeheartedly in his own nature and in God, so that one man has in him the work and can judge him.

However how will the man recognize in such corruption what the M ost High beyond himself has placed in nature? M ostly it does not recognize as each form of any nature is created just for him! You have within you all superior and inferior forces. You can be creative with the spirit of God and in the power of faith in the spirit you can work wonders! You must act through God and the Spirit of God will be with you! He, the Great Jehovah wants to be reborn through you and to demonstrate what God is. What do you expect? Should it get you? If you irritate you have to dissolve. Think so, what advantage you have in front of all creatures? You are more than the angels, and you do not yet carry out an angelic life yet. Therefore the life of your soul must also be the desire of your soul.

Oh, dive into your center and seek the man who loves your soul! Looking at him: Oh, may you find it: And when you find he is the life of your soul. Oh, how you will kiss him! So get out of death and grab life, will, and the power of divinity. Purify and free yourself from slavery of the flesh and stars! Catch the nobility of your soul and the holy and majestic action of the Holy Spirit. Do not give up what you have not yet captured and you have not been seized by it.

That you can say, “Now, I know him whom my soul loves; He is in me and I am in him.” Facing each finished a hell and temptation and all that is carnal: for all flesh and all things of this realm are

ephemeral. But one who acts with & in God, is one that remains in the Lord! His life has no end, since it is in God. Nothing should be higher than God and no view except the Spirit of God; it wants to appear as good as possible. Do not be enchanted or make mistakes in union with your creator! Preferably chose that which is durable and flee what is carnal; Do not make your Creator suffer because you want to love beside him another unspecified created being. Depend on him with all your heart and all your soul and with all your might! Sacrifice yourself to Him! If you do this you will have the blessing and you will be filled with the wisdom to see nature and the created world.

And the nature and the created world will submit to you completely, and obey. So you will enjoy the power of the world above and below. The power is in you, if you are daring, crazy and full of sight. Thus carry as a premium (price) of your Creator each one of your strengths, like a victim in the center of your soul before the throne of M ost High! Removing it to him at his feet and keep nothing for you and look

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at what will! You are astonished. With indulgence he takes from you as a sacrifice and will repay a thousand times, a thousand times it will flow into your soul as you will be filled with forces of the M ost High. The mountains before you will be overcome and Water will flow. So you will recognize in this force all the angels and all elected and you see them in their harmony of spirit before God.

Oh, unspeakable act of the M ost High! Oh, elusive love which courses through marrow and limbs! Oh, inexhaustible flow of the spirit; how you pervade heads who believe! You are to them a crown of joy, you satisfied with the pleasures and all thy goods rich in thy salvation. You flood the fire of your penetrating love which is more powerful and stronger than death.

Oh, Lord Sabaoath, so man must recognize and acknowledge he who lives in his soul. For in him we relive, act and are. If you've found and then find you've left, you have in your hands all the forces upper and lower, you're yourself and you can give birth to Mysterium M agnum, you can do miracle after miracle, which is incredible, but especially do this because your wisdom loves God wholeheartedly. Following the strength of your soul, it is easy for you, to all spirits you may have below you, you can order the nature of achieving that for which it was created from the beginning, you can unwind and release it, since your spirit entering, so that it will obey you. For the spirits of darkness in this state you are insurmountable, as they must obey and even give into/unto you.

But listen well, I still want to remind you: protect yourself, I say thou take this force as if it were your property! It would be better to do nothing until you can come back to the honor and exaltation of the Great Spirit, so that you do not become a devil rather thus sacrifice everything to Him. What you do through His strength, so Praise be that each shared with him.

Thus he will not abandon you but will guide and lead the same how he did it when our fathers gave themselves completely to Him, since you have to depend solely on Him. He will absolutely not suffer that you honor another creature or that you love him even a little since he is the life of your soul, He who shows you many good deeds and makes you so noble and he has placed in you the life of all things, and much is much more imposing than those in the great world.

You have everything in you, all which is under your feet, you live in the Verbo Domini, while creatures must feel the lack of it. Since the force of nature is contained in you, as through the Great Spirit of Jehovah, in which you live, because the Spirit who created the world is in your soul. Thus look at the forces of nature in you and therefore in the spiritual life, the Great Spirit of Jehovah has his seat in this force. Therefore know-thyself and hast-in fear; love God above all things with all your heart and with all thy soul! Flee all the gods and those who are called of the gods, and preserve the treasure of your soul! Protect yourself so that you do not have a good opinion of those through whom you would be made unworthy of the strength and cooperation of the Great Spirit, but rather leave so that it is your greater wisdom as to love God wholeheartedly. Do not share your heart with them; you will not have any harm by that. Do not violate the Brotherhood and think that the firm principle of the M ost High should be in your soul. The Lord knows his own course. This is why, dear man, the Almighty created man, all that there is in nature, and in all in the created world, even more wonderful, he put in him (man). Therefore I will show you: what is above, is like what is below, and you can achieve wonderful things with it. M an has all the wealth and he carries it with him in his body!

If one is in fear can of God, he make of himself the Mysterium M agnum, as we seek it in the great world and prepare it: First, he hid in his blood such force, since the life of the Spirit is in him, from which you can prepare the tincture, so that all the spirits in the sky will remain at your service when you need

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them, as you will be taught below, and you receive a medicine to raise the dead, many already work miracles.

Second, of urine if you live chaste and healthy, you can prepare from it the stone of our dear beloved ancestors, and also the Alkahest.

Third, you can prepare to be used in the Opus M agnum, the urine and excrement of a healthy man.

We therefore want to start our ecstasies and operations. The most important is the blood of a man holy and timid with the fear of God, and who has kept his spirit a virgin & the treasure of purity, or one that has for some time refrained from every pleasure of the flesh in honor of God.

Take from such a man an amount similar to a pound of blood, put it in a vial and put on a reflux condenser. Place the flask in the ash, sealing a collecting container and distilling until everything becomes dry. But be careful so that what remains does not burn, and thus you will need care.

When everything is distilled, remove the condenser and pours it all over again, still put on the condenser, seal everything well and apply the collecting vessel. Distill again, and repeat seven times. At the end of the seventh distillation from a high heat, so that all the salt come up with the psychic, you can also do this in a retort. With that you have moved all the qualities of the seven spirits of psychic source in their center, or red earth, and shook their volatile parts. The body the glass with set it aside. Pour also your liquor overflowed into a clean glass and again, put it in a water bath and carefully distill the spirit in a container and watch out: if it starts to form large droplets, fat and remove the oily container and put to good refuge in a cool place the spirit that comes up in a large clean glass. Provide a receptacle and then continue to distill, so passes the oily phlegm. When it starts to turn yellow, take back the vessel with the phlegm and set aside too. Provide a receptacle and then distill the above Acetum, pour this on your spirit mentioned above; then you do best, you have what verses/goes together as its reason.

Take the phlegm and pour in the remaining body and extract from this all the red. pours clear the solutions together in a small retort, place in a bath of ashes and distill the phlegm up to the stage oily, then close the little retort and put it aside with the liquor.

Throw away the phlegm, take the body remaining in a crucible and calcify carefully so that nothing foreign may be added. Then pour it over the phlegm and put the whole to four weeks to rot. Then poured out again, add distilled water above the rest, and extract all the salt.

Gather up the phlegm. Then pour the other extraction, it was realized thus the salt with the distilled water in a small retort, and at the same time distill. Pour this water once again on the salt and extract super distilled, thus you deposit once again some faeces, pour the clear solution in a clean and distill all the moisture to dry up. Then take this salt and finely grind in a clean vase, put it in a broad, flat flask and pour the aforesaid spirit and Acetum that mix, and also the extraction of the red, in the same manner a part or half of the phlegm, place them above a capacitor blind, attach well, and foul putrefy gently together two or three days and nights (today instead of a capacitor blind using a reflux condenser which consists of a glass tube in a spiral, which has been melted in a cup of glass).

Then take the flask and put it in a cold place, thus you form the crystals. Should not form the crystals, take the flask, place them over a condenser and distill a little, well protect the distilled product, but beware that it does not fall into anything, put away the flask once again in a cold place, leave it there for

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some time , let us beware of something falling, then it will form crystals. Then pour all the liquor in a clean way to another sterile flask. And pour the remaining phlegm, thus extract, salt, and shake it around and quickly pour once again the phlegm in the liquor, so that the salt dissolves suffered a bit. Get well these crystals, place ashes in a flask and a condenser above the flask, distill some of flegme, place the flask in a cold place, again the crystals are formed. Pull them out.

Repeat until all of what is and is not crystallized and remained nothing if not a more useless phlegm; but not entirely useless, so keep it good, the salt back together. Here you have the real vitriolum microcosm, the sapientaie sal, the sal mystery nagni, is the right magicum. When what you have prepared yourself, then you are able to do miracles, because in magic is not achieved anything right, if you do not have this salt. With this miracle can act of men and animals only if you walk in the power of the M ost High, as will be shown later, and this salt and also the medicine of the first order. Now when you prepare the crystals, you have two roads ahead of you, to fix and prepare the lapidem medicinalem.

First: Take the crystals, put them in a bottle, melt them, I'll teach you how to: put it in a bain marie (BM ), so that the crystals dissolve in a liquor. When it are released, open the bottle, pour the liquor into a small retort, place in a bath of attach ash a collecting vessel, distill what would come of it. Cohobate, until everything is gone, thus get the true the spirit of particular water quality. Add this water to thin and pure gold, as much as you can solve. Pour this solution, split it into two parts and put in small glass containers sterile. Take the first remaining this earth (earth, precipitate, residue) from which you have cleaned the salt; but beware that it is still clear and pure, calcine once again strong, weigh and when it weighs one-fifth put it in a bottle and pour over the end of your liquor, seal the glass and put it in the kiln and let it change colors until it fixes, pull it out and grind small and put it back into another bottle and let it color once again, and repeat until when the liquor is consumed, thus you fixed the lapidem medicinalem microcosm and this is a second-order medicine.

This is a tedious work, but in a way better and shorter can be reached as follows. When your crystals are dissolved in a liquor, take your earth prepared, put it in a small retort, pour it over half of the liquor, lay in ashes the retort and distill what can be, what comes up from distillation, reverse once again , and repeat what distills again, to pour back and repeat what often until no longer wants rises. Then put your little retort in the sand and repeat your distillation until everything is fixed once again. Then take it out and triturate small, put it once again in a little retort, put it in the ashes, after you've poured over the first half of the new (second half) of liquor, attach container harvesting, and distill once again cohobate all until no longer wants to rise. Then place the retort in the sand and repeat your distillation until the substance remains fixed. After that proceed to the third part of the liquor. When everything is fixed, you have here again the lapidem medicinalem microcosm, the medicine of the third order, and this is the shortest route.

You can also work in a third way: take your crystals, solve in their phlegm and phlegm distill off until you think it can crystallize again. Put this solution in a cool place so the crystals come out much more beautiful than the previous. Pull them out and repeat the work until all and calcified then solve the crystals once again and proceed as instructed, until they are again all crystallized. Repeat what so often in a way that they flow in the fire without smoke. Then put four quintl and triturate in a clean mortar between a quintl of virgin gold, put them together in a bottle, close by melting and leave coloring on our furnace until it fixes; coat the crystal melt and will take into if gold and in a very short time it will fix the one with the other. You have here again lapidem medicinalem, a medicine of renovation of great value, this is the medicine of the fourth order. But if you want to improve the body of metals melt your lapidem fixed, triturate the end, put it in a glass clean, pour him over highly rectified spirit of wine and extract all that is left to extract. Pour the clear solution into a flask, and distill everything down to a salt that will feed fixed so you have the tincture on the metal, a drug still much more efficient, and you have here again misterium

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magnum of the small world and you can use it for men and metals. Because you must know that the lapis medicinalem, no matter in what way has been prepared, do not enter into any metal before it has been created for the third time, ie: as mentioned three times and dissolved in spirit of wine, extract and clarify so the residue, does not necessarily come off completely before the spirit of wine is distilled again from a pure solution and then finally put together.

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Manuscript Hamburg (left), Manuscript Stuttgart (right)

A person dressed as a Roman, praying with raised hands, on both sides there are palm trees, with red and white grape interspersed with ears of corn.

Morienes the King Calid

O’ King, in you is what you seek.

Separate the remaining wet, combine purified elements, extract in the bath that which is damp and at the bottom you will find a treasure.

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2 The Second

Book

The Second Mystery

M

an is a very rich mine of M ercurialis Sulphuris, or physical matter, that is to say, similar to our stone Riplaeum which is generated in fertile soil (Terra Ingeniosa) which grows in spring under the sign of Aries and begins to take to flight.

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It must be extracted in full, its mineral whole uncorrupted, by means (for the intermediary) of a man. Go then secretly, to the posterior (Haymo) of the world (the world), a small number will understood, and you will feel the sound of the thundering, suffering from the wind, and falling of hail & rain.

That's the thing you want, and it goes beyond all the stones with its value in this art.

And know where we may dig the sand of our gold thoroughly. In its preparation, it is necessary to keep away the face and nose and utilize vessels that protects against harmful vapors. This substance is the food of the Basil Philosophica, however the matter, for the work of the physicists is mercury. This means: Get to know yourself, your own urine and feces, its extremely powerful medicines to cure all diseases and prolong life. Especially since it is found in it the Spiritus M undi that is in the sun, moon and precious stones.

- JT Herverdi, p. 323

The magnificence of the Great Spirit is indescribable, and inscrutable. The man who receives in through a creature its internal and external life, carries in himself its nutrient of the spiritual quintessence through which in so far as the man is in union with the eternal spirit in him is transformed into spirit manifested and life. However, man is of an earthly quality, supposedly carnal and seeks in created creatures only his pleasure, thus instead of enjoying the blessing, he has a curse.

However, such a man is much more wicked than a beast if he gives way to this picture; and he will keep on forever. But if a man remains in union in strength with the Great Spirit and he drinks Verbo

Domini as if in his soul was the hunger for the true manna of life, then one is also equally capable of the Mysterium. When you change before your Lord, you can make something of nothing, and know that nothing is impossible for the son of nature. Therefore pay attention to what I teach you: to make something out of nothing/thin air. Since the world will not understand and cannot understand, you satisfied your hunger with the creature that is filled with the spirit of life. If man has enjoyed this, he extracts the spirit of the creature the quintam essentiam, and also of its body: of what it is remains such a thing as the person for nothing fails to meet the contrary, it has a repugnance. But the wise and enlightened by the Lord does not throw away because he knows that is still in it a hidden force with which one can still work wonders!

If you're healthy and fresh and one with God, pay attention to the following teaching: In the spring when the air is filled with the Spiritus M undi, drink wine, eat of the bread and any other food, made by the way of M elchizedec and even a little water of vini, and abstain thou from all pleasures of the flesh, sanctify yourself in union with the Great Spirit of God and in accordance now with the soul alone.Then collect in glass flasks your urine, between thirty and forty flasks. Put it firmly closed in the sun in containers of glass or stone, let them stand three months or more. But in any case you must not let in the rain. Then you take your urine, put in a little in a large retort, place in a bath of sand closed a large collecting container.

First, among the multitudes of colors distills the Spiritus M ercurialis M icrocosm.

When all the colors part, remove the collecting recipient, pour the spiritus in another clear glass and place back the collecting recipient and distill off over half of the spiritual phlegm. This too you keep alone. The liquor thus remaining, you let it vapor to a density/thickness similar to honey. Therefore do it with all the urine remaining so that you distill off first your smoking Spiritus M ercurialis volatile, then your volatile phlegm, then the rest of the smelly phlegm a up to a juice and brown consistency.

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Then you pour all the resulting juice in a large retort of earth put it in an oven where you can give it the go per gradus and distill it all and in the end give a sustained fire, so that the vinegar also rises to the surface, and do not care that your material is based in a retort of land because it too is land. Separate the same way the liquor, take the "Caput M ortuum" of the retort and grind it finely, put it in a flask and pour over all your volatile phlegm, and put the flask to putrefy for four weeks in a moderate heat. Then distill your volatile spiritus from a flask equipped with a large receiver. Afterwards, this spiritus is deposited in a large part after four five or corrections as a white salt and it will move freely (easily) into the condenser, it should be ample. Now then, when you have corrected your spiritus, keep it together with your volatile salt in a large vessel, also correct the phlegm which put aside and keep it well preserved. Then take your Caput M ortuum, and filter it to make it become clean and pure so that it becomes clearly manifest (i.e. to extract a salt from the Caput M ortuum).

Put this clear solution in a retort and distil. After that, take the salt, put it in a flask and pour over the azoth and the spiritus and part of spiritual phlegm, that is to say as much phlegm as spiritus. There are others here who distil from the first salt, extract the phlegm, and leave behind in the retort as the latter, then they add as much spiritus. Then they add yet azoth and they digest with each other in a closed retort and they grind for four days and four nights and then they place in a cold place and crystals take shape. If at that time they think nothing crystallized, they pour out the liquor and they remove the salt.

Then evaporate the remaining liquor and place it again in the cellar, and it takes the form of more crystals. And continue this until nothing crystallizes. Then they put together all the crystals in a glass and dry them gently in the same way that you extracted the phlegm. Alternatively, some extract crystals in distilled phlegm as it requires that they are dissolved only and then put the glass in a moderate heat. Thus they dissolve quickly and then leave the solution in a cold place. In this way crystals are formed much more beautiful than the others. They removed them and then repeat the same thing, the same way, until the crystals are pure and clear. Because, each time to dissolve and crystallize, they set completely and are imbued with a spiritual composure.

Of these crystals then take half and place in a flask after grinding in pure gold, with the remaining crystals, you may increase the work.

2. But others, contain the crystals and they placed them in a bath of steam and there they dissolve on their own (by themselves), then distill the liquor through the cohobation.

They pour the liquor on the M ercurius Vivus and they distill also cohobate until the liquid carries with it as much of it as the M ercurius Vivus weighed himself. With this liquor alkahest, they arrive at the gold and the best way to finish.

3. You need also to take the crystals mentioned above and put them in a retort, and place the retort in a sand bath and extract and then stir again the water of life. Distill it again on this basis. Repeat this often until the crystals are mounted with the liquor. Then pour it on the M ercurius Vivus and proceed as taught above. But this is long and difficult: the following is the best.

4. Take your crystals and weigh them after they dry, put them in a flask: pulverize an ounce of M ercurius Vivus purified until the whole becomes a mass, then put it in a flask on high and put the flask in a sand bath, put it on a condenser and give it fire for sublimation and keep it for as long as necessary until everything is mounted. After that remove the condenser and gather all of the sublimate. What remains in the flask (caput), grind it with the sublimate and pour in again that which had been distilled.

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Now put it back into a flask, place it on the sand, put on it a condenser, with a tight-fitting collecting container, further sublime again. Repeat this several times, until all sublimes with the exception of some scoria. Of this, sublime all twice (by itself) and collect always that which rises in drops, since you will use them. Here, you have then two ways before you: the dry and the wet.

5. If you want to take the dry route do thus like this: take of your miraculous salt hermaphrodita sublimate 12 lots (6 ounces) and grind in a loth (half ounce) of finely beaten gold, put it in a flask, put this flask hermetically sealed in our furnace, and so it will go through the various colors.

When all colors are past, remove your Lapis, smash/grind it finely and grind in 2 Lots (1 ounce) of your miraculous salt. Put it back into a flask and let it pass through the colors. Repeat this until your salt is exhausted and thou hast once again obtained the Lapidem M edicinalem.

6. The wet process is not so dangerous, thus do: take your sublimate, put it in a glass bowl, laying it in the damp cellar and make sure that nothing falls into it, and in a short time, it will decompose into liquor. Pour this liquid into a retort and what had been distilled off in sublimation as we made in #4. Place the retort in an extractor of sand and distill off the liquor by cohobation. Then put it in a flask and set on top a condenser, put it in a moderate heat.

It will decompose by itself then will become clear and manifest. If necessary, dephlegm it in BM , this way is the famous Alkahest and borrows of the particular quality. With this, you can gently break down gold and make it transform into tincture by means of the colors.

And this is the most secret and hidden way and it is exactly the one you should traverse as was explained of the liquor before. Praised and glorified be the Great God who made us worthy of this great secret. One can arrive at the work in the following manner: as was taught above, when you have prepared the spiritus and the azoth and spiritual phlegm, and the salt which must be dry, and finally weigh and grind in finely a pound.

Now, I want to reveal something wonderful. Take magnesia or bismuth, if you do not have bismuth, although it is better, take the pirargirite, a pound also, grinding it finely, add it to salt and let them melt together in a good crucible. Then remove the pan (the crucible) and remove the substance (the salt of the pan) after it has cooled, grind it finely, put it in a flask and put it on medium heat for 4 days and 4 nights for putrefaction. Then take the flask, let it cool and filter the solution clear to another flask, pour again on the substance a portion of distilled phlegm and repeat all the work until all of the salt is extracted. Pour together the solutions, transparent and clear (or filtered hot) in a flask, put it in sand, put a cover/lid (cap) and fix a collector and distill everything from salt until just dry. Then pour again the phlegm on the salt, and extract it again and it will settle/deposit a few feces.

Pour all of the new clear extractions in a flask or in retort and distill all the phlegm until a dense juice. Then pour on top the water of life and the azoth above ground, digest well 4 days and 4 nights and place next in a cold environment and leave until crystals form. In doing so you have to observe in the direction parallel to the same thing, as has already been said before, only that these crystals will crystallize in many colors. They are much better than the previous and after they are added to gold and with each other go through the colors, we obtain a perfect Lapidem M edicinalem. On completion in essence, this spread (widens) enormously.

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But in terms of the Opus M agnum, it is in all the same work, there are some only that take two parts: some take only urine and feces and putrefy with each other, others take hair. Once these have been rotten for a few times, they separate the water of life (spiritus), the azoth, and sulfur & salt separately.

If you want finish with care, working only with the cupellation. If you have the vitriolum

microcosmi or the metal (Gur) of the small world, this way you proceed by a short route (fast). But if you want put the fixed salt and azoth spiritus, you must go through a tedious, long, and dangerous journey. Otherwise you can add all according to the instruction given above. However, I advise you to stay with urine or blood. So think you here, you have no reluctance to cause the stench during the work, and you can drive your fixed salt so well in the metal kingdom into a mineral. When you have made crystals of the salt, it is possible to make these crystals fixed by themselves (per se) first by means of the solution and its coagulation with spiritual phlegm; in the second one can sublimate the crystals with living mercury sublimate and which are two new works in the wet and the dry, as you have already heard before.

Therefore there is no need to repeat the work here. We will now turn to the Chaotic Universal Salt the Lord God placed in the earth as a magnet of which Hermes, our father said:

"The creatures here below, together with those above, and these again, to those here, they produce something unique. And like all sprang from the Word of the One Creator, then the order of nature, and all things are born of this one thing. As if to say: it is the beginning and the beginning of all things, the breath and the Almighty has placed in the ground. The old Saturn (land and the

magnetic force coagulant) is a child in her womb, which is made live by Him that is above. He who gives life is now the spirit of universal world, the spiritus universi, held poised in the air and is activated by the metal salt through which everything is increased and originates which gives the day our age. His father is the sun and the moon its mother, the air is its carrier as is the womb, but its nurse is the earth. For all things which have become have their origin in these two of them of the sun and moon, and these became so, so he said: ‘Causa omnis perfectionis ea est per universum hoc’ and as the words say later, ‘quod est inferius, est sicut id, quod est superius et vice versa.’"

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Manuscript Hamburg (left), Manuscript Stuttgart (right)

It is part wind, fog/mist and rain.

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The Third Mystery

I

f you want to look for the Spiritus Universalis M agneticus, then take note of this: you can find & obtain it in several ways: First, it fluctuates (rises & falls) in the air, next in the dew, rain, snow and hail. We can easily get it in the rain, the spirit of the world (spiritus mundi) is often in it [rain] for the life of all created things, and in it is hidden the hope that forge that gave birth to all, in which all things have their origin and the spirit moves in water.

Therefore, in the spring, make big wooden fir barrels in which one can trap between 12 and 16 buckets of water (about 1000 liters) and make them with removable covers/lids. Collect in these water of rain and put the barrels without lids in a clear sky in the sun and the moon since "Patrem ea res habet solem, matrem lunam."

During this operation, this water is particularly fertile, as all superior forces are assembling in the water, at the end it becomes completely magnetic "ab aère quasi utero gesta nutritus a terra” until you to see that Venus appears and that it swims in the sea, that is to say until it (the water) turns green. This is why you must replace what the sun itself carries with more rain, and when it rains and the weather is uncertain, you have to cover it.

The barrels must also remain in a place where no one can tamper with them. If now by this way it is rotten in a time ranging from 4 to 8 weeks, and that it raises more or less a viscous being (substance), then cover the barrels, since you have them hidden in the spirit and the beginning of all things created in the world. This is why our Father says: "Causa omni perfectionis eadem est per Universum hoc.”

Therefore take two large flasks, put them half filled with the matter in a water bath, connect the condenser and collecting container, all distill by degrees. Guard it well shut closed in casks of stone. Then distill another part; guard it as well. Leave the third part in a flask. When everything is cool, pour again