The Alchemy of the Mason, Part I 9789461630346

Table of contents :
Chapter One

Citation preview

THE ALCHEMY OF THE MASON BY

François-Nicolas Nöel

Inner Garden Press L023 Translated by Via Veritatis for Inner Garden Press Formated for Kindle by Moreh

Published by Inner Garden Press 2019, Utrecht, the Netherlands ISBN: 978-94-6163-034-6(E-book)

Copyright © Inner Garden Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of Inner Garden Press. A catalogue record for this book is available from the National Library, The Netherlands.

Inner Garden Foundation The Inner Garden Foundation conducts research on traditional and modern forms of Alchemy and aims to propagate and pass on the Alchemical Tradition in the broadest sense. For more information refer to: www.innergarden.org

1st Edition: Manuscript, dated 1812

The Alchemy of the Mason By François-Nicolas Nöel

Regular Mason Honorary member of the A∴ A∴ L∴ L∴ of Saint John under the distinctive names of ‘Joan of Arc’ and of ‘Moral Crucible.’

Or∴1 of Orleans To the O∴ of Cléry 5813

Discourse [54]2 You have come to a science that has always been considered madness by cold-hearted men (whose soul is not moved by any emotion). Let them say whatever they want, we look at them as passive beings who are not susceptible to any sentiment or anything that would allow them to observe with the discernment that belongs only to those whose spirit goes beyond their immediate surroundings. If you have a mind totally stuck in false preconceptions you will get not far. If you hope to learn here how to transmute a specific metal I would take you for a fool but if, on the contrary, you hope to gain knowledge in following the order of nature then you will be among the ranks of those who aspire towards true knowledge. In my Physics, I have presented you the knowledge of the dimensions of bodies and their properties, these bodies, as well as their properties, are nothing if they have not received the motion by a generating spirit, and this spirit is the workman who works under the command of the Creator, who is our great and divine alchemist. It is this generating spirit on which generative operations rest; it is our philosophical stone, the true transmutor of our metals, it is this universal spirit that unites with the body and attracts the life of the soul. Consider our geometry as the body, our physics as the spirit, and our alchemy as the soul and the bond of body and spirit. Consider also that our geometry is our flat earth, which receives a depth by the spirit that gives

form and, at the same time, life by attracting to it the soul which is our eternal fire stirred by the spirit of the air. To give you an idea of our science, you need to know that we have three principles that are: 1. sulphur or oil; 2. mercury ☿ or liquor; 3. salt

.

Which are related to: 1. soul; 2. spirit; 3. body. It is in this double ternary that you will find the visible which contains the invisible in itself. Furthermore it is this double ternary that is manifested in man.

You will find in this double ternary the eternal heavenly world and the transitory temporal world; in the first you will find the health, in the second the illness that is cured by our medicine which is contained in our sulfur. This medicine is the treasure that you must seek since without it everything would be in a state of death. However just as everything is regenerated in the beginning of life, so also it is in this principle where you must seek this medicine that restores health that is rightly called balm of the vegetables.

You will also recognize in this double ternary what these words described by T∴ A∴ symbolize. Moses says that the Spirit of God has spoken: let it be done — mysterious words that refer to the creation of the first matter that contains the three principles that are separated to engender our four elements. You will learn that these four elements are immobile by themselves and that they cannot exist without having their spirits in them. It is these spirits that

we call spiritual elements, the sustainers of the matter.

These elements are double. It is this ternary that will lead you to the knowledge of the agent and the patient, to their marriage in the operations of the great work. It is this marriage that gives us the cross of nature, for if you consider the four fixed points of the sphere, you will find the agent in the solstices and the patient in the equinoxes, which are joined at the central point to form the cross of the motion that governs the circulations.

You will also find, philosophically speaking, these elements at the top and bottom of the cross, since two of them are light and two are heavy. This knowledge will lead you to that of the manifested word and to this spirit over the waters, combining the principles of the bodies causing them to appear in the forms that are suitable to them, designating their places in nature, their domiciles and their virtues. It is through effort and meditation that your intelligence will develop as the need arises. It is thus that, after having understood our three principles and our elements, you will be led to the knowledge of the seed of all things, which are retained and bound to the stars and hidden in the elements, like in an inexhaustible abyss. Then you will understand how, from the beginning of matter, the visible things are not like the invisible ones and how that which is external is touched, joined and is generated within certain periods of time. You will also learn what we mean by ‘beginning’ which is said to be everywhere and at all points, for it is found everywhere you are. The

quadruple elements conspire for the general good through their circulations, so you will know what our universal affinity means. The manifested word has granted to all germs, that is, to the principles of matter, the virtue of generation, which necessarily must also be that of multiplication — two inseparable virtues found in the elements. For the elements circulate everywhere and thus the seeds are inseparable from the elements and the three principles and, consequently, from the laws of nature. From this reasoning comes a true conclusion, namely, that all created things follow the universal harmony, the analogy of the elements and the three principles; and that it requires only a simple reasoning, not only to conceive of all these things, but also to give them a successive order. If you have followed me with attention until this point, you will understand in what manner the combination of elements subsists. I will still give you an explanation of that combination. The elements survive by combining and preserving themselves by means of the tincture which is our philosophical balm. This balm of tincture is our humid radical, our medicine and our fifth element. (a) The alchemical work is an imitation of the work of our fifth element. The science of the sages consists not only of imitating nature, but also of perfecting it. Thus imitate the gardener who produces good fruit in a wild tree because nature must be aided. (b)

Continuation [55] Cast your eyes upon the visible beings, upon the admirable order established between them. Know well that everything on earth is accidental, transitory and subject to death. That alone should suffice for you to believe that there is an invisible principle that produces life and that therefore this principle must be eternal. Do not turn your attention to the sun or to the moon and all the stars trying to find this principle of universal life. In fact, you will recognize in the sun a fertilizing virtue that renders the soil susceptible of generation by its heat. If this is not enough to convince you that this celestial body is universal, then notice how you will always find that a limited celestial body would be nothing and produce nothing without moisture and without rain. It is the same in all other celestial spheres that are simply mere material creatures that have no motion of their own. Since all their virtues are merely borrowed, or rather, since they have nothing by themselves, they are therefore subordinate beings and created under the regime of subjection, and consequently they cannot be the principle of life and motion. If you look at the elements, you will find them equally immobile by themselves, having, like the stars, only a borrowed existence. The elements that are disseminated in all beings, but all beings are subject to death and transformation and are therefore beings still subordinate to a hidden power. (c) The Spirit of God and the Creator is therefore that which we must recognize as having preceded matter. Since it preceded matter it must be eternal, present in all without being positively in any because it is, as we have said

previously, the element of the elements — the universal element having in itself the divine fire diffused by extension in all nature, not being contained because it is infinite. (d) If you want to operate fruitfully, it is necessary to look into nature for the cause of mobility. If you want to find it, lift up yourself above the matter and let yourself be led by the hand of the Holy Spirit, for it is your light that must remove you from the wilderness and guide you to the fortress where you must fight against impiety. If you have a burning desire to have the treasure of the wise, make sure that you conquer with ease: the gates and walls of darkness will fall before your eyes and will return to the nothingness and then the light will shine within you. It will penetrate you because it is the living spirit, the supernatural fire that governs the elemental fire. Then you will be persuaded that nature is not by God but that God is triple in nature, where He takes the name of Father because He is creator, where He takes the name of Son, because the Son is His manifestation, where He takes the name of Holy Spirit because He Himself is proceeding from all things. You will find this ternary is always in unity and if we separate them in the work, this is only to make you understand that the Son is in the manifested human nature, that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son. This is how you will find the three immortal heavenly principles in the three principles of nature, visible to our eyes. Since these three things concern man, microcosm, so you will find: time; space; moving beings. three essences in unity hidden in the: beginning;

the middle; and end of all corporeality. (e) Know that the work of the philosophers consists of very little. I tell you this to make you understand that you do not listen to the sophists, because their purpose is to deceive you and divert you from your true ways. I must also tell you here that all these sophistic people just want to rob you or steal your conscience. Let the unbelievers ruin themselves and you enrich yourself with the true knowledge of the principle of principles. Work with me and if by means of your work you surpass me, give thanks to the Eternal because all things come from him, just as everything must return to him. So, open your ears to this discourse if you want to understand wisdom and truth.

Notes a. To give you an idea of our elements, know that all creatures were formed as: vegetables; animals; and minerals that contain the elements water, earth, air, and the fire of life. After all these elements are fourfold. The generation of animals refers to air

; this element contains the other

three. The generation of vegetables refers to the earth , this element contains the other three. The generation of minerals refers to water which also contains the other three. These three kingdoms therefore refer to the elements; Earth, Water, Air, Fire (and this according to what is necessary in the operation of the work). You will discover how the fiery bodies are separated from the other visible ones. Metals are separated from aqueous bodies; minerals are separated from saline bodies and vegetables from earthy bodies. You will find all these things explained as good as possible in order to bring you to the knowledge of the generation which is the great mystery of our philosophical stone.

If you have fully understood my Geometry and my Physics, it will not be difficult for you to comprehend that when a seed dies within its matrix, it corrupts itself in order to turn into a new body and thus multiply. These are the things that will make you understand that all corruption is the cause of a generation. This is our great mystery! It is for this reason that we resort to putrefaction when we want to achieve a new generation. Therefore, it is not specified matters we must operate on because we need to reduce the subject we wish to work on into first matter. We can not make a man out of another and if we want to make a man we must draw him from the putrefaction in which the principles and the elements are manifested. And this is the mystery of the tomb of our A∴ M∴ Hiran-Abif. If you have understood all that I have just told you, it will be easy for you to apply it to mankind because he has all the natural and supernatural prerequisites. It is for this reason that I will continue to stress that if mankind wants to seek God with success it is necessary to first to know himself. Then let us understand well our nature and knock at the door of our heart if we want to have everything that is necessary for the perfection of art. The heart of the human being is everything. It is the basis of the column of Beauty because it contains all nature. The body of a man represents the sensitive temporal macrocosm while his soul presents the eternal and vital fire contained in the center of his heart and yet recovered throughout his body. And this fire is the great (original) archetype that passed through him when he passed through the three reigns.

What is remarkable is that mankind is alike God in all things. Man contains all the creatures. He resembles the Creator in everything and this is the mystery of the center coming out of the center. This is the mystery of the divine being that must perish and thereafter everything must, according to the inviolable laws of nature, return to the source. And this goes to demonstrate to the studious man that he is composed of two aspects: [56] one celestial, eternal and the other temporal, transitory. Consequently

mankind has two fathers and two mothers: a celestial, eternal father and mother; and a temporary, perishable father and mother. It is in these two aspects that you will find the Spirit of God and the universe. There is no part in mankind that does not correspond to a fourfold element, a planet, an intelligent spirit, a measure and a reason in the (original) archetype. If mankind corresponds to the elements, he possesses the elements in his material aspect (body) which is the casing of the dwelling of the supernatural fire propagated in his invisibility, joined in the center of the heart where we must necessarily find the visible firmament of heaven. I have been telling you that the supernatural fire (soul) is propagated throughout the body. This must be understood by the whole universal body, of which mankind is a reflection. This is the body that is our visible firmament of heaven hidden in the heart of the man. God, in all parts of His manifestation, is the incontestable principle of life that is propagated in the center of ma∴ heart, from which it spreads to all limbs, in the same way as the universal spirit is propagated in the great macrocosmic body. We therefore encounter in mankind a trinity in the same way we find in God a triple essence. We also encounter therein the breath of the soul. We encounter our firmamentic spirit, our philosophical air that feeds our fire. In short, we find that our earth is the matrix of our water because without earth

the water could not be contained, and without water our earth could not be irrigated. We also find in man three heavens that correspond to the three worlds. Man is the perfect creation that communicates with spirits and elements: with God through the life-giving spirit of the soul; with the spirits in their invisible corporeity; and with the elements (the universe) by their visible corporeality. God — the soul — fire — ☿; The spirits — the spirit — air — water — The elements — the body — earth

;

.

This is the basis of our alchemical operations that lead to wonderful things. If an understanding of nature is madness, then it is a divine madness. It is a wise madness because it is the foolishness of the cross. Blessed is he who possesses it because he will have in himself the Garden of the Hesperides. He will have the key that transmutes all our metals. b. as you will come to see, you will not need a large laboratory to house your furnaces, your matters and all your chemical instruments. All these things must be in your imagination, in this faculty of the soul that is simply effective by the operation of an active force that must be preserved according to the necessity of the imaginative conceptions. I advise you to take this precaution in order to guide you wisely and gradually. The imagination has three main parts that are (1) the effect of its operation on objects conceived by the result of its active force. This force put into

operation must be followed by (2) the creation of several emulated visualizations of the projected object. This is what the sages call the Qabalistic art, with the help of which the imagination can (3) create everything that we see in the world. Heed these words well because they lead you to the great work and they will take you away from the sophists. Have patience! All this will develop in your imagination as you proceed and you will see that our alchemy is not an illusory science, that the transmutation of our metals is utterly foreign to this foolish madness of making a gold ingot upon lead from iron. Our alchemical science ensures that whoever wants to acquire it will need patience. I invite you above all to meditate during your retirement about everything that happens in nature. It is in order to the help the studious man that we place in our lodges all our scientific symbols which most of those who were initiated (without vocation) regard as pure ornaments. And even if they give them a shape that they believe to be more pleasant, this is where ignorance leads us. They think that all these symbols actually contain the science of wisdom in its form, in its proportions, and in its locations. Leave those ignorants be alone. However, you who wish to operate in the mysterious square, do not be afraid if everything that is presented before your eyes seems silent. Make sure that all these symbols have a language, but an inner language. If you really are thirsty for science, meditate every degree you will go through. Do not take all the instructions we give you literally. They contain a hidden meaning that explains the hieroglyphic figures that appear before your eyes in each of these degrees. For example, the venerable and the two watchmen of a symbolic lodge, as well as the wise men, the powerful venerable ones in the high degrees are all symbolic men. The order of works that appear to you as merely discipline, the names of the various characters represented in your graduations, the mysterious

pronunciations of the words, the signs, the grips, the order of Qabalistically elaborated numbers that are taught, all these things are successive and gradual instructions to make you attain a science that contains in itself everything that happens in nature. However, also everything that is relative to the social order such as Religion, Morality, Justice, has been established on the same basis. It is for this reason that in the instructions is always conveyed a moral sense that hides the true meaning which should not be known, except for the genuine keeper of the truth. I may have told you enough to encourage you to operate. So do away with all that is external, look only with the eyes of the soul, close your ears to sophistry and open your heart to the spirit. You must receive these instructions only because they bring you the word of the Gospel, that is, the good news of science hidden in the parabolic sense. Be discreet and communicate it only to those who, as you, have no other desire but to enter the sanctuary of wisdom. To reach this sanctuary it is necessary to: 1. keep yourself far from the wicked; 2. seek the existence of God; 3. be well versed in the tradition of science; 4. and keep yourself from the errors of the sophists. These are the four main points that should be part of your studies. I ask you to pay close attention to what I am going to tell you about these four main points. Beware of the wicked by seeking the Divine. Know that all philosophers who were instructed in Hermetic science had all the same feelings about the existence of God and divine nature. These are the philosophers that one must listen to and followed in their footsteps. You will find alleged wise

men that have never been in the possession of the science, continuously usurping the title of philosopher without ever knowing the true wisdom. I warn you that they are the source of all the absurd systems that have even been introduced into our lodges. All these systems gave rise to the impiety of everything that refers to matter. This is the origin of all the sects and false religions, of all the so-called religious sects that left the Creator to submit themselves in everything to the creature. This is why we have seen people worshiping the elements and all sorts of hieroglyphic figures that the sages actually invented to convey the science. Deifying matter is to recognize a principle which the wicked do not wish to admit. Since I do not want to leave out anything I have learned from hard work in order to remove you from the muddy path that wicked people are always seeking to lure you with captive words, I will teach you how wickedness has replaced the true worship that we must render to Divinity through His Word. This change has taken place by the revocation of the order of things: the priests which were instituted [57] by the ancient philosophers in order to preach the morality of their science, in their envy, they put into action the evil purpose of exterminating those from whom they had existence. The wise men, being few in number, were compelled to flee and retreat to their dark places. Then the priests appropriated all their works and inaugurated themselves wise men by divine right. These blind philosophers misused the philosophical writings as a trophy of their victory. And since they were ignorant of the science, they took all these writings to the letter. And since science is presented sometimes in one way or sometimes another, from there the absurd religious systems were conceived that have spread throughout the inhabited world until the time the gospel of Christ appeared.

In our days have we not witnessed Freemasonry, heir of the science of the Magi, persecuted by fanatic priests who, with the aid of the weak intellects of the princes whom they had appropriated, preach incendiary discourses? History presents us terrible examples of burned butchers, the innocent victim of greed. Are not these persecutions properly proof of the infallibility of our science? Are these persecutions not equally proof of the reliability of our science? Should not these examples of tyranny compel us into protect ourselves with the weapons of discretion? Unfortunately we possess many indiscreet masons who, without knowing it, betray the order. We can not, therefore, apply ourselves too much by taking every means to conceal the science of truth from the wicked under an impenetrable cover. This precaution is recommended to us by the example given by the wise men who have always hidden their works under the mantle of darkness – a darkness which can not be lifted to show the light of truth and wisdom except to those who are worthy of seeing. I tell you this so that you may comprehend the price of the blindfold3 which was removed from your sight when you get initiated into the fraternity. Make sure that if you do not work, this same blindfold which has been symbolically removed from your sight in the moment of your initiation will always continue to cover your eyes. If you consider all our hieroglyphics symbols as having only one layer of truth, your mind will never penetrate its interior.4 You who wish to work, do not act like those false sages, like those enemies of truth who desired to work on specific matters and which had no other result in their work but a destructive expense. It is for this reason that they are decried on the alleged falsity of science. You must remember what I told you earlier when I warned you that a great laboratory was not necessary. So do not take everything I tell you literally. And if you have fallen into this error, get up and start over again. But pay close attention to the warnings I

gave you to prevent you from drawing absolutely false conclusions about all that wise men have written. If you ascribe everything only to nature, you can be sure that you will fall into the shadows from which you can not escape. This darkness is the source of all materialistic systems disseminated by these false minds that have brought much prejudice to the heart of philosophy. If you want to work, it will be easy for you to see how all these systems were established by folly and merely support the interests of the sophists who created them. And since this same system has been destroyed by another or interpreted in different ways, that is the reason why there are so many confused theologies, which, instead of speaking about God, promote the most absurd opinions, some more than others. And this is reason why the disputes of the vulgar schools originated and were unfortunately supported by the sovereigns over the ages, so that there would be a great deal of danger in going against this false philosophy that is divided and subdivided and which is contrary to the glory of God. The sages, far from creating systems based on caprice, never taught but one system. They all understood God in the same way, they all have the same principles, they are always in agreement with each other regarding the operations of the great work. They need not all be assembled to work because everywhere they have the same laboratory, the same matter, the same instruments and the same philosophical method. This is what you must understand when it is said that Freemasonry is governed by the same laws and customs. If we find some divergencies in the writings of the philosophers, it is only in the way of explaining it in common words, but the inner language is

always the same because it is the language of nature, the common language being only the veil that hides the science. Far from making you believe what they say in common language, on the contrary, they never cease to remind you not to take their writings literally, but to understand according to the spirit of the words. They do so because the outer tongue speaks a dead language while the language of the spirit, which envelopes it, is a living language that everyone can speak because it is universal and consequently, divine. It is a word of God that announces its existence to all of nature. It is this existence that must be sought. All reasonable men recognize the necessity of the existence of one God. Nature itself by its temporal and perishable changes, some more confused than others, obliges us to recognize this truth. Since the distance that exists between the Creator and the creature is infinite, it is not surprising that there are so many men who neglect to seek to know him; but this infinite distance is smaller after the creature knows its Creator. God is always in the midst of us. We know Him because He is in all our works. Thus, do not put your attention on the many spheres of nature in order to find that there is only one way, as I said before, of seeking to know yourself. Man must seek God with love and with this ardor which is something that the wise have always regarded as the most important thing. c. If you lift up yourself in nature, be careful not to be surprised, for it is there that the false philosophers were trapped – because they saw, although only materially, that it communicated motion to the elements, thus they concluded that nature was God Himself. Be very careful about what I tell you: Do not believe that nature is the eternal principle of life. Nature is just

a set of all submissive creatures. It is also under the regime of submission, being unable to communicate anything without first receiving life and motion of a Being who is superior to it. It follows from these investigations that you must understand that all corporal beings can not have any motion by their own, except only by borrowing. They are finite and enclosed and must necessarily have had a beginning. And since everything that had a beginning must have an end, you can not associate the matter to divinity. From which we conclude that the principle of life must be an invisible spiritual Being that can not have any affinity with matter. Thus you can not find God except in a spiritual spirit, which alone has the power, in His divinity, to create, to make everything before our eyes visible and sensible. This is what I try to make you understand in the creation of our philosophical stone, on which rests all the inner and outer knowledge of nature. d. It is in this Infinity that we find the threefold power of communicating the motion to nature, and the order that we find established in it, according to the ternary laws, for in Him alone is the power to make visible the invisible, that is, to draw out of nothing the light from darkness and the life from death. It is necessary, after what I have just said, that you lift up your thoughts above the celestial bodies, above the elements, and finally above nature itself, for if you remain bound to that which is encompassed and finished, I assure you that your search will be in vain and all your works will be unsuccessful because you will be in the darkness of corruption and immobility. Therefore, look for the Being that possesses infinity,

immortality, and you will come to know God, who is the only principle of life, the first cause of all creatures. Then you will be convinced by your own reason of the real existence of the Godhead, not in its entire extension, because that would be impossible to you, but as much as this ternal and infinite Being allows His creatures. e. After what I have just said, you see how much you should brace yourself against [58] the sophist∴mistakes about the real art. Those who possess and transmit it have never ceased and will never cease to collaborate to attain the knowledge of God and of His wisdom. In times of persecution the wise men left behind their writings, and since they were filled with enigmatic narrations in order to hide science from the wicked, the priests of religion misused them. It is this abuse that has been the cause of the advent of all false religions, as I said earlier in these notes. Since in the course of time the interpretation of these writings has been lost, it is no wonder that this would happen because the priests used all scientific writings only to satisfy their greed. The literal sense took the place of spirit of the parable, and to teach their interpretations to the princes they deified them according to the molds of the writings of the magicians. This was how the pagan religions came to establish themselves and the true God was forgotten. Since common people are always ready to make bad judgements, they attribute their paganism to the philosophers. It is well known that idolatry and errors about science have arisen from the very source of truth. If the wise men would have foreseen the misuse that their science would suffer, they would have destroyed their writings. May this be an example to you and to all those like you, who operate according to the great book of nature. Be discreet and keep a low profile so as not to lead men to new mistakes. It is for this reason that I have worked to clarify to you all the fables of the magicians by making comparative reports, but always in a hidden sense so

that you discover the true meaning there, reminding you that the letter kills and only the spirit vivifies. Thus do not take the crust of the stone, as do all sophists who are inclined to perform chimerical and destructive operations. When I tell you that the fire does not burn, do not try to light a great fire with the intention of convincing yourself of it. When I tell you that water does not wet your hands, do not try to distil rainwater. If I tell you to take the invisible and make it visible, do not try to operate by evaporating the visible mercury. Everything you could make would be in vain.

Alchemy of the Mason By François-Nicolas Nöel Honorary member of the A∴ A∴ L∴ L∴ of Saint John under the distinctive names of Joan of Arc and of Moral Crucible Or∴5 of Orleans To the O∴6 of Cléry 5813

Chapter One On Number 3 stemming from 1 and 2 [61] The knowledge of the number three contains so many sublime lessons that it is not surprising that Masons, following the ancient philosophers, have made it the basis of their most important works. If you want to acquire the science of philosophers and prophets, pay close attention to what I want to tell you about the knowledge you want to possess. Remember that everything was created by imagination and that you can only create through imagination. Everything that exists is nothing. The names we give them are only through imagination. That is why we should not take anything to the letter, but take everything according to its spirit. Perhaps you tell me: Why speak of science so mysteriously? I will answer that every man who has knowledge of natural things can not write otherwise, for the truth must be hidden from the profane. And make sure that you will not write otherwise when you have what you are looking for. Understand that there is: Only one divine truth; Only one earthly truth.

The only divine truth is God Himself. The ternary in unity has its origin from this truth, that is: 1. time; 2. space; 3. motion. See the art of reasoning of our Physics on p. 19, 24, 25, 26. See the table of the art of reasoning of our Physics, letter A, in the word ‘eagle,’ ‘tree,’ ‘ascension.’ Note well that these three things exist in unity within our imagination in unity. Time has in itself space and motion; space has time and motion and motion has time and space. time

space

motion

space

motion

time

motion

time

space

Note also that time is the Father of space, that motion is the spirit that proceeds from time and space – that is, from the Father and the Son. One would not have life without the other; everything that would be encompassed inside space would be nothing, and where there is nothing there is no time, and consequently there is no motion. Therefore, it is the unavoidable knowledge of these three things that must lead us to the knowledge of the temporal terrestrial truth and, consequently, to the cubic stone that has a pyramid on top of it, symbol of the extension of the fire that exists in all creatures.

Be sure to pay attention to this trinity. It is necessary that it is associated to the principle from which it came, otherwise you would fall into idolatry. It is necessary, I tell you, that you place yourself at the heart of the invisible, who is the only Creator, who gave life to the creature when it is manifested in the works. Do you remember that all matter is nothing and that which is something in the three principles is so because God is its Author? For these principles by themselves are no more than matter and if they are something, it is because they possess the matter created as the subject on which they work to conserve these three principles of manifestation. Therefore, there is a center and this center is an uncreated one. Hence it is necessary to conclude that its centers were created and they may return to that which is its principle when the Creator deems opportune. Nature seems eternal in our eyes but it was created and everything that is created is not eternal in the eyes of the Creator. Since our three principles came out from the uncreated center they are therefore spiritual. They are not matter although they operate on matter. To fully understand these ternary principles, it is necessary to know that there is an earthly truth. We must return to the heart of divine truth, from which came that earthly truth. It is through the union of these two truths that we will know that there is only one God, only one truth. This is what you need to understand by center that comes out of the center (see our Geometry, p. 3. The point is an emblem of the uncreated center. See page 3: the center created in unity with the uncreated center. See the same page: Everything came out of the center; everything must returns to the center. See the table in Geometry, in the word ‘chaos,’ letter C. The

uncreated center produces the created center. See the same table in the word ‘point of the spirit,’ letter P, center originated within the center). This means that the uncreated center had its origin in the uncreated center. And since there is none other than the created center which seems to be revealed to our eyes, it is this center, therefore, which hides that which is its principle. I tell you that the created center seems to be revealed in our eyes because this center is nowhere, and yet everywhere. And though it is not in a particular place, it is always there, and there it hides the uncreated center. It is this central unity that makes us to understand that Divinity is united with humanity; the great Architect is in harmony with His works. In short, the Creator is united with His creatures. Do not confuse union with corporatization: God is not incorporated into the works of His manifestation. If you fall into this corporality, you will fall into pure matter, and thus the nothingness would be a divinity to you. Remember always that unity is the uncreated one who created it, and that creation must be separated naturally from the Creator. If the Creator is in unity with the creature it is only to control the harmony of the creatures which are His glory. This harmony can be destroyed. The Creator can by His power unlock the key that holds the celestial vault and collapse the whole building. But it is always the Creator who has the power to recreate new heavens and a new earth if He deems opportune. There is only one God; There is only one truth.

For the same reason, there is only one way to know it perfectly and intimately. It is not necessary to use sophisticated reasoning to prove that matter can exist on its own. Why these sophists, who are all made of matter, can not create themselves? Because they can not disagree that everything seems to recreate itself either in one form or in another. Why do they not make a man of clay and why do they not give him life? If they did, I would say that matter is God. If they did not, I would say there is a hidden cause that generates all things. So I believe that the ternary, the principle of life, is all spiritual and that one of these principles, with respect to its unity, is as powerful as the others. All the Sages of antiquity, all the prophets, no matter what country they came from, recognized this ternary truth. They certainly were no fools. Therefore, listen to the lessons of these wise men and leave alone the refined and sophisticated people. [62] Observe that all wise men and those who followed in their footsteps never meant to do anything else in their acts but to imitate nature, to perfect it in the work of their stone, which is our cubic stone. They imitate the gardener who perfects a wild tree and reaps good fruit. The wise, therefore, operate only on nature. It is only after having recognized all good and evil, that is, the virtues and vices in the operations of the stone, that the moral sense has been established. This is how religions were established to maintain and give to civil order the same harmony as that established in their imitative work of nature. So they established priests and sages, led them to worship deities and lead men to practice a moral sense: the latter to individual security and to protect virtue and punish crime. They have finally

established leaders to govern the people and to preserve the religion and the laws. The religion was established on the purifying principles of the stone: the judges were established not only on the basis of their knowledge of the good people but also of the evil ones, which are revealed in the work of the great work. Justice therefore came to the aid of religion, when it was not strong enough to suppress opinions. The supreme leader was the guardian of religious and civil laws, and that order of things was established on the ternary system. The leader, the guardian of the laws, was the first and related to time. Religion, since it must expand throughout the universe, was the second of the ternary and is related to space. Justice, since it must be taken to protect virtue and punish vice, is the active motion to exterminate the guilty and restore the life of the innocent and therefore was the third ternary and is related to the motion that gives life to all creatures through death, through corruption and putrefaction. And it is this civil ternary that was established and still exists today with this difference: that religion degenerated into idolatry because the priests of the religions, established by the ancient wise men, lost sight of the principle of their institution and, by their envy and by having a subordinate mission, they did all they could to persecute the wise men and throw them out of their provinces. It was thus that they borrowed from them that which was merely symbolic. Thus they became gods and constituted themselves as a divine institution. The wise retired to hidden places and always wrote for the instruction of their companions, but in an obscure way to avoid the desecration of science. And this science we study in order to attain knowledge of the three constitutive principles. In the same way as the wise men, we withdraw from the profanes´ company and are always careful not to have any communication with them. And it is for this reason that we tile7 the temple before beginning our work. Notice here that the place where we work is called a temple

because everything that makes it mere ornament are equally symbols that announce to us the operations of nature. And when we say ‘Let us rise and build8 the temple to the eternal Jesus, let our hearts be the ground,’ it is so that we may remember the ancient pre-eminence of the sages from whom we have origin. lordship

time

Father

charity

religion

space

Son

faith

justice

motion

Holy Spirit

hope

I∴ M∴ B∴ Man, among all created living beings, is the only one endowed with reason. He should not use this faculty of soul but only for the greater glory of the great Architect of the universe: spreading his praises by pure love of gratitude. The first object that is presented to our inner eyes is time. It heralds the real but hidden presence of the Master of the Universe. It is this hidden presence that announces the all-spiritual time being above all understanding. But if we find God in time, we do not find created beings. From which we must conclude that time alone does not make up the Godhead. If we consider Nature carefully, we shall find that all things are enclosed in a receptacle. This receptacle is the immense space which comprises all works as in a great vessel. This space has its limits beyond ours, because ours is but our starry sky, but we extend it by means of the imagination as long as we can stretch the line. This space must therefore necessarily be in unity with time. It is, therefore, a being as divine as time, since both have affinity

with the uncreated center. We stand in the deepest silence and humility before the Eternal that we religiously admire as the immense work of the Creator that has no limit, infinite for us. The time that is His Father measured it, measures it and will measure it, as long as He will please with the compass of the exact proportion. It is for this reason that space is measured by time, which is in unity with it, although they are distinct from each other. Space is different from time because time divides it; Space has the same origin as time, because they can not exist without each other; The infinity of space is the proof of eternity; Time is eternity. It is the proof of the infinity of space. (They are two uncreated beings, both of them have the same divine essence). Although these two elements are unknown to us, it is enough for us to know the Master of the Universe, the only Architect, the only Geometer, the only Physicist, the only Alchemist who helps the hidden worker to work in his vessel, as Geometer, He knows the measurement; as Physicist, He knows the weight; as Architect, He knows the numbers. (Related to all this, see our Geometry, pp. 3, 9). Number Measure

the upper part the center

head

Fluid/seed

Mineral/vegetable

heart

Life

Animal/mineral

Weight

the lower part

belly

generating

Vegetation/mineral

These first two very reflective divisions still leave a great void in our imagination. So far we have well understood that time and space were in unity, but we do not see life. Everything is still in inactivity and in a state of death. It is necessary, therefore, to seek a third principle in unity with the first two that can give life and make a distinction of time. This is the third principle that must be found, and we will find it in motion. We know well that an angle is formed of two lines, so we have to look for a second angle. We will find it and this necessarily give us a third principle in unity with the other two, as arising from the same creative point. These three angles complete the ternary. Although they have three centers, however, they possess only one that is known to them. We find in this third angle the third principle, the principle of life, so it is at the center of this angle that we encounter life and motion. See our Geometry p. 3 on the triangle, the emblem of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. See p. 3: three centers forming only one. See p. 6 on the formation of the triangle, seen as made by three and 3 make one. See p. 15 of our Geometry, the catholic ternary. The ternary is a mystery thrice Holy. Blessed is he who can understand it, for he will know that in nature everything is made by three. In the bodies we find three dimensions. Length (See our Geometry, p. 21);

Width (See our Physics p.13); Thickness (See the Art of Reasoning in our Physics, p.19). In mankind we find: Soul (See the Art of Reasoning in our Physics, pp. 19, 20, 26); Spirit (See table of the Art of Reasoning in our Physics, number 3, letter N); Body. In alchemy we find: Sulfur (See your hieroglyphic forms p.7 of our Geometry); Sal (See pp. 11, 13, see the art of reasoning our Physics, pp. 19, 20); Mercury (See table of the Art of Reasoning in our Physics, number 3, letter N; see the table of our Geometry in the word ‘production,’ letter P). In theology we find: Father (See our Geometry pp. 5, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 3); Son (See the Art of Reasoning in our Physics, pp. 18, 19, 26); Saint Spirit (See table of the Art of Reasoning in our Physics, number 3, letter N). In the great vessel of the universe we find: Time (time: its emblem, see our Geometry, p. 15; time: its division, see our Physics, p. 7); Space (See the Art of Reasoning in our Physics, pp. 19, 24, 25, 26, 28); motion (See the table of the Art of Reasoning in our Physics in the word ‘ascension,’ letter A).

We find three kingdoms: Animal (See the table of our Geometry in the word ‘production,’ letter P); Vegetal (See the Art of Reasoning in our Physics, p. 30, 34); Mineral. Time, space and motion are therefore three uncreated beings, and as such must necessarily be in unity, having no affinity with matter. It belongs only to them to communicate action and life to nature and to all the being that compose it. The Spirit proceeds and operates in His unity with the Father and the Son. It is He who carries out all the operations. It is this trinity which forms the basis of the academy of the Holy Spirit, which has been recognized by all the wise men and which Masons recognize as the only one who leads them in their work. It is for this reason that they symbolize it in their temple by an equilateral triangle placed to the east as the place of exaltation of the sun, where the central throne of the Eternal is. This triangle commands them to work for the greater glory of the Creator, whom they recognize as the great Architect of the universe. [63] It is from the center of this ternary that the voice of God is heard in our interior and tells us: I am the truth, the way, the life. Since this ternary originated in the divine word, it is in unity at the center. Truth is an attribute of God. It spreads in space in all created beings, but we

would not have known it if the Holy Spirit would not give us life and reason. So life is derivative from the truth and the path.9 We can not entirely understand this eternal truth: that God has marked us with His ternary seal and with this seal He has given us life to make us walk on the line of the path, of space, in order that we attain the center of the word, the center of truth. We possess this glorious ternary, this ternary of glory and majesty. Let us seek God in ourselves, for He has desired to come down to us and establish His throne within our hearts. It is in our search that we will find all His good deeds done in the past, present and future (Jehovah). When we knock on the door after seeking and asking, the path of life will be opened to us – this mysterious entry of the unfathomable abyss of the great Jehovah. Thus we will find an aid to our reason that will bring us down in spirit until the ninth arch, where we will find all we can desire to acquire about the knowledge of God in His ternary unity. I know there are wicked people who doubt that we can know God because He is invisible; and that which is invisible can not be known because we can only know what we see. Freemasons who have taken the sacred ternary from the pit of the abyss, that have deposited the ternary in the subterranean vault and clothed it with the cubic stone as a sacred trust, stone that is the basis of the true Science that you wish to acquire, do not fall into the trap of the profanes. Always consider yourself as a second Galahad,10 taking care in order to confer the deposit entrusted to you. Distantiate yourself from the enemies of truth. Contemplate without ceasing the works of the Eternal God, then you will see God in spirit and you will know Him in truth because He fills the immense space of His manifestation.

Therefore do not search with the eyes of the body like the wicked do, for you would see only darkness. Instead, see with the eyes of the soul and the Holy Spirit will reveal great wonders to you. Remember that all the wise men, patriarchs, prophets and philosophers were enlightened by the light of the Holy Spirit. Why then would we not be enlightened as they were if we have a deep desire to be? Having like them an enlightened faith that everything was created in space; that this space comprises the second Divine Person, the first-born of the Father, in whom the Father of goodness placed all His compliance and affection; that He is the firstborn in nature, born in the center of the cross. Having an unwavering faith that the Holy Spirit is the principle of motion and of life; Who has tightly embraced and filled the Son of the Father, drawing to Himself the fire of charity, (fire) without which faith and hope would be nothing; that this ternary unity attached to the center of the cross has made this cross turn to its immobile center in order to take back life. And this is clearly revealed to us: that nature would be nothing without space, since space is the place where motion can take place. That motion would be nothing without the fire of time, because fire is the beginning of all things. The body is therefore God the Son, who contains in Himself God the Father, who is His soul and God the Holy Spirit is His Spirit. The Spirit joins the Son and attracts the Father to the Son, and this is how this ternary unity was transmitted through generations. The study of this ternary will give you the knowledge of all things because all things depend upon its uncreated and central unity. So seek it with the help of your three theological virtues. Be moderate, watch, meditate, and pray so that the Sophists will not tempt you.

The past is the first attribute of Divinity, the proof of its eternal existence. This attribute is contemplated with the eyes of the soul. The present is the second attribute of divinity, the proof of its existence, because there is only the ever-present greatness before God, which really and necessarily exists for all eternity, today and forever. All creatures, whose greatness is limited, exist only conditionally because God can destroy His works. These beings exist only temporarily. The present is therefore only transitory. It is nothing... present... body. The past is always in the presence of God. The present, transitory, can be perceived by the eyes of the body which make us perceive and distinguish: Size; Location; And motion (of created beings). Only the eyes of the soul can see the ever-present greatness of God because this boundless greatness (unity) can not be understood by the human mind, for a limited greatness can not understand an unlimited greatness. The future has its origin in the past and the present. It is the third attribute of divinity which, together with the past and the present, composes this divine trinity. The past has no beginning; The future will never end (It is, however, the Alfa and Omega, Jehovah) and that is how the future proceeds from the past and present.

It is easy to recognize that therein lies the omnipotence of God, the Spirit of life and motion, because the past communicates incessantly with the future through the present. This perpetual motion of communication can never be interrupted because its principle is ethereal and will never end. This third attribute, therefore, can be recognized only with the eyes of the soul. It can only be understood by means of imagination, because the veil that hides the future from men is incomprehensible and the omnipotence of God is beyond human comprehension... future ... spirit. Past; Present; Future (they form together only one God because there is only He who has always existed, exists at this moment and will exist eternally). Father

time

truth

past

soul

Son

space

path

present

body

Holy Spirit

motion

life

future

spirit

In this three attributes God is: 1. Spiritual; 2. Invisible; 3. Omnipotent; 4. Infinite; 5. Eternal 1. Matter was taken from the spiritual; 2. The visible from the invisible; 3. The impotent from the Almighty;

4. The finite from the infinite; 5. The transitory from the eternal (because the cause is always nobler than the effect). Therefore consider well that in the spiritual, invisible, all-powerful, infinite and eternal Being, you must (1) find the divine trinity; (2) that in visible, impotent, finite and transient matter, you will also find a trinity, but this one is dependent on that divine trinity. Past

Beginning

Present

Middle

Future (heavenly trinity, uncreated,

End (transitory trinity, created,

eternal)

temporal)

In the transitory trinity, God marked His beginning by taking matter out of nothing. The power He imprinted on matter in the middle, and the different beings that resulted from this matter are the end. In comparing these two trinities, we will recognize the independence of the eternal trinity and the dependence of the temporal, in which we see beginning, Middle And end (they can only have been created by the thought of God. So nature was created from a thought of God [although it was not thought]). If we continue our search carefully, we will discover that matter and beings have their ternaries, as we have said before. This third ternary is:

Sulfur; Salt; Mercury. These are the principles of nature. However, do not think for that, that you will be able to compose by yourself a nature with this ternary. All matter is dead, but you can work by imitating nature with sulfur, salt and mercury — not vulgar, but philosophical. It is this ternary that the ignorant never understood and will never understand, because they imagine that our work is the science of making gold, but on the contrary, when we say that our cubic stone is totally made of gold, this means only by imagination, because what we seek is the fulfillment of the formation of the stone that must combine, in its perfection, all that was created. [64] The four elements have their origin from the philosophical ternary, that is, these elements came out from the common center. These elements are: Fire; Air; Water; Earth. Therefore study carefully these three ternaries: the first of them refers to the soul; the second to the body and the third to the spirit. Do not lose sight of the fact that the eternal ternary is the ruler of the two others.

The Mason must therefore know that the triangle that is positioned in the East of the lodge is the perfect hieroglyph of the one and only God in trinity. The center of this triangle is the uncreated center from which the created one originates. All those who were created must return to the uncreated center. This center is the same as Jehovah, who comprises and embraces all creatures. Finally, this triangle is the amplitude of the universe, the central point that is our support and our strength against the wicked. Why? Because it is the light that shines within us. It helps us distinguish between the uncreated center and the created one; between the Author of creatures and the creature; between cause and effect. It helps us see that God is the Sovereign judge of the universe. It helps us distinguish between the divine and the natural power and between natural and artificial power. It would be desirable for men to feel the need to use reason. However, unfortunately they are slaves of their malevolent passions, rejecting the sciences, the writings of the patriarchs, the wise, the prophets and philosophers. All they wrote was in order to lead them back to this understanding, but they do not wish to hear them. O Masons, destined to receive the truth, when will it be revealed unto your inner eye? When will you want to acknowledge God in your works? When will you leave the path of superstition and filthy ignorance? In your work I do not see any passion, any love for the work. Therefore turn towards God, whom you call the Great Architect of the Universe. The tracing board falls from your hands, you break the good examples and you are dull. Awaken from this torpor. Abandon the insatiable desire of amassing gold with the ease that you bring into your initiation. Focus your fraternal attention on the profane that deserve it. If God is your Architect, then study His architecture. Do not leave His temple to the wicked. Study the writings of the ancient

philosophers – they served only to instruct you. It is true that they wrote about the science through obscurity. However, this was necessary not to profane the Godhead and expose the truth to the ridicule of the foolish. Open your books and do not interpret them literally. However, focus yourselves on the intention.11 Pay attention to their intention rather than to what they actually said and you will surely discover amazing wonders if you work with a sincere desire to transmit the science. Science is buried in darkness as in a tomb… Truth, happiness of human beings, when will gain recognition? When will you be released from the chains of superstition, fanaticism, idolatry and impiety? I who write for the instruction of my B∴, I know that I do not intend to reprove the ignorant. However, you who read me, if you wish to know what I want to tell you, know that there is only a light in order to shine you: seek; ask; and knock12. Then it will be opened to you with the key of the Holy Spirit, if your desire is sincere. Thus you can read and understand all the symbolical writings. Understand that: yesterday; the present; and tomorrow are three attributes of the ternary that you need to understand in conjunction. Know that the day before of time never had a beginning — it proves the eternity of God. The present that follows the day before, which is the

intermediary between the day before and tomorrow, is of unlimited magnitude. And it is this great present of space within the great vessel in which you must work. This great present will irrevocably pervade you with the infinite greatness of God. Like the night dissipates with the rise of the sun, the darkness is dispelled all the more with the coming of the eternal light, which darkness cannot obscure nor ever will obfuscate the light which precedes the day before and the day that will never end, because the motion from the day before to the next day, passing through today, can never be interrupted. This unquestionably proves Go∴ omnipotence. Therefore, work from now on, on the future and the next day, that is, work always in spirit and for the greater glory of the Creator. That way you will come to know: eternity; infinite greatness; and the omnipotence of God. You will recognize at the same time nature is entirely spiritual in its indivisibility. Thus, carefully examine and meditate deeply on this ternary, for it is the principle of the principles of the science that you wish to acquire. Yes you, who wish to attain this sublime science, I repeat to you, beware of the sophists because what they say is nothing but lies and dangerous errors. Be careful! Read me carefully, because my writings are the results of the instruction of nature. In spite of my desire to make you understand the truth, I warn you that I will not go beyond what is permitted, for it is not necessary for the wicked to know what you wish to know. However, I am going to say enough to you so that you can, with the aid of your knowledge, attain the goal to which you have set yourself. Therefore, work as I do for

your good and for the good of your fellow men. This is how one must work for the greater glory of God: by studying nature and practicing what you have learned from the great book of the universe. However, if you make any indiscreet request I will never be able to answer. Therefore, the trinity of God is, according to all that we have just said, the principle of life, for the three Beings that compose it are wholly spiritual, one not being able to exist without the other, nor being able to be separated one from the other – there cannot be time without space or space without motion. The Father begot His Son by the working of the Holy Spirit. There would be no son without the Father, and without the Son there would be no Holy Spirit. From this we conclude that the Son proceeds from the Father and that the Holy Spirit proceeds from both. Time has never had a beginning, being united with eternity. Therefore, it will never end. However, by the will of God, time can have an end in the natural realm, for all creatures have a beginning and thus everything will return to eternity (when God wills it). Space, having no limits (for God cannot be comprised), undoubtedly proves the infinite greatness and omnipresence of God. Lastly, since motion can never cease within eternal time, it is equally enclosed in the eternal center, which clearly proves that God is the only spirit of life: The Spirit of the spirits; The Being of beings – the only Being. He is the One Who is: This is His unique name. If God is the only Being in His ternary, then this ternary is indivisible.

Masons, children of light, especially destined to work for the greater glory of the Great Architect of the Universe: do not abandon the focal point of this mysterious triangle. Always remain in your Orient if you do not want to abandon the unity of the: Father; Son; and the Holy Spirit. This unity is the center of the wisdom of God, which contains everything in His heart. This unity is the invisible virgin that originated in the spiritual fluid of the Godhead. It gave birth to all generations without pain and without ceasing to be virgin. And it is as such that it is the visible virgin who gave birth within the vessel. It gave birth to man as the summation of nature in its double virginity. The Holy Spirit received from God the power to create matter. There would be no nature without this power and, consequently, there would be no fiat, which is the word of life. The ignorant believe that the sages of antiquity who wrote about creation wanted us to understand that this creation had taken place over a long time, whereas everything was created at once. The will of God came out faster than light. God called (this visible virgin, daughter of the invisible virgin) nature. And nature came forward saying: ‘Lord, here I am. Be it done unto me according to Thy will.’ As soon as the words ‘be it done unto me’ were uttered, the ‘fiat’ in unity with the will of God, through the Holy Spirit who covered nature, its reaches and generations were immediately created: in time (invisible virgin, wisdom of God);

in space (visible virgin, nature); in motion (spirit of the seed of the seeds). And man, born from the womb of this virgin wisdom, was created as the summation of all the wonders of the ‘fiat,’ and received: a soul; a body; a spirit (and as such, we must recognize the union of the Creator God with the creature). The Holy Spirit embraced nature with His shadow. He warmed it with divine fire. He communicated the seed of the seeds to it and by means of a threefold operation in unity, God was spread in His works as Father — for He is called so because He created the space that is the body of His firstborn Son, born of His eternal wisdom, in Whom He placed the seed of His Spirit, that is, motion and life. In order to explain this nature, this incomprehensible ‘fiat,’ it was imperative that the sages divide it: how it divides itself into its operations in order to achieve the same end – which is to preserve and regenerate itself. The wise men and the prophets began to create a chaos from which they caused all things to proceed [65] by binary and septenary systems. And this is the work, all alchemical, that led them to the knowledge of the stone that is nothing more than that of the great works of the Creator. It is this stone that they say is of a purer gold than ordinary gold – and this is true, since this stone is all spirit. This separation, therefore, has been necessary in order to attain the knowledge of the great whole. And since mankind is the summation of this great whole, he must therefore seek to know himself. And when he acquires

this knowledge he will possess the key of science, with the help of which he will enter the labyrinth in whose center he will find this heavenly gold. The work of the Freemason is, therefore, the search for the spiritualized matter, which he will find in his own imagination. Chaos is, then, only an imaginary matter, which by itself is nothing, but which is something to the philosopher. However, how to explain an entirely spiritual matter if not by means of created corporeal beings? Here is the subject who led the ignorant into error. They believed that the work of metals consisted only in making gold. That is the reason why ignorant people treated philosophers as fools: because they wanted to carry out sophisticated operations on the alchemical works and, from all their work, they did not achieve any result. Know then, and I will not cease to repeat, that matter is a dead subject which can produce nothing and that only a spirit that can animate all things. Unity is in all creatures in potential. It is this unity that joins number two and forms the trinity — the foundation of nature upon which the universal temple arose, of which that of Solomon was only an epitome. Do not believe that this temple was the only one that contained the symbols and interpretive hieroglyphics of nature. Philosophers of all countries have raised it in order to pass on the science, however I make mention here of that celebrated temple in Jerusalem just because it is what we have adopted for our research. Unity is a principle of the good because everything begins in unity. It is everywhere and has no fixed dwelling because the triangle is everywhere;

because the three apexes of its angles, albeit being centers of different circles, are included within a single center. In nature, this unity maintains the nature of the: fire; air; water; earth (all of which is spiritual, celestial and terrestrial). And yet it itself is not an element. It is a celestial essence that contains the four elements in perfect balance and quantity. Note well in your understanding that this unity is heavy; and light. Although it is a formless, impalpable and invisible matter, this being is nevertheless susceptible to friability and fusion. It comprises all the space in which it itself is included. It is in constant agitation, although it has no motion. This matter is nothing when we consider it and yet it has something. It is a subtle poison and yet one could not live without it because life proceeds from death: it cannot come to its separation except through itself. It is terrestrial although it is not from earth. It dies and is resurrected. It is the cubic stone even though it is not a stone. It is: hard, soft; thick, light; sweet, bitter; fixed, volatile; airy, aquatic.

It does not come from any seed. It is as old as the one from whom it was born. It has both sexes. It is both agent and patient. It is the solvent of matter that must be dissolved where it is found in all dark places, although it is known in daylight. Without it, one cannot travel, neither in the air, nor on the earth, nor on the sea. It is a universal being in its own species that has affinity with the: mineral; vegetable; animal Realms. Though it is none of these things, it is still a metal in potency.) Here is a unique being in the circle of unity that has in it the ternary of the three kingdoms, which are related to the: air; water; and earth (The fire being spread throughout the ternary). Therefore, we find three regions in the ternary that are the division of the world and which are like three different areas – and yet these regions are one. The most celestial, which is the highest, is that which is nearest to divine Majesty. The second region located in the middle of these three is called celestial. It perfectly comprises pure bodies, abounds in spirits and continually spreads through its spiritual layers an infinite number of vital seeds. And though it is incorruptible, it must, however, undergo some change after a certain time.

The third region is called elemental. It occupies the lowest part, entirely corporeal by itself. It does not possess the gifts and virtues necessary to give life to all that it generates, except through the gifts and virtues granted by heaven, to which it must return one day, for all virtues rise and fall. There is no generation in its heart without corruption. No living being receives life or existence without death cannot deprive it of them. It is Go∴ will that the lower region obeys the second and the second obeys the third, and that this third receives its direction directly from the divine Majesty. Understand all that I have just told you and then you will have the spirit: of the terrestrial triangle; of the celestial triangle; of the most celestial triangle (which are all only one). In these three triangles you will find: that terrestrial between the body that heavenly spirit

Black colour white color that is tinged with the color of the spirit

that most heavenly soul

Red colour

Black colour

corruption

confusion

White

the spirit of life

complication

colour

and yellow Red colour

Of the the soul of spirit

explanation

stone

cubic

Each of these triangles is triple in nature because all creatures are contained in number three. The Father has in Himself the Son and the Spirit; The Son has in Himself the Father and the Spirit; The Spirit has in Himself the Father and the Son (This is the perfect light contained in the number 9, which being multiplied by its own principle results in 21. Being multiplied again by 9 results in 81, which is the largest square of the number 9). salt sulfur mercury These are the three alchemical principles on which we must work, paying close attention that these three principles are not common salt, sulfur, or mercury, in the way I have told you earlier. Sulfur

Fire

Earth

is

everywhere.

It

was

disseminated everywhere by the motion of the wheel of essences.

Water

Take great care, for the earth and

Salt

water are two heavy elements. That is why salt will sometimes

Mercury

be found like earth during our

Air

operations

We also have three suns in unity in the ternary, that is, the sun is tripartite. God has imprinted His triple image on the sun, a tripartite image of the divine nature. The first sun

in its unity

triple

number 3

which

The second

in its trinity

triple

number 9

results

in

the number

sun

15 The

third

sun

in its light

triple

number 3

I have said in its unity because just as there is only one God, likewise there is only one sun, number 1. I have said in its trinity because it is the same as time; space; and motion. They are the three absolutely spiritual and uncreated beings who proceed from one another and who make up the Godhead in the same way as: light; motion; and heat. The three created material phenomena that proceed from one another, namely: motion comes from light only and heat comes from light and motion. These three are the origin of life, without which there would be only regression rather than progression. And they all make up what we call sun. I have said ‘in its light’ because in the same way that God shines on the infinite space, so also the sun shines on the limited space of the world. Therefore, it is not surprising that if the eternal sun is God Himself, it is enriched with innumerable virtues.

The celestial sun was created. God established His tabernacle in this celestial body just as David the prophet and king said. Therefore, the sun is the mirror of divine glory that reflects its brilliance over all the works that make up the great work of generations. The sun is the eye of the Divinity which, by its presence, distributes freedom and life to every creature according to necessity. It is this freedom and life that mankind possesses and that he must enjoy in the love of the Creator. For this reason, Masons who read me, you should not abuse this freedom and this life, because you were born free and you exist only because of the love of God that makes you friends of your brothers if they are virtuous. This is a lesson that the wise never cease to give you. Try to take advantage of it. I have shown you that the same qualities in the heavenly sun are exactly found in the physical sun which, like the heavenly one, partakes of: light; motion; and heat (And just as it vivifies all things and transcends nature itself, it transmutes all metals which are inferior to it into its solar substance). This is how the Mason should consider this celestial body. And for this reason it is one of the symbols that embellishes the Masonic lodges. You will find, within the triangle of earth, three main differences in the formation of the first matter of the cubic stone. The first difference is in the imperial heaven, where force and excellence of form overrules this matter, attenuates (diminishes) it and by means of the operation of an infinite virtue absorbs (consumes) its nature and transforms it into another one entirely spiritual, consequently free from any deformation.

The second difference is that when heaven and stars were created, for the forces of matter and form are on equal footing in this region, so that the action of light by [66] the efficacy of its virtue, purges it from the stain of original sin and even restores it from corruption. And that is the reason why we call it true information. The third difference in this formation of the first matter is that the form remains less potent, as we see in this elemental region when the concupiscence of matter could not be recovered by healing itself of this infirmity because of the excessive distance that exists between it and its formal principle. Pay close attention to these three differences. The first difference lies in God, Who is all spiritual and Who wishes to unite His spirituality with all that He has created (the stone). The second difference is that everything comprising our cubic stone and is found in it, is purified from the original sin by the Holy Spirit. The third difference allows us to perceive its impotence, because it is a created being. Only God is pervaded with perfection, all quality and virtue. This impotence communicates this concupiscence to it and this concupiscence is an earthly desire. Every carnal being absorbs the love of the Creator, but this concupiscence is necessary to it. And if it had no desire to restore the devastation of death, the purification which it had received would be useless, since this purification would be carried out only in order to communicate to matter the desire for reproduction.

We should consider concupiscence in this way. You have been spiritualized and purified from the stain of sin. You have only concupiscence left. However, do not make improper use of it by a disruption of the imagination that absorbs the soul. Know that what is not seen in nature becomes a rampant desire. And for this reason concupiscence becomes a visceral sin that goes against nature. If you have no desire other than acquiring science, the concupiscence that exists in you will not be visible. If you have no desire other than restoring the devastation of death, the concupiscence will not be visible either. However, if the unbridled desire of the flesh begins to subjugate your imagination, concupiscence becomes manifest because it provokes your character, absorbs your soul and makes you unable to know the truth. We have previously said that there are three elements and a fourth one disseminated into all creations and that these elements are: air; water; earth (fire). Note that experience shows us that the mixt bodies will ordinarily dissolve in: dry earth; and humid water. These are qualities that correspond to earth and water (See the table of the Art of Reasoning our Physics, letter E, in the word ‘elements’), which are

two sensitive elements and in potential contain air and fire. Note that these light and invisible elements are represented in the lodges by the two columns S∴ B∴ which are called pillars of strength and beauty, and by the two pillars J∴ B∴ called Jak∴ and Boo∴. Note also that the columns Jak∴ and strength (S∴) are facing each other on the north side: one in the East and the other in the West. The column of strength represents earth while the other called Jak∴, represents water. They represent two passive elements: one heavy and the other light. It is in these two columns that are potentially those of Boo∴ and Beauty, which represent air and fire, close elements. However, air is also akin to water. Yet, since air is fiery, this is what makes these four columns coexist in reciprocal unity and in perfect equality, and as such we find them in columns J∴ B∴ whose equal dimensions refer to the equality of the elements. We find water and earth – passive elements – in column J∴ and we find air and fire – active elements – in column B∴ although the fire is everywhere. This fire is not in greater quantity in the column Boo∴ than in the column J∴ and nevertheless it is its column because it is the column of air and of fiery quality. The column J∴ is full of concupiscence. It wants to get married. The spirit of air embraces it with its shadow. It hovers on the face of the waters that cover the earth – the corruption achieved in the work of earth and water. The spirit penetrates matter, renders a yellowish tincture to its whiteness and by its fiery virtue draws the fire to itself. Then the white turns red because the column Boo∴ is joined to the column of Jak∴. This is the work of the stone that is found at the center of these four columns. These three elements are furthermore positioned in the East of the lodges designated under the letters S∴ W∴ B∴, which refer to the three angles of the triangle filled with fire. The column S∴ is the column of strength and refers to the body. The column B∴ is the column of beauty and refers to the

spirit. Lastly, the column W∴ is the column of wisdom that is found in the center and which refers to the soul. And these three columns are the three matrices: 1. of the invisible virgin (soul); 2. of the visible virgin (body) and 3. of the Holy Spirit (life). The cubic stone placed in the center of the works is seen by our eyes as carrying the ternary, the spiritual and physical elements in it. Therefore the cubic stone having the ternary in itself possesses the embryo of nature, the embryo of the love of God divided into three parts which nevertheless is always in unity. The first degree of this love is found between the first matter and the universal form: first matter; universal form (first degree of love). The second degree of love has passed to the conjunction of these first beings with the elements: matter, form; elements (second degree of love). The third and last degree of love ends in its limits: the limits of matter are form and elements (See Chapter 3 on page 55). God has established these connections between created beings like three worlds, through which He Himself communicates with all His works. And this makes us see that love is the foundation of the universe. The cube of nature that possesses superior and inferior virtues and which are kept with the mysterious cords of union that Masons call tesellated border.13 Finally,

this love is the firstborn of the Father, His adopted Son, in whom He put all this trust. Note well that this love is not nature and yet it is nature in manifestation. It is this love who speaks to us in nature. So let us listen to this love – that is what God commands us to do. This love is also one of the mysteries of the cubic stone, of this stone placed in the enclosure of the mysterious cord. This is where we see that nature behaves peacefully in its union with the Divinity, without enmity, with harmony and a certain propensity to generation. The Masonic cord that surrounds the four elementary columns makes us aware of how the elements voluptuously join with one another to make up a single symbolism: cold, wet (as befits the female sex); heat, dry (as befits the male sex). We find in its four qualities: the matter in column J∴ the form in column B∴. We find in these four elementary qualities that our cubic stone has two fathers and two mothers. That is, a father and a heavenly mother, having heavenly qualities and a father and a mother, having earthly qualities. The first matter was corrupted as soon as it was created, and for that reason, that is, because it is generative, it transmitted its stain to all that is created.

The proper form is to perfect the matter and give it, as much as possible, a harmonious, concordant, and temperate composition. And this composition is the Masonic: peace love and concord The number 3∴ is the seal of nature. It is the image of God. The Mason must seek knowledge of this number before proceeding. It is the first one on which he must put his solicitude. This number is his first Masonic age. This number is the first object he perceives in triangle; the second object is the column J∴, in which corruption exerts its generating power. However, he does not see yet the form. He sees in the stone only a gross matter which must be dissolved and dissolved effectively. Afterwards he arrives to column B∴. Then he sees the cubic stone in its form and he understands the different alliances of: salt; sulfur; and mercury (That is, earth mixed with water produces mercury. That is when he sees that the composition of earth and water have composed sulfur. Finally, when water and air condense, the salt is generated).

Finally, since there can be no other genuine composition beyond this, it follows that the fire of nature, influenced by the beneficial virtue of the heavens, constitutes the formal principle of all things. The cubic stone goes through three different states: 1. it passes from black to white (passing through the intermediate yellow color); 2. it passes from white to red. black

It is vegetable in its beginning

white

It is mineral in its development; And it is animal in its perfection (all philosophical

red

ones)

However, do not believe that this stone is mineral, because you would fall into an abyss of error. Freemasons do not work upon metals: It is not a vulgar gold that they seek, [67] but a much purer gold. And this gold is seen by everyone and yet nobody takes it. The cubic stone in its formation is a material trinity, a kind of: spiritual; divine; and eternal trinity. Do not confuse these two trinities as being of the same corporeality. However, we speak of them as joined only so that we can see their differences separately. I repeat: matter is dead; if it lives, it lives because it borrows the animation from the divine ternary essence.

Nature has two principles: an active and another passive. We have said earlier that the active principle is light and the passive heavy – one of them is the father and the other mother – these two principles were in the four elements: fire and air water

and

earth

active elements

father, male

passive

mother,

elements

female

fire

sun

water

moon

We have previously said that the ternary of the philosophers was composed of: sulfur; salt; mercury. The sun is designated to be male (agent). The moon is designated to be female (patient). The fruit of their copulation must necessarily be mercury – and mercury is the first matter. Universal matter has in itself the salt, that is, salt is contained in mercury because it is a universal matter. Mercury is the water of sun and moon. Sulfur, which is the sulfur of sulfurs of male and female and mercury are the two main matters of the wise men. Salt is found in solar mercury, but this solar mercury is not mercury. It is a water that can no longer be mercury because it is the first matter, the water. The one that contains the salt is the body. All this is the great mystery of the

chaos of philosophers and prophets, which we will explain in the right time and place. Mercury is the water of the sun, as we have just said, the universal matter, the primary cause of love and matter is the second cause of this love. Note that the formless matter potentially contains all the forms necessary for the philosophers. It is called hyle, which means water and matrix, the passive element of the wise. We find in this hyle water and earth, two heavy elements. We have previously said (p. 6) that the columns S∴ W∴ B∴ are related to the three angles of the triangle. The Fellowcraft Mason knows these letters only as being the initials of strength, wisdom and beauty. Concerning the journeys he accomplishes during his initiation into the Order, being merely allegorical, he is not yet able to know the mysteries of these journeys. However, you who want to acquire science and want to prove yourself worthy, know that these journeys refer to the ternary. The first journey during the initiation into this second degree of Fellow Craft is accomplished by holding a hammer in one hand and a chisel in the other. The hammer is the symbol of time (See the Table, number 3, letter N). The chisel is the symbol of the employment we must make of time. The second journey is accomplished holding a compass in one hand and a ruler in the other.14 The compass and the ruler represent time in unity with space. The compass itself is a symbol of them both. Time is represented by its upper part and

space is represented by the opening of its two legs (page 25:19). The ruler represents the space between the two points of the compas∴ legs — this shows us the infinite length of the lines. This journey designates the joining of all materials of the science contained in the great vessel. The third journey is accomplished with the ruler and the lever. The union of space and motion is represented by the lever (see p... and the Table number 3, letter N). This is the union of space and motion. The lever carried on the trowel represents the strength of motion that acts in space to provide strength and life to every creature. The lever is used in manual practice to give motion to the stones and to place them at their destination. The ruler serves to put them on the same plane and this reminds us how everything else in the universe is placed in its proper place. The fourth journey is performed with the square, symbol of the superiority of God. The square is the symbol of the joining of everything with exact proportion. It has the center of the hammer, the ruler and the lever. All these journeys clearly show us the unity of the three constituent principles. The square, at the center, is the first spiritual instrument that God used.

The square in its proportions (see our Geometry, pp. 9, 23) encloses the agent, the patient and the generated Being – the word transmitted in the generations by the Holy Spirit on the line of space. It is for this reason that we say that the Son is the generated Being of the agent and the patient and that the Holy Spirit is their fruit. The first matter, this generated Being and this fruit, is within number five and twelve (p. 23 of our Geometry), emblem of the universe that is the body in which the spirit is contained in order to give life and communicate soul to it. The body is the generated Being (ruler – line – space). The spirit is the fruit that contains the spirit of life within its womb (lever – hammer – motion). The master who presides over the symbolic works carries the square, symbol of his superiority over the Masonic works. The time that labourers must use in their work is symbolized by his gavel. Since the 5th journey is carried out by making the neophyte march from the West to the East in order to lend his obligation in the hands of the president, this journey represents to the neophyte that his work is all spiritual, for in this journey we make him climb the five degrees and let him see the flaming star. These five voyages symbolize the five points of the star of the Holy Spirit and the age of the Fellow Craft. The letter G that is in the center of the star is the emblem of the generation. The star is the symbol of the sacred fire from which God formed the souls. All these instruments suggest that the letter G means Geometry, which is the monogram of one of the names of the Almighty, source of all light and

science. And all this is the knowledge of the ternary hidden under allegories in order to conceal the science from the eyes of the profanes. The Fellow Craft does only see in the three mysterious letters S∴ W∴ B∴ the emblems of strength, wisdom and beauty – qualities of the Great Architect of the Universe. And that is all he needs to know as a Fellow Craft Mason. (See our Geometry pp. 21, 23; see the Art of Reasoning our Physics, p. 20; see the Table of the Art of Reasoning our Physics in the word ‘ascension,’ letter A; see number 3, letter N).

Summary hammer

time

chisel

employment of

} time The square in

time compass

time } space

ruler

space

ruler

space

the center of the triangle means superiority in the creations of the generations

} motion lever

motion

All these instruments refer to the ternary, the quaternary and the seven points of the star of the Knights of Rose Croix. This Summation is the mystery of the five-pointed star that contains within itself the supernatural fire, the principle of soul that pervades throughout the universe at the moment of manifestation. These three initial letters S∴ W∴ B∴ are explained in more detail in the degree of Rose Croix. In that degree, these three letters present themselves in the theological virtues from which the cardinal virtues have their origin, in the same way as the four elements came out of the three principles, though they have always proceeded from the same center, for all creatures have their origin from one.

I wish to speak here about these three virtues and those which originate from them, because they are parts of our cubic stone and for this reason, I wish to speak about the initiation of the Knight of Rose Croix, in the same way as I presented that of the Fellow Craft with regard to the explanation of the three letters S∴ W∴ B∴, letters which are contained within our cubic stone and the Great Architect wishes to grant you according to your disposition to acquire the science for His greater glory and the prosperity of Freemasonry. Keep always a low profile with the sophists. Run away from classic conflicts. Walk in the path of silence and never speak with the intention of appearing wise in order to avoid such conflicts, because you know that despite all the knowledge you may have and acquire, you will always be only an apprentice in the divine science. We find these three columns S∴ W∴ B∴ of the universal temple in the degree of Rose Croix under the names of the three theological Virtues: faith; hope; and charity (See our Geometry, pp. 16, 25. See the Art of Reasoning in our Physics, pp. 26, 29. See the table of the art of Reasoning our Physics in the word ‘ascension,’ letter A, number 4, letter N). These [68] three virtues do not only refer to the three principles, we must also find them in our cubic Stone. These three virtues are symbolized by the phoenix, the pelican and the dove, as we said earlier on p. 26 and previous pages. The three journeys that the neophyte accomplished to acquire the degree of Rose Croix is the search for these three virtues. However, these journeys did not lead him to find the central fire spread in the four parts of the world

– fire that refers to the cross, symbol of space that contains this fire of life in its center. (p.25) The center of this cross is the immobile principle of all mobility. It turns to recapture the sparkles of the fire of life. It is in its heart that the spirits rise and fall and fill it in its extension in the great universal vessel. The tree of life is found in this center. The neophyte, after having accomplished three journeys, will in fact have to undertake another extremely painful journey, suggesting that this fire (contained in the subject), although diffused throughout its extension, is very hidden and difficult to find. Finally he finds this fire and carries it when the four letters I∴ N∴ R∴ I∴ is communicated him. However, this does not means that he carries the Word, only that the cubic stone is no longer a mystery to him. Faith, hope and charity become the foundation of his religious and philosophical conduct, and these virtues reveal to him the four cardinal virtues of conduct in his labors, in which he found the four mysterious letters of the hidden fire. Prudence being a deliberation of the means that must lead us to the goal we set, the neophyte in order to acquire this virtue, rests on the column of strength in order to be able to resist the obstacles that he may encounter in his pursuit. Strength is therefore necessary for him to conduct himself with prudence. Temperance being the moderation we must have in our labors, the neophyte must not neglect that virtue and he will find it naturally in the moderation he brings to his study.

Justice is a central virtue that is divided into two parts: as distributive justice, it grants its quality to another element at the same time that it is preserved entirely and so on with respect to others. It is this distribution that the journeyman finds in the zodiacal band, divided into twelve parts and six philosophical elements. It is the knowledge of this distribution that makes him aware that there is a distributive and communicative cause and that these causes consist of the justice which must necessarily be a central virtue. The neophyte, after having traveled with prudence, strength and temperance, has reached the end of its labors, that is, he has reached the Lion of Judah where is found the triple sun that contains in itself the hidden fire. And this is the mystery of the three theological virtues from which the cardinal virtues originate, virtues which reveal the four mysterious letters of the occult fire spread by extension in the four parts of the world.

Faith (

+

hope )

charity

☿

body

spirit

soul

/\

/\

/\

temperance

prudence

fortitude

justice

☿ water

earth

air

fire

I∴

N∴

R∴

I∴

phlegmatic

melancholic15

sanguine

choleric16

patient soft, without force, not active West

agent

growing, tardy,

growing,

greatness, spirit

enveloping itself in fire

East

South

philosophical darkness

fixed in form, yet volatile

North

philosophical light

However, the natural darkness is found on the lower meridian from the West to the East. And the natural light is found from the East to West in the upper meridian. Midnight is the center of the night and midday is the center of the day.

We have said previously (p. 7) that the ruler serves to put the materials on the same level, but as this may not be clear enough to those who study the science, we think we should give a more understandable explanation here, as much as we are allowed, because we can only write and expose something with the utmost prudence. We must remember that we said (p. 7) that the ruler symbolized the line. The cross is composed of four lines (Art of Reasoning our Physics, 25). We have similarly said (pp. 3, 4 of our Geometry) that the line is all spiritual; that it refers to the right line; that this line is scattered everywhere and that it is everywhere; that in order to make it known we represented it by a line which had no other dimensions but length (p.3). Therefore, this line is the plumb-rule of Freemasons, whose practical use necessarily refers to moral conduct, since one cannot exist without the other, that is, that practice must be united to theory, thus the line is the plumb-rule that teaches us and shows us that every building must always tend towards its center. In practice, we find that leveling cannot be performed without the assistance of the plumb rule. It is necessary that they are in unity and this unity is in the center of the angle of the square, which by itself is the principle of the level. From this we conclude that the plumb rule is the extension of one of the angles of the square, which angle is always on the point of the tangent. On this point, which is not anywhere and is found everywhere, the square becomes the level and the plumb by its union with the line. And as such, they are used to build and level in the practical works.

However, this square positioned on the center is found in duplicity and (see our Geometry, pages 10, 11, 20) quadruplicity. If we join this level (square) together with the ruler, then we will see the cross manifested. The square is the symbol of superiority (p.7). His square rests on the point of the tangent. The center of the level must therefore rest on that of the cross. And since the cross is composed of four lines (see Art of Reasoning our Physics, 25), it is necessary to find four squares and two levels on the cross, one of which, according to the appearance is visible and the other invisible, because the latter is confused with the former. Moreover, if we considered the north and the south, we would perceive only the double square of the East and the West, and this is what gives us the form of the level that in the double square. Therefore, the square, the level and the plumb are in ternary unity. We have previously said (p. 7) that hyle is the essence matter of matter, that is, it is water and earth, consequently, a heavy matter. Hyle is our Masonic philosophical chaos that contains all forms in potential. It refers to our great vessel, which is our space that we divide into four parts by means of four lines that form the cross. Do not think that these lines are the only ones that constitute space. Just as the center is everywhere, so also the cross is everywhere. Thus, space consists of an infinity of spiritual lines. We have said earlier (p. 6) that the columns of strength and Jak∴ are related to water and earth, two heavy elements. Their unity is related therefore to our hyle that contains potentially all forms. Then this unity contained in the space that potentially contains all forms, will refer to the plumb rule, that is, the column Jak∴ is associated with this line.

The level is placed on the center of the cross, that is, on the center of the angle of the square. It will assemble the fiery water in it, that is, air and, consequently, fire. Then the level will refer to the motion that is found in the center of the immobility that by its action lead to the line with itself. And this shows us that in the circular motion there is everywhere an infinity of the cross that we cannot perceive. The centers of these small crosses, which are in unity, are also the tangent that they spiritually reveal to us by which the whole work is vertically, horizontally and roundly accomplished. If the level is the symbol of motion, it will refer to the column of Boo∴ and beauty, emblem of air and fire (p. 6). And the conjunction of the two columns J∴ and B∴ refers to a potential fire and air found in column J∴ and since this unity produces life and takes up the fire of the soul, then these two columns in unity will refer to the center of the star where we find the letter G∴ symbol of divine fire (p.7). If the square becomes mobile at the center of immobility, it symbolizes measured time by its unity with the level and the line of the plumb rule. This motion causes everything to be in their proportional measures. The square, the level and the plumb rule are known in their mobility during the degree of Fellow Craft, both in the practical and in the moral sense. We learn in the degree of Fellow Craft that (1) the square serves to square the materials and to give a right angle between their surfaces. By this explanation we must understand the affinities of the little crosses of nature disseminated in the vessel or philosophical vase, from which the moral sense leads us to regulate our attitudes according to righteousness and justice, that is, according to righteousness about space and according to justice about motion as being a central virtue; [69] (2) that the level serves

to lay stones horizontally next to each other, and it represents the perfect equality between men in a moral sense. By means of the union of the level and the square, which by itself is an emblem of proportional distances, and the plumb rule which is spiritually represented by the two points of the compas∴ legs, symbol of the exact proportion, we find the cross which by its motion provides a perfect equality between those elements. And it is the equality of nature and mutual assistance that restore the elemental spirit, which gives them a perfect homogeneity. And this equality relates to the moral practice of the Mason who must work by placing his humors in such a way as the cross places the elements; (3) that the plumb rule serves to lift the buildings. The Mason learns in the moral sense that this line serves to remind him that all good comes from the Most High. Such moral explanation leads us to the rise and fall of the spirits during the formation of the cubic stone, rise and fall through which we discover that the good spirits are separated from the bad ones in order to refine the cubic stone, which is the supreme immobile for mankind. Note that the square contains in itself and its proportions 3 and 4, the three ternary principles and the quaternary. This number four derives from the three principles and since the three principles originate from the one, these numbers 3 and 4 belong to the exact proportion which must necessarily determine the form of the enclosure of the Masonic works. And for the same reason the tracing board is nothing more than the porphyry or the marble of the hidden worker, the board on which he grinds the matters that must compose the stone of philosophers. The number four that determines the greatest side refers to the four elements and their respective spirits that must enter our visible stone that is a perfect combination thereof. This number is the patient waiting for the

agent. The hidden worker joins the agent with the patient according to the proportional distances and the exact proportions. He grinds his matters with the fire of life represented by this triangle (see our Geometry p.25) in order to make the elements more subtle in their homogeneity. Notice that this long square gives us the number twelve. This number is represented by the twelve small squares that refer to the Zodiacal band containing in itself all the essences that make up the universal energy (see our Geometry, page 7). Note also that the hidden worker works by making his trituration in the center of the cross, the center which is hidden by the visible one. The sparks of fire originate from this center. The trituration is the effect of the cross that crumples the matter, that is, the chaos from which emerges that fire together with the air, which are potentially found on earth and in water. And this is how we discover that the light comes out of darkness, as do good and evil. This is the reason why the tracing board is the symbol of the good example that we must exhibit to our brothers and to all men, representing us as virtuous people. The Mason must therefore take great care to preserve this marble stone, for if it is broken all his work will be lost and he would be forced to start all over again. The breaking of the tracing board is, therefore, the same as that of the cross, that is, the loss of the word which we can only recover after we have found the ternary. We have mentioned earlier (when we spoke of the plumb rule) that the cubic stone is spiritualized by the rise and fall of the spirit. And this is

necessary for your training since it is a solar stone more pure than gold. Therefore it is necessary that it is purified. This purification is the judgment or purgatory (see page 2). It is the Holy Spirit who purifies the stone. It is this inner Word,17 found on the line of the cross, that is communicated and tells us: ‘Come to me blessed by my Father so that you may possess the eternal Kingdom, and you, wicked men, you will go to the fire of hell.’18 And here we find out that the spirits of the spirits were released, raised and fixed in their dwellings, which is the upper part. Here we find out that the spirits of the elemental spirit fell to the bottom. Then our stone becomes all glorious and remains in its perfection after gone through the darkness of death, dissolution and putrefaction. It should be noted here that this liberation of the good spirits from the evil ones is nothing more than the elevation of the spirits of the stone in the upper part of the hidden worke∴ vessel where the supernatural fire that covers the vessel attracts to itself the good spirits, because good spirits are emanations of it. Thus, everything that is foreign to the supernatural fire is precipitated, and this is this precipitation of the elemental spirits into its earthly fire. Observe that the rise of good and evil spirits is only realized when the good spirits dominate the evil ones, because one spirit which is light carries with it for the upper part that one which is heavy. However, just as everything that is corporeal must necessarily remain in the body, so also the elemental earth spirits are abandoned by the volatile spirits. Therefore, the earthly fire attracts them to itself because these spirits are part of itself, or if you want, emanations of the elemental fire.

Thus, during generation, the spirits rise and fall; they rise from the center towards the circumference and fall from the circumference towards the center. Note also that the good spirits also fall from the circumference towards the center, because this fall is necessary for without it nothing would come to us from high. It is necessary, therefore, that the good spirits leave the center in order to enter the center and to bring the spiritual generation into its corporatization, a corporatization which is accomplished by the agent and the patient. The patient has a desire for concupiscence – a natural desire to attract the agent to itself. The agent has no other desire but to unite with the patient, to seek it, reach it and strongly join it. Then the patient dominates the agent who dies by the poison of its embrace. However, this poison of death is a poison of life. The agent resuscitates and embraces the former, dominating the patient and capturing it with itself. And here is how the fixed body, during the generation of our cubic stone, must dominate the volatile one and how the volatile body must dominate the fixed one. And all this is the direct motion of the elements and their expansion within the vessel by means of circular motions. Understand, then, that the rise and fall of the spirits is accomplished only for the preservation of all creatures. The spirit of life that turns to the center of the cross serves to provide life and motion by making the sparks come out of the supernatural fire that is diffused in the matter, by means of their trituration, in order to communicate to the soul, life and form. Just as the cross is found everywhere, so also it turns and it binds everywhere, untying, giving life, giving death, taking up the good and the

evil, elevating the elements and their spirits, assuring that they come down and all that by means of: the square; the level; and the plumb rule. The rise and the fall of the spirits take place in eleven heavens which are: 1. The imperial heaven19 where supernatural fire is found. 2. The two mobiles: the time and the Holy Spirit of this spirit of motion. 3. The two crystalline ones which are the fiery and natural waters. 4. The starry heaven which for us is the wheel of essences. 5. The seven planetary heavens, that is, of chaos, in which the spirits are embodied in the three triple principles, because their principles are: most celestial, celestial and terrestrial. And all this is contained by the great sea of waters over which the Holy Spirit hovers and which assumes the supernatural fire in the generations by making them pass through the eleven heavens. Therefore, this number eleven has a direct affinity with the triple ternary. In this way, the most celestial ternary has the number eleven; in the celestial ternary, the number eleven and also in the terrestrial ternary, the number eleven. And this three times number eleven are found in the three theological virtues during the degree of Rose Croix in the moment of initiation into this degree the neophyte found these three virtues. Therefore, he has also found the three times eleven or the eleven heavens, which equals his age. He must follow through in order to retrieve the quaternary, which contains the supernatural fire, the fire of love. In this way he has received as the fruit of his journey the mystery of the four letters I∴ N∴ R∴ I∴

Try to understand me because I wrote you great things so that you learn how the three principles, the four elements, triple and quadruple ones originated: triple because each of them is most celestial, celestial and terrestrial, which gives the number twelve and is the number that divides the zodiacal band; quadruple because each of them has the other three elements that also give the number twelve. However, since they are elements that are always by themselves, although their quality is mutually communicated, which causes each element to contain four and which by their homogeneities, yield six philosophical elements and yet they are reduced to four. Note that these six elements is related to the great sacred Scottish name S∴ H∴ PH∴, which contains within itself the four occult letters of the name Jehovah found in the lining of the Ephod of the high priest Aaron. These four letters contain in themselves the 72 qualities of God (see pages 9, 26 of the Art of Reasoning our Physics and its Table in the word ‘ascension’, letter A). This Ephod contains in its form and in its lining the twelve precious stones and also: 1. the unity 2. the trinity, number 3 3. the quaternary, number 4 4. the number 12 5. the number 16 6. the number 72 7. the number 33.

[70] The knowledge of the number three is so pivotal for the Mason that we can not apply ourselves too much in order to give knowledge in all these affinities, which nevertheless all lead to the same place, since those who read me may not understand what we are trying to convey in one single explanation. That is why we set ourselves to speak about this matter in different ways. That is why we speak about this number here, giving a new explanation of this ternary that contains in it: confusion; complication; and explanation (of the universe p.5). We said on page 5 that the universe possessed its confusion, complication and explanation in itself. These three divisions are found in three colors: black; white; red (See table of our Geometry in the word ‘confusion,’ letter C. Black matter of all colors: See the table of the Art of Reasoning our Physics in the word ‘color,’ letter C; See ‘black, white, red,’ letter C). It should be noted here that this confusion is our chaos that contains the universe in its generality. It (chaos) is an obscure mixture that encloses the darkness and this darkness gathers an orderless mixture of everything. This mixture is the philosophical labyrinth in which the wise, the philosophers and prophets entered in spirit in order to unravel it and bring it to light. This chaos is entirely philosophical. It has never existed because God created everything in a single moment. See our Geometry, p. 1. However, the sages, who have studied nature, have realized that in order to explain this unique supreme will, it would be necessary to create a chaos

that contained confusion, complication and explanation of everything within itself and to bring out, by natural order, all that this chaos encloses (p. 5) in order to be able to lift it from the created center towards the uncreated center and in order to spread in spirit the word ‘Fiat.’ The confusion is designated by black color.The complication is symbolized by white color (which is tinged into yellowish color, pp. 5, 6). The explanation is represented by red color. See the Art of Reasoning our Physics, p. 30. It is this black night and this red day (about which Moses speaks in his explanation about chaos). It is these colors which are threefold that must be represented by three triangles, which, however, are only one. The black color symbolizes the triangle of confusion where everything is found in potential — it is the formless body. The bright red color designates the soul of souls. The white color represents the spirit that tinges this whiteness with a yellowish color. We will find in these three triangles: black

night

white, yellow

dawn

red

day

Note that time and space are nothing without motion (p. 2). In the same way body and soul are nothing by themselves. It is necessary that the soul be drawn from the body by the Spirit that proceeds from it. And this shows us

that the yellow color draws the red color to itself in whiteness and that is why we found the cubic stone in its perfection and as its explanation. The black color is symbolized in the degree of the Entered Apprentice by a black chamber. The stone which passes to white is found in the Fellow Craft degree. The stone which passes to red and achieves this color is found, at the Scottish degree, in the Master degree, as well as in the Elu degree.20 We find the work of the hidden worker, that is, we find in the Master degree: death; dissolution; putrefaction; Three operations are necessary in the generation of the stone and its purification is known in the degree of the Elu as we will explain. In black color we find the ternary of space space in which everything is found in confusion. In white color tinged of yellow we find the ternary of motion given to our stone that has passed to the white. And it is this motion that is the cross that makes the light come out from the fire of life and which communicates it to the white stone. The complicated universe is the order of things placed by the hidden worker in their places in the great vessel and complication is the dawn which comes out from the dark night of darkness and that announces us the great day and prepares us to receive the light. It is in this dawn where we find the Holy Spirit united to the body in order to give it life and, by its motion, communicate its soul to it so that in its explanation our cubic stone has: soul

spirit body (See the Art of Reasoning our Physics, p. 20) Just as the four elements are originated in the three principles, so also: the direction, the constitution the distribution and the gathering of the universe have all came from the: confusion complication and explanation of the universe These four divisions, although proceeding from three, are nevertheless like the elements which came out of one, for everything came out of the center in a single moment. And just as the elements are spread by extension throughout the universe, so it is in the constitution we find the hypostatic body, that is, the divine trinity which reveals to us: 1. The activity of fire and air. The passivity of water and earth (and the close connection between the active and the passive). Here you should recognize: time space motion 2. the seminal constitutive reasons: sulfur salt

mercury 3. the maintenance of its seminal reasons or constitutive principles. 4. the active which is the fire spread into all things containing: essence soul existence spirit consistency body And this constitution is enclosed in the first philosophical season. We find five orders in the distribution of the universe. These states are divided into three classes, namely: 1. States: higher intermediary and lower These three states are like three suns contained in a single sun which makes the general distribution of the universe in its most sublime conditions or attributes of these same states and which teaches us about those of the Godhead. These three states are distributed in the white color. 2. These sublime conditions are the attributes of these three states, as we have said above. They also are like three suns contained in a single sun that makes a general distribution of the universe so that we orderly learn. 3. The worlds that constitute the third part of the distribution are:

in the worlds

in the worlds

most celestial

God

celestial

moral

terrestrial, nature

physic

divine

Religion

celestial terrestrial

moral justice

In the most celestial world, we find the ternary of the divine oracle that refers to the natural world. In the second one, we find the three foundations of morality because it is in the celestial space where we find the influences of good and evil. This second world is the connection between the divine world and the terrestrial world, which unites Religion and justice. 4. The fourth division of the distribution is quite peculiar. It is in this division that we find the successive order of things about which the study of each one (of these things) is like a history and like a knowledge of different systems that were introduced in order to provide the knowledge of science. 5. The fifth division of the distribution encloses all sciences. It is like a crown containing the other four. The gathering, which is the fourth division of our universe, is the connection of all divisions and maintains the unity in all things. And these four divisions of the universe lie in the center of the cross and in man like a microcosm: man´s head relates to the direction (which is the science and the end in which we find nature)

the right hand relates to the constitution (which is the science and the end in which we find nature) the left hand relates to the distribution (the subject in which we find the condition and also the subject, for it is in nature and condition, which we must find the subject and the subject naturally relates to the constitution and distribution of the universe) the two feet relates to the gathering (that is, where we find this system and science, since the gathering is the union of everything that allowed men to form the systems of the nature and make science) Therefore, just as in the constitution and distribution we find our subject, so also in the direction and in the gathering we must find science. [71] the head the right hand

the end

sciene

nature

the subject the subject

the left hand

conditions

the subject

the two feet

nature

the system

the system

From which follows: science

direction the system

the system the subject the subject

science gathering

the subject

constitution distribution

nature

Pay close attention to this, for the cube is nothing in the face of God, though it does mean something to us. This stone is a being that in its formation (creation) presents itself in the form of: a servant; nothing (before God). This being in its form is a compound of deprivation, which, yet, God presides over in its form. This form is on the center of the cross of nature where it is found in the abandonment of its Creator. We find this being in its hypostatic form, that is, in the ternary. We find it in the death that poison gives it, poison which must give it life again. We find it on the center of the cross of nature, where it must suffer through the violent separation of its soul in order to take a new spiritual body. This is how we must consider our cubic stone that can only live by death. And this is the mystery of the chaos of philosophers, who in spirit killed the stone in order to resuscitate it and raise it up to the fiat. For, as we already have said, we cannot explain nature but by the opposite sense of its creation. Thus, in order to explain better our cubic stone that came out of the center of the ternary without passing through death, we cannot conceive anything

about this creation except by resorting to the effects of nature that only grants life through death. It is only after we have well understood how death provides life that we can conceive in spirit how the will of God was manifested in the creation of the generations. It is, thence, by annihilating our cubic stone, by making it endure all possible rigors, by whipping it, by humiliating it and by making it taste death by the cross and on the cross, by leaving it there to be corrupted and putrefied, that we can perceive the operations of the hidden worker and learn how life proceeds from death, proceeding from black to white and from yellowish white to red. But in order for our stone to be spiritualized, it is necessary that no heterogeneous matter enters it and is incorporated with that which belongs to it (for each body in nature has its own matter). It must be put in a hermetically sealed tomb so that this ferment operates freely. Thus, by means of fermentation, the black is dissipated, the seed occupies its place, the spirit is united to the body and draws the soul to itself. After that the stone is released, spiritualized and comes out victorious from its tomb. Note that the stone which is victoriously resuscitated cannot contain anything but the spirit of the elements, for it has been released from all terrestriality with the help of the fire that covers it. And it is this fire that has spiritualized it during the precipitation of the elemental spirits in its lower region. (See p. 9) If you wish to know the eternal virginal wisdom, firstly recognize the visible virgin. It is constantly before your eyes. It is the only one which can

lead you into the heart of that eternal virgin, for there is only the visible wisdom that can lead you in spirit into the invisible wisdom. Note that the invisible virgin gave birth to the visible virgin. This visible virgin carried in her heart the love of the Creator Father and gave birth to it in the fire of manifestation. This love of the Father is His Son born of the eternal virgin which was at the right hand of His Father before the generations. There was no nature there. It became nature when the ‘fiat’ of visible wisdom was pronounced, then the love of God descended upon the generations. I would like if I could tell you more, but I have to stop. I have already told you enough to make you understand. Study and meditate well on all the writings that speak about the creation of the cubic stone. Thus, you will get the knowledge of: confusion; complication; and gathering (of the universe). We have said (p. 10) that the darkness of the confusion was symbolized by the dark chamber at the Apprentice degree. I will give an outline of this preparatory place here. This chamber should be entirely black. It must have a table and a large stone on which the neophyte must sit down. There must be an hourglass, as a symbol of time, placed on the table. The sand running from one glass bulb to another is the symbol of motion. Finally, the two glass bulbs will represent space, the space within which the spirits rise and fall. In this way, this hourglass will represent time, space and motion.

On the table must be placed sulfur, salt and mercury, symbols of the three philosophical principles. There is a jar of water under the table that, since it is placed on the ground, represents the hyle of chaos. There must be several bones of human bodies that signify that everything must return to nothing; that everything came out of nothing; that everything is nothing; that life comes from death and that life must return to death. There must also be a broken column on which must be placed a cockerel, symbol of the awakened nature, of the dawn announcing the day and dissipating the darkness of the night. As our only purpose is to instruct the Freemasons, I shall give as many explanations as I may for the interpretation of the Masonic instructions which contain all the mysteries of the operations that will bring us to the perfection of the stone. All these operations were well hidden within the moral sense and this was necessary so that no profane could have any knowledge about them. You who read me, I beg you not to use improperly what I have taught you and what I am going to teach you later. Before you receive the light you have been led into this dark chamber which I have just described to you — and this so that you know that death yields life and that life returns to death. The color of this chamber symbolizes the corruption without which no generation can occur. Note also that the black color represents not only the corruption that follows death, but also putrefaction. It is these three things that are potentially contained in all colors and especially in white, yellow and red. The yellow color being an intermediary pertaining to the spirit, which gives life to the seed, this

color is drawn by the white, which then, after the yellow color having been attached to the white, it draws to itself the red, that is, the soul, from which it follows that the ternary is not only in unity, but also in potency. Finally, this ternary is represented by sulfur, salt and mercury, which are nothing but fire, water and earth. sulfur; salt; and mercury. This philosophical ternary in potential is contained in chaos. When you receive the light that makes you see the mysterious triangle, it is then at this moment that you will perceive that which was only a potential in the confusion of the black. This triangle is shown, as you have seen before, in the ternary unity. And this is to make you understand that its sides and its angles cannot exist one without the other. And this is: time; space; and motion. The ternary without which the cubic stone could not exist and without which the rough stone would have always remained rough stone, but this could not happen because without this ternary everything would have been nothing and nothing is nothing. However, the wheel of motion having crumpled matter, the light of the fire came out and life was spread throughout the generations, nature manifested itself and the cubic stone received in it: soul: fire spirit: air

body: earth The fire joined the earth by means of the air. The other two objects that you see are the sun and the moon. You may have noticed that by their positions these two celestial bodies refer to the two columns J∴ B∴. Here, these two columns are the symbols of nature, the male and female agents, that is, agent and patient: agent in the Boo∴ column and patient, the female, in the J∴ column. These two columns represent the two generative qualities: fire B∴ water J∴ Fire and water, but a gentle fire and a fiery water. It is in these two columns that you will find the father and mother of everything. However, you will find them twofold, terrestrial and celestial, which provides to the cubic stone two fathers and two mothers, as being derived from two aspects: one celestial and the other terrestrial, imperishable and perishable. And this shows you that the tomb is near the cradle; it shows that if the cubic stone dies, it immediately comes back to life. And this is symbolized by the pelican that accompanies the cross of the jewel of the Knight Rose Croix, which represents the death and the life. [72] You may notice that the triangle is accompanied by three columns, which are the columns of: strength: earth wisdom: fire

beauty: air The column of strength is placed in front of the column Jak∴. This column represents the earth joined with water, two heavy elements that make up our hyle: earth water (passive elements) The column of beauty is positioned in front of the column Boo∴. This column represents the air joined with the fire, which together make up two light elements: fire air (active elements). Therefore, the patient is found at the column J∴, which is related to the moon, and the agent is found at the column Boo∴, which is related to the sun. You learn in the Apprentice degree that column J∴ is the symbol of strength and so that you understand that the lustful strength of the female draws the male to itself, and draws it in an effective manner, embracing it with force, dominating it and causing it to die, that is, the volatile part is dominated by the fixed one.21 In the Fellow Craft degree, you learn that the column Boo∴ is the symbol of perseverance so that you learn that only the male demands generation, pursuing the female with perseverance, descends upon it, rises and falls several times until finally it is dominated and dies in order to be resuscitated, that is, after having been dominated by the female, it is volatizated and rises with it in the weight of the female. This is the volatization of the matter of our stone. However, the male by its resurrection is freed from terrestrial matter by the fall of the crude spirits,

then everything is only spirit – the stone receives its form and becomes all spiritual. It is this strength and perseverance in the two generative qualities that are hidden in a moral sense, namely, in the Apprentice degree the column J∴ symbolizes strength in God. Similarly, in the Fellow Craft degree, the column Boo∴ symbolizes perseverance for the good. Strength is the way of God, from which we cannot escape, for it is the line of the ray, which leads everything to a good end. Perseverance for the good contributes to the harmony that must exist between our will and our reason. And it is this harmony that we find in the agent.

JF∴

JF∴

strength

perseverance

water

water, first

earth

matter

air fire

fire

moon

sun

In the Fellow Craft degree you become aware of the three columns S∴ W∴ and B∴. However, you only know that these columns symbolize three qualities of the Great Architect explained in a moral sense of the: strength; wisdom; and beauty or goodness. However, at the Rose Croix degree, you learn that these three columns are those of: faith;

hope; and charity (virtues which we find in our cubic stone). These three virtues are symbolized by the pelican, which by dying to nourish its cubs, symbolizes charity — a virtue that is related to the supernatural fire that is the nourishing fire of our cubic stone. The pelican cubs nourished with the blood of charity, designate the hope and rebirth of the cubic stone. The pelican´s courage to kill itself visibly demonstrates the faith we all must have that everything is reborn in nature by means of: death; corruption; and putrefaction. You see from what I have just said and from what I have said before, that these three pillars are really the three pillars that sustain the universal temple. We said (p. 10) that the hidden worker purified it in its work. This work would find its explanation in the Master and Elu degrees. Therefore, I will explain, as far as I am permitted, one of the great secrets of the Master e and Elu degrees, which must necessarily lead us to the sublime Rose Croix degree. The Master degree gives us one of the greatest mysteries of the generation of the stone. Pay close attention to what I tell you, that is, do not just consider what I say, but also the underlying intention.

The respected master Hiram was killed by three companions: his body was buried and a sprig of acacia was placed on his grave. This grave is covered with a thick smoke that comes out of the earth – his body is taken from this tomb and placed within a tomb built inside the temple. His name is M∴ though he is called Hiram. The place of his birth is in column B∴ because he is the son of the sun. His last name is all terrestrial. He is found in column J∴ because the moon is his mother. He has the name of M∴ as the son of the widow (virgin) who is the visible virgin. I ask you to pay close attention so as not to lose the benefit of your reading in vain conjectures. Never divert from nature, otherwise you would fall into an abyss of darkness. Hiram, as we have already told you, is the subject that comprises the work of the Masters. Hiram is therefore our cornerstone of the building that we want to build in a perfect plumb-line,22 at a fair leveling and in a perpendicularity according to the proportional distances. Hiram is the subject of the hidden worker, the beginning of the cubic stone. The death of this leader of the workers of the universal temple substantially shows us that everything that had beginning must necessarily have an end and that every end becomes a beginning, for death begins with life and life begins with death. ‘I am the Alpha and the Omega,’ say the Scriptures. Why? Because everything dies and at the same nothing dies in nature at all. And because the eternal motion, carried out by the cross that constantly moves over the immobility of its center, binds and looses everything in nature. In the very place where it gives death, there it gives life — it causes everything to return to the center and causes everything to come out of the center, and this in order to give life by means of death. This is the reason

why nature suffers passion on the cross and is rejoiced by the cross in its resurrection. This is how the cross becomes a heavy and light object. The death of Hiram symbolizes the cubic stone in its passion, always preserving the fermentative spirit. Hiram smitten with a stroke of lever is the preparation of the privation of motion, a denouncing preparation of his death. Hiram is smitten with a stroke of ruler so that we understand that our subject must cease to live and exist in a contained space, that is, it must be reduced into a matter that we must seek, which can be found nowhere, yet it is everywhere, for this matter is all spiritual and it is judgement and condemnation. Hiram is finally smitten by a stroke of the hammer and condemned to death, that is, time symbolized by a hammer has destroyed everything and nothing can resist it. Here is the effect of the cross on its destructive operations and this must be so. The cross cannot bind without liberating, for how could it give life in nature if it could not give death? Therefore, it is the executor of the orders of the Great Architect who wishes it and pleases it thus for maintenance of His glory. The cross is therefore the great diffuser of nature bringing destruction everywhere. However, its white color of light created in the firmament and the red of the cross announces peace and the blood of death and life, for the cross does not destroy anything merely by destroying – it destroys only to rebuild.23 This is how God pleased it, pleases it and will please in the course of time. Let us return to our subject. The ruler, the lever and the hammer are easily recognized as having their counterpart in the elements of earth, water and

air. However, note that the fire is always there to foster putrefaction and give life to the dead. The sprig of acacia that is found in Hiram´s grave is a branch of one of the solar trees, symbol of peace, union and harmony. Note also that this sprig of acacia is planted on the earth element, in the four fixed points of four elements. And this demonstrates that the hidden worker works in harmony with its passive matter, which is composed of earth and water, for as we already said previously, these two elements are completely united form this matter of the patient. The smoke coming out of earth is the indicator of matter, of our subject in its fermentation. This vapor is the indicator of our philosophical mercury, which is a heavy water (it has its weight). The two Wardens who try to raise the corpse of Hiram by the word Jak∴ and Boo∴ cannot achieve anything because the flesh abandoned the bones. And this shows us that it is only by the union of these two words that our subject can rise again, since the sun must be united to the moon. The place and the name are nothing — there is only the proper name that can raise him again. And this proper name is the union of J∴ and Boo∴ that is found in MAC∴. Hiram is raised and placed in a hermetically sealed tomb, in which the fermentation is continued by the numbers 3∴ 5∴ 7∴ 9∴, numbers which are related to the elementary quaternary came out of the ternary. Notice well that the perfection of our subject can only be accomplished by supernatural fire, which has in it soul, life and form: form in space; life in motion; and soul in time.

This supernatural fire is the principle of homogeneity of the spiritual qualities diffused in nature to the greater glory of the Creator. This glory is symbolized to us in the Scottish degree and during our initiation in this degree. After having left the underground vault we go up to the temple that God filled with his glory in the day of its dedication — by this dedication [73] we must recognize our cubic stone achieved in the septenary, that is, in our philosophical years, which is related to those that were used for the construction of the temple, which is itself our cubic stone adorned with the glory of its Creator and that we find in the number nine, emblem of perfect light. The dimensions of the grave containing our subject, we must relate 1º to the principles of nature contained in number three; 2º to the four elementary qualities contained in number four; 3º and to the soul contained in number five that is related to the flaming star, in which is found supernatural fire; 4º to the number seven related to the union of the agent with the patient — the patient dominating the agent and causing it to die. However it must resuscitate when it in turn comes to dominate the patient, because the agent is volatile; 6º we still need to find the number twelve in the union of the patient with the Holy Spirit, to whom belongs number five, a number that is related to the generated and this generated is expected in the perfection of the stone. We need to recognize in the number twelve the divisions of the ray that forms the lower part of the cross by the union of the mother and the son; 7º in conclusion, to the dimensions of this grave, the broken cross, the broken porphyry, all the scattered tools of Freemasonry, but which will be restored in their natural forms when our stone will be avenged of death through its resurrection.

Therefore, the numbers 3∴ 5∴ 7∴ are potentially enclosed in our subject, waiting to appear by the fermentation and by the nine sublimations that must occur in order our subject comes out of the grave bright, heavenly and divine, like a new flower. In the person of Hiram, our stone is thus humiliated, whipped, beaten and put to death upon the cross so that it can be majestically raised, exalted in its resurrection restoring the cross in its plumb. By the resurrection of our subject we find that the word possesses: soul spirit body, proceeding from: peace union or love and harmony (qualities of our solar tree [acacia]) that is the place of our cubic stone, for, as we said earlier, it is all solar since it gathers elemental essences in itself. Thus, our stone having soul, spirit and body, is divine and human. After its resurrection, its appearance will show us without doubt: if we touch it we will find that it is body; if we see it living, it is therefore all spirit. Thus it is divine because the spirit is only a proceeding that has drawn the fire that gives form. Now, if we touch our subject we find that it is body, then it has form and this form was given to it by soul. This is the reason why it has soul, spirit and body and is composed of a matter proper to its subject. Finally, the hidden worker has hermetically sealed his vessel, in which he has carried out all his operations.

Thus, our stone having soul is divine and human by looking like such a thing. It is imperative that the supernatural fire surpasses natural fire in order to release it from the elemental fire. And it is that what has happened since it seems in its wonderful day after having passed from confusion to complication and from complication to explanation. Note well that elemental fire is an earthly fire that devours, burns and destroys everything. Natural fire overcomes elemental fire and afterwards this fire is overcome by supernatural fire. And it is by these graduations of fire that our stone is elevated, for nothing in nature is made without fire. And this fire must be gentle, warming and burning, according to what is needed, a fire of which only the hidden worker has knowledge. Pay close attention not only to what I have just told you, but also to what I have said before and be assured that you will be in the path of science and that you will be able to understand me later because I have many things to tell you and have only just begun. We must pay close attention to the fact that the formation of the cubic stone can only happen by means of a purification, that is, a destruction of all crude matter. It is this purgation that we find in the degree of Elu, which is effected by the triple ternary, that is, by the number nine (because everything is effected by the ternary). And as each ternary unity is triple, thus, it is by this triple number that this purification must to be effected. This destruction or rough matter is made by elemental fire, by the fire of hell, which here is the fire of revenge, revenge which belongs only to the Great Architect because it is exercised only for His greater glory. This revenge is symbolized by the nine Masters who were sent by Saint Solomon to look for the three murders of Hiram, Masters who were led by a stranger

to the place where the three companions had been hiding since his murder. This stranger is the hidden worker we do not know and who marches on the path of motion symbolized by the dog. The murderous Masons are pursued: two fell headlong from a high cliff and the third was sentenced to death. This symbolizes 1º the precipitation of the evil spirits in the lower parts by the fall of the first two assassins; 2º the one who is killed and whose head was burned with the heads of the other two, symbolizes all the crude matter being consumed by elemental fire. The strong fire of the hidden worker is the last fire of his work. It is then that Hiram is avenged, that is, the cubic stone is released from the black color by the heads cut off that gives rise the white color, and the seed is deposited within the matrix in its point of perfection. It is when the spirit is united to the body, embracing it, giving to the white color a yellowish tincture in order to prepare the way for the red color, a color drawn by the yellowish tincture and that unites the soul to the body in order to effect the form. It is in this tincture and in this form that we find deposited within the underground vault in the Scottish degree, where the hidden worker works in the second day of its subject´s passion. Understand this very well: the first day of passion of the stone contains all that has happened to make it reach whiteness. The second day is all that happens to make it reach redness. This vault is hermetically sealed and guarded by the Levite Gilead, whose first letter of his name is found in the center of the flaming star so that we know that the Holy Spirit is the guardian of the works of the hidden worker and He is the key that opens the door of true science, that is, the door of the word.

This stone is deposited in the underground vault on a pedestal and covers the mysterious triangle deposited in an encrustation made on this pedestal. This pedestal is of triangular shape, built in 3 and 4 proportions, next to the column of Beauty. The vault was built on the place of the Holy of Holies of the Temple. The Ark of the Covenant was placed on the column of Beauty. This Ark of the Covenant was covered above by two cherubim in the center of which was the Oracle. The column of Beauty is the union of the two columns, J∴ and B∴, symbolized by the two cherubim. The Oracle is the eternal Word that comes out of the center of the ternary and foretells all the operations of the great work. The basis of this column symbolizes the place of the hidden worker. The shaft symbolizes the rise of the spirits; the capital decorated with pomegranates symbolizes the crowning of the work – the covenant that the Creator made with His creature, filling it with His glory, that is, with fire of its eternal nourishment. That is why our work consists of seeking the knowledge of the two polarities of nature, that is, agent and patient, which we symbolize by the two columns J∴ and B∴. By this knowledge, we find how the agent operates on the patient by means of the philosophical septenary; how it dies by being penetrated, since it is overcome by concupiscence; how, in turn, it dominates the patient and how it rises with it; how the spirits are finally fixed. Thus, you will not be surprised by the rise of these same spirits

drawn from the fire of hell by means of resurrection. And, finally, this rise — which is nothing other than the volatization of these same spirits that have risen to the imperial region24, falling afterwards — will make you know the Pentecost, which is the falling of the spirits after they have been risen. It is in this Pentecost that we find the Holy Spirit, who purified our stone, working constantly to prepare the way for supernatural fire separating the good spirits from the evil ones. And it is all these things that the Word teaches us when, within us, it says: ‘Come to me blessed of my Father in order to possess the Celestial Kingdom, and depart yourselves from evil spirits. Go cursed ones to the fire of hell.’25 And this is called judgment or purgatory. Thus, the spirits must rise and fall, for as such, they are angels and demons — They rise from the center towards the circumference and fall from the circumference towards the center in order to replenish the Zodiacal band with their essences and sustain universal energy. And this is done by traversing the eleven heavens, which are triples and make up the number 33. The cubic stone, before rising as a summation of the universe, must also be tormented in the work of the third day in order to fix the spirits. And it is this fixation that is taught in the degree of Knight of the East, in which we find our subject in torments and humiliation, symbolized by the Jewish people subjected to a hard captivity for seven weeks of years. When this period of time is ended the people are set free by the decree of Cyrus king of Babylon. Notice here that the people of God are the spirits held captive within the elemental fire, who cry out and sigh for freedom, that is, they have risen in

order to be fixed. The eagle talking with Cyrus in his dream symbolizes to us the Holy Spirit, principle of motion, who makes the agent, represented by Cyrus, work on the patient. The agent has not sufficiently operated on the patient, but the fire stirred by the spirit of air penetrates matter, then the spirits are released and risen in the upper part of the philosophical vessel, that is, released [74] from elemental fire, they rise. It is this rise that is symbolized by the freedom that Cyrus gives to the people of God, who depart from the western part going East to rebuild the temple after having passed through the waters of death and corruption. This journey and this march of the people of God represent the space that we symbolize by the cross that embraces the great circumference of the generations. When the three principles of nature are united, then the spirits rise up and form immeasurable limits that enclose all created wonders. These limits are represented by the temple walls built by the people of God. And this degree is called redemption or deliverance of the spirits. We have said (p. 12) that: faith hope and charity are found in our cubic stone. They are the ternary known in the degree of Rose Croix. This degree is the summary of all those which preceded it and like the others it is based, on the ternary. It is in this degree that we find the perfect exaltation of the cubic stone. In the same way this degree is the seventh that is related to the seventh philosophical day, end of our works, this degree is

found on the center of the cross, on this immobile center, principle of all mobility, which is called Sabbath. It is in this center that we find the tree of life. This most celestial solar tree that gathers in itself the other four celestial trees that are: tree of nature

cedar

water

West

tree of the law

acacia

earth

East

tree of grace

palm tree

air

South

the of Glory

oak

fire

North

which possess in themselves the four elements that are enclosed in unity within the central tree of life for reason of their duplicity, fire and air. We have established that faith, hope and charity are the principles of four cardinal virtues and that these virtues proceeded from theological virtues, just as the four elements came out of the three principles, namely: prudence fortitude temperance and justice I must now instruct you about the four letters I∴N∴R∴I∴, which came out of the ternary. These four letters contain in themselves the mystery of the cross. It is necessary that we make sorrowful journeys during our initiation into this degree in order to find these four letters. These journeys present us the circulation so necessary in our works.

The word ‘Judea,’ which is related to the first letter I∴, symbolizes the beginning and the end of our labors, for we must know that all degrees which we have passed and seem to present the time that the cubic stone determines to attain its perfection, are unique since the septenary is contained in the center. Consequently everything was done in an instant in the degrees that seem to be days, contained in the unity. Thus, these days are just philosophical. The word ‘Nazareth,’ which is related to the letter N∴, is nothing more than the development of our intelligence effected by the light in order to make us acquire the knowledge of our subject. The word ‘Raphael,’ which is related to the letter R., is the medicine of God, that is, our cubic stone born of our subject containing all the virtues in it. And it also is related to the elixir composed of the quintessence of the elements. This elixir is the result of the three operations of its formation, that is, of the three philosophical days and of the three apparitions of the stone, namely: white in the Fellow Craft degree; red in the Scottish degree, after having sweated blood and water, that is, after having been purified of all terrestriality; pink in the Rose Croix degree, the central color that gathers in itself the two tinctures that gives the color that bears its name. We find it under the figure of a rose on the cross, where it joins the quintessence of the elements and where it becomes the universal medicine giving life through death. It is by its virtue that we are saved. It is there where we know all the merits of its passion and resurrection.

Notice also that during its passion it is our faith. Everything is regenerated in nature and the soul returns to its place. If we find the universal medicine in its resurrection, then in its passion we must find the universal jurisprudence distributing all things with justice. However, our stone was incarnated. It is the subject, son of the visible virgin. Thus, it is in this incarnation, in this undefiled virgin, that we must find the sound philosophy based on wisdom. It has been rose.26 It is in this ascension that we find the Holy Spirit that sanctifies and teaches us the true theology — this theology is exempt from any sophistical system. We find in the four letters that are contained in our stone:

1

2

3

4

the good

the high

Eve

the old

the bad

the low

Adam

seprent

the healthy

the new

the sick

serpent

the faithful

good Aron

John

the infidels

evil Aron

Mary

the blessed

benediction

the cursed

malediction

science

justice

redemption

the living the dead

the judge

sanctification

The word ‘Judah,’ which we find in the letter I∴, bring us back to the heart of the solar lion, which after having made threats to Cyrus, decides to free the captives, that is, the spirits have become fixed in ‘Judah’ and thus our work is finished. That is why it is said that the Word would come out of Judah. So it is within Judah that we must find our Iliad, it is as simple as that. We said that the column of Beauty comprised in itself the columns of J∴ and B∴. These columns represent: the gentle fire and the fiery water; the agent and the patient; The agent, which is fire, uniting with the patient, the water, this water becomes fiery. This union is such that it fixes our cubic stone after having passed from white to red. This fixation is symbolized by the pomegranates intermingled with lilies and by the seven cords above the pomegranates. All these things symbolize the liberation of the spirits of all terrestrial corporeity during its seventh day, symbolized by the chapiter of each of the columns above the shaft. It is this unity that makes up this column of Beauty about which we spoke earlier. Our completed stone is contained within the great circumference of the generations, sustained by pure spirits. It is for this reason that it cannot suffer damage: no power can prevail against it, for it casts out the evil spirits; it gives light, it straightens the straight line, that is, it gives light to the unbelievers who ask for faith; it casts out the evil spirits of wickedness from those who seek a faith. It straightens the faltering ones by teaching the line to those who earnestly ask for the way of truth. It teaches those who wish to hear. It promises the Kingdom of its Father to those who are as if in

a state of corporal death and who ask for a true resurrection, that is, a spiritual medicine. Finally, this stone performs great miracles when it is dealt with a living and enlightened faith. Heed well all that I tell you concerning this noble stone and know that it nourishes us and that it unties us in order to give you a wider knowledge of its divine virtues. I will tell you that it nourishes and liberates us because it truly is bread and wine of angels. This, I explain to you trusting that you will not misuse anything I have told you for your instruction. Pay close attention to this: our stone is not mineral, although it is in potential present in this kingdom. Just as bread is in potential present in a grain of wheat, although it is not really bread, so it also comes with the wine that is in potential contained in the vine, although it is not truly wine. And this shows us that everything is spirit in our cubic stone. So if it is all spirit, then it is spiritual and reproductive. Note that the wheat that produces flour by means of its root, by etymology of its names represents: choice; election; benediction; alliance; union. Note also that wine is a symbol of blood and as such it is an entirely spiritual firewater to us. Thus, bread and wine are two spiritual principles which contain in their unity the password of the Fellow Craft (Schibboleth) – a word that

combines the two reproductive substances in it and which is perfectly symbolized by Ruth and Booz, who joined by marriage after Ruth had gathered the wheat and drunk strong wine. Note here that strong wine is vinegar with which the cubic stone is moistened so that the elemental fire does not consume it. The principle of its two substances is therefore a gentle and useful fire, which we symbolize by a slain ram or lamb, so that in spirit it nurses us with its flesh, it unites us with its blood, it embodies us with its fleece. We place this lamb on the cross, on seven seals, so that we can understand that only it has the power to bring out the spirits that release it from the corporeality, which they have assumed within the lower seven heavens. This decorporealization [75] is their deliverance from matter, that is, from all terrestriality, in order to make them re-enter within gentle fire of which it is itself a symbol. And it is this fire that we find in the first four letters I∴ N∴ R∴ I∴ like a regenerator: Ignem Natura Regenerenda Integra27 Thus, it is no surprise that the cubic stone had been the living solicitude of all philosophers, sages and prophets, and that it is still the highest occupation of those who seek God in spirit and truth. If we want to acquire the knowledge of this stone, we should begin by studying ourselves, for we are this solar oak that rises with majesty to

herald the glory of the Great Architect of the Universe. The breaking of bread in the degree of Rose Croix is therefore all symbolical and at the same time religious. According to all that I have just said, it will be easier to use an enlightened faith that this breaking of bread does not divide the spirits, since the spirits, as well as the elemental qualities are in a such perfect homogeneity that if it were otherwise the cubic stone would not be stone and the walls of the universal temple would return to nothingness. However, as we have said before, the stone is contained and enclosed within the great circumference of the generations, that is why it cannot suffer damage no power can prevail against it it casts out the evil spirits its kingdom is the same as its Father´s When we drink from the cup, the wine that remains there is always wine for the same reason that we have just said: the spirits are connected by homogeneity, consequently they are inseparable. I believe we have sufficiently explained all these things to you for the purpose of leading you to the goal you set yourself. Try to take advantage of it wisely. I implore you to keep the deepest silence. I write this confidentiality only. And if I knew that you would misuse it, I would not only cease my works but I would also throw into fire all that I wrote for your instruction. Therefore, woe to him, threefold woe to you if you profane our cubic stone. Be sure you will have an eternal curse.

The figure above is the hieroglyph of the ternary that is the main ornament of the Masonic lodges. See our Geometry in the number 3, page 4. It is the symbol of nature in its ternary operations. See our Geometry, number 4, pages 6 and 7. It is the great hieroglyph of: time space and motion (See our Geometry, page 15). The four letters inscribed within the triangle refer to the numbers 3∴ 5∴ 7∴ 9∴ (See our Geometry, page 18). This triangle is the principle of the pyramid, symbol of fire (See our Geometry, page 21).

By its ternary number, it is one of the sides or branches of the square, which is related to the masculine principle (See our Geometry, pp. 9, 23). This triangle is the principle of the quaternary pyramid that covers the cubic stone (See ibid., p. 21, 24, 27). In its development, this quaternary pyramid reveals to us the four elemental qualities hidden within itself (See ibid., 23). See all that we said in our Geometry concerning number 3, letter N, and also everything we said about the ternary, letter T, of the Table.

Only one God, only one truth. There is only one God and only one truth. First part of our Geometry. God is one since all eternity (See our Geometry, First part, p. 2). God is one because everything is contained in Him (See the Table of our Geometry in the word ‘point,’ letter P). There is only one God and one truth (See Art of Reasoning our Physics, pp. 15, 19, 18). See our Geometry, the Art of Reasoning our Physics and its tables concerning what we have said about God and truth.

time space aand motion (Ternary in unity, First part, p. 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 11, 12, 10, 9). See the Art of Reasoning our Physics p. 24, 25; see our Geometry in these words).

p. 2, 1, 3, 4, 7, 11, 12, 10 p. 2

J∴ M∴ B∴ p. 2

p. 2, 7, 8, 12, 14 p. 2, 3, 4

See our Geometry

See our Geometry p. 3, 4, 5, 8, 11,

See the Art of Reasoning our

12, 13, 14

Physics, p. 26, 29

See the Art of Reasoning our

See the table of the Art of

Physics, p. 26, 29

Reasoning our Physics in the word

And its table in number 3, letter N.

‘ascension,’ letter A, and in number 3, letter N.

death — corruption — putrefaction, p. 2. [76] Death is a passage that cannot be avoided. Death is the great hieroglyph of nature (See our Geometry, 23, 24). Death produces life (See ibid., p. 12). See the Table of our Geometry in the word ‘broken cross,’ letter C. Since it gives death to all living being, there is no death at all. Everything dies and regenerates (See the Art of reasoning our Physic in the word ‘production,’ letter P).

Note that we are talking about philosophical death. No generation is produced without corruption. Corruption is therefore a journey towards life. Corruption dissolves and gives the germ the potential to act and multiply. Corruption precedes generation. The basis of generation and corruption is humidity. Putrefaction is a fermentation that is prone to bring out the white color from the black color of corruption. Putrefaction is a decomposition of all the close principles of all plants and animals.

number

head

measure

heart

weight (p. 2)

belly (p. 2)

See our Geometry. Man´s

See our Geometry. Man´s

relationship with operations of

relationship with operations of

nature p. 7, 8. and with the two

nature p. 7, 8. and with the two

hieroglyphic figures which follow

hieroglyphic figures which follow

Ternary of the three philosophical principles: Three Kingdoms: animal

sulfur

vegetable

salt

mineral (p. 2, 5)

mercury ☿ (p. 2, 3)

See the Table of our Geometry in

See our Geometry p. 7 for its

the word ‘production.’ See our

Hieroglyphic words. See ibid. p. 9,

Geometry p. 9. See our Physics p.

11, 16, 17, 19, 22, 23, 25. Never

9, 11.

forget to always check the table of

See the Table of the Art of

Reasoning of our Geometry. See

Reasoning our Physics, number 3,

the figure of the Summary of our

letter N.

Physics, p. 12. See the Table of the Art of Reasoning our Physics, number 3, letter N.

soul spirit body (p. 2, 3, 4, 10) See the Table of the Art of Reasoning our Physics, number 3, letter N.

truth path life (p. 3) See the Table of the Art of Reasoning our Physics p. 19, 25.

Jehovah

Word. The word is in unity within

Alpha and Omega

the center, p. 3.

past

The ternary originated in the word

present

(p. 3) and yet the word was

future

generated in the ternary of the future (p. 3). See our Geometry p.

See our Geometry p. 24. Note that this ternary came out of two. God in His uncreated center

3, 9. Represented by an eagle ibid. p. 16.

was in potential the center of the It dies and does not die at all (See generations. The second center in the Table of our Geometry in the potential had His love. When God

wanted to manifest His love, the Holy Spirit had become that which proceed from these two centers. Immediately

God

wanted

to

manifest love, the Holy Spirit was found to be the intermediary between the covenant and the will. And this intermediary is the ray of

word ‘broken cross,’ letter C). It is the manifestation. It is triple (See Table

ibid.

in

the

word

‘production,’ letter P). It was pronounced within the

second

center (Se Table ibid., in the word ‘spiritual point,’ letter P). See below.

fiat. This is how Three originated in Two. See our Geometry, p. 14. When we say that the Word was pronounced within the second center, this center is that of nature. God calls nature and nature answers: Here I am Lord to submit myself to Your will. Do not take literally what I just said. I speak to you here only cryptically.

The four elements came out of the ternary, that is, a common center. It must thus be understood that the four elements came out of the center of the ternary, the center of the principle of: fire, fire water, water air, air earth, earth (p. 4, 5, 6 ,7, 8, 11, 12, 14) See our Geometry p. 6, 22, 7, 15. See the Table of Reasoning our Geometry in the word ‘elements,’ letter E; in the word ‘microcosm,’ letter M; in the word ‘production,’ letter P. Elements, its base in the ternary28, see our Geometry, p. 6; its hieroglyphs, pp. 22, ibid. p. 7, 22. Its symbolical colors, ibid. p. 19. Constitutive elements, ibid. p. 21; its qualities p. 22, ibid. p. 22.

Elements, 16 philosophical elements, ibid. pp. 16, 17. Unique element, the center, ibid. p. 9. Elements, two light ones and two heavy ones, ibid. p. 17. Spiritual elements, See the Table of Reasoning our Geometry in the word ‘microcosm,&rlsquo; letter M; visible and invisible elements, see ibid. in the word ‘production,’ letter P; see in the word ‘sperm,’ letter S. Four elements, two light ones and two heavy ones, see our Physics, p. 8, 7, 9. Elements, its qualities, ibid. p. 8; its qualities relating to the humors of man, ibid. p. 13; its connection with the cardinal points, p. 14; its dwellings in the Zodiac, p. 14. Where elements have their habitation, see the Table of Reasoning our Physics, p. 16; its qualities, its connection with the humors of man, ibid. p. 13. God, Father of elements, ibid. p. 15, 20. Elements have been created without motion, ibid. p. 16; its motions by means of hidden beings, ibid. 6. Note: These beings are the spirits of the universal spirit. Elements, their setbacks generate corruption, ibid. p. 7. Elements, their qualities, ibid. p. 18, 11, 17, 23. They are placed in a location; their direct motions, ibid. p. 17; they have double qualities, ibid. p. 8, 7, 20; they are the God´s thinking, ibid. p. 20; they are divided in agent

and patient, ibid. p. 20; they are liable to alteration, ibid. p. 20; they appear when matter receives its form, p. 22; they are joined with voluptuousness in nature, ibid. p. 23; its nobility (p. 24) originated in the center of the cross, p. 24. [77] The elements are simple bodies, p. 28 ibid. They are contained in the cubic stone, ibid. p. 29. They are the primary generating principles, p. 29. They never rest, p. 29 ibid. p. 29. The metals are generated by its distillations, ibid. p. 29. The heaven is made steady by its homogeneity. See the table of Reasoning in our Physics, in the word ‘heaven: the heaven is the steady vessel,’ letter C. See the table of the Art of Reasoning in our Physics, in the word ‘elements,’ letter E, in which we find several studies and comparisons. Mystical Clover p. 4

time

invisible virgin

wisdom of God

space

visible virgin

nature

motion

spirit of the seed

seeds

Man was born from the heart of the eternal wisdom. He was created as the summation of all the wonders of Fiat and he has received: soul; body; spirit.

And it is as such that we must recognize the union of the Creator with the creature, p. 4)

If we consider our subject, we will note that it brings together all the qualities of bodies. And this should help us understand that it is entirely philosophical and consequently it does not proceed from any seed. I already have revealed its name to you, although it has for itself no name at all. All

the names we give it, ín accordance with the different circumstances, are only metaphorical.29 Only the hidden worker knows its real name. We call it cubic stone, but it is not a stone at all. Our cubic stone in itself is not a stone — it is designated as such by Freemasons on account of its similarity to a stone and only in an emblematic manner. Our subject is hard, that is, it has the quality of a body that shows a more or less strong resistance to any object that wants to disintegrate it. See our Physics, p. 3. On the other hand, softness, which is the opposite of hardness, is the quality of a body that gives way without resistance and adjusts itself to that which envelops it: thick

sweet

fixed

airy

and delicate

bitter

volatile

watery (page 5)

Finally, it has all the qualities of the bodies. See our Physics, p. 3. And that is why it brings together all the properties of bodies, because it cannot be a body, but rather the beginning of the bodies. It is poisonous because it necessarily gives death. It is medicine because it necessarily gives life. It is terrestrial and yet it is not terrestrial. It kills and resuscitates itself. It is stone without being stone. It has both sexes in itself. It dissolves the matter that must be dissolved. It is related to the three kingdoms. It is the fire of life — it is air, water and earth. It is found in darkness, although it is exposed to full daylight. It is therefore a universal being.

Its depiction above represents: 1. unity — the only central Being. 2. heavy and light. 3. that it is not separated but by itself. 4. that it has in itself the ternary of: poison death life 5. that it is stone and not stone. 6. that it is earth and not earth. 7. that it kills and resurrects itself. 8. that it has in itself the three kingdoms. 9. the elements. 10. that it originates from a single seed. 11. that it is as old as the One from which it was born. 12. that it is the masculine agent and the female patient. Notice that the two sexes of our subject are related to the four cardinal points of the seasons, namely, the two solstices30 where we find fire and air, which is related to the columns the J∴ and Boo∴, and the two equinoxes where we find water and earth, which is related to the columns Strength and Beauty (S∴ and B∴). That is, the column: Boo∴ ,fire Beauty, air (which make up the borders of the diameter composed by the radius of the upper and inferior paralells31). And the column:

Jak∴, water Strengh, earth (which makes up the borders of the diameter composed by the radius of the eastern and the western meridians32). Two radius which make up the four rays that form the cross, whose center is the union of the two sexes. The center of the cross is where we find the two columns Jak∴ and Boo∴ in their unity. See our Geometry, p. 18; See our Physics, p. 12,13 where the four cardinal points divide the circle of generation into four parts; See ibid. p. 21, 22 where we have described the agent and the patient, as well as the active and passive elements. Note also that the number 4 that we find in both sexes is triple, which gives the number 12 as a result. This number is related to the division of the Zodiac and these are the dwellings of the elements. Notice that this Zodiac is positioned in the circumference of the columns J∴ and Boo∴ The same number four is also found in the thickness of these columns by which we are to understand that the four elements are contained therein, in a triple and quadruple manner. Jak∴

water

Strength

earth

Boo∴

fire

Beauty

heavy elements

patient

light elements

agent

air

The central unity in which the Being of beings is contained, is the place from which all things are originate, namely, nature, of which mankind is the summation. And since everything is originated in the center, everything was done through one — this one is our philosophical subject. And since our

last hieroglyph contains the understanding of the elements and the three kingdoms, it becomes the logical depiction of the simple truth, based on the column of Beauty. Understand this well because it is of great importance to the scholar who must begin to know himself if he wishes to discover the hidden secret of the philosophical science. Be very careful, for in order to teach you, I am obliged to use vulgar names and visible things. It is enough to tell you that you do not have to be attached to this. [78] The simple truth This following figure naturally leads us to the knowledge of the simple truth, with which we compose the following tree:

YHWH: First Being in His central unity. This shows us that everything is originated from One along the time. It is the immobile center, principle of the mobility. [YHWH: All by One] Immobile

God

eternity

time

as

originated from Mobile

God, the Father

time

Eternity (visible nature)

Nature: Second Being [Nature: day — dawn — night] The Elements in unity: Third Being [Elements: fire — air — water — earth] The four elements are triple and quadruple. They contain in themselves the philosophical numbers 12 and 16. The Seed: Fourth Being [Matrix: bile – blood – phlegm – melancholy33]. The sperm, the seed and the life — all in unity with the Father and the Mother and in unity within the tincture [Adam, volatile — Nature in both sexes — Eve, fixed]. Adam in both sexes, nature in both sexes. Adam and Eve, though divided, are one because they have come out of a single matrix. [The Father — the Sperm, the Seed, the Life — The mother 1 — 2 — 3 — 4 — 5 — 6 — 7] Vision of the mysteries of the seven seals. [The agent — tincture — the patient,Boo∴, Jak∴, red earth, white earth] The agent is the red earth. This is the reason why Adam was called ‘red’ or ‘sanguine.’ This red earth is related to the elements of fire and air. The patient is the white earth, that is, water and earth.

[Father — Holy Spirit — Son Body: explanation — Essence: elaboration — Chaos, Hyle: confusion] Fifth Being: the triple kingdom of nature [Man, plant — Man, minerals] Man is the perfection of all things: Sixth Being (The theme) He is the image and the sacred type, of whom the Archetype is God who is the Being of Beings. The simple truth descended from the uncreated center into the created center, that is, time originated in Eternity. All things rise from the created center into the uncreated center, afterwards descending again like a sap in order to give life in the same way that the sap of a tree rises from its root, then descends again in the branches in order to give flowers and fruits. In the beginning, all things descended in order to produce seeds, and seeds only germinate by the elevation of their spirits. The abdomen of man is related to the created center in which water and earth dwell — elements in which generation takes place. The heart is the source of heat, that is, of life. This is what mankind has in common with animals. The head is the seat of intelligence that makes him a rational being. And it is these three parts that make him in the likeness of nature. Note also that it is from these three parts that the reproductive seed originates and gives mankind:

a vegetal, a sensitive and arational soul And all this shows us that everything must offspring from the center in order to reproduce and nurture the generations, for when we speak about man, we speak about nature. See our Geometry regarding what we have said about man, p. 2, 3, 7, 10, 11, 16, 14, 22, 26. See also the table of our Geometry in the word ‘human,’ letter H; and especially in ‘man created as microcosm;’ ‘man has two fathers and two mothers;’ ‘man is generated by number 3;’ ‘man has in himself the ternary and the quaternary,’ that is, the numbers 3 and 4. See the same table and the word ‘microcosm,’ letter M; and the word ‘universe,’ letter U. See our Physics, p. 10. See the Art of Reasoning in our Physics, p. 16, 19, 21, 22, 23, 18, 20. [79] Star of the Radical Spirit, the Spirit which proceeds from all things These elements of the simple truth naturally lead us to the five-pointed Star, which is one of the main ornaments of Masonic lodges. This star is related to the Holy Spirit, which proceeds from all things and contains in itself the Radical Principle.

Notice that this star is composed of three triangles (See our Geometry, page 9). These triangles, therefore, are related to the unity that exists in the center, where we find: time the Divine Being and God (we will give here the explanation of this star as a continuation of what we have just said about our simple truth, so that nothing will lack the student who works to know himself).

The First Being (God) did everything through one, only for you (man) since He created you as the summation of nature. God created everything through one, that is, nature, in which are placed the elements that diffuse its philosophical influences. God created everything through one, that is, nature, in the unity of its three kingdoms, for you man because you have within you everything that makes

you a little world. Since mankind has in himself the Radical Principle, he is placed in the center of the spiritual principle and this spiritual principle itself is diffused within man. Man is like a column that, by its elevation, reveals the simple truth from which center all things proceeds. Let us examine man himself and we will see that the lower abdomen is the central dwelling of the elements and the three philosophical kingdoms are contained within its five parts. If we are to study this simple truth in order to better understand this, we will have taken a great step towards the knowledge of the flaming star, in the center of which is found our philosophical mercury. Chaos There is a confusion of everything within the philosophical chaos and it is these things which must be artificially dissected by the wise. Nature was created in a twofold manner: Adam

masculine

agent

Eve

female

patient

Nature has three kingdoms: mineral: mankind,34 minerals vegetal: mankind, plant animal: mankind, beast

Explanation The philosophical explanation of the universe is found in the activity of nature. And it is this activity of nature that yields a double generative force. Y

cholera

fire

or bile

male H

air

V

water

the seeds

blood

the sperm

phlegm female

H

father

earth

mother melancholy Elaboration

In the philosophical elaboration, we find the four elements and the three kingdoms originated in chaos. The philosophical elaboration is the order that the wise man must establish within the three kingdoms and the four elements in order to build up the three laws of nature and the double generative force. It is in the elaboration that the philosophical sage recognizes the spirit, that is, Radical Principle.

black, confusion. See the table of our Geometry, in the word ‘confusion,’ letter C. white, yellow, elaboration red, explication, See p. 5, 10. Black, matrix of all colors. See the table of the Art of Reasoning in our Physics, in the word ‘color,’ letter C. black white red (ibid., letter C).

The triangle is triple The Father is triple The Son is triple The Holy Spirit is triple The triple triangle gives us the numbers 6, 9, 27 and 81. The number 6 in the double triangle The number 9 in the double triangle The number 27 in the triple number 9 The number 81 is the largest square root, for after number 9, there is no other number. The unity begins again in order to gives us the number 10, which belongs only to God. The senary35 is composed of two triangles, one of which represents: The agent bringing together within itself fire and air, Boo∴, B∴ The patient bringing together within itself water and earth, Jak∴, F∴ See our Geometry (p. 7) where the hieroglyphic forms of the 4 elements are outlined. The Father brings

the Son

2

the number

together in Himself The Holy Spirit brings together in Himself The Son brings together in Himself

the Holy Spirit the Father the Son the Father the Holy Spirit

6 2

2

The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are 3 in unity: 3 Together with the number 6 above, this makes 9. The number 9 being tripled yields number 27, because the square root of 9 is number 3. Number 27 being tripled gives the number 81, the number which is the largest square root, for 9 multiplied by 9 also gives 81.36 Man can not go beyond this number, for after number 9 there is no number. He must return to unity which is not by itself any number at all, being rather the beginning of all numbers. So if you add 1 to 9, you will have 10 – the number which belongs to God and that leads us to the thousand and beyond, as infinitely as the infinite that is contained within the thousand, in the center of the number Nine. In that center revolves the circular evolution of the emanations of the eternal Trinity. And it is in this evolution that we find the mysterious harmony of the world in terms of: weight number and measure Together these constitute the harmony of the world.

The first operation is the unity added three times to itself: number 3. The second operation is the number 3 added three times to itself: number 9. The third operation is the number 9 added three times to itself: number 27. Thus, we must stop in the number twenty-seven since it delimits the ternary operation. However this number must be contained in the ternary and in order to contain it, it must be multiplied 3 times, giving the number 81. Now, it will be the center containing the number 3∴ 9∴ and 27∴. These are the four operations which reveal to us the great mystery of the quaternary. The number 3 is known in the degree of the Apprentice. The number 9 is known in the degree of the Master, in the degree of the Elect and in the Scottish degree. The number 27 is known in the Scottish degree. The number 81 is also known in the Scottish degree.

These are the circular evolutions of the emanations of the eternal Trinity.

sun: light heat

time

space motion (p. 5)

motion (p. 5)

number Three, the image seal of nature, of God p. 6. See our Geometry, p. 5: divine Trinity This is the ineffable name of the divine Trinity — the center of the Vessel of the Spirit. This is the union of the Creator with the creature.

The square is the principle of the level in its proportions of 3 and 4, and the extension of the level line is the principle of the line of the plumb rule.

Note that the level is related to the column Boo∴, while the line of the plumb rule is related to column J∴. The square contains the cross that turns at its center in order to give life. A Fellowcraft Mason knows these three symbolic instruments only in a moral sense [without even knowing the employment of these three objects]. See p. 8. [81]

squarre level and rule (all these form the cross, p. 8).

Everything is accomplished by the cross, both horizontally and vertically. The center of the cross is found everywhere — consequently the cross is everywhere, p. 8. The eternal sun in its divine force of nature

God is one in three. He proceeds from the uncreated center in order to enter the created center and yet He is always in His place. This sun contains the heavenly philosophy and not the terrestrial one. Visible and temporal Trinity contained in the three principles

,

and

☿. And God said: God creates nature by means of His pronunciation. Ruach Elohim, wind, spirit, hovers over the water God and Nature do nothing in vain. O nature, you are created in true similitude of your God. Sun was created in its operative quality. The upper world — first mobile. The little world — quiet in its center. Concerning the Trinity The Trinity is the foundation of nature. It proceeds from One, that is, from the center of uncreated nature in order to enter the created center and come out again from there in order to diffuse itself throughout all of creation, always remaining in unity within its primitive center and being at its aid. Unity The unity contains: 1. The spirit that gives life; 2. The light that separates the fire; 3. The three principles; 4. The three Divine Persons;

5. The essence from which the ternary originates; 6. The first matter; 7. The day; 8. The quintessence of all things (all things contained in potential within unity); Unity is the beginning and the end. It is the permanent water that does not wet the hands. It has begotten the sun and the moon from which it itself is born. Understand this very well: it is (this water) the fixed and volatile spirit, that is, it becomes volatile out of the fixed. It is the necessary spirit in everything and without which nothing could have life. Everything in nature is accomplished by unity. It is spread all over the place. It has the nature of the four elements and yet it is no element, but rather it is a heavenly essence which contains the four elements in perfect equality. It is heavy and light. It is formless, insurmountable and invisible, yet it is a being susceptible to friability and fusion. It is a being that comprises all the space in which it is contained. It is in continuous motion, although it is by itself motionless in the center of its immobility. It is nothing and yet it is something to the philosopher. It is a poison that gives death and yet one can not live without it. Since it is an unique being, it can only be separated by itself. It is heavenly and earthly. It kills itself, it resuscitates itself over time — it is the Phoenix of the philosophers. See p. 5.

Water: First Matter Water is the first matter that God used to create everything — the earth is contained in it. Pay attention to the fact that we call the philosophical mercury first matter, permanent water, true tincture — remember this well. Chaos, Hyle Hylé: this word means, or rather, it designates water and matter. It is within chaos that we must look for the universal matter. It is necessary to look for this agent as the first cause of love between the elements. We need to note three things within chaos: 1. The first water and formless; 2. The life-giving fire from which the water was stirred; 3. The manner in which especial philosophical beings were created and drawn out of this chaos or indeterminate being. The formless and imperfect water, in its beginning, was incapable to produce anything without the love of the life-giving fire. This first water was and still is: cold humid coarse impure and tenebrous These have the role of female in the Philosophical Creation. This water is designated by the columns J∴ and S∴, which are in unity and forms JS∴, the female.

The love of this life-giving fire plays the role of male (this fire is designated by the union of the two columns Boo∴ and Beauty, forming ∴EB∴). The innumerable sparks that are released from this fire, from both love and male, are opposites, spreading in the philosophical universe running after the loving embrace of passive matter (female), to which they convey their tincture and prepare it for generation. Thus, water is matter and fire is form. But what is this fire? It is the fire of the philosophical universe subtly diffused into the first and formless water. In the same way we must find fire and water intermixed in the confusion of chaos: warmth — principle of love. dryness — principle of constant hardness of bodies. Note that the eternal sun, as the divine force of nature, has the uncreated eternal nature as its center, a center which has that created one (the eternal nature) in it and which can only leave by the Fiat. [82] Let us ponder the uncreated center for a moment. It is in the uncreated center that we must necessarily find the uncreated nature. Let us meditate on the greater glory of the Creator found in this center, from which created nature was born. Here we will find in potential: 1. the essence of the essences of nature, that is, the quintessence 2. the first matter 3. the three principles 4. the three Divine Persons 5. the ternary came out of a single essence 6. the spirit of life 7. and the light that separates the fire.

All these things came out of eternity in order to enter time. And since time and nature also came out of eternity, and because they depend on the eternal uncreated center, so eternity necessarily governs nature and time. Created nature came out of uncreated nature at the moment the ‘Fiat’ was pronounced and thus the generations were created. In order to explain this unique will, the philosopher has created a chaos from which he draws all created things in an orderly fashion. It is for this reason that the philosopher makes this chaos come out of the word ‘Fiat,’ which the V∴ S∴37 Moses divides in six days. This chaos is our Hyle that comprises: 1) the three principles and elements; 2) the higher spiritual world containing the dwelling of the heavenly nature in its center; 3) the peaceful world within its center, that is, bodily nature. All these things came out of a single substance. Heavenly and Temporal Nature We find in the entirely spiritual heavenly nature: 1. the Spirit of God hovering over the waters 2. the 12 signs of the Zodiac with its elemental qualities 3. the heavenly seeds 4. the seeds of minerals, vegetables, animals We find in the little world, or in the bodily nature: 1. 1. The 6 main planets in the center of which is the sun, with its elemental qualities 2. the three principles 3. the four elements 4. the tincture

5. and the terrestrial matter And all these things are placed in an orderly fashion so that we may discover: 1. the mercury of the philosophers that leads us to separation and nonseparation, for nothing in nature is really separate from another. There we find the separation of principles; there we find them gathered by the spirit. 2. sulfur 3. and salt (of the philosophers) 4. the male 5. the female

☉ that drives us to the conception ☽ that drives us to the childbirth

6. the child who gathers in itself the four elements

.

And this in order to show us the regeneration of beings contained in their like. 7. we find: soul, spirit And all these things are accomplished in nature by: death — dissolution corruption putrefaction Notice that in nature no generation is produced without corruption — humidity is in itself the foundation of generation and corruption. Note also that dissolution is the foundation of philosophical art. This dissolution is that of the black earth, that is, of death.

This putrefaction is the secret of the philosophical art. It is the mother of everything. Putrefaction is manifested by the blackness which the philosophers call crow, cro∴ head and other different names. Putrefaction is accomplished by means of a reaction between the three principles

☿

. Circulation is the menstrual water of the world, which keeps in itself the seeds and the elements. When this water circulates, the elements of nature enclosed in earth as in their matrices, and in water as in their menstruums, circulate as well because: earth water and air (are all enclosed in the vapor and are sublimated, that is, they are elevated). Earth formed out of water is called: animal vegetable and mineral The dissolution of the body represents the coagulation of the spirit (from which follows that the dissolution of the body can not be made without coagulation of the spirit). fire dissolves, coagulates and calcines. Vegetation is the principle of multiplication towards infinity. Animal is the principle of life. Mineral is the metallic principle. The cubic stone is:

1. vegetal in its beginning, giving it the principle of multiplication; 2. mineral in its development, giving it the metallic principle; 3. animal in its perfection, giving it the principle of life of the imperfect metals. Pay close attention to what I am going to tell you: the three kingdoms mentioned above mean the kingdoms of the stone and not those of nature. Heed well this advice. We find enclosed in our chaos: The Spirit of God hovering on the waters; Light separated from darkness; Waters separated from waters; The heavenly bodies placed in the heavens; Earth changed into water: see p. 29 of this Table Water changed into air: see p. 29 ibid. Air changed into fire; An element becomes participant in the nature of another; We find the elements in continuous motion; We find fire and air, beings and superior elements; We find water and earth, beings and inferior elements; We find spirit having fire; We find air caused by motion; We find air, the cause of the fire; Fire separates, purifies, digests, tinges and nourishes every seed in its matrix; Air is the bound between the higher and lower elements. Air is the multiplicative life; Earth is elevated by means of water;

Water assistes generation; Fire separates conjoined things; Water brings together scattered things; Study these matters well because they will be needed later. Each one is an introduction to the other. The figure above is more than enough to help you work if you have well understood everything I have said earlier. In addition, I recommend you to study below the table for the explanation of different subjects that are here dealt with only very briefly, so that you will not lose the overview of the subjects I deal with.

Tracing board. Marble of the Hidden Worker, p. 9.

Broken tracing board. Broken Marble of the Hidden Worker, p. 9. The breaking of the tracing board is the breaking of the cross, consequently this is the breaking of the square, the level, the line of the plumb rule and of all moral tools of Freemasonry.

The elements are four: 4 elements, p. 9. The elements are threefold: 12 elements, p. 9. The elements are quadruple: 16 elements, p. 9. The permutation of the elements is the great mystery of the philosopher. The above hieroglyph represents the ternary of the Divine oracle, p. 10 [The circle and arc of the covenant]. black

chaos or confusion

white elaboration

of the universe, p. 10.

yellow red

explanation

black

night

white dawn yellow red

day

This is the cubic stone in its abandonment, p. 11.

see pages 9 and 10.

The Cubic Stone emerges radiant from its grave, p. 11. Concerning God and Nature Tree of God and Nature Heavenly Light, Natural Light Eternity, Temporal Everything comes from one only and one for all A and O The beginning, The end The Eternity, The time The first, The last God, Man Heaven, Hell The tree of life, Death The Divine Essence communicated into three different Persons, without changing the Unity of their essence, since there is only the Divine nature that can by itself be divided within its unity. O nature, you were created in likeness of the Godhead. The created nature is communicated into three different natures and mothers The word is the flesh, The earth is a man Heavenly Father, Heavenly Mother

Terrestrial Father, Terrestrial Mother Number of mankind, 666 The cubic stone has two aspects, p. 11.

The first column is the union of the columns J∴ and S∴. It is water, the first matter in which the earth is found. This column is related to the philosophical moon. The third column is the union of the columns Boo∴ and Beauty. It is fire and air. This color is related to the philosophical sun. These two columns are the agents of nature. See p. 12. In the degree of Fellow Craft you learn that the two columns J∴ and B∴ comprise the tools of Freemasonry and the treasure with which you pay the worker. Freemasons, do not marvel if now these tools are the elements and your treasure the cubic stone dealt here as the radical principle transmuting all things in the form that best suits it. You will be greatly rewarded if you find this gemstone. In order to find it, you must enter the chamber of the Masters and then continue your way until in the underground, behold the sacred vault of the Scottish degree, so you will have the knowledge of the subject you are looking for — you will find it in the column of Beauty, which contains in itself the treasure of treasures. Flag of Peace, p. 12.

See the Table in the words ‘columns J∴ and B∴, place and first name of the stone.

Letter J∴ the patient Letter B∴ the agent Letter V the visible virgin (page 12)

Four solar trees that are like the elements:

four triple quadruple The tree of life, the golden tree, is found in its center.

The visible virgin is the daughter of wisdom, the Invisible and Eternal Virgin, p. 14. Jesus, humanity Christ, Divinity Go∴ Covenant with nature God, human

bread and wine, together represented by a Lamb, p.14. Lamb, spiritual nourishment, p. ibid.

The stone is the Golden Fleece, that is, the moist radical, universal principle and soul. The center of the cross is the seat of the Lamb, this radical humidity that overcomes the seven heavenly gates. The seven seals are placed at the center of the cross because they are the seven mysteries of creation which came out of the center of tranquility. The center of the cross is the center of the universal principle which moves over its immobility, so that by its motion, it gives life to all the celestial bodies. [85] Table of Contents Of the First Chapter of the Alchemy of the Mason A Architect: The Great Architect is in unity with all His works, in order to first to watch over the maintenance of everything that He created for His glory. Freemasons call God the Great Architect of the Universe, see our Geometry, p. 4; see ‘the glory of God in the generation of nature;’ see our Art of Reasoning in our Physics, p. 20. Animal: One of the three kingdoms of nature, p. 2 (animal, vegetable, mineral).

Soul: soul spirit body (p. 2, 3, 10). Future: past present future (Jehovah, p. 3). Attributes: Past, present, future; attributes of God, p. 3. A and O: past present future (Jehovah, p. 3 — Heavenly Trinity, p. 21, 12, 16). Soul: soul body spirit (p. 3. See the Art of Reasoning in our Physics, p. 26, 19. See the Art of Reasoning in our Physics, ‘number 3,’ letter N). Artificial: Three powers within God and nature: the divine the natural the artificial (p. 4). Soul: soul invisible matrix, heavenly virgin p. 4, 7. body matrix of the virgin of nature. spirit matrix of the Holy Spirit, radical principle. Nothing: One of the qualities of unity, p. 5.

Love: One of the qualities of unity, p. 5. Aquatic: One of the qualities of unity, p. 5. Rising and falling: Of the virtues, p. 5, 11. See the Art of Reasoning in our Physics, p. 17, 26; See the Art of Reasoning in our Physics, in the word ‘ascension,’ letter A. Rearward: Retrogressing, p. 5. Forward: Go ahead, progression, p. 5. Air: air fire (close elements, p. 6). Air: air water (close elements, p. 6). See the Art of Reasoning in our Physics, p. 17. Soul: It is related to the column W∴, known in the degree of Companion, p. 6. Love: Germ of nature contained in our cubic stone, p. 6. See the Art of Reasoning in our Physics, p. 23. Love: This germ of nature has three degrees: 1. in the universal form; 2. in the form of the elements; 3. ending at the limits (p.6).

Love: First born of the Father, p. 6. Love: It is not nature, but it is nature in its manifestation, p. 6. Agent: Sun, p. 7; Moon is Patient. See the Art of Reasoning in our Geometry, p. 6; see the Art of Reasoning in our Physics in the word ‘element,’ letter E; see our Physics, p. 21. Angles: Three equal angles that make up the equilateral triangle and which is related to the three letters S∴ W∴ B∴, known only in the degree of Companion, p. 7. Plumb rule: square, level, plumb rule (all in unity, p. 8). Plumb rule: square, level, plumb rule (all in unity, as they are found on the cross, which by their motion imparts perfect equality between the elements, p. 9, 21). Line of Plumb rule: Its definition is known in the degree of Companion, p. 9. Age: Number 33, age of the Knight of the Rose Croix, p. 9. Rising and falling: Of the spirits within the 11 heavens, p. 9. Love: Supernatural fire, p. 9. See p. 6, 7. Apprentice: The Apprentice Mason only sees the black chamber, p. 10.

Gathering: direction, constitution, distribution, gathering (of the universe, p.10). See our Geometry of the Mason, p. 2, 18. See the Art of Reasoning in our Geometry in the word ‘cross: its breaking,’ letter C. Soul: essence, p. 10. soul: essence spirit: existence body: consistency Dawn: Rooster, its emblem (Revealed Nature) p. 11. Soul: The soul is attracted to the Spirit, p. 11. The spirit attracts the soul. Acacia: Branch of acacia found on the grave of Hir∴, p. 12. Air: air, water, earth (in opposition, p. 12). Acacia: Solar tree, emblem of peace, union and harmony (p. 13. See in the word ‘harmony,’ letter H of the Table, p. 3). Agent: The agent operates on the patient by the number 7, p. 13. It is volatile. Angels: Angels, Demons (p. 13. See p. 7 of this Table). Eagle: Emblem of the Holy Spirit, p. 13.

Lamb: Spiritual nourishment, p. 14. The Fleece of the Lamb is the true Golden Fleece that we must seek for because it is our radical humidity, principle of everything that exists in nature. Lamb: Emblem of the gentle fire, p. 14, 21. Adam: Adam, Red Earth, Eve, White earth (p. 18, 19. These are the two philosophical earths). Apprentice: He knows only the number 3, p. 20. Soul: soul, sun. spirit, moon (p.21) Agent: Cause of love among the elements, p. 21. Love: Of the elements; See ‘agent,’ p. 21. Love: Fire of the generation, p. 21. Soul: vegetative, sensitive, rational (p.18). [86] Solar Trees: There is four. The tree of the life in the center, p. 21 Tree of the life: In the center of the four solar trees, p. 21, 14. Lamb: Spiritual life, p. 21, 14, 24. It is on the cross bearing the seven seals.

Ark: Nine arks. Jehovah was placed within themselves, p. 3.38 They represent the nine sublimations in the work of the stone. Line of Plumb Rule: motions towards the center, p. 8, 9. See the ‘line of plumb rule.’ Alpha: Wisdom, p. 24. Lamb: Its Fleece, radical humidity. Souls: There are three souls within mankind: animal, sensitive and rational souls. See below in the word ‘corruption,’ letter C. Tree of God and Nature: p. 23. Souls: There are three kinds of souls. See ‘corruption,’ letter C, p. 2 of this Table, and ‘dissolution,’ letter D, p. 16. Solar Tree: It is related to the four elements, p. 14. Note that the fifth tree, which is the Spirit of Life, detains the center. Air: air, fire (tincture. See this Table, p. 11, 12). Air: Nourishment of the fire. See ibid., p. 11. Air: Separated by distillation in the fire. See ibid., p. 11. Air: Came out of water. See ibid. p. 12.

Soul: soul, spirit, body (The stone possess all of them. See ibid., p. 12). See the Supplement of this Table as continuation to this letter. B Good: good, evil, virtues, vices (distinguished by the wise man in the cubic stone, p. 2. Foundation of the Masonic Moral). Letter B: J∴M∴B∴, p. 2. Beauty: strength, wisdom, beauty (They are related to the three angles of the triangle, p. 7). Good: good, life, evil, death (They are spring from the square, the level and the compass, p. 9). White Color: Elaboration. motion made by the cross making emerge the fire of life. Elaboration, dawn, Holy Spirit, p. 10. See below in the word ‘corruption.’ Letters B∴: Booz, male J∴: Jak∴, female (p. 11. Generative qualities). Cradle: The cradle is near to the coffin, p. 11 and p. 2 of this Table. This shows us that mankind has two fathers and two mothers, and that he came out of the two aspects: the heavenly and the terrestrial one.

White: Color of the Standard of Peace, p. 12. Booz: Booz, Ruth (bread and wine, p. 14). White: black, white, red (yellow is the tincture of the Holy Spirit, p. 6). Boo∴ and Beauty: Columns that are related to the fire (male), p. 21. Beak of the Crow: Black head of the crow. See this Table in the word ‘putrefaction,’ p. 7. White: white, black (See p. 7 of this Table in the word ‘putrefaction’). Boo∴: Columns J∴ and B∴ comprise the tools and the treasure of the Masons. See this Table, p. 8. Whiten: whiten, redden (the stone. See this Table, p. 9), putrefaction of the stone, ib. p. 9. Mud: A vile yet precious matter. See ibid., p. 12. Good: Good, evil; life, death; love, wrath; light, darkness. See this Table, p. 24. Bethlehem: Dwelling of Peace that must nourish man. See ibid., p. 24. Low: elevation, low (in Eternity. See ibid. p. 24).

Good and Evil: Contained within the seven planets. See ibid., p. 25. Burning Bush: Triangle of the Word which appeared to Moses, ibid., p. 34, 35. Balm, medicine of the vegetals: This balm is out tincture which contains the elements. See the discourse of our Alchemy, Part I. Raised Banner: It gives Light, ibid., p. IV. C Creation: Everything was created by imagination, p. 1. Uncreated Center: Center of the three principles. Center: Came out of the center, p. 1. Center: The created center hides the uncreated center, p. 1. Creator: The Creator is united with the creature, p. 1. Corruption: death, corruption, putrefaction (p. 2, 5, 15). Corruption: death, corruption, putrefaction, purification (p. 3). Note that the celestial bodies and the Earth produce elements by means of earthen bodies, for the Earth by itself is the seminal reason of all celestial

bodies themselves, elements which are either bodies or compounds of the three principles, that is, elements. They are

,

and ☿. They are elements or spirits of the

,

and ☿ or spirits of the

,

and ☿.

There are, therefore, two united elements in nature: The visible element, external The invisible element, internal Without this unity, it would not have propagation and multiplication in nature. However, there is propagation and multiplication for the maintenance of nature. This is why seeds are spread into several forms and the element which is invisible appears within the visible one. When the unity of the internal and the external elements is separated from the body, this body dies and corrupts. However, this corruption is only external, the virtue of the element remains for ever because it is indestructible and it is there only to operate generation — the three principles do not cease manifest. See the Table of our Geometry in the word ‘sperm of the life,’ letter S. See the Table of the Summation of Mankind in our Geometry, in its three sections, p. 7. Corruption proceeds from the opposition of the elements within bodies. See the Art of Reasoning in our Physics, p. 7. Earth is the main element of the corruption. See ibid., p. 17.

Corruption precedes generation. See ibid., p. 20. The elements are susceptible to corruption as visible elements. See ibid., p. 22. Corruption is a requirement of nature in order to generate. See ibid., p. 22. The hidden elements are not revealed except by embodiment. See ibid., p. 22. Nature does not regenerate except by corruption. See ibid., p.20. In nature, no being can receive life without death being able to take it back. The cradle is always near the grave. Note that corruption is greater in a passive being than in an active one. Mankind himself even has the proof of this truth, since his body is much more susceptible to corruption than his sensitive soul, which animates him. The animal soul, the body, is the passive principle and the sensitive soul is the active principle. In the light of the rational soul, mankind is an immortal principle that distinguishes him from all other created beings. And it is this favour proceeding from God which places mankind above all beings and nature itself. It is corruption that accomplishes dissolution. Corruption dissolves, therefore, the coarse parts of the matter and consequently places the germ in the capacity of: acting, expanding and multiplying itself.

While the subtle part is bound by the coarse one, it can not give life. There it remains without any motion and consequently is invisible. It is found only in potential within the subject in which it is kept hidden. By means of corruption, it is deprived of the coarseness by which it was bound. By means of this deprivation it is made spiritual and capable of true vegetation. I warn you that you must not apply what I said you to the vulgar metals because you would thereby fall into a sophistic labyrinth from which you could never get out. Remember that vulgar metals are in a state of death, as has long been implored, while our subject is entirely spiritual. We say we work on vulgar metals only by way of analogy and in order to make you understand. Corruption is accomplished by the humid. The sign of corruption is seen in the stench of water and this stench is the sign of the death of the body. It is by the natural heat that the alchemiist achieves corruption. The body is cold and humid before being corrupted. Container: Space is the container, p. 2. Compass: Symbol of the exact proportion, p. 2. It measures space, p. 2. Heart: Middle part of the human body: head, heart, abdomen (p. 2, 3, 16). Body: The dimensions of the bodies are: height, width and depth (p. 2).

Body: soul, spirit, body (p. 2, 3, 17, 4, 10, 16, 17, 6, 20). Ask: ask, seek, knock (p. 3. Three necessary attitudes addressed to the Masons in order to achieve the science, p. 4). Cross: Its center is the principle of motion, p. 3. Charity: Drawn by hope towards the faith, p. 3. Charity: charity, faith, hope (p. 2, 3, 9, 12, 13, 8, 14, 11). Beginning: beginning, middle, end (They were created by the thinking of God, and yet they are not thinking, p. 3). Beginning: beginning, middle, end (Terrestrial and temporal trinity, p. 3. Spiritual trinity). Center of the Triangle: Uncreated center; the center of Jehovah; the center of the amplitude, p. 4; the center of the light of our universe, p. 4. [87] Body: body, soul, spirit (Three visible and invisible matrices, p. 4, 2, 3, 4, 10, 16, 17, 20). Chaos: p. 4, 5. Matter prepared by God. See our Geometry, p. 2, 11. Chaos: Chaos is nothing in the eyes of God, and yet it is something for man. See ibid. p. 2, 11, 5.

Chaos: Represented by the rough stone. See ibid., p. 10, 14. See the Art of Reasoning in our Physics, p. 19. Color: Of the three triangles where the triangle of nature grows. black white, yellow red (p. 5, 10, 20). Confusion: confusion Elaboration: elaboration, explication (of universe, p. 5, 20, 10, 19, 20. See p. 7 of this Table). Chaos: Everything came out of chaos in an orderly fashion, p. 5. Heat: light, motion, heat, p. 5. Concupiscence: Vice of nature, sin of nature, p. 6, 9. Terrestrial lust. See the Art of Reasoning in our Physics, p. 20. Concupiscence of matter is necessary for generation. Concupiscence is a costly vice to mankind when he desires flesh by disturbance of his imagination. This passion absorbs his soul making him unable to recognize the truth and it is often the source of the greater crimes. However, note that concupiscence is necessary because it preserves society and repairs that which death destroyed. We can conclude from this that there are no vices that do not produce any good. Concupiscence, in the absolute necessity of its existence, is both vice and virtue and it is by itself neither one nor the other, however it is vice

concerning the disturbance and the crazed desire. Columns: J∴, B∴ comprise the four elements, p. 6. Column

earth

J∴:

water

Column B∴:

fire air

patient

agent

matter, p. 6, 20.

corruption,

form,

p. 6, 20.

p. 6, 20.

Body: It is related to the column of Strength S∴, p. 6. Column S∴: Strength. It is related to the body, p. 6. Column Beauty: It is related to the spirit, p. 6. Column W∴: It is related to the soul, p. 6. S∴

Strength

body

visible virgin

W∴

Wisdom

soul

invisible virgin

B∴

Beauty

spirit

spirit of life (p. 6, 17, 20)

Harmony: peace, union, harmony (p. 6). Peace, union and harmony are the attributes of the solar tree acacia, known in the degree of Master. Union is symbolized by the mosaic floor in the degree of Compagnion. It is also symbolized by the tesellated border in the same degree, in the center of which is found the cubic stone.

Harmony is closely linked to union, from which it follows: Since harmony is closely linked to union in the tesellated border, there is an intimate connection between the tesellated border and the mosaic floor. Peace is necessarily positioned in the center of union and harmony, this way peace gathers in itself union and harmony. And this three attributes are found in the philosophical cubic stone. Column J∴: humid , corruption, p. 6. Corruption: Column J∴, p. 6.

Philosophical Chaos: sulfur

; salt

and mercury ☿, p. 7.

Chisel: Masonic tool, emblem of the use of time, p. 7.

compass time p.7 rule space See the Table of the Art of Reasoning in our Physicis, number 3, letter N and our Physics, p. 25. Compass: Alone, it is the emblem of space and time (p. 7). Charity: charity, faith, hope (theological virtues, p. 7, 12, 13, 2, 8, 14, 15).

See our Geometry, p. 16, 25; See the Art of Reasoning in our Physicis, p. 26; And its Table in the word ‘rising,’ letter R. Center of the Cross: It contains the Divine fire, p. 8. Cross: Divine fire in its center, p. 8. Center of the Cross: Principle of all mobility, p. 8. Cross: Composed by four radiuses, p. 8. Cross: The cross is spiritually seen everywhere, p. 8, 20, 21. Columns J∴ and B∴: They comprise the Masonic tools and the treasure with which we pay the workers. See this Table, p. 8. Columns: S∴ earth J∴ water (p. 6, 20. It is hyle containing in potential all forms). Column J∴: Represents space, p. 8. It has in itself air and fire (in potential, p. 8). Columns: J∴, Boo∴, When they are in unity, they are related to the star and the letter G which is contained in its center, p. 8) Cone: Emblem of the fire of life. It is the crutch of the hidden worker, p. 9.

Cross: The departure of the sparks of fire is in its center, p. 9. Cross and Chaos: The cross, by its circular motion, rubs the matter of chaos making fire come out of its center, p. 9. Cross: The cross, by its motion, imparts a perfect equality between the elements, p. 9. Like the cross, man must work to impart a perfect equality between his four humors. Concupiscence: Of patient, p. 9. See p. 6 and what we have said above about this word. Cross: Spirit of life is in the center of the cross, p. 9. The cross is found everywhere, p. 9. Compass: square compass

good represent

life

level

evil death

because they make up the cross, p. 9

Chaos: Composed by three main heavens: most heavenly heavenly and terrestrial (p. 9). Heaven: There is three. Chaos is composed by three heavens, p. 9.

Confusion: chaos, dark night (contain darkness, p. 10). Chaos: Conceived in order to generalize generation, p. 10. It never existed because everything was created in one single moment. It was conceived by the philosopher in order to achieve the science, p. 10. Color: black, white and yellow red. Its connection with confusion, elaboration and explication of chaos, p. 10. confusion, black elaboration, white and yellow explication, red (p. 10, 20. It is the development of triangle in its three degrees). Black Color: Chaos, in which everything is contained in potential, p. 10. Red Color: Soul of souls, p. 10. White Color: It is tinged with yellow, Holy Spirit, p. 10. Black or Reflexion Chamber: Symbolic in the first degree, p. 10. Chaos: space of chaos, black, p. 10, 11. White Color: motion made by the cross drawing the fire of life. It is elaboration. Elaboration: confusion

night

p. 10, 19, 20

elaboration

dawn

eplication

day

Constitution: One of the four parts of the universe which came out of the ternary of confusion, elaboration and explication, p. 10.

Constitution: It contains in potential: time, space, motion (p. 10). Constitution: It similarly contains in potential: body

consistence

spirit

existence

soul

essence

p. 10, 20.

Consistence: Body, p. 10. Elaboration: Its center contains everything, p. 10, 19. Condition: 2nd condition, 1st state, 3rd world. These are found in the distribution of the universe, p. 10. Condition: Attribute of the three states contained in the philosophical sun, which makes a distribution of the universe in order to teach us in an orderly fashion, p. 10. Chaos: Philosophical labyrinth, p. 10. Chaos: Hyle, p. 11. [88] Roster: Symbol of the revealed nature, p. 11. Emblem of the dawn, p. 11. Colors: All colors are in potential contained in the black color, p. 11. Columns S∴ W∴ and B∴: here they are related to the elements earth, air and fire. S∴

earth

W∴

fire

B∴

air

p. 12.

Columns J∴ and B∴: Its Masonic places, p. 12. Column B∴, sun Column J∴, moon (p. 12). Pay close attention that the alchemical sun and moon definitely are not the philosophical ones. Column J∴: Emblem of the force. It is an emblem of the strong concupiscence of the female in its desire to unite with the male, p. 11. See above in the word ‘concupiscence,’ p. 6 and 11. The concupiscence of nature resides in the force of nature, and this force resides in God where the apprentice Mason learns that the column J∴ near which he works, signifies ‘my strength is in God.’ By this meaning, and according to our Alchemy, we must understand that natural and legitimate desire to regenerate and overcome death in its ravages, as it is found in nature. Column J∴: It is the fixed which by its embrace makes the volatile die, but the volatile dies only to be resuscitated, p. 12. The force of the fixed, or female (patient) kills the volatile, male (agent), for it (the agent) is dominated by the strong concupiscence, but immediately it dominates the fixed and raises it with itself. It is in this moment that the volatile spiritualizes the fixed, for by its elevation the matter is released from all the coarse terrestriality. Column Boo∴: In the degree of Fellowcraft, this column means perseverance in the good, p. 12. Perseverance in the good, alchymically speaking, is perseverance of the agent into descending to be caught by the patient many times, to die in its

embrace and to resurrect in order to carry out generation as well as for the maintenance of the glory of God. Column S∴: Its union with the Column J∴ is the same as that of water with earth, first matter. It is related to the moon. We find in the union of these two columns: the patient strength (p. 12). Column Beauty and Boo∴: Their union is the same as that of air with fire. We find in the union of these two columns: the agent perseverance (p. 12). Columns S∴ W∴ and B∴: They are known in the degree of Fellocraft in order being emblems of the three qualities of the G∴ A∴ O∴ T∴ U∴:39 Strength Wisdom Beauty See p. 12. They are the three pilar of the Universal Temple, p. 12. In the degree of Rose Croix, these columns are emblems of: Faith Hope Charity See p. 12, 13; 2, 7, 8, 14, 15. Charity: Nourishing fire, p. 12.

Column Boo∴: Place of birth of the ‘Macbenach’40 as son of the sun, p. 12. Column J∴: First name of ‘Macbenach’ as son of the moon (widow), p. 12. Note also that our sun is the red earth which is the solar earth, the true place of the cubic stone, and that our moon is the white earth. The cubic stone is found in the center of the cross. The cross is related to the red earth (agent) and is found in the white earth (patient). Thus pleased, pleases and will please God during times for His greatest glory, p. 24. Cross: The cross carries out motion. It binds releases gives death gives life makes everything return to the center makes everything come out of the center (because it has in itself the fermentative spirit, p. 12).

Center: All virtues are found in the center, p. 12. Cross: The cross is a heavy and light yoke, p. 12. Cross: The cross is the executioner of the God´s commandments, p. 12. Cross: It is the standard of nature, p. 12. White color, color of the standard and of peace, p. 12. Red color, color of the cross, represented by the blood of:

death and life. Cross: The cross does destroy everything and does not destroy anything (standard of nature). Thus pleased, pleases and will please God during times, p. 12. See above ‘column J∴,’ cubic stone in the center. Broken Cross: Tomb of Hyran, p. 13. Restored Cross: In the resurrection of the stone, p. 13. Dog: Emblem of the path of the purification of the stone, p. 13. Column of Beauty: It was build up in the secret vault of the Scottish over the Holy of Holies of Salomon´s temple, p. 13. Its foundation is the place of the hidden worker. Its shaft is the place of the elevation of spirits. Its chapter is the crowning of the work and the alliance of the Creator with the creature. That is why that this column holds the key of the secret vault, on which the Ark of the Covenant is placed and lodged within the Holy of Holies. Heavens: See ‘philosophical heavens,’ p. 13. Cyrus: Agent, p. 13. Creation of generations: Go∴ single will, p. 14. Everything was created in a single moment. The days we use are only philosophical days according to the V∴ S∴ Moses.

Charity: faith, hope, charity (ternary, p. 15). Heart: Center of life: fluid

head

generation

lower abdomen

life

heart

Ternary, p. 16; source of life, p. 17

Columns J∴ B∴: Their relationship with the Zodiac and the elements, p. 17. Philosophical Chaos: Adam, Eve (p. 19, 21). Philosophical elaboration: Vital spirit, p. 19. See above ‘elaboration’ for comments. chaos

confusion

black designated

confusion

elaboration

elaboration

explication

by the colours

white, yellow

p. 20, 21.

red

Circulation: Of emanations of the Eternal Trinity (hieroglyph), p. 20. Columns: The symbolic columns of a Masonic Lodge are in unity with the cubic stone, p. 20. Creator: United with the creature, p. 20.

Cross: square, level, plumb rule (p. 20, 21). Chaos: The chaos comprises the three principles and the four elements, p. 21. Philosophical Corruption: p. 21. See p. 2 and 6 of this Table. Philosophical Calcination: p. 21. See p. 6 of this Table. Philosophical Circulation: p. 21. See p. 7 of this Table. Philosophical Coagulation: p. 21. See p. 6 and 7 of this Table. Center: Came in within the center, p. 21. Chaos: Created by the philosophers, p. 21; that which is found within chaos, p. 22. Crow: Emblem of putrefaction, p. 22. Circulation: Menstrual water, p. 22. Chaos: The chaos must be studied, p. 22. Columns J∴ B∴: They contain the tools of the workers and the treasure for their wage, p. 24. It is the hieroglyphic explication of the two columns in the degree of Fellow Craft. These columns are agent and patient. Agent united with patient carries out generation.

Column J∴: Strength in God. See above under ‘column of strength,’ letter C and p. 12. Column Boo∴: Perseverance in the good. See above and p. 12. Cross: The cross has in itself the fermentative spirit, p. 12. See above ‘the cross carries out motion.’ Column J∴: Line of the plumb rule with the column J∴, p. 8. Column Boo∴ and Beauty: Male fire. It is related to its columns, p. 21. Chaos: Hyle. Nature is contained within chaos, p. 21. Chaos: It came out of Eternity, within which is contained: spirit life light and fire (p. 21). Corruption: Mystery of generation. See p. 15 of this table. Flesh, Blood: Word to come. Flesh, blood: See ibid., p. 18. [89] Ceration: p. 21. Ceration makes hard bodies fusible and molten. See letter D in the word ‘dissolution,’ p. 6.

Cross: Center of the cross. The Word (God the Son) is found on the center of the cross, p. 3. Corruption: Earth, first element of corruption. See ‘corruption,’ p. 2 of this table. Corruption: Calcination, Purification: See p. 6 of this table. Ceration: See p. 6 of this table. Crow and beak of the Crow: Emblem of putrefaction. See p. 7 of this table. Colors originated by putrefaction, p. 7 of this table. Key of Science: The Holy Spirit is its keeper as it is keeper of the Word, p. 13. Column of Beauty: Erected at the Holy of the Holies in the secret vault, p. 13. It is the union of the columns J∴ and B∴, p. 13. Body: body, soul, and spirit (explication of the universe and the stone, p. 10). Circumference: Sustained by pure spirits, p. 14. Column B∴ Column J∴

Visible virgin (ternary of the holy word in the degree of the Master, p. 24). Cross: Made up by the square, level and ruler, p. 8. Fellow Craft: He only knows the white stone, p. 10. Column Boo∴: Perseverance in the good, p. 12. The Fellow Craft Mason learns that this column designates perseverance in the good. Cross: Nature has suffered passion and death on the cross, p. 12. Cross: Inseparable union of the mother and the son, p. 13. Harmony: peace, union, and harmony (of nature p. 13). It is from these three things that the stone received: soul spirit and body (It is the cubic stone in its resurrection). Column of Beauty: Build up in the underground or secret vault under the Holy of the Holies of the Temple, p. 13. It is the union of the columns J∴ and B∴. Cross: The cross comprises the mystery of the four letters – I. N. R. I., p. 14. The mystery of the cross is stirred by the spirit of air in its circular motion in order to spread the fire of life. Cross: The cross is related to:

science justice redemption and sanctification (p. 14). Cross of Saint Andrew: It comprises the mystery of the four elements. See this table, p. 10. Column J∴: Water and earth. See this table, p. 11. Column B∴: Water and fire. See this table, p. 11. Columns: J∴ (moon) and B∴ (sun). See this table, p. 11. Chaos: The Spirit hovers over chaos. See ibid., p. 11. Three Columns: They sustain the Universal Temple or Vessel. See ibid., p. 11. Chymie: The Chymie is divine and human. See ibid., p. 11. Sky: sky

father Ibid., p. 12.

earth

mother

Concupiscence: Cause of generation, ibid., p. 12. Body: The stone has soul, spirit and body (See ibid., p. 12).

Purple Color: Emblem of the friendship. See p. 14 of this table. Charity: It has descended over nature. See ibid., p. 18. See the supplement of this table for continuation of this letter.

D God: He is the truth, p. 15. Divinity: Divinity is united with humankind, p. 1. God: He watches over the harmony of all things because everything which He has created reflects His glory, p. 1. Asking: seek, ask and knock (p. 3, 4). God: He cannot be known except by spirit and truth (p. 3). God the Son (Word): God has placed His compliance and affection on God the Son. He (God the Father) commands us to hear His Son. The Word is found over the center of the cross, p. 3. God: His divine plan is nature itself, p. 3. However, nature is not a plan. God: He is: spiritual invisible almighty

infinity eternal (p. 3.). God: One in trinity. He is represented by triangle, p. 4. Divine: divine, natural, artificial (three potency of God, p. 4). God: Great Architect of the Universe, p. 4. Soft: Soft, loose and hard (qualities of unity. See ‘aquatic,’ letter A, p. 5. Dissolution: It is made by the moist, p. 6, 21. It is one of the six methods for achieving the philosophical subtilization, to which circulation must be added. We will here give the explanation of these methods in order to help you interpret the hieroglyph of the eternal sun, p. 21. 1. Distillation, sublimation or elevation. 2. Calcination. 3. Dissolution. 4. Ceration or softening. 5. Putrefaction. 6. Sublimation. 7. Circulation. 8. Coagulation. 9. Multiplication. 10. Augmentation. 11. Green Lion. 12. Tincture (p. 21).

Concerning Distillation related to Sublimation

The philosophical distillation makes soft the heavy matter. Its purpose and utility is aimed at three different effects: 1. to purify the bodies by ridding them from coarseness by means of alteration; 2. to fill the philosophical subject with the heavenly influences which perpetually flow; 3. to release the earth, by means of this circulation, from the burden of a too heavy and superfluous humidity which overshadows of the natural spirits. The distillation is made by heat. Concerning Dissolution, p. 21. It is by dissolution that the philosophical art begins. We call dissolution the reduction of the bodies into water – this water is the argent vive41 of the wise. This dissolution is nothing else than the reduction of the first matter into sulfur and argent vive (in such a way that it does not turn into water).

The purpose of dissolution is dissolving the moist body into the nature of argent vive and to diminish the salinity of the sulfur. Dissolution is accomplished by fire because without it nothing can be made. It is this fire which: coagulates tinges and fixes. Finally, dissolution is accomplished by means of blood.

Since our intention is to teach those who wish to acquire the science of the philosophers, in order not to leave anything to be wanted about what is necessary to be known about dissolution, I will begin with the father and mother of the child, that is, by corruption and conception. Join the father with the mother — the father is not more united with the mother than when he dies on the field and on the field he overcomes the mother and carries her in his own body and, thus, the mother is amended. However, the father was born out of the mother because there is no

generation without her. And this is the reason why it is appropriate to unite together these two agents of nature, one which is red and the other white, in order to bring forth a child – a child who will be the son of science because he will contain his father and mother within. Observe that it is by a gentle, soft and moist fire of a nature of all things whose root is in earth and water are reduced into slime, dissolved and becomes liquid. And it is for this reason that earth becomes water when the quantity of water overcomes earth, that is to say, when moist overcomes dryness; and water becomes earth when the qualities of earth overcome water, that is to say, when dryness overcomes humidity. By the means of dissolution, we visibly see that dissolution of the body means coagulation of the spirit and that coagulation of the spirit means dissolution of the body. It necessarily follows from what we have just said that it is impossible to vivify the dead without killing the fixed. And it is for this [90] reason that the coagulation of one cannot be made without dissolution of the other, and reciprocally, dissolution of one cannot occur without coagulation of the other. coagulation, dissolution dissolution, coagulation (And this because the spirit cannot be fixed without dissolution of the body nor the body be dissolved without fixation of the spirit.) Dissolution of the body means fixation of the spirit. The body is dissolved and the spirit is fixed (These two operations are absolutely dependent on one another. It will not be difficult for you to

see from this, that the fixed cannot be united to the volatile without a dissolution that must necessarily precede its union. Hence, it follows that the philosophical matter must be liquefied and that this liquefaction is carried out only by dissolution. Note here that this liquefaction is nothing else than a melting of that which by itself is hard by means of fire and make solid bodies into liquids in order to fix the philosophical water, for philosophical fixation consist of making a thing that is naturally volatile proper and permanent into fire. It is easy to understand from everything I have said that the body only dissolves by coagulation of the spirit and in the same way coagulation of the spirit can only take place by dissolution of the body. coagulation of the spirit means dissolution of the body the spirit is coagulated and the body is dissolved (Therefore, dissolution of the spirit must serve to unite it with the body in such a way that one cannot be separated from the other. This union can solely be accomplished by them and only after both of them have been purified.) Be careful not to believe that dissolution and coagulation are two different things because nature carries out both these operations in one and the same moment. dissolution and coagulation (of one and another at the same time). In fact, I still have to address the subject of radical humor. This humor is spread throughout the three kingdoms. But what is this radical humor? It is

the potable gold of philosophers that we must seek relentlessly because it is the first matter. It is the soul of the cubic stone which is entirely solar and lunar. Pay close attention to the meaning of my words: this humor or radical humidity, which we call the soul of the stone, is triple, that is to say that each of its principles are equivalent to the same amount of keys contained into a single one so that we can open the door of science. Two of its first radical principles are simply superficial, but the third is essential both for the sun and the moon. Each of these three radical principles has its properties: 1. With the first humidity we calcine the perfect body to which nothing impure is added except that which we here call the green lion, named so because it provides the means to perfectly unite the tinctures between the sun and the moon. 2. The second is the vegetal humidity that revives death. There would be no natural dissolution without this second humidity. 3. The third principle is a permanent humidity: our philosophical potable gold our mercury our tincture our soul our stone raised with the wind, generated in the earth. This radical humidity is invisible by its nature, but it becomes visible within its second principle, that is, by means of the second humidity. In order to make this radical humid visible, it must be drawn from its invisibility. And to achieve it, we must calcine the philosophical subject,

that is to say, we must purify it because philosophical calcination is nothing more than a purification. Only after this purification, it is dissolved. Concerning Calcination (One of the six methods to achieve subtilization. See ‘distillation’ above, page 5)

Calcination must follow distillation because it is related to dissolution. Calcination is the restitution of the radical humor, in which the life of body and its essences are hidden, to the philosophical, ignited and rectified body. This way, the union of the spirit is what we call calcination. When speaking about dissolution we have said that there are three radical principles. The second principle is the vegetable humidity that revives the dead and by means of this principle the other two natural and formal ones must be dissolved. Therefore, it is natural to conclude that without this second radical principle, we cannot accomplish the true calcination that can reveal that which is hidden. Concerning Inceration

(One of the six methods to achieve subtilization)

Inceration is an operation that makes hard bodies into fusible and melting ones fit to have ingress. Thus, inceration is a philosophical softening, softening which is a necessary property to the philosophers. Concerning Coagulation

Coagulation is the congelation of the spirit with the body. Coagulation causes the male to act upon the female. Coagulation congeals water and earth.

Notice that the body is never dissolved except by means of coagulation, as we have said above in relation to dissolution. Concerning Putrefaction and Corruption

See the word ‘corruption’ above, letter C. You must know that earth is the main element of corruption: [91] in coldness and in dryness (it is a dominant quality in dryness). that corruption precedes generation; that the visible elements are susceptible to corruption; that nature is regenerated only by corruption. That is why there is no generation without corruption; that corruption is greater in passive things than in active ones; It is greater in:

water and earth (passive elements). It is smaller in: fire and air (active elements). cold moist

water: cold is dominant passive elements

cold earth: fire is dominant dry

hot fire: hot is dominant dry active elements hot air: moist is dominant moist Note and heed well: 1. that spiritual qualities are more excellent than corporal ones; 2. that humidity itself is the foundation of corruption and consequently of (natural) generation; 3. that humidity is the first element in generation and in (natural) corporal corruption;

4. that it is for this reason that humidity first receives the character of form by assimilating the natural spirits proceeding from this humidity; 5. that corruption is a base for life and vegetation; 6. that corruption dissolves the coarseness of matter and puts the germ in the capacity to act, extend and multiply itself. Concerning Putrefaction (one of the six methods to achieve subtilization) Putrefaction is manifested in blackness which we call: uncut Head of the Raven

Know that whiteness follows this darkness. This whiteness is philosophically indicated by the cut Head of the Raven and then the body is called whiteness. Philosophical putrefaction is nothing but mortification of the moist with the dry. water

moist

earth

dry

both of them mortified

that is putrefaction

This means that in the two passive elements we find the moist retained by the dry. That is why the moist and cold (water) run away from fire. Nevertheless, it is retained by the dryness of fire which cannot run away because heavy matters can only be elevated with help of light ones, and light matters cannot be stopped except by the union of the heavy ones which keep them. That is how alternately angels are demons and demons are angels. In a philosophical sense this means: the fixed (that is, demons) become volatile. the volatile (that is, angel) becomes fixed (Do not lose sight of this). Note: 1. that nature rejoices with nature; 2. that nature overcomes nature; 3. that nature contains nature; 4. that nature embraces nature. It is necessary to understand that this is related to sublimation, by which water is made air, though prior to that it is thickened and coagulated (with earth). Here, observe that by coagulation we mean the operation of reducing the aqueous substance into earth (see ‘coagulation’ above); and that putrefaction means recomposition of that which has already been coagulated, for putrefaction is only brought about by moistness and dryness, just as we have previously said: moist putrefaction dry

Observe that putrefaction is made by the fight of the three principles. As soon as putrefaction comes about, the mercury is fixed. It is then that nature makes all the colors of the rainbow appear. Observe that the imperial heaven is composed of incorruptible and perfect elements. In nature they are subject to putrefaction and this putrefaction is brought about by the serpent, that is, fire. Nature heated by solar fire is cooled at the same time with water and this until putrefaction is accomplished. Thus, it is easy to understand that putrefaction is only an alternate state of: hot and cold moist and dry. The bodies are dissolved by corruption. After that, a putrefaction is necessary for generation. This putrefaction is manifested, as we have said before, by blackness. However, this blackness must be followed by whiteness, a whiteness which shows that the spirits are becoming fixed. This whiteness is not accomplished until after the natural elements have been perfectly united together. Blackness, which is a sign of putrefaction, comes only from the action of the: moist with the dry (blackness). And whiteness is perfected only when the moist has been congealed by the dry: moist dry (are congealed – whiteness)

The colors that announce the fixation of the spirits come from a tempered heat that continuously operates and stirs the matter and profoundly changes it both: internally and externally; Here, I will conclude by stating: that putrefaction of matter is accomplished by blackness; that, afterwards, the matter goes through white and from white to yellow; that it subsequently turns red; that it is only at that point that it can be multiplied; and this is enclosed in: confusion elaboration and explanation (of the universe (See p. 20); Concerning Sublimation (one of the six methods to achieve subtilization) Sublimation is inseparably related to distillation of which we have previously spoken. spirits are lowered by distillation; and, afterwards, they are raised by sublimation; the former makes demons; the latter makes angels; and angels are nothing more than the release of the subtle from the coarse. Summary P>

from all we have just said. It follows from all that we have just said: 1. that distillation subtilizes the higher elements; 2. that calcination, dissolution, inceration subtilize the lower elements; 3. that putrefaction and sublimation subtilize both of them – higher and lower elements. Concerning Circulation

It is necessary to add circulation to all that has been mentioned above, [92] circulation by which the liquors, by means of a rotation or by its constant rise and fall, are subtilized to such an extent that they become the amplitude of the matter within the radical spirit. It is by circulation that water is converted into air, when hot has overcome cold.

Circulation is so indispensable that it is impossible to reach a perfect dissolution of the philosophical matter without it – it is not enough that the coarse parts are divided, they must still be subtilized. And to achieve this subtilization as prerequisite for corruption and generation of matter, circulation is absolutely indispensable. Note that life is nothing more than a flux of natural fire within living bodies. The heavenly bodies that exist in the heaven, by attracting it as their sustenance, send their rays or influences to the philosophical earth, and so that this effluence of virtues can not diminish, in return they attract (these rays) as many purified elements from the earth as they send it. This is how circulation of nature works. Concerning Multiplication and Augmentation, which are accomplished by circulation of the Elements

augmentation

multiplication

Do not confuse augmentation with multiplication. Multiplication is carried out after the first sowing of the multiplied seed. But the simple augmentation of the germ is made before the multiplication of the seed. That is why you will know that before the multiplication of beings of each species, the seed has sprouted previously, that it has abounded and that it has been augmented in its parts, that it has produced cobs, umbels and bunches (from which the flowers are born); that flowers generate seeds and fruits (which after having been generated are maturated by heat); Note that the great number of seeds that a single seed in potential contains is generated through a mere single grain and until that it must be called augmentation of the seed. But if you sow the seeds from this single seed after it has attained maturity; if you remove them from their husks, if you separate the straw and the leaves and finally, if you sow them again and rule them by the same degree of heat as that of the first sowing – the degree in which the seeds were set in motion by the same nature so that they are finally harvested – if you wait until the maturity of these new seeds, then this is what must be called augmentation. These operations are carried out by fire and water, which are the only instruments of nature — which we symbolize by the two columns J∴ and B∴ which enclose the Masonic tools and the treasure to pay the workmen. These wages is found in augmentation and multiplication of the fruits that the Mason draws from his philosophical works. This is why we say that the Mason who wants to pass from column J∴ to column B∴, require a raise in wages, and so on, from grade to grade, until he has reached the last degree of his work.

Thus, nature fertilizes the generations by means of a gentle heat and by a proper rain formed by the rise of clouds. O man insensitive to the benefits of Providence, return to your God and thank Him, for He has prepared your field, He has cultivated it and made it produce this wheat for your sustenance and loaded the vine with grapes for your drink. Examine what is happening in nature: you will see that these flowers manifest the species of each seed. This is reason why the redness of the cubic stone looks like a flower announcing a metal to come. Understand this well and do not fall into the errors of sophists. The multiplication of the cubic stone is related to the multiplication of its virtues and its virtues are obtained from the metallic sea, in which the secrets of the philosophers are hidden. There is only one celestial virtue that can give the stone all the virtues which it is destined to possess ever since its origin and even before its origin, and which can multiply these same virtues. Listen carefully to what I am going to say to you. Do not take my instruction to the letter but seek to penetrate what I will say to you. I will explain myself as clearly as possible in addressing the subject of the tincture. Concerning the Tincture to the White and to the Red There are two tinctures within the cubic stone which have the same property:

White Tincture

Red Tincture

Moon

Sun

One is red — it is the solar tincture. The other is white — it is the lunar tincture. These two tinctures are called Elixirs. These Elixirs are the key to the science of the philosophers which the Masons must seek. Here, observe that what we understand by whitening and reddening, is the same thing and the same operation as calcining and dissolving; that what we understand by: assembling is congealing, composing is gathering the compound, roasting is drying up, roasting is still employed for congelation. This is why we must pay close attention to the contrarieties that are found in the written word. According to what we have just said:

distilling sublimating and dissolving (is the same thing as bringing down the matter from heaven to earth). that dissolving in water is the same thing as bringing down; that sublimating is making the volatile fixed; that dissolving again by itself is the same as making the fixed dissolve; that coagulating the dissolved is the same as calcinating the dissolved by itself; that finally this calcination is the same thing as whitening and reddening (the perfect). Observe that all these things, although different from one another, are all prone: to a same intention to a same doctrine and a same end (which is to lead the artist to a dealbation). The Elixir is the soul of all things. It is by means by which vegetation: lives grows sprouts and is multiplied (and this is the product of vegetations where like produces its like). It is by this tincture (or Elixir) that the stone, when nearing its birth, is illuminated with a metallic brightness with which it is adorned

fed and allows it to grow up within great power (and to produce its like in minerals). This tincture is actually the Oil of the Philosophers and this oil is nothing but a Radical Humor. This oil strengthens due to its aqueous substance. It has the power: to vivify to perpetuate and to confirm (It is the origin of all perfection). It purges and purifies (the imperfect ones are transmuted into gold and philosophical silver — it is for this reason that it is called Universal Medicine). Concerning Purification We have just said that the tincture purified and depurated the imperfect metals. We believe it is appropriate here to give an idea of the purification which is accomplished by distillation.

The purification that is accomplished by distillation separates the good spirits from the [93] evil ones (and, in accordance with what we have mentioned before when speaking about distillation and sublimation) in order to subtilize the coarseness and to reach the whitening and reddening of the philosophical water. However, it is to achieve this purpose that nature: sublimates precipitates distills calcines dissolves congeals fixes and inceres. Please note that this water, during its mortification, causes the black color to appear when it is converted to earth, but the separating spirit (philosophical mercury) divides the good spirits from the evil ones, conducting the good ones to its right and precipitating the evil spirits in the abyss of burning fire, in the lowest part of the vessel. It is at this moment that a variety of colors can be seen that all end in whiteness, and at last, after several variations, redness arises, and that color is the end of perfection. Thus, sublimation is the elevation and precipitation of matter in the eleven heavens. On account of this, distillation must necessarily follow putrefaction. Concerning the Green Lion

The philosophical green lion is the means of perfect union of the tinctures between the sun and the moon. See this table, p. 6. The green lion is considered to be blood menses. The blood of the red lion is nothing but the sulfur of the sun and the red lion is the mercury of the sun. This is the first matter which reduces metals to the first seed from which they were generated. Dissolution: See above, p. 5 of this table and p. 2 in the word ‘corruption,’ letter C; p. 6 of our first chapter, p. 21 of the same. Dissolution: The crude stone is dissolved, p. 6. God, name of: Letter G, initial of one of the names of God, p. 7. Breaking of our actions: Symbolized by the square, p. 8; righteousness justice (square, page 8). Descension of the spirits: p. 9. See ‘ascension,’ letter A. Dissolution: death

dissolution and putrefaction (three things known only in the degree of Master, pp. 10, 16 – See this table, p. 5, 7; see the same under the word ‘corruption,’ letter C, p. 2). Direction: Direction and distribution (of the universe): direction constitution distribution and assembling (of the universe, p. 10). Demons, angels: p. 13. See ‘putrefaction,’ p. 7 of this table. Decomposition: putrefaction and decomposition: p. 16. God: First Being, p. 18. God: Three Persons came out of the Center in order to re-enter the Center, p. 21. Distillation: p. 21. See this table, p. 5. God: Of God and of nature, p. 23. Dissolution: It is made by corruption: corruption, dissolution (See this table, p. 2 in the word ‘corruption,’ letter C). Dissolving: calcining

purifying and dissolving (See our table in the word ‘dissolution,’ letter D, p. 6). Dissolution: See p. 6, letter D in the word ‘dissolution.’ Distillation: distillation, sublimation (See this table, p. 7). Distillation: Purification is carried out by distillation: distillation purification (See this table, p. 8). God: He is called ‘Joachim.’ See the reason why on p. 24. God: Mankind must always seek God. See this table, p. 8. Distillation: Of elements generating metals. See this table, p. 10. Distillation: By fire; air came out from distillation. See ibid., p. 11. God: Is united to the matter by the tangent line because the tangent line is everywhere. See ibid., p. 18. God: Has blessed nature and filled it with His glory and this is the dedication of the universal temple which is found in the Temple of Solomon. See this table, p. 19. Distillation: Sublimation. See ibid. in the word ‘distillation,’ letter D, p. 5. See ibid., p, 9, 21.

God: The knowledge of God lies in the ternary. We must therefore study the ternary if we want to know the divine Trinity. See this table, p. 26, 27. Destruction: generation conservation and destruction (three accidents in nature which are related to birth, life and death. See ibid., p. 27). Dissolution: dissolution corruption and putrefaction (See ibid., p. 22).

God Mercury: God´s messenger. See ibid., p. 33. God and man: They comprise the ternary. See ibid., p. 36. Descent of the spirits: See ibid., p. 39. Dissolution: dissolution sublimation and putrefaction (three things which follow each other. See ibid., p. 9).

God: Hidden in His Holy Name. His unique essence is contained in His Name. This essence is:

heavenly terrestrial and natural God (ibid., p. 44). God: In the center of His essence. See ibid., p. 44. Discretion, Silence: The way of the wise. See ibid., p. 44. God: In nature, takes the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. See the discourse of our Alchemy, p. II. God: Is triple in essence, ibid., P. III. Masonic Discretion: See ibid., P. IV. God: Principle of life, ibid., P. IV. E Space: time, space and motion (the Ternary is in unity, pp. 1 and 15. See also p. 5, P. 1, 2, 3. They are three uncreated beings, p. 2. Space is measured by time, p. 2). Space: Space is the container, p. 2. Eternity: space time

one does not exist without the other infinity is the proof of Eternity space motion Thickness: One of the three dimensions of a solid body: length, width, height or thickness (page 12). Spirit: soul, spirit and body (See pp. 2, 3. See the Art of Reasoning in our Physics, pp. 19, 20, 26 and its table in the word ‘number 3,’ letter N. Holy Spirit: Operator, p. 2. Holy Spirit: The Trinity is the school of the Holy Spirit, p. 2. School of the Holy Spirit: Is the Ternary, p. 2. Spirit, Truth: God can only be known in spirit and truth, p. 3. Holy Spirit: Principle of motion and life, consequently our hope dwells in Him, p. 3. Hope: Contained in motion and life (pp. 3, 4). Hope: Draws charity towards faith (p.3) as an intermediate virtue and as a proceeding: charity

hope

faith

hope

faith

charity

faith

charity

hope

This permutation shows us the unity of these three virtues. See our table in the word ‘charity,’ letter C. Hope: faith, hope and charity (p.3). Spirit: Father, Son and Holy Spirit (pp. 2, 3). Eternal: God is eternal, spiritual and invisible Holy Spirit. See the present table in the word ‘God is spiritual Being,’ letter D, p. 5. Water of the Sun, Mercury: Universal matter, p. 7. [94] Elements: Four elements came out of the Ternary, pp. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 ... 11, 12, 14, 16. Elements: Came out of the three beginnings. See our Geometry, pp. 6, 22, 7. Its foundation in the tincture. See our Geometry, p. 6. Its abode in the Zodiac. See our Geometry, p. 7. Its combinations are preserved in the tincture. See ibid., p. 7. They are related to the 4 letters of the name of God and the numbers 3∴ 5∴ 7∴ and 9∴. See ibid., p. 15. 3 constituent elements — Fire, Water and Air. See our Geometry, p. 21. There are 16 in its philosophical combinations. See ibid., pp. 16, 17. The unique element is in the center. See ibid., p. 9.

Elements. See the table of our Geometry in the word ‘microcosm,’ letter M. Two are light and two are heavy. See our Geometry, p. 17. They are spiritual and maintainer of all things. See the table of our Geometry, in the word ‘microcosm,’ letter M; and the word ‘generation,’ letter G. They are visible and invisible. See the table of our Geometry in the word ‘generation,’ letter G. Elements, life, primitive tincture. See the table of our Geometry in the word ‘sperm,’ letter S. They have its motion due to Hidden Beings. See the Art of Reasoning in our Physics, p. 16; these Beings are philosophical ones and they are related to the unique cause which is God, for God is the Father of the elements as we have said (pp.15, 20) in the Art of Reasoning in our Physics. Elements: First matter. See ibid., p. 16. Its opposites generate corruption p. 17. See our Geometry pp. 11, 12. See also the table of our Geometry in the word ‘sperm,’ letter S. Elements: Its qualities, pp. 8, 11, 17, 20, 23. See the Art of Reasoning in our Physics. See also the table of our Physics in the word ‘elements,’ under the letter E which brings us back to our Geometry. They have their places, p.17 of the Art of Reasoning in our Physics. Notice, even though its places are designed, they are in unity everywhere. Its motion is direct. See ibid., p. 17. They are heavy and light. See ibid., p. 17, 29. They have double qualities — active and passive. See ibid., p. 17. They are the instruments of nature. See ibid., p. 20.

They came out of the thinking of God. See ibid., p. 20. Its different relationships, ibid., p. 20. See the table of the Art of Reasoning in our Physics in the word ‘elements,’ letter E. The elements appear to sight only when the matter receives its form. See the Art of Reasoning in our Physics, p. 22. They are only seen during its corporalization, that is to say, in its commixtion. See ibid., p. 22. They join themselves with voluptuousness in nature. See ibid., p. 23. Its nobility. See ibid., p. 24.Earth is less noble than water – water is less noble than air. Air is less noble than the sky – sky, fire is the noblest of all. Elements: Its spirits receive life from fire. See ibid., p. 24. They proceed from the center of the cross. See ibid., p. 24. They are simple bodies. See ibid., p. 28. Its qualities are: hot cold moist and dry They are contained in the cubic stone, a stone which has both sexes in it. See ibid., p. 29. They are the primary generating principles. See ibid., p. 29. They never rest. See ibid., p. 29. Its distillation produces the metals. See ibid., p. 29. They generate seeds. See ibid., p. 29. Their homogeneity makes the heaven firm and incorruptible. See the table of the Art of Reasoning in our Physics, in the word ‘heaven,’ letter H.

They came out of three principles. See the table of Reasoning in our Physics, ‘number 4,’ letter N. Elements: Sixteen philosophical elements. See the present table, p. 18. Elements, the: The elements are enclosed in the columns J∴ and B∴. See p. 6. Elements: Are enclosed in the cubic stone, p. 6. Female elements: cold, moist (p. 6). Male elements: hot, dry (p. 6). Elements: There are four elements in the generations, p. 6. Elements: It relates to the four cardinal virtues and the four humors of humans, p. 8. Elements: Four elementary points, p. 9. Elements, the: Are triple and quadruple, pp. 9, 18, 23. fire

air

water

air

water

fire

water

fire

air

Elements: Three Beings, p. 18.

These are the trinity of the constituent elements

Incorruptible heavenly elements: See p. 7 of this table. Elements: Sixteen philosophical elements, p. 9. Active/agent elements: fire, air (p.10, 17). Passive/patient elements: water, earth (p.10, 17). Elements: earth, air, water (into opposition, p. 12). Elements: four came forth from the Ternary, p. 16, 23. Elements: Its relationship with the four columns J∴ S∴ Boo∴ and B∴, p. 17. Elements: Four which are related to the two columns J∴ and Boo∴, p. 20. Elements: Its changes, p. 22. earth is changed into water water is changed into air air is changed into fire The four elements are related to the four solar trees, p. 14.

We have given the explanation of the four columns (p.20) which are placed within the interior of a symbolic lodge, and of their relationship with the four elements. We will here give a permutation of these elements in order to come to an interpretation of the cross which in the Scottish´s degree is designated as Saint Andrew´s cross. But first it is convenient to give an idea of the principle of the form of the cross of this order. The hypotenuse of the right triangle, in its mysterious proportions, is only a double radius or the diameter of the circle in which this triangle is contained. See our Geometry, p. 9. This diameter is the hypotenuse or the largest side of the triangle which supports the right angle and its measures is a quarter of the circumference. See our Geometry, pp. 5, 9. In accordance with the proportions of the right triangle, if the length of the hypotenuse line has a determined measure of 5, so the length of the smaller parts of the sides of the triangle42 and which form the right angle, will be 3 and 4. This way the length of the hypotenuse will be five. See ibid., p. 9. This number five is related to the polygon – third plane figure originated and born from triangle and quadrilateral. This line is the symbol of the Holy Spirit to whom belongs the number 5 because it is the fifth element or, to put it better, the unique element. We represent this fifth element by the flaming star with five points in the center of which is the letter G, which here means ‘generation,’ fruit of the covenant of the Eternal God and conceived by His Spirit in the bosom of His wisdom.

The proportions of the square, according to the numbers 3 and 4, determine the proportions of the long square which necessarily forms the shape of a lodge because a lodge is an emblem of nature. See our Geometry, p. 17. [95] The division of the hypotenuse determines 12 pentagons which are related to the 12 signs of the Zodiac, the Zodiac in which encompasses all universal Energy. See our Geometry, p. 23. The five-pointed star is the symbol of the Radical Spirit that preceded everything. See p.19 of our Alchemy. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God. He is everywhere without being in any particular place. He is the one Who gives life. See the Art of Reasoning in our Physics, p. 16, 18. The Holy Spirit is the faithful Guardian of the key of the vault in which the Ternary is contained. We have said (pp. 6, 7, 20) in our present chapter that column J∴ contains the elements earth and water (column J∴); and that column B∴ contains fire and air (column B∴). We have put these four elements between these columns (p. 20) in order to denote its marriage and its voluptuous union to effect the generation of the stone. Notice that the column J∴ is the place where we find our crude stone in the degree of the Apprentice. This stone represents chaos. See our Geometry, p. 10.

It is from this stone that the visible elements and its invisible spirits proceed. And these spirits as such are related to the first cause of existence and all beings. We have said (pp. 6, 7, 20) in our present chapter that columns J∴ and B∴ are related to water and fire and they are related to the sun and the moon. And this in order to show that the father came out of the mother, that is to say, fire came out of water. However, fire is nobler than water because it has become the first quality, that is, agent, and water has not changed its quality of patient. Even air, which takes its principle from water, is nobler than water, but air is a little less noble than fire. However, water is nobler than earth, though it is earth changed into water. fire came out of water (mixed with earth) these are volatile water changed into air

earth changed into water these are fixed elements and earth In line with what we have said, it follows that water came out of earth — this separation is brought about by the Spirit who divides and unites. By means of this separation, water is in the column Boo∴, in which we have placed fire (pp. 6, 7, 20 of this chapter). This fire is released from water and rose in the upper part within column Boo∴ where we placed air, pp. 6, 7, 20.

Air, formed in the column J∴ wherein water is found (pp. 6, 7, 20), rose in the column F∴ wherein we have put earth (pp. 6, 7, 20). We have put water in column J∴ (p. 23) so that the two agents, which were located in the north and the south (pp. 6, 7, 20) by a quarter of conversion, were put in the East and the West — the fixed elements in the West and the volatile elements in the East. The two hypotenuses or diameters of the long square as well as the four sides that represent four squares and four compasses in unity, fix in its angles the four visible elements by way of proportional distances. This means that they fix the four visible elements with exact proportion in the four parts of the universe in which the spirits are spread, so that there is no opposition in them. These two hypotenuses form a cross of Saint Andrew that operates the junction of the elements. These two lines that move from the center of one column towards the other along with those lines horizontally and vertically drawn from the center of one column to the other, give three lines which intersect in each center. We must understand that each element in spirit contains three others, as is shown in the figure above. Col∴ J∴: Earth – it receives in it fire by the hypotenuse, water by the line of the base and air by its longest side (column J∴ — four elements). Col∴ Boo∴: Water – it receives in it air by the hypotenuse, earth by the line of the base and fire by its height (column Boo∴ — four elements). Col∴ B∴: Fire – it receives in it earth by the hypotenuse, air by the superior side and water by its height (column B∴ — four elements).

Col∴ F∴: Air – it receives in it water by the hypotenuse, fire by the superior side and earth by its height (column F∴ — four elements). In order to consider well this cross of Saint Andrew, it is seen that the elements attract each other by its respective qualities and this is accomplished by the Spirit, who detains the center of the three principles — the only one that holds the key of the great mystery of our philosophical elements. Since the three principles from which our elements originated are in our cubic stone, our three constitutive elements will be in unity with them and will form the three columns of balance of the universe, in the center of which is the pit of the abyss that encloses the great mystery of the philosophical chaos which we have said to be symbolized by the column J∴ and by the crude stone. We have placed flames of fire on the col∴ of fire and air, which become… [missing part] and we have lodged the columns of fire, of water and of air (earth, water, air, fire everywhere)43 along the circumference, which is a symbol of the universe and of that which they are the sustentation. We also have set a cubic stone with a symbolic color of our potable gold, that is, of our humid radical, in each column as being the Spirit of the elemental spirits and the Spirit of the cause that resides within the stone. In the center of these columns, which also is the center of the ternary of the three principles and of the cross of Saint Andrew, we have outlined the symbol of the pit of the philosophical abyss, for which the Holy Spirit is the single Guardian of the key and Whom we have symbolized as a key of gold attached to the center of the pit as being His ring.

It is this pit that we must enter if we want to come into the possession of the delta. It is this falling that we symbolize in the Scottish degree, French Rite. Since this cross of Saint Andrew gives us each element in a quadruple form, it follows that each one of them must have its own cross, which gives five crosses including that of the center. This number belongs to the Holy Spirit and reveals to us the four elementary crosses while retaining the fifth, which contains the spirits of the elements that are invisible and yet visible within each of them. I say visible in form, for these spirits are the cause of form, even though the cause that separates the elements and reunites them again is hidden. Continuation of our Subject We have seen (p. 23) that the column J∴ contained water and earth and the column Boo∴ fire and water. We also have seen that when these two columns are reunited, they marry the four elements in the center (p. 24). We have placed the following on each of these columns: moon on the column J∴ sun on the column Boo∴ and the triangle on the middle collumn, representing the ternary from which the elements (spirit) are born. Pay attention to the fact that the col∴ Boo∴ (p. 23) contains the subtle elements: fire and air which gives form and tincture While the col∴ J∴ contains the other two fixed elements: water and earth which give matter which requires form and tincture and earth

If we return to the figure (p. 10) above of the present table, we will find earth and water divided and holding the places of the columns J∴ and Boo∴. However, despite their separation, they remain in unity, except by this difference: they are not, in this moment, the subtle, active and elemental agents, qualities which are related to the col∴ F∴ and B∴ at the top of the square and which are likewise in unity, although divided – for if they were not in unity they could not give form to matter. The two diagonals or hypotenuses of the square, which form the cross of Saint Andrew, unite the elements in the center where chaos is. It is above this chaos that the Holy Spirit hovers. This Spirit divides them to reunite them again in its essential quality. It is the key to the potable gold of the philosophers. The tincture is composed of: air and fire philosophical gold and silver. Or, if you wish, of sun and moon to which they are related (p. 24). Air is subtilized water, having the same nature of fire and being the nourishment of fire because without air, fire would have no action. Its union is: hot, moist (qualities of the tincture and the only ones that can give shape to our cubic stone). Water is the substance of air. Air is the fruit of the distillation effected by fire, which makes air entirely spiritual proceeding from water by the heat of

the body of fire because fire is body and air is spirit (and air bears fire). The three cubic stones found on the three columns (p. 10) above: of fire of air of water (are in ternary unity because: the col∴ of water has in it air and fire [Beauty]; the col∴ of fire has in it water and air [J∴]; the col∴ of air has in it water and fire [Boo∴]). And this is what makes these three columns keepers of the great vessel in which all the operations of divine alchemy are conducted and are hidden and visible nature. [96] Air proceeded from the column of water by virtue of the column of fire. Fire proceeded from the column of air by agitation of this element. And all of this in order to give, as we have previously said: the form and the tincture (to the matter, which is water and earth). It should be noted here that the tincture is manifested in two ways: white and red. As fire came out of air and air came out of water, so fire and air came out of water. Fire came out of water by agitation of air and air came out of water by a distillation effected by fire. Before being manifested, the tincture of fire or philosophical sun lies in potential in water or in our philosophical moon, which is the white tincture – a tincture in which fire is not comprised, although fire dwells in potential in its interior. Fire wants to be manifested and it is manifested by the yellow

color which appears on the crudity of the white tincture, which is the color of the Spirit and which rules the manifestation of the fire. earth has its wheel; water has its wheel; air has its wheel (it is by the circulation and the rotation of these three wheels that the white tincture is made); fire has its wheel and it is this fourth wheel that operates the red tincture. The operation of the first wheel, which is that of earth, draws the water out of this element that submerges it. By means of the operation of the second wheel, air comes out of water. By means of the operation of the third wheel, fire comes out of air. By means of the fourth wheel, fire is formed by the operation of the Spirit. After the cubic stone has received its form, the Holy Spirit in unity with fire that infuses the soul within it, that is to say, the perfect tincture. Only at that point the stone contains, in its form, by the operation of the Spirit: a soul a spirit and a body (And this is the great mystery of the four wheels, the cart of the Ark of the Covenant and the ternary oracle which descends between the two cherubim on the propitiatory). Our matter has received form and life – the soul – by virtue of the red tincture drawn out by the yellow color. It came out of Hyle or the pit of abyss, bright, glorious and capable of transmuting its virtue. And all this is, as we have already said, the fruit of the humid radical, with which it is profusely filled because in it all is sun and mercury.

The figure above is the great mystery of the four wheels and the cart of the Ark of the Covenant. The cubic stone lies in its perfect tincture on the Ark and it receives the soul through the Spirit in order to accomplish the ternary oracle represented by a radiating triangle. The 12 signs of the Zodiac that surround the Ark and the oracle represent the 12 oxen harnessed to the cart.

The V∴ S∴ Moses begins his work of creation saying: ‘In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.’ After this, he continues the order that he put in his senary, a subject that we will address in due time. For now, we will stop here with these two words ‘heavens’ and ‘earth.’

Heaven is the great philosophical vessel of Divinity. Earth is the matrix of the principles and elements. Heaven must therefore be regarded as the father and the earth as the mother. Pay close attention to what I am going to tell you and do not ignore my words. I am going to talk to you about water of mud – this vile and valueless matter and, nevertheless, of a very great price for the perfection of our cubic stone since it is this mud it stems from and as such it is the most perfect metal, the true gold of all philosophers. In order to make you understand the great price of this vile earth composed of water and earth, consider that when it is exalted it becomes of the same nature of spirits.

If we join an agent to this earth and to this water, which are both passive, the agent will take all the virtues of earth and water. And since these virtues can only be produced by water, therefore water necessarily is the first matter that contains in it the elements earth, fire, air. earth fire air (water) Thus, we must understand that everything in nature is composed by virtue of these four elements – since water is the first matter, everything is born and everything grows by virtue of water. This must not be difficult to grasp. I repeat to you that when I talk about the elements, or the sun and the moon, or sulfur, salt and mercury, or any other thing, it is only in a philosophical sense because if you wanted to carry out your alchemical operations with common things, you would accomplish nothing at all except a waste of your time. Air is generated from water into which earth is dissolved and earth is generated from fire. The first matter is the metallic quintessence and this quintessence is in the four pure elements. In order to find this quintessence, we must take great care to add species to species and gender to gender, not one without the other. Just as heaven and earth are male and female, so also everything is engendered and generates male and female. It is by means of the action of the male and the passion of the female in its desires of concupiscence that generation is made.

But how can the separation of the elements be achieved? If you have paid attention to everything I have previously said, it will be easy for you to know how this separation is made in your work. One of the main operations of our philosophical work is the putrefaction that follows the separation of the elements. And this is the origin of this separation: fire air (being a component of the lighter elements like ether) water and earth (being a component of the heaviest elements which are retained in the lower part of the vessel, for they have no motion). Fire receives life only from air. Air receives its favorable influences only from fire. It is for this reason that these two elements are intimately linked and joined together as if by marriage.

Marriage of fire and air

Earth would be barren without water and water would have no philosophical vase without earth. It follows that our column Boo∴ would not exist without the column J∴, even if we consider the column J∴ as enclosing earth and water or as being the symbol of earth alone since water, which is related to the column B∴ as we have said above, came out of it. Likewise the column Boo∴, comprising fire and air, would not exist without the column J∴ since it contains water and earth as a matrix of the two light elements. The passive elements, since they have not any motion, are not useful for generation. Thus, they must be joined with the active elements. [97] We must add fire to earth and air to water, thus by means of this double marriage the passive elements will gain vigor. Pay attention that this double marriage in fact is only one, which is the agent comprised by the elements fire and air and the patient comprised by the elements earth and water.

This is the marriage of the active elements with the passive ones Please note again that the union of fire with earth and that of air with water put alternative desires in these elements into motion: the passive elements sometimes are taken away by the active ones and sometimes the active ones are driven by the passive ones in the bottom of the vessel. And this is because the spirits enclosed in the passive elements volatilize and force these same fixed elements to rise, and according to that, everything seeks its own: water joins with water fire with fire air with air and earth with earth. And the spirits of its elements dominate one another, and sometimes the lower spirits subdue the superiors, and, likewise, the superiors defeat the inferior ones, so that by this alternation of power all things may be maintained, for so the elements are counterbalanced. Holy Spirit: It is the Holy Spirit Who has given us the gift of the life that proceeds from the truth and from the way which must lead us to the same truth again, p. 3. See our Geometry, p. 11, 12, 20; See the Art of Reasoning in our Physics, p. 11, 19, 25, 18; See ibid., ‘God is found on the radius,’ p. 9; See the Table of our Geometry in the word ‘confusion,’ letter C; See the Art of Reasoning in our Physics (God, principle of life, p. 16);

See ibid., ‘fire gives life,’ p. 23; See ibid., ‘flaming star, star of life,’ p. 23; See ibid., ‘life within sun,’ p. 25. Holy Spirit: He covered the visible virgin with His shadow and nature was created: in time in space in eternity (p. 4: the visible virgin of nature covered by the shadow of the Holy Spirit, that is to say, by the spirit of motion) Spirit: In the matrix of the spirit. visible matrix

body

invisible matrix

soul

matrix of the spirit

spirit (p. 4)

Holy Spirit: Seed of the seeds, p. 4. Spirit: It gives life to matter. Matter would be dead without spirit, p. 5. Spirit: The good spirits are separated from the evil ones, p. 9. angels

volatiles

rising

ascension

demons

fixes

falling

descension

Holy Spirit: It purifies the cubic stone, p. 9. Spirit of Life: It is found at the center of the cross in order to give life, p. 9.

Holy Spirit: Elaboration of the universe, dawn, p. 10. Spirit in the Stone: The explication of the universe reveals: soul spirit body (p. 10) Spirit: soul

the essence

spirit

the existence

body

the consistence

in the constitution of the universe, p. 10, 20.

Essence: Essence, existence and consistence of the universe, p. 10, 20. See ‘spirit’ above, letter C of this present table, p. 3. Spirit: The spirit draws out the soul, p. 11. Fermentative spirit: See ‘motion of the cross,’ letter C, p. 2, 4 of this present table (p. 3 to 12 of this First Chapter). Holy Spirit: It is represented by Galahad, a Levite guardian of the secret vault, p. 13. Holy Spirit: Possessor and Guardian of the key of science, p. 13. Spirits: The spirits are drawn from the fire of hell. its elevation and its descension (p. 13)

Spirits of the Stone: The spirit of the stone is represented by God´s people, p. 13. [98] Spirits: The spirits pass from the fire of hell to the waters of corruption, p. 14. They rise in the unity of the three principles. Fixed spirits: End of the work, p. 14. Spirits: The pure spirits sustain the great circumference of generations, p. 14. Spirits: Father, Son, Holy Spirit (Ternary within time, p. 18). Holy Spirit: He gives life because He is the radical principle, p. 21. Holy Spirit: He hovers over the waters, p. 21. Radical Spirit: He is represented by the five-pointed star, p. 9. See p. 11 of this present table. Holy Spirit: He is not contained within any place. He is everywhere. He is the One Who gives life, p. 11 of our present table. See p. 16, 18 of the Art of Reasoning in our Physics. He is guardian of the key of the ternary, p. 11 of this present table. Spirit: It divides and gathers, p. 11 of this present table.

Radical Spirit: Spirit of the elements, p. 11 of this present table. It is the spirit of the cause and this cause is hidden, p. 11 ibid. Holy Spirit: He hovers over the chaos, p. 11 of this present table. Spirit: He gives life, p. 21. Spirit of Air: Principle of circular motion of the cross so that it spread the fire of life. It is the mystery of the 4 letters I. N. R. I., p. 14. Commentary Everything is made or composed by the Holy Spirit. Earth cannot generate anything without water. Without water, the seeds would stay in their matrices and they would be dead within their common matrice, which is the earth that contains the elements water, air and fire in it. Water alone could not make them germinate by its irrigation. It has the power to make germs leave their matrices but it also needs the elements earth, fire and air since it is through air that it came out of earth by exalting fire in the upper region. Therefore, this element would lead only to corruption if it did not contain the heat of fire and the agitation of air in it. Fire alone, instead of giving a fructifying warmth, could burn and consume everything in the earth if it had not come out of it. And it came out of it by means of water which gave it its coldness. Finally, it could not come out of water except by means of air which provides the humid nourishment.

Air would not have any power to act if it was not itself stirred by a hidden cause. It would not have virtue if it did not contain within itself the influences of fire and if it would not have left the element earth as its vessel without water. Finally, all the elements would be inoperative without the spirit of the primal cause that gave each of them their particular spirit, for the elements are dead without the spirit. And since all the elements came out of water by the Holy Spirit, that is the reason why the V∴ S∴ Moses, at the initiation of the ancient philosophers, tells us that the Holy Spirit hovered over the surface of the waters which covered the chaotic abyss. Note that the waters over which the Holy Spirit hovered are our philosophical waters, the spiritual waters that gave origin to the visible elements containing their spirits within them. This is the reason why we say that the corporal elements are each in their place, but that their spirits (which are the invisible elements) are everywhere. And it is the spirituality of these elements that we should use, not the corporal ones, for although we could make clay and want to extract the elements out of this clay, however we could not reach our goal – for the spiritual elements would still be lacking. This is the reason why we can only work through imagination. And since we can not penetrate what we imagine, we are obliged to resort to all visible means of writing. These means of writing must be rejected, but the underlying spirit must be maintained. In this way, we should not take literally all that the wise men said, but discover the meaning behind the words, for they used vulgar means to instruct us. This search must be our concern. If we succeed in finding the true path of the straight line that is

taught to us by means of parables, then we can delight in the happiness of possessing the key of science, the key to this mysterious water from which everything is generated in accordance to its species. Created Beings: magnitude, situation, motion (of the created beings, p. 3) Square: The square sets everything in accordance with its proportional measures, p. 8. Square: level, square, plumb rule (in unity and as such we find them in the cross which, by its motion, gives a perfect equality between the elements, p. 9). Equality: Between the elements, p. 9. It is the wheel of the hidden worker, p. 9.44 See this present table in the word ‘cone,’ letter C. [99] Holy Spirit: He possesses the key of the gates of science. See our Geometry, p. 13. He proceeds from everything. See ibid., p. 15. He manifests the wrath of God. He makes: voice sounds and noises (See ibid.) Commentary When we speak about the wrath of God, it is only in a philosophic sense in oder to make the reader understand the strength of the creative power.

The Holy Spirit is the third principle. See ibid., p. 16. He heats the mystical crucible of wisdom. See ibid., p. 16. He is not begotten because spirit cannot be begotten. See our Geometry, p. 16, 14. He is the Spirit of God. He dwells in the heart of mankind. See ibid., p. 16. He is the universal soul. See the table of our Geometry, in the word ‘broken cross,’ letter C. He is found hovering over the waters. He composes the bodies (See the table of our Geometry, in the word ‘generations,’ letter G). The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God. See the Art of Reasoning in our Physics, p. 16. He possesses the power of God. He has created all creatures because He is proceeding from all things45 (See the Art of Reasoning in our Physics, p. 16). He is everywhere. He gives life. The Holy Spirit is not an element, but He contains the elements in perfect equality. See Art of Reasoning in our Physics, p. 19. The Spirit is everything, the matter is nothing. See ibid., p. 20. He is the philosophical mercury. See ibid., p. 20. He is related to the philosophical mineral kingdom. See ibid., p. 26. He alone has the power to create the cubic stone. See ibid., p. 21. He is Who has carried the Verb in the generations. See ibid., p. 21. He is joined to the matter. He draws the soul. He gives the form (See Art of Reasoning in our Physics, p. 21).

The Holy Spirit hovered over the surface of the waters. See ibid., p. 21. Note that He always is over the surface of the water or waters. These waters are the metallic sea. He is the spirit of the fire of sun, of this celestial body that distributes the light in the inferior nature. See ibid., p. 23. He is the flaming star, the principle of life. See ibid., p. 23 and this present table, p. 13. Without Him nature is death. See ibid., p. 20. See also this present table, p. 13. The Holy Spirit is over the surface of the waters. See number 3, letter ‘N’ of the table of the Art of Reasoning in our Physics. He is the light contained in the number 5. See number 5, letter ‘N’ of the table of the Art of Reasoning in our Physics. Water and Air: Close elements, p. 6. Water: It dissolves earth, p. 6. Spirit: It is related to the column B∴, p. 6 body

col∴ S∴

strength

soul

col∴ W∴

wisdom

spirit

col∴ B∴

beauty

Holy Spirit: He is life, p. 6. invisible virgin is

soul

visible virgin is

body

Holy Spirit is

life

Space: Time and space are symbolized by the compass, p. 7. See the Art of Reasoning in our Physics, p. 25. Space: Symbolised by the rule, p. 7. See the Art of Reasoning in our Physics, p. 25. Square: Symbol of the superiority of God, p. 7. It is also the symbol of the exact proportion, p. 7. Flaming Star: Emblem of the Holy Spirit, p. 7. It is also the symbol of the Divine Spirit, p. 8. The Holy Spirit is symbolized by the flaming star, p. 7. Star: It has five points. It is the principle of fire of the soul, p. 7. Hope: One of the three theological virtues, p. 7. See our Geometry, p. 16, 25. Square: Principle of the level, p. 8, 20. square level line of the plumb rule (p. 8, 20) Square: It is double and quadruple, p. 8. Square: square

level and rule (compose the cross, p. 8). Square: Square, level and line of the plumb rule are in unity. See p. 8. Space: Column J∴. See p. 8. Square: Symbol of time. See p. 8. Square: It symbolizes everything in accordance with the proportional measures. See p. 8. Space: space, righteousness and motion, justice (See p. 8). Masonic equality is represented by the unity made by square, level and line of the plumb rule and, consequently, it is found on the cross, which sets a perfect equality in the elements by means of its motion, p. 9. Commentary The Holy Spirit is the principle of the motion of the cross and it is this motion that operates the elementary qualities in unity of weight.

It is the Holy Spirit on

...the perfect equality

the centre the cross

between the

Who operates by

elementary qualities.

means of motion...

Do not lose sight of this.

Thick: A quality of unity. See ‘aquatic,’ letter A of this present table and p. 5 of our First Chapter. Explication: confusion, elaboration, explication (of the universe, p. 5, 20, 10). Fire: air, fire (close elements, p. 6). Square: It encloses the ternary and the quaternary, p. 9. Its proportions determine the enclosure of a lodge, p. 9. Its proportions furthermore determine the tracing board and the marble of the hidden worker, p. 9. Square: square compass level

good

evil

spread

p. 9. life

death

Explication: The cubic stone in its explication, p. 10. Scottish: The Scottish Mason knows the red stone, p. 10. Elu: The Elu companion knows the purification of the stone, p. 10. Space of Chaos: Black colour, p. 10. Explication of Stone: soul, spirit, body (p. 10)

Space: time, space, motion (in the constitution of the universe, p. 10. See also p. 15). States: One of the three divisions of the distribution of the universe, p. 10. states conditions worlds States: They are three: higher intermediary and lower (They are at the same time like three suns contained in a single sun which makes the general distribution of the universe. These states are presented in the colour white. Space: space, motion (symbolized by a sand clock, p. 11). Elements: earth air

S∴ related to columns

fire

B∴

p.10

W∴

Here is how we must understand this ternary: the element earth becomes water; water and earth is our hyle, p. 2, 21, 24, 12. therefore, in the same way that the column S∴, symbolizes earth and has

fire in it itself, so too the earth becomes water and has air within it. We will here present the hieroglyphics of this mystery even though we have spoken about this before. However, since we wish to be well understood and because a single explanation is not always sufficient or suitable for those with different perspectives, and although we can not repeat it too much and give different explanations, we do not write to make a person of great knowledge, but only to communicate with those of good will and as a way to strengthen ourselves as well.

earth

water

first element

first matter

earth and water

hyle philosophical salt

fire comes out of earth

air comes out of water

The philosophical spirit or mercury is composed of our four elements that form the cross – two masculine and two feminine, in which our mercury holds the centre in order to give the motion as mentioned when we spoke about the equality of the elements. Observe 1. that the masculine elements form two extremities and that space is filled by mercury; 2. that the feminine46 elements likewise form two extremities and that space is filled by the mercury. This space is common to the four elements and this is the mysterious point of the equal and elementary weights according to their qualities.

the putrefaction of earth, p.29 of this present table

earth is the abyss of the chaos

air comes out of water because earth has become water

☿

becomes water

motion of life

repose, death

The philosophical

It is matter

The philosophical

mercury has given me

It is effective

mercury is a thief

life by means of death.

which has taken away

It is a good thief

It produces its effect

my life. It is an evil

which restitutes.

thief.

fire always

is joined

to the humid

radical

The Philosophers

Stone

Fire is the instrument of nature. It is the unknown fire that brings about corruption. It reduces all beings in their first state because everything must return to its first chaos. See p. 33.

Everything is reduced to powder or ashes by means of fire (this secret fire is called mercury, for it contains an airy nature and is a very subtle vapor partaking of sulphur, with which it has incoporated some impurity). It is violent when it sublimates the spirits of the cubic stone, but if it destroys something, it rebuilds everything. If it gives death, it gives life.

The material cause is the four elements, which are mixed and united with each other in a way that is incomprehensible to the human mind – it is the inexplicable quaternary. In this mixture there are: two masculine elements: fire and air and two feminine elements: earth and water It is easy for us to know the first element and the first philosophical matter according to all which we have just said. Consider that the seeds of metals and all the minerals are contained in water. They are spread in the earth. they grow in it they are augmented in it and perfected. And this is accomplished through the virtue of the element water, which contains in itself the other three elements in potential. This is the reason why it is represented by a triangle whose angles are related to the elements earth fire air (p.10) From which follows that earth is the first element and water the second one. However, we find it is the first matter since it is the first in which the three others are present in potential. earth is dissolved in water. See p. 29 of the present table. Fire is potentially found in earth. Igneous air is potentially found in water.

All these things necessarily point towards water as the first philosophical matter which has emerged from earth. Fire has emerged from earth by means of air. See p. 29, of the present table. Air has emerged from water in its igneous nature. See p. 29, of the present table. And since everything must return to earth, everything must go through water and thus, everything must be dissolved in water. In order to help nature in the formation of our cubic stone, it is necessary to know how to dissolve it into water and begin our operations by corruption, because it is through corruption that we find the mystery of generation. Therefore, every solid thing is first converted into earth or ashes by means of dissolution. Then, these ashes, becoming impalpable, are reduced to vapor. Finally, this vapor is converted into water – this is the beginning and the end of all things. Vegetation grows in the air but has its roots in the earth – there they are fixed so that they are nourished by the: subtle aqueous invisible and impalpable mixture of earth. This is vegetative life. Metals also have their principles, their seeds and their roots in water. Their seeds grow out of this same water. Metallic veins, which are like roots, are nourished by water and generate the metals, by means of which

the metal is coagulated. The more the metallic waters are pure (for each metal has its own water), the more the metals become: pure bright and shining, because the water is naturally transparent — it shines and glitters. There is no doubt that the metals are thickened by the unique water that nature has destined for them. This water must be called mineral water for the three other elements must in potential be contained within it. Therefore, water is the unique matter of: our living stone our vegetation and our minerals. Finally, of all the things. Through seminal reasons this admirable diversity of all generated things is produced and without being altered itself it changes all things and gives them different forms. Therefore, we should consider water to be a dough47 on which we must work the seeds of our three kingdoms because it is the batter of the architectonic spirit known by the hidden worker, who alone can accomplish the following with perfection: coagulate fix48 and to compose an infinite group of species that are not similar to each other neither in appearance nor to human understanding. This proves that the variety of all created things depends not on the diversity of the matter, but on the specific variety of the seminal reasons

created by the G∴ Arch∴ of the U∴ and, then put into action by the three fundamental causes that we name here: material effective and auxiliary (these three causes are essential to the hidden worker and to us in our practical work). Note that in these three causes two of them are internal and the third is an external one. Material, effective (are internal causes), auxiliary cause (is an external one). The first two are contained in our spirit or mercury. The auxiliary cause is that which brings about the effective cause to action because without this third cause, the first two would remain without impetus. This impetus imparts life to death and this impetus hence is our mercury, although our mercury operates upon matter which waits only to produce or generate that for which it has been designated. The material cause is the four elements, mixed together, two of masculine

which

and two are feminine

are

fire and air

hot and dry

water and earth

cold and moist

Our mercury is composed of these four elements. However since these elements are coarse it is necessary that they are effectively purified. In these four elements there are two to be found that are visible, earth and water; and two invisible, fire and air.

Note that when I say that there are two visible elements, I refer to the element of water that is our first matter, which possesses, as mentioned earlier, the other three elements in potential. This water is cold and moist because it has a terrestrial quality. It is transparent as crystal because it was generated from an aqueous humour dissolved into vapor. It appears coagulated in the form of ice, endowed with a very intense cold because of its terrestrial quality which it preserved when earth was converted49 into this water (See pages 22 and 12 of the current table). It is the cold and philosophical dragon, for a long time hidden in the rocks, from where it must leave from a single rock50 to be presented as material cause. Understand this well without literally taking what I say because this water does not come out of all things. Do not take the divinatory, [100] stick with that which the common people employ. Keep this in mind. E It is this element51 that is entirely feminine and that must necessarily engender the masculine – a begetter nobler than it. Just as the coldness of our first element52 entered in the moisture of our first matter,53 so also the earthly dryness also entered in the heat of the masculine. This second party is a sulphur and an incombustible oil that dazzles the eyes with its igneous and fiery colour, and which, as we have just said, was generated from the purest dry exhalations of earth. This fire is entirely masculine and much nobler than water. The hidden worker is found between these two parties where he is both male and

female. He unites the two columns J∴ and Boo∴, or if you prefer, he unites the four elements which are symbolized by the columns J∴, Boo∴, S∴ and B∴. He is the five-pointed star placed between the columns J∴ and Boo∴. However, our mercury is first and foremost contained in the nature of fire because fire is the invisible cause that it uses for the generation of metals and especially of our cubic stone. See above54 ‘Philosophers´ Stone’ p. 15 of this table. This fire is the effective cause that is linked to the material cause. And these two causes make up the essence of our fixed and volatile mercury: fixed in earth and in air, and volatile as coming out of water with its fiery quality. Since the air is close to fire and water, it is volatile in the unity of these two elements. In the same way water is an element close to earth and air, so it is fixed in the unity of these two elements. And since the elements both rise and fall, our mercury is sometimes fixed and sometimes volatile, sometimes it gives death, sometimes it gives life. However, it gives life only to death. It is an evil thief when it takes away from our stone and is a good thief when it gives her back what it took. It is necessary that it be an evil thief since we cannot have a perfect knowledge of our cubic stone except through its death. However, for the same reason, it must become a good thief, because if it did not give back what it took, then our first two causes would remain without operation, in

inertia. But since it is a generator in the ternary, it gives both life and death. It is the medicine of its poison. As a good thief it joins our cubic stone and rejoices with it in its exaltation. This is the mystery of the dimensions of our right triangle in its proportions, as well as of our Masonic square, which gives us the proportions of a lodge, as an emblem of the universe.

Note that at the farthest angle we find the mercury as an evil thief because there the four parts of the square are terrestrial. These parts are the places of the four material elements. Note also that the largest side of the triangle, which is the one that composes its base, is divided into five parts, the number which belongs to our mercury. Note as well that the most open angle is that composed of three parts, which is related to the three principles and the pyramid, emblem of the fire of life.

The base, which belongs to our mercury, unites the evil thief with the good one, that is, the right angle where our stone is found, placed in the centre of the cross, place of its exaltation. Our stone, I say, which suffers in its generative passion, turns and places itself on the side of the principle of life, while afterwards the bad thief returns in the principle of life and gives life to our stone and becomes inseparable with it. This way the stone has returned from its passion and exhalted with the good thief.

Our mercury holds the middle between the first two causes, which is at the central point of the bases of our triangle rectangle, having on its right the elements fire and air, and on its left water and earth. Consequently, the material cause is on its left and the effective one on its right. There it becomes the auxiliary cause through the number five, which belongs to nature.

There it is the radical spirit that is spread throughout nature. This way we find nature filled with the essence of our mercury in order to purify the minerals by means of continuous sublimations, circulations and digestions, which are the only means of purifying the matter from its impurities and then being digested with the help of the metallic sulphur and the operative spirit, which aided by the mineral heat and heat of the sun, convert our matter into philosophical gold. All this is accomplished with the help of the three causes: material, effective and auxiliary, because it is the unique characteristic of this last cause to coagulate its mercury. Matter becomes philosophical gold – nature dissolves it into its mercury which gives it the tincture that produces the philosophical gold. And these are the effects of an effective tincture – the auxiliary cause that fixes it and converts it into gold. We will speak in more detail about this matter in due time. Let us return to our first water, a matter which naturally led us to speak of the three causes necessary to the artist and which leads us to conclude as follows:

1. that water is the matter from which everything is made 2. that life begins with the production of the germ 3. that water is the only material cause of things 4. its quality is initiating 5. it is simple 6. it is solvable 7. all bodies can be reduced in it as into a last matter faith, one of theological virtues hope, second virtue, ibid. charity, third virtue, ibid.

which are related to the three columns S∴, W∴ and B∴. These col∴ are known in the degree of Rose Croix under the names of these three virtues, p. 12, 14. See p. 15.

Space: rule, space (annihilated by the death of Hyram, p. 2.) Standard: Cross is standard of nature, p. 12. Water: water, air, earth (in opposition, p. 12.) Scottish: The Scottish Mason works in the underground vault, p. 12. Elu: The degree of Elu symbolizes the purification of the stone, p. 13. Holy Spirit: He works constantly to prepare the natural fire, p. 13. Water: It is patient, fire is agent, p. 14.

Space: time, space and motion in triple unity, are represented by the ternary, p. 15. [101] Elements: Three beings, p. 18 Eve: White, p. 18. Adam

nature in its two sexes

Eve

father

sperm, seed, life

mother

agent

the tincture

patient

B∴

J∴

red earth

white earth

body

essence

chaos

explication

elaboration

confusion, chaos, hyle

volatile Father

fixed Holy Spirit

Star: Of the radical spirit (p. 19), proceeding from all things. Mankind should study this star, p. 18, 19.

Son

Explication: Of the universe, p. 19 chaos or confusion elaboration explication (of the universe, p. 19). Philosophical explication: The elements, p. 19. philosophical chaos, Adam and Eve philosophical elaboration the radical spirit, p. 19 philosophical explication, the elements Colours: Black, yellowish white and red. They are related as follows: black

chaos or confusion

yellowish white

elaboration

red

explication

p.20.

Scottish: He knows the numbers 27, 81, p. 20. Square: square level plumb rule (their symbolical relationships, p. 20. See ‘cross,’ they make up the cross, p. 21). Essence: Unity, ternary, p. 21. Eternity: Eternity commands time (p. 21) and nature. Spirit:

moon

spirit

sun

soul

child of the father and mother

body

p.21.

Permanent water: It is from this water that sun and moon came forth (p. 21). Water: Female related to the columns J∴ and S∴ (p. 21). Water: Matter, p. 21. Menstrual water: Circulation, p. 22. Elevation, sublimation, p. 21. Water: Earth becomes water. See this present table in the word ‘dissolution,’ letter D, p. 5. Water: It is made airy, p. 7, 8 of this present table. Explication: confusion, elaboration, explication (See p. 7 of this present table). Water: fire, water (instruments of nature, p. 8 of this present table). Philosophers´ Elixir: See p. 8 of this present table.

Spirits: The good spirits are separated from the evil ones (p. 8 and 9 of this present table) in order to redden and whiten the stone. Water: It is converted into earth by means of mortification, p. 9 of this present table. Spirits: The good spirits on the right, the evil ones on the left. This is the judgment and the purgatory. See p. 9 of this present table. Elements: Summary of that which we have previously said about the elements, p. 10 of this table. Scottish of Saint Andrew: He knows the cross which bears the name of St. Andre∴ Cross, p. 10 of the table. Flaming Star: Number five, p. 10 of this present table. Holy Spirit: Fifth and unique element, p. 10 of this present table. The Holy Spirit is related to the letter G, p. 10 of this present table. Flaming Star: It has five points, symbol of the radical spirit, p. 11 of this present table and p. 9 of our Alchemy. Spirit of Elements: Visible ones and invisible ones, p. 11 of this present table. Elements: Their spirits, p. 11 of this present table.

Elements: Their nobleness, p. 11 of this present table. Square: square, compass. Fix the elements in accordance with the proportional measures and the exact proportion, p. 11 of this present table. Elements: The cross of St. Andrew accomplishes the conjunction of the elements, p. 11 of this present table. Elements: Are triples and quadruples, p. 11 of this present table. Elements: The cross of Saint Andrew outlines the elements in their respective qualities by the spirit. See p. 11 of this present table. Elements: Three constituent elements in the stone, p. 11 of this present table. Water: Matter of air, p. 11 of this present table. Spirit: soul, spirit, body. The stone (p. 12 of this present table). Water: earth, water (passive elements, p. 12 of this present table). Water: Water causes everything to born and grow, p. 12 of this present table. Elements: Its separation by means of putrefaction, p. 12 of this present table.

Ether: It is composed of fire and air, p. 12 of this present table. ether: elevation ether: fusible matter which is above the atmosphere and fills all the space in which the stars have their course. Water: water, earth (passive elements without motion, p. 12 of this present table. They are not self-sufficient. Water: It fertilizes earth, p. 12 of this present table. Spirit: spirit, life, light, fire (in the chaos came out of eternity, p. 21). Eternity: See above ‘spirit.’ The chaos came out of eternity and this chaos (nature) comprises spirit, life, light and fire, p. 21. Elohim: Term which means ‘spirit,’ p. 21. Elements: Their marriage. See p. 13 of this present table. Elements: Active and passive are alternately elevated and fixed. See p. 13 of this present table. Holy Spirit: He composes everything. See p. 13 of this present table. Spirit: The elements would be inactive without the spirit of the cause and the spirit of the cause proceeds from all things. See p. 13 of this present table. Water: It produces all things within all species, p. 13 of this present table.

Water: It is separated from earth. See p. 15 of this present table. Water: fire, air, water (elements came out of earth, p. 15 of this present table. See also p. 29). Effective: Effective cause, that is, a cause that produces its effect. Square: Its proportions determine those of a lodge, p. 16 of this present table. States: states, conditions, worlds (are found in the distribution of the universe, p. 10). Exaltation: Of the stone, p. 13. Mortified water: See p. 9. Elements: Distillation of elements generates metals. See p. 10 of this table. Elements: They originate in the philosophical rough stone, p. 11 of this table. Elements: They are symbolized by the four wheels of the Ark of the Covenant, p. 12 pf this present table. Elements: They are found in ‘Jehovah,’ p. 19.

Knock: seek, ask and knock (p. 4). Flaming star: Symbol of the supernatural fire, p. 13. Epheta: Nazareth is a term which means ‘developed intelligence.’ Epheta means ‘town of light.’ See p. 38 of this present table. Fermentative spirit: It is on the cross. See this present table and the words ‘the cross carries out motion,’ letter C. Hope: Active virtue which gives an impetus to charity. See this present table, p. 18. Hope and Faith: They are dependent on charity. See ibid., p. 18. Charity is an independent virtue. Hope: Death makes faith and hope vanish. See ibid., p. 18. Elements: 16 philosophical elements. See ibid., p. 18. Eternity: It is visible and invisible in the ternary. See ibid., p. 24. External: external, internal (sun in the eternity. See ibid., p. 24). Elevation: elevation, low (in the eternity. See ibid., p. 24). Eternity: Eternal repose. See ibid., p. 25.

Spirit: On the radius the Creator is united to the creature when it (the radius) unites it to the body and the soul is communicated to it, p. 2. See this present table, p. 41. Status: no moral, no status. See ibid., p. 42. [102] Holy Spirit: He is the chain that unites religion with morality and justice; status, customs and justice, p. 2. See this table, p. 42. Fixed spirit: Spirit is necessary to everything (permanent water is the Trinity. See ibid., p. 26). Permanent water: Idem. Material elements: There are three: water, air, earth (See ibid., p. 26). Elements: There are three subordinates: mercury, sulphur, salt (See ibid., p. 26, 27). Elements: They compose all mixtures in nature, which is divided in three Kingdoms being: mineral vegetal and animal (See ibid., p. 27)

Beings: They are material and spiritual and comprise:

visible ones

invisible ones

limited space

infinity magnitude

immobility

motion

See ibid., p. 27.

Elements: They are four. See ibid., p. 28. Elements: Their changes. See ibid., p. 23. Elements: They are repeated three times in the number 12. See ibid., p. 29. Existence: existence, immensity, power, unity (of the G∴ Arch∴. See ibid., p. 27, 29). Elements: They are found in the celestial nature and in the Microcosm. See p. 22. Holy Spirit: See this present table, p. 30. Spirit: spirit attracts the soul in the body, soul is attracted by spirit, body attracts spirit (See ibid., 31). School of the Holy Spirit: Nature. See ibid., p. 32. Holy Spirit: Radius of the manifestation. See ibid., p. 33. Square: Its proportions, principle of the cross, symbol of motion. It encloses the numbers 3, 4 and 5. See ibid., p. 33.

See the continuation of this letter in the Supplementary Table. F Faith: It is despised by unbelievers, p. 3., Faith consists in believing that a hidden thing exists. He who believes that that which his religion teaches him is in accordance with his law. A man who believes nothing is an aberration of nature – he lives without knowing why he lives, and dies without knowing what he will become. Faith: Faith enlightens, p. 3. Faith: Charity is attracted by hope towards faith. See p. 3. Faith: faith, hope, charity (p. 2, 3, 7. See our Geometry, p. 16, 25). Faith: Faith is represented by an eagle, p. 16, 25 of our Geometry. Blind faith: See the Art of Reasoning our Physics, p. 20. Faith: Faith enlightens. See the Art of Reasoning our Physics, p. 22, 26; and the table of Reasoning our Physics in the word ‘ascension,’ letter A and again letter F. Faith: faith, hope, charity (theological virtues which are related to the three columns S∴ W∴ and B∴, p. 12, 14, 15. These three columns are known in the degree of the Rose Croix under the names of these three virtues). Faith: One must have faith that everything is reborn in nature, p. 12.

Faith: Faith needs charity and its passiveness. It does not have enough strength to have what it wants: so it is in darkness. Hope comes to its rescue. So, hope is an aurora for it. Just as the dawn proclaims the great day by dissipating the darkness (without annihilating it), so also hope unites with faith and attracts charity. This way faith filled with the seed of hope, receives in itself charity by the strength of proceeding virtue. This is how faith comes to life. And it is this living faith we must have if we do not want to kill it in ourselves. Let us therefore not have a faith of darkness, but let us have such a faith that our soul desires it, that is, a faith full of hope and charity. Observe that faith is the word (see our Geometry, p.26). The word has been spread in nature and it has become nature. Finally it has become flesh and blood – and this is related to mankind as being the summation of manifestation. Charity is an eternal virtue that has descended in nature by the operation of the proceeding Spirit, however without going out of its centre. Hope is an active virtue that gives motion to charity. Faith is a passive virtue without motion, but it has received life by the power of hope that has filled itself by charity. Faith is a potential in charity — it is manifested by hope. And this is the mystery of the radius of the word, of the ray of nature that has traced the immense space of generations.

Charity is, therefore, the fire of life introduced into the heart of nature, and the heart of nature is the very heart of man as a microcosm. Pay attention that three came from one and two. This number is in the radius, namely: number one as the starting point of the word; number two as belonging to the spirit of fusion; and number three as the limit of manifestation. It follows that the uncreated centre is the supercelestial unity and the limit of manifestation is the centre of generations. Finally, the intermediary of these two extremes is the sacred operator, this spirit which is nothing but our philosophical mercury. This should make us understand that the radius unites the Creator to the creature, that faith and hope depend on charity and that charity is an independent virtue. We must furthermore understand that all things are nothing, only God is everything. All things are just chaos and perishable bodies, there is only God, the only Everlasting God. Death makes faith and hope vanish, and life brings forth these three virtues. However, man who possesses in himself the immortal breath of divinity, is united to the uncreated centre where he no longer needs faith or hope, for when we say that life brings faith, hope and charity back to life, we mean the operations of nature. The first number to be studied therefore is the ternary. This is not a figure but only a radius, for as soon as the radius comes into operation, it traces plane figures or cubes that have their centre. For example, the triangle looks

no more than the quaternary reveals to us about its centre as well as other figures. The first degree of Masonic study is, therefore, the study of the radius. The second is the study of the quaternary, in which we receive the knowledge of the visible ternary and so on. Note that every time we perfectly understand the spirit of the radius, we have always seen great progress in the knowledge of numbers. The equilateral triangle, composed of three equal sides, is contained in the radius because its three sides are the radius that makes up only one. If you draw a triangle within these three rays that make up a triangle, you will have four small equilateral triangles. And this is the quaternary coming from the ternary, which will relate to the four elements. If you draw other three triangles within these three rays that make up a triangle, you will have nine small triangles, one of which will be in the centre as the principle of the remaining eight, provide that it is seen within its rectangle. These divisions cannot exceed the number nine, which leads to the number 81 and is the largest cube of number nine, thus, enclosing the operations of nature. Just as the number nine belongs to the circumference, so it follows that this number is the goal of our research. This way, by drawing 81 small equilateral triangles within a larger one, then you will see a central triangle in its square, which should be considered as a triangle of the element earth from which all things must proceed and return.

However, the number 10 belongs to God because this number enters in unity. If we keep drawing triangles (within the three sides of the triangle), we will always find compound numbers, but we never find any decimal numbers at all. The first number that is related to the single radius is three, a number which we find in the triangle with its three radiuses that proceed from the centre and which end up in the vertices of the three angles. These radiuses are actually only one, because the radius is everywhere. If we extend these radiuses over the sides of the triangle, then these sides will be divided into two equal parts and this division will help us form four equilateral triangles which, as we have said, are related to the four elements. If we divide the radius – we should note here that when we speak here of dividing the radius, we mean the sides of the equilateral triangle – into three parts, we will have the number 9, that is, nine small triangles. If we divide the sides of the four small elementary triangles into two parts, that is, their outer sides, we will have sixteen small triangles that will be related to the sixteen philosophical elements, and so on as will be seen in the following figures. Note that, regardless of all these divisions, we must always refer to the ternary because everything proceeds from it.

The point of encounter of the two circles is at the tangent line and since this point is everywhere, God by that point is united to nature.

This is the pure knowledge of number 3, the first degree of perfection.

[103]

This is the quaternary which came out of the ternary. I particularly recommend you to study the dotted lines.

This is the number nine which came out of the number 3 which is related to the circumference.

This is the square of the quaternary.

This is the square of the ternary.

This is the senary of generations that produces the number 36. This is the solar triangle.

This is the number 16 that is related to the 16 philosophical elements.

This is the square of the senary which comprises the number of the mankind.

This is the square of the quaternary.

This is the septenary which gives the number 49. This number belongs to the seven planetary spirits.

This is the quinary of the proceeding that gives the number 25.

This

is

the

square of the septenary which gives

the

quintenary with number 49.

This

is

the

square of the Lamb

in

the

centre

of

the

number 24.

This

the

This the number

number 8 which

9 which gives

gives 64.

81.

This

is

is

the

This

is

the

number 8 which

number 9 which

gives 64.

gives 81.

See the magic squares in our Geometry, p. 27 and 28. The study of nature consists of seven main points, that is, in the study of the senary founded on the septenary. This septenary is the point of perfection which can only be approached by the number 81 because the number 81 belongs to the circumference. And, since this is the largest square of the number nine and also because the number nine is the seventh number,55 which is the central one — this number seven is the tangent point of the immeasurable circumference of generations upon which the throne of divinity is established.

Nature is the great universal temple, the great philosophical vessel. The temple of Solomon was a symbol of this vessel. The workers who worked on the building of this temple, according to their degrees, were nothing but the various operations of the hidden worker. All the materials of this temple represent the philosophical chaos. Salomon, Hiram, King of Tire and Hiram, the architect, represent the three principles which are developed as the temple is completed. The glory of God that was spread in this temple is symbolic for the glory that is spread throughout the universe. God has blessed his work, here is the dedication! God is united with His creature, here His glory spreads! Therefore, make everything re-enter the number 81, that is, the septenary to which this number is related. Afterwards, make it come out by degrees, so you will understand (by imagination) the shapes of the circumference of generations. There you will have nothing to desire – you will know everything and if you make good use of the knowledge you have acquired, then the great Arch∴ of the un∴, to the glory of Whom you will work, will reward you for your work. Faith: We find our faith in the passion of the stone. It leads us to believe that everything is regenerated and that the soul returns to its place, p.14. Serene faith: Suffering faith, without motion. See this table p. 18. Faith: Potentially contained in charity. See ibid., p. 18.

Faith: Faith and hope depend on charity. Charity is an independent virtue. See ibid., p. 18. Faith and hope: They disappear with death and by death. See ibid., p. 18. Faith: It is symbolized by the Phoenix, p. 8. Faith: faith, hope and charity (symbolized by the pelican, p. 8). Son: Father, Son and Holy Spirit (p. 2, 3, 18; they in time, p.18). Fire: Principle of all causes, p. 3. See the ‘five-pointed star,’ p. 2 of our Geometry. Its relationship with the cross, p. 10 of our Geometry. See p. 15 of our Geometry, ‘on love and wrath.’ It is represented by the tetrahedron, p. 21 of our Geometry. As an element, it is light, p. 22 of our Geometry. [104] Fire comes from water. See the table of our Geometry in the word ‘moon,’ letter M of our Geometry, p. 12. Sun fire: See our Geometry, p. 12. Hidden worker fire: See the Art of Reasoning in our Physics, p. 17, 22, 23. Fire: Agent. See ibid., p. 26. Fire: Principle of form. See ibid.,p. 26.

Supernatural fire: Lamb. See our Physics in the word ‘earth, corruption’ letter E. Sacred fire: Represented by the letter G. It formed the souls, p. 7. Divine Fire: Centre of the Cross, p. 8. It was spread everywhere, p. 8. Fire: Hidden within the triple sun, p. 8. Fire: Its sparks proceed from the centre of the cross, p. 9. Supernatural fire: It originates from the trituration56 of the wheel, p. 9. Fire of life: By the motion of the cross, p. 10. Nutritive Fire: Charity, p. 12. Supernatural Fire: Flaming Star, p. 13. Fire: It gives form, p. 13, 21. Fire: There are three that dominate each other, but supernatural fire is the most dominant one, p. 13. Fire: Nothing is done without fire, p. 13. Hell fire: Destroyer of crude materials, p. 13.

Fire: agent, p. 14. Gently fire: It is found in the four letters I∴ N∴ R∴ I∴, p. 14. Vivifying fire: Love of reproduction, p. 21. Mature fire: It is related to the col∴ Boo∴ and to the col∴ Beauty, p. 21. Fire: Spirit of the universe, p. 21. Fire: fire, water (instruments of nature. See p. 8 of the present table). Fire: a life, a fire, a spirit, a light (p. 21). Fire: It came out of water, fire, sun, col∴ Boo∴, p. 11 of this table. Fire: fire, air. Tincture (p.11, 12 of the present table). Fire: It came out of the column air, p. 12 of this table. Fire of life: Produced by air, p. 12 of this table. It gives its influences to the air, p. 12 of the same. Fire of life: Represented by the cone-shaped wheel, the hidden workman p. 9. Supernatural fire: Fire of love p. 9.

Supernatural fire: It has within it soul, spirit and body (p.12). Fire: fire, air (joined together. See this table p. 12). Fire: Spread in all things. It contains: essences

soul

existence

spirit

and consistence

body

in the constitution of the universe, p. 10.

Fire: Fire of life is spread by means of circular motion. This fire contains the mystery of the 4 letters I∴ N∴ R∴ I∴. See the letters I∴ N∴ R∴ I∴ originating in the ternary, in the word ‘letter,’ p. 22 of this table. Spiritual57: God is spiritual, invisible, almighty, infinite and eternal, p. 3. See this table p. 5 under the word ‘God is…,’ letter G. Strength: strength, wisdom, beauty (are related to three angles of the triangle, p.7). Strength: prudence, strength, temperance, justice (four cardinal virtues, p 8. They originate in the three theological virtues p.14). Strength: See p. 4, 12. The App∴ Mason learns that the column J∴ means, in this degree, that his strength is in God. This strength is a perfect desire of the patient to attract the agent to itself in order to accomplish generation.

This strength of nature was given by God because God wanted the generation to work in order to maintain His glory. Strength is the way of God and this way is in the passionate desire of patient. Fixed and volatile: See p. 5. Fixed: The fixed dominates the volatile and volatile dominates the fixed, p. 9. Son: mother, son (united by the cross, p. 13. The cross is the inseparable union of mother and son). Smoke: A thick smoke comes out of the sepulture of V∴ Hiram. See p. 12. Fermentative: The fermentative spirit is spread everywhere, p. 12. Form: Fire gives form, p. 21. Fusion: Fusion takes place by dissolution. See this table, p. 5, letter D. Son: Child of father and mother. It is the child or son of science. See this table p. 5 in the word ‘dissolution,’ letter D. Fixity: It is the dead which was vivified. See ibid. in the word ‘dissolution,’ letter D, p. 5. Fluid: fluid

head

generation

lower abdomen

heart

vision (p. 6).

F∴ and J∴: They are the columns F∴ and J∴. Water is related to these columns, p. 21. Female: Water, p. 21. Knock: seek, ask, knock (p. 3, 4). Female: male, female (point of generation without one and other. See this table p. 12). Fire: air, fire (ether. See ibid., 12). Fire: It is generated from earth. See ibid., p. 12. Fruit of life: fruit of life, fruit of love, fruit of light (See ibid., p. 25. These are the fruits of the tree of science). Fire: Principle. See this table, p. 25. End: Beginning and end, trinity, Alpha and Omega, beginning and end of all things. See ibid., p. 26, 35. Fire: It is the regenerator in the centre of the septenary from where the four radiuses of the cross proceed. See ibid., p. 29.

Fiat: it was pronounced and nature was created;and nature took form; the seed entered the form ☿, the bodies are born with two sexes and their seeds (See ibid., p. 35). End: beginning, middle, and end (created by the thought of God, yet they are not thought at all, p. 3). Fire: Serpent, emblem of the fire. See this table p. 7. Forms: Seven forms in nature ibid., p. 36. Son: Father, Son, Holy Spirit on the cross and the word became human ibid., p. 44. Fiat: It was pronounced, nature was created and it became the word. fiat

Alpha

beginning everything

amen

Omega

is

ibid., p. 46, 45

brought back in the centre

Eternal fire: Soul. See the discourse in our Alchemy, p. 1. Science: Science is the basis of religion, morality and justice (See ibid., P. III). Fire: It is nourished by air. See ibid., P III. G

Great, the: He in unity with His works, p. 1. Glory of God, the: It is in all created things, p. 1. Galaad: Son of Sophronis.58 He was leader of Levites and the guardian of the sacred vault during the destruction of the temple. His duty was to keep the lamps lit, worship and contemplate the unpronounceable word. This Levite preferred to lose his life and be buried under the ruins of the temple, rather than to discover afterwards the treasure contained in the sacred vault and which had been entrusted to his care. Generation: Generation is accomplished by corruption, p. 5. G∴: This letter is the initial of one of the names of God, p. 7. It is the symbol of the sacred fire with which God has made souls, p. 7. It is the emblem of generation, p. 7; See also p. 7 of our Geometry. See our Geometry, p. 2, 3, 8, 23, 22, 25. See the table of our Geometry under the word ‘sperm,’ letter S; and the word ‘spiritual point,’ letter S. This letter is the symbol of the Holy Spirit. See p. 10 of this table. Generation: The degree of the symbolic Master contains one of the mysteries of generation of the cubic stone, p. 12. See p. 10 of this table. Galahad: He represents the Holy Spirit, p. 13.

Generations: The creation of generations relies on the unique will of God. Everything has been created in one single moment. The days mentioned by the V∴ Moses are only philosophical, p. 14. [105] Pomegranates: Pomegranates and lilies are symbols of spirits freed from all terrestriality, p .14. Generations: The circumference of generations is sustained by pure spirits, p. 14. Human generation: Its seat is found in the lower abdomen and kidneys, p. 18. Generations: The generations of beings is accomplished by their like, p. 22. Generation of the cubic stone: It is accomplished through the marriage of the elements. See p. 11 of this table. Generation: male, female (generation does not occur without male or female – both are required. See page 12 of this table). Greatness: greatness, situation, and motion (of created beings, p. 3). Generation: fluid

head

p. 16.

generation

lower abdomen

and life

heart

Generation, concupiscence: Cause of the generation. See this table p. 12. Glory of God: It is spread throughout nature. See ibid., p. 19. Generation: It is one of the mysteries of the degree of Master. See ibid., p. 20. Generation: It depends on the unique will of God. See ibid., p. 20. Glory: Of the Creator is diffused in nature. See ibid., p. 31. Generation: One of the three accidents of nature. See ibid., p. 27. Generation, birth. Generation: Union of God with nature, ibid., p. 44. H Harmony: Harmony of all things is perishable, p. 1. Humid: Dissolution is accomplished by humidity, p. 6. Tessellated border: Emblem of the union and harmony, p. 6. (See ‘harmony,’ 2, 3);

It encloses the enclosure in the centre of which the cubic stone is found, p. 6. In the degree of Fellow Craft the cubic stone is found in the centre of the table. Human: Human beings must study the ternary, p. 6. Hyle, chaos: It contains all forms in potential, p. 8. Hyle: It is represented by columns F∴ and B∴, p. 8. Human: Human beings, similar to the cross, must work to accomplish a perfect equilibrium in their humours, p. 9. Humours of the man: They must be in perfect equality, p. 9. Hyle, chaos: See p. 11. Hyle: earth, water (See p. 9 ‘matter of matters;’ p.12 ‘earth and water are heavy;’ See also p. 8. See p. 11 of this table). Hyle: It is the patient, p. 12. Hiram: The architect killed by three of his companions, p. 12. Hiram: The architect, a subject of Masonic works, p. 12. He is the philosophical cornerstone, p. 12. He is the subject of the philosophical hidden worker, p. 12. He is the principle of the philosopher´s stone, p. 12.

His death and passion are symbols of the same as those suffered by the stone, p. 12. His tomb is emblem of the broken cross, p. 13. His tomb is symbol of the broken and scattered philosophical Masonic tools, p. 13. Human: The human being must study, p. 14. Human: The human being was born from the heart of the eternal wisdom. They were created as the summation of the wonders of nature, p. 17. Human: The human being is the perfection of all things, p. 18. Humid: Principle of corruption. See the present table under the word ‘corruption,’ p. 2. Human: The human being must always turn towards God, p. 8 of this table. Oil: Or tincture. See ibid., p. 8. Human: The heart of human beings is the seat of kindness. See p. 18 of this table. Height: One of the dimensions of the bodies, p. 2. Humours of mankind: The relationship of mankind with the elements, p. 8. Hiram: He was called Macbenac, p. 12. He was sealed in a tomb, p. 12.

Humans: They must study the star of the Holy Spirit, p. 18, 19. Humans: They are slaves of their passions, p. 4. See ‘passion,’ letter P of this table. Horizontally and vertically: Everything is carried out by the cross and on the cross by turning it in its centre, p. 8. See this table in the word ‘vertical,’ letter V. Sand clock: Symbol of time, p. 11. time space and motion (p. 11). Hiram: Death of Hiram, motion intercepted, p. 12. This death teaches us that time destroys everything, p. 12. Human: He must study the philosophical chaos, p. 22. Humid radical, lamb: Its fleece is the humid radical, p. 24. See this table, p. 8. Oil: tincture. oil (universal medicine. See this table, p. 8. Humid radical: sun, mercury (potable gold. See ibid., p. 12. Hyle: Nature is enclosed in the chaos (hyle), p. 21.

Humid: The stone is filled with the humid radical. See ibid., p 12. Hierarchy: The nine choruses of the celestial court are divided into three hierarchies. See ibid., p. 35. Henoc or enoch: Its nine paths constitute the philosophical ladder. See ibid., p. 34. Humid radical: Mercury after congelation is the humid radical. See p. 47 of this table. Human: His four limbs are related to those of the universe, p. 10. Humid radical: Fifth element. See p. 43 of this table. Humid radical: Holy Spirit, mercury. See ibid., p. 33. Human: Since he is the image of God, he comprises the ternary. A human being is ternary, God is ternary. See ibid., p. 36. Hiram: Death of Hiram, loss of the word. See ibid., p. 34, 35. Human: Wonderful animal related to the number 666. See ibid., p. 44. As such, the human being has in him the Father

soul

the Son

body

and the Holy Spirit

spirit

See the second section of this for continuation of this letter. I-J Imagination: Everything has been created in the imagination, p. 1. Invisible: the invisible has created the visible, p. 1. Justice: religion, morality and justice (their principles are contained in the cubic stone, p.2). Judgment, purgatory: The good spirits are freed from the evil ones, p. 2. Justice: religion, morality and justice (p. 2). The ternary contains in itself religion, morality and justice which are related to time, space, and motion (p. 2). Infinity: Of space, p. 2. Jehova (Jehovah): past, present and future (p. 3). Jehovah: Mysterious abyss of the science, p .3. Incredulity: Despised faith, p. 3. Letters I∴ M∴ B∴: See p. 2.

Jehovah: Amplitude of all things, p. 4. His centre is the focus of the inner light, p. 4. Immobility: Centre of the cross, p. 8. Justice: One of the four cardinal virtues, p. 8. prudence fortitude temperance justice, p. 8, 14. Justice: righteousness, space. Justice, motion, p. 8. Jehovah: In the 4 elements, p. 9. Day: Red colour red

day

black

night p.10.

day

red

night

black

Yellowish colour: Emblematic colour of the Holy Spirit, p. 10. Jachin Column: water, female. B∴

fire

male

J∴

water

female

Yoke: Of the cross is heavy and light, p. 12.

generative qualities, p. 11.

Judgment: Pentecoste, Judgment, Purgatory (three words that here mean the same thing, p. 13). Judea: Beginning and end of Masonic works, p. 14. See I∴ N∴ R∴ I∴. Philosophical days: Three main philosophical days during which the stone becomes: white red and yellow (p. 14). Jurisprudence: Passion, p. 14. Judah: Solar lion of Judah, p. 14. [106] Judah: Judah, Word, Iliad (p. 14). Iliad: Judah, Word, Iliad (p. 14). Justice: prince, religion, justice, p. 15. Jehovah: A and O, p. 16. Intelligence: Its seat in the head, p. 18. J∴ and F∴ Columns: Water is related to these columns, p. 21.

Joachim: God is related to this name, p. 24. This word means ‘preparation of the Lord.’ Joseph: Visible father, p. 24. Joseph means ‘growth, augmentation.’ Jesus: The cubic stone. Jesus means ‘humanity.’ Christ means ‘divinity.’ Jesus Christ: the Godhead united to humanity. Christ, gold. Jesus, myrrh. Invisible: The invisible is manifested by the visible. See ‘corruption,’ p. 2 of this table. J∴ and B∴ Columns: These columns symbolize the tools of the Masons and their treasure, p. 8 of this table. J∴ Column: Rough stone, cahos, p. 11 of this table. Day of the Creation: Of which the V∴ S∴ Moses describes is only philosophical and help us to interpret the operations of the great work, p. 20 of this table. Judgment of good and evil spirits: See p. 9. Justice: science, justice, redemption, sanctification (their relationship with the cross, p. 14). Solar lion: p. 14.

Imagination: The philosophical work is done only by imagination, p. 13 of this table. Lilies and Pomegranates: Symbols of the spirits purified from all terrestriality, p. 14. Intelligence, Nazareth: Development of our intelligence, p. 14. Invisible: visible, invisible eternity (contained in the ternary. See the present table, p. 24). Inner, outer: inner, outer sun. See ibid., p. 24. Invisible: It is hidden in the visible. See ibid., p. 24. Invisible: God is spiritual, invisible, all-powerful, infinite (p. 3). Infinite: God is spiritual, invisible, all-powerful, infinite (p. 3). Jehovah: Centre of the uncreated triangle. Information: The stone is made by purification and this purification is symbolized in the degree of the Elu, p. 13. Joachim: Name that means ‘preparation of the Lord,’ p. 14. Joseph: Name that means ‘growth, augmentation,’ p. 14.

Joachim: He was the son of Barpanter59. Invisible, The: Spiritual being. See this table, p. 27. Immobility: Material being. See ibid., p. 27. Jehovah: Its pronunciation, p. 53, 54, 55. Pronunciation of the Name.60 Imagination: Faculty of the soul. It is divided into three parts. See the discourse of our Alchemy, p. III. Impiety, The: It took the place of the true worship, ibid. p. III. Justice: religion, moral, justice (science is their base, ibid., p. III.). L Length, Width: length, width, height (dimensions of bodies, p. 2). Light: There is only one light to shine, p. 4. Its path is the radius. See our Geometry, p. 9, 11. It has in it: the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit (see our Geometry, p. 13). Light: light, motion, heat (sun, p. 15). Moon: sun, agent, moon patient (See the Art of Reasoning our Physics, p. 17).

Straight Line, The: It represents the radius, p. 8. Plumb Rule Line, The: It always tends towards the centre, p. 8. Plumb Rule Line, The: It is related to the column J∴, p. 8. Plumb Rule Line: square, level and line of the plumb rule (All in unity and as such we find them in the cross, which by its motion imparts a perfect equality between the elements). Plumb Rule Line: Its definition is found in the degree of the Fellow Craft, p. 9. Lodge: Its dimensions are taken in accordance with the proportions of the square, p. 9. Moon: sun, Boo∴, moon, J∴, p. 11. Moon: patient, p. 12. Lever: Emblem of motion, p. 12. square rule hammer (p. 12). Plumb Rule Line: square, level, plumb rule (Their symbolic relationship, p.20; they form the cross, p. 21).

Light: Light separates the fire, p. 21. Moon: sun, soul, moon, spirit (p.21) Moon: sun, moon (They came out of the permanent water, p. 21). Lights: celestial, temporal (p. 23). Green Lion: See ‘dissolution,’ letter D, p. 6, 9, 21. Light: spirit, fire, life, light (p. 21). Lodge: Its proportions are an emblem of nature (p. 10 of the present table). Light of Nature: See p. 12 of this table. Spirit of Mercury in Saturn: Sky, tincture and the earth in the centre. Solar Lion: See p. 14. Lilies and Pomegranates: They are symbols of spirits freed from all terrestriality, p. 14. Lodge: Emblem of the universe. See this table p. 16. Letters I∴ N∴ R∴ I∴: They are contained in the 4 letters of the Name, p. 8. Light: It came out of darkness, p. 9.

Letters I∴ N∴ R∴ I∴: They came out of the ternary and contain the mystery of the cross, p. 14. This mystery is in the circular motion of the cross, stirred by the spirit of the air in order to spread the fire of life. Light, Nazareth: Word that means ‘city of light.’ See this table p. 38. Letter, 4 Letters: Name of God composed of 4 letters p. 15. Light: Fruits of life, love and light (See this table on p. 25). Light: light, darkness (See ibid., p. 24). Letters S∴ W∴ B.: They are related to the three angles of the triangle, p. 7. Light: Principle of light, fire. See this table, p. 25. Length, Width: length, width, height (dimensions of bodies, p. 26). 4 Letters: Which are related to the 4 letters of the divine name, ibid., p. 29. Light: heavenly, natural (See this table on p. 32). Perfect Light, The: It is related to the numbers 9 and 81, ibid., p. 39. Lodge, Its ornaments (Its emblems): They all contain the science. They can not be changed or altered. See our alchemic discourse, p. III.

Philosophical Liquor: Mercury, see ibid., p. 1. [107] M Motion: time, space and motion (Ternary in unity, p. 1, 2, 3, 15. Triple unity, p.15. They are symbolized by the ternary). Matter: Matter is nothing. It is the subject on which the three principles work, p. 1. It can not exist by itself, p. 1. Evil: good, evil spirits (They are perceived by the wise men within the stone, p. 2). good, evil virtue, vice (p. 2). Moral: religion, moral, and justice (Their principles contained in the stone, p. 2). Motion: time, space and motion (See p 2. They are three uncreated beings, p. 2). Death of Hiram: Emblem of putrefaction, p. 2. Number: number, measurement and weight (p. 2). Mineral Kingdom: mineral, vegetal, and animal (Three kingdoms, p. 2).

Motion: Principle of life, p. 2. M: J∴ M∴ B∴, p. 2. Mercury: sulfur, salt and mercury (p. 2, 3, 6, 21. These are found in the constitution of the universe, p. 10. These are the constitutive seminal reasons). Motion: The Holy Spirit is the principle of: motion life (Hope within the Holy Spirit, p. 3). Meditation: We need to be sober, virtuous and we need to meditate (and pray, p. 3). Motion: magnitude, situation and motion (of created beings, p. 3). Middle: beginning, middle and end (They was created by the thought of God, but they was not thought, p. 3). Mercury: sulfur, salt and mercury (They are philosophical principles, p. 3, 21. Their hieroglyphic figures, see our Geometry p. 10, 13, 21. See the Art of Reasoning our Physics, p. 19, 20). Matter: It is dead by itself, p. 3, 5, 7. Matter, Chaos: Matter prepared by God. See our Geometry, p. 2. See this table, p. 3 in the word ‘chaos.’

Motion: Represented by the level, p. 8. See our Geometry, p. 6. See the Art of Reasoning our Pysics, p. 22, 23. See the table of the Art of Reasoning our Physics in the word ‘element,’ letter E.61 Motion: Justice, p. 8. space, righteousness motion, justice (p. 8). Matter of the Stone: It was broken on the cross, p. 9. Motion: Direct and circular, p. 9. Circular Motion: It is the grinding that brings out the supernatural fire. Sacred Word of the Scotthish S∴ H∴ PH∴: This word is related to the sixteen philosophical elements, p. 9. Death: death, dissolution, putrefaction (Three things known in the degree of Master, p. 10). Master, 3º Symbolical Degree: The Master Mason must know in the death of Hiram: death dissolution putrefaction (p. 10, 15). Worlds: states, conditions, worlds (in the distribution of the universe, p. 10).

Motion: time, space, motion (in the distribution of the universe, p. 10, 5). Worlds, Three: most celestial, God celestial, Moral terrestrial, Physic (p. 10). Worlds: divine, Religion celestial, Moral terrestrial, Justice (p.10) Most Celestial World: Ternary of the Divine Oracle, p. 10. Celestial World: Foundation of the Moral, p. 10. Motion: motion, space (They are symbolized by a sand clock, p.11). Mercury: sulfur, salt, and mercury (Philosophical ternary, p.11, 21. Three alchemical principles, p.11. Mystery of the philosophical chaos, p. 7). Death: It gives life, p. 11. Mercury: One of the alchemical principles, p. 11. Matter: Its concupiscence, p. 6. Worlds Three: Three degrees of love, p. 6.

Manifestation: Nature, p. 6. Man, Mason: He must study the ternary, p. 6. Mercury: Universal matter, p. 7. Universal Matter: Mercury, p. 7. See the Art of Reasoning our Physics, p. 19, 21, 22, 23, 28. Mercury: sulfur, mercury (First matters, p. 7. See the Art of Reasoning our Physics, p. 22). Matters, Two: sulfur, mercury (p. 7). Mercury: It is not common quicksilver, but a water, p. 7. See the Art of Reasoning our Physics, p. 20, 22, 28, 28, 30. Mercury: It is a water of the sun and this water is the universal matter, p. 7. Universal Matter: Mercury, reason of the sun, p. 7. Matter of Matters: Hyle. Second Matter: See the Art of Reasoning our Physics, p. 19, 20, 22, 28, 29, 30, 15. See ‘matter, subject to corruption,’ in the table of Reasoning our Physics, in the word ‘matter,’ letter M. See our Geometry, p. 2.

Hammer: Emblem of time, p. 7. hammer, time chisel, symbolizes the workings of time (p. 7). Mobility: On the centre of the cross, p. 8. Master, the Degree of Master: Contains one of the great mysteries of the generation of stone, p. 12. Macbenac, Boo∴ Column: Place of birth of Macbenac as son of the sun, p. 12. Death: Death is joined to life, p. 12. Motion: It is accomplished by the cross, p. 12. Death of Hiram: Passion of the stone, p. 12. Motion: Intercepted by the death of Hiram, p. 12. Hammer: Time. The death of Hiram teaches us that death destroys everything, p. 12. Death of Hiram: Destruction, p. 12. Hammer: hammer, rule, lever (p. 12). Matter: It is passive to the hidden worker, p. 12. water

earth (passive matters: hyle, patient, p. 12). M∴ JVB: These three united letters contain the patient, the agent and the visible virgin, mother of our subject, p. 12. J∴ patient B∴ agent V∴ virgin Mercury: mercury, fermentation, vapors (p.12). Walls of the Temple of Solomon: They were built by the people of God representing the limits of the great circumference of generations, fixed by the spirits, p. 13. All the utensils of the interior of the Temple symbolized the interior of the great vessel or universal temple. Death: death, corruption, putrefaction, p. 15. Death: Death is the great hieroglyph of nature. It gives life, p. 15. Everything in nature dies. There is no life without death. Matrices, Three: that of the invisible virgin, that of the visible virgin, that of the Holy Spirit (p. 17, 4). Mobility: It originates in immobility, p. 18. Mobility is the action given to the immobility. First Matter: See p. 21. quintessence

first matter three principles three Divine Persons (They all are potentially contained in eternal nature, p. 21). Upper World: First mobile. First Mobile: Upper world. Quiet World: It is in its centre, p. 21. Mercury: sulfur, salt, mercury (of the philosophers, p. 21). Philosophical Multiplication: See p. 21. Male: Or fire represented by Boo∴ and Beauty columns, p. 21. Matter: Water, p. 21; first matter, p. 21. Upper World: spiritual, p. 22. Lower World: temporal, corporeal, p. 22. Black Colour: earth, black, death (p. 22). Multiplication: See ‘corruption,’ letter C of this table. Death, Its Sign: See ‘corruption,’ letter C of this table.

Mother: Father, mother and child. The child is son of science. See ‘dissolution,’ letter D, p. 5 of this table. Vivified Death: The same as dead matter that was fixed. See ‘dissolution,’ letter D, p. 6 of this table. Multiplication: See p. 8 of this table. Universal Medicine: Tincture, oil, p. 8 of this table. Mortification: It converts water into earth, p. 9 of this table. Mortification: Black colour, p. 9 of this table. Marriage of Elements: In order to operate the generation of stone, p. 11 of this table. Mercury: sun, mercury (potable gold, humid radical, p. 12). Vile Matter: clay, p. 12. Male: male, female (There is no generation without one of them. Male can not do anything without the female; female can do nothing without the male, p. 12 of this table). Upper World: In the upper world we find the sky and the earth - the first mobile that enclose: 1. celestial seeds

2. the seeds of the minerals 3. plant seeds 4. seeds of minerals (p.21). Quiet World: It includes: 1. the matter 2. the elements 3. the three beginning 4. the seven metals (p. 21). Marriage of the Elements: See this table, p. 13. Mercury: Good and evil thief, p. 15 of this table. Mercury: Hidden in the nature of fire, ibid., p. 15, 16. Mercury: Fixed and volatile, ibid., p. 16. It is a good and evil thief. It is a regenerator. It is the medicine of its own poison.

Philosophical Mercury: It is contained in the number 5, p. 16 of this table. Philosophical Mercury: It is an intermediary between the uncreated centre and the limits of the manifestation, p. 18 of this table. Manifestation: Limit of nature, p. 18, ibid. Death: It makes faith and hope vanish, p. 18, ibid. Materials: Which are used for the construction of the Temple of Solomon represent the chaos, p. 19 of this table. Macbenac: Middle Chamber62, p. 12. Evil: good, evil, life and death are spread by square, level and compass, p. 19. The Tree of God, The Good

The Knowledge of Evil

fruit of life, of love, of light

fruit of death, of wrath, of darkness

Universal study Oh man! Know thyself. Within you is hidden the treasure of science! One tree, but two kinds of fruit. And this tree is the tree of good and evil. It is the reward and the punishment. It is the tree of life and death, of love and wrath, of light and darkness. good

evil

life

death

love

wrath

light

darkness

It is always present to man as a miracle of God. Its contradiction in its fruits generates corruption, and corruption come out of death, that is to say, it is born of death, and this aspect is related to the knowledge of the evil. But the life that comes out of death is sweet because it is born of love. Man eats of its fruits and dies. This is explained to us by the S∴ Moses when he tells us that the first man ate the fruits of the forbidden tree. Oh man, seek to know thyself! Within you is hidden the treasure of all sciences! The sun shines on you. It leads you and makes you distinguish the fruits of this tree so that there is no doubt in the choice: perceive the difference of the interior of the sun and its exterior; that your eyes are not blind to discern; follow the path of Bethlehem. This is the way of the birth of the bread that should nourish you. Do not do as the great majority who, out of greed and ambition, reap both the fruit and the leaves. Some people

approach the secret but are still trapped in the trunk of the tree. It is the root where you need to stop: there is where good and evil are together and inseparable. It is there that one can not be undecided as to the choice; that your eyes be fixed on the unity of good and evil, then you will have no doubt in the choice. You will say no more to thyself: ‘I must gather this fruit from this branch or this fruit from that other.’ Your eyes will no longer wander over the fruit, but your inner eye will set on the root, for your eye will be that of wisdom (and which is at rest). Then the eternity, the invisible and the visible will appear before you; the present and the future; the terrestrial and the heavenly; the corporal and the spiritual; height and depth; the exterior and the interior. And all this is in eternal rest. Oh man! Let it be led by the eye of wisdom, through this central eye, and you will reach to this universal course and to the true knowledge of yourself. [109] Therefore, pay close attention to the planets that have turned towards its interior and that they throw their influences through their radiuses. And also notice how they are united to the centre of the ‘Sabbath,’ to this septenary which is the root of all things. You will realize that they are at the same time so many eyes which are preoccupied with satisfying their desire, that is, each of them is with its restless eye. Oh man, do not lose sight of the centre of the septenary! Its visible eye hides its invisible eye and its visible eye is the seventh that is in the centre of the others. You must know, finally, that the fruit of life, love and light is in unity with the fruit of death, wrath and darkness; that this unity is at the root of the tree of God. So I repeat, man should not reap the fruits of the tree, but go down to the root, for it is there where he can distinguish how good and evil came

into the generations and the reason why God forbade the first man from eat the fruit of science. Wheel of the Planets

Principle of Light

Principle of Darkness Principle of Fire

The figure above represents the seven planets that revolve around the septenary. When the first three qualities of good have the upper hand, the three principles of darkness are engulfed in the centre. But when the three dark principles have the upper hand, then the evil spirits enter their realms. Two principles: good evil (They have their dwellings within the seven planetary bodies. And this is the mystery of the seven seals). virtues

vices

♄

charity

♄

greed

☿

mercy

☿

envy

♂

kindness, inclination to good

♂

wrath

☉

modesty

☉

pride

☿

chastity

☿

impurity

♃

wisdom

♃

deception

☽

body

☽

flesh

This is the Senary of the Tree of the Good and Evil, p. 24, 25

The 12 Rays of Eternal Peace

Evil: good, evil (See p. 24 of the table. They are in unity, ibid., p. 24). Death: death, life (See p. 24 of this table). Death: death, wrath, darkness (See p. 24, 25 of this table).

Evil: good, evil (in the seven planets, p. 25 of this present table). Matter: It is the opposite of God. It is visible, powerless, finite and transient (p. 3). Motion: light, motion and heat of the sun (p. 5). Matter: And nature are ground by the motion of the wheel of essences in order to give nature: soul mind and body (p. 11). Mother: mother, son (united by the cross, p. 13. The cross is the inseparable union of the mother and the son). The circular motion of the cross spread the fire of life. See ‘cross, which encloses the four letters I. N. R. I. and their mysteries,’ letter C, p. 5 of this table. Measurement: measurement

upper

weight

lower

number

middle

p. 16, 20

Master: Number nine is known in the degree of Master, p. 20.

Mary, Visible Virgin: See p. 24. See this table under the word ‘visible virgin,’ letter V. Multiplication: propagation, multiplication (See this table in the word ‘corruption,’ letter C, p. 2). Nature is maintained by propagation and multiplication. Metals: Engendered by the distillation of the elements. See this table, p. 10. First Matter: One of the four main things contained in nature, p. 21. Higher world: In which we find: heaven earth The first mobile that contains the heavenly: mineral vegetal and animal seeds (p. 21). First Mobile: heaven, earth (p. 21). This is the First Mobile: the Heaven and the Earth

See the continuation of this letter in the Supplementary Table. [110] Number 3: number high head fluid, seed mineral pp. 2, 15, 16, 20 measurement

centre heart life animal weight low abdomen generation vegetal Number 3: See p. 20. Number 3: Prince time Father charity J∴ M∴ B∴, pp. 2, 15 Religion space Son faith Justice motion Holy Spirit

hope Number 3: length, width, height, p. 2. Number 3: time, space, motion (pp. 2, 4, 5, 10, 11, 15, 9). Number 3: soul, spirit, body (pp. 2, 4, 7, 10, 11, 13, 16, 9. See p. 12 of the table. Number 3: Father, Son, Holy Spirit, pp. 2, 4, 9, 15, 18, 20. Number 3: sulfur, salt, mercury (pp. 2, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 16). Number 3: kingdoms: animal vegetal mineral (pp. 2, 5, 6, 16, 18, 22, 19). Number 3: Father

time

truth

past

soul

Son

space

way

present

body

Holy Spirit

motion

life

future

spirit

Jehovah, pp. 2, 16

Number 3: past

heavenly

beginning

transient

present

uncreated

middle

created

p. 2, 3, 16.

future

eternal trinity

end

temporal trinity

Number 3: seek, ask, and knock, p. 4. Number 3: yesterday, today, tomorrow, p. 4. Number 3: the eternity, the infinite greatness, and the omnipotence (of God, p. 4). Number 3: most celestial, celestial, terrestrial triangles (in unity, p. 5). Number 3: air, sulfur, water, salt, earth mercury (pp. 5, 11, 18). Number 3: corruption

confusion

spirit of life

elaboration

soul of the spirit

explanation

of the cubic stone, pp. 5, 20.

Number 3: colours

black white, yellow

corruption

confusion

spirit of life

elaboration

of the stone, pp. 5, 6, 10, 23,20

red

soul of the spirit

explanation

Number 3: light, motion, heat (material beings, p. 5). Number 3: time, space, motion (spiritual beings, ibid.). Number 3: air, water, earth (fire is everywhere, p. 6). Number 3: faith, hope, charity (pp. 6, 7, 12, 14, 15). Number 3: square, level, plumb rule (pp. 9, 8, 20, 21). Number 3: night

confusion

dawn

elaboration

day

explanation

pp. 10, 23.

Number 3: death, dissolution, putrefaction (pp.10, 15). Number 3: essence

soul

consistence

body

existence

spirit

p. 10.

Number 3: worlds

most celestial

God

p.10.

celestial

Moral

terrestrial

Physic

divine

Religion

celestial

Moral

terrestrial

Justice

Number 3: in the worlds

Number 3: states : higher intermediary lower (p. 10). Number 3: fire, soul air, spirit earth, body water (p. 11) Number 3: strength, earth wisdom, fire beauty, air (p. 12). Number 3: form, space life, motion

p.10.

soul, time (p. 12). Number 3: white, red, rose (p. 14). Number 3: chaos or confusion, elaboration, explanation (p. 19, 20. See also p. 7 of this table). Number 3: invisible virgin

wisdom of God

time

visible virgin

nature

space

spirit of seed

seeds

motion

p.17.

Number 3: Seal of nature, p. 6. (Image of God, p. 20). See our Geometry, p. 5. Number 3: Age of the Apprentice Mason, pp. 6, 20. Number 3: Triple elements, p. 9. Number 3: First Masonic number, p. 12. Number 3: fire, soul air, spirit earth, body (manifested nature, p. 11). Number 3: It is related to the three principles, p. 21.

Number 3: Is is originated from two (1 + 2), p. 16 and 18 of this table. Number 3: Limit of the manifestation. See p. 18 of this table. Numbers 1, 3, 4, 12, 16, 33, 72: See p. 9 of our Alchemy. Numbers 3, 5, 7, 9: See p. 12 of our Alchemy, p. 15. Number 3: Principle of nature, p. 13. Numbers 3, 5, 7: See p. 13, 15. Number 1: It is originated from the Name, two come out of one and three out of two. See p. 18 of this table. Number 3: animal sensitive rational souls (p. 2 of this table). Number 3: fire air water (three columns of the great vessel, p. 11 of this table). fire, Boo∴ air, Beauty water, J∴ (p. 11 of this table).

Number 3: It is related to: Salomon Hiram, King of Tyre Hiram, Architect (p. 19 of this table). Number 3: It is born from one and two, p. 26 of this table. Number 3: Law established in nature, ibid., p. 26. Number 3: Seal of nature, ibid., p. 26. Number 3: It came out of one and two, ibid., p. 30. Number 3: It is related to: God

soul

fire

☿

See the discourse of

spirit

spirit

air, water

our Alchemy,

elements

body

earth

Number 3: Religion Moral Justice (See ibid., p. III) Three Heavens, Three Worlds: See ibid., p. III. Number 3: Stemming from two, p. 16.

p.111

If we consider the causes of motion, we will find that the number one, when added to the number two, will result in the number 3, from which we conclude that the number 3 proceeds from the two numbers that precede it. The number 3 is a law established in nature by the G∴ Arch∴ of the Universe. All beings are created in three dimensions, by which we can know exactly the measure of bodies. And these dimensions are: length width height (the first two dimensions establish the knowledge of the flat surface of a body, but a third dimension, depth or height, is still required. Thus, from the knowledge of the first two dimensions, we recognize the need for a third one which must be preceded by the first two). It is through the knowledge of the ternary that we have acquired that of man who are composed of: body soul and spirit which is the depth. The learned men of the past have recognized three basic principles, which are: salt sulfur mercury

From these principles the philosophers came to the conclusion that the Creator had imparted the image of His Divinity to all created beings, (being) in which traces of His Trinity could be found, and that this Trinity should compose the Being of beings. Thus, they recognized that: motion space and time (were uncreated beings and three essences of Divinity in unity). They also found that all numbers come from the number one repeated several times. This should make us understand that everything stems from one, that everything are potentially contained in the unity and that this unity added to number two forms the trinity, foundation of nature. It is this trinity that is the beginning and the end of all beings in nature. It is the permanent water that does not wet the hands. It is this spirit made fixed. It is this spirit necessary to everything (without which nothing can have life). This ternary unity is everywhere because everywhere we find the ternary. Our cubic stone is trine and une in the three kingdoms. It is a kind of trinity all spiritual divine

and eternal But pay close attention to these two distinctions and do not deify the matter. And in order to make sure this, you must know that the matter is without action without form and without motion And if it has these three features in itself, it is because it has borrowed them from the spiritual and Divine Trinity. Thence, do work so that you know God in His Trinity and come to understand that all is spiritual in nature, then you will be sure of the immortality of the rational soul. The number 3 is the seal of nature. It is in this seal that we find three material elements: air water and earth (which are subject only to God - man has no power over them). Their combination produces three subordinate elements which, extracted by resolution, show that they are the closer in the generation of the mixtures. These elements are: salt sulfur and mercury

These three elements are generated from the three different combinations of the first ones: earth and water mixed produce mercury

☿

The conjunction of earth and air makes up sulfur water and condensed air generates salt The fire of nature, influenced by the cooperating virtue of them, is the formal principle of all things. We observe here that we must not believe that the first elements can generate the subordinates ones or we would be in error. [111] mercury is only made of a fatty earth ☿ and of a water of air (mixed very perfectly) sulfur is only formed by the commixtion of a very subtle and dry earth and of a moist air salt is the union of a fat and pontic salty water

and of a crude air

(condensed salt). These subordinate elements make up all mixtures in nature. The mixtures are divided into three kingdoms, to wit: mineral vegetal and animal

Continuation of the Number 3 The knowledge of God is not of a common nature. If we wish to conquer it, we must study well and conceive the divine Trinity in eternity infinity of space and perpetuity of motion For these three spiritual essences are inherent only to the person of God, in Whom this unity dwells. Thus, let us turn our gaze towards: 1. this divine essence 2. the eternity 3. the infinite magnitude 4. the omnipotence In which the principle of motion and life dwells. Then we will have no doubt on the existence of the Being of beings. We need to observe three aspects in the philosophical chaos: 1. first and formless water 2. the vivifying fire from which water has been stirred 3. the manner in which particular philosophical beings have been produced and drawn from this chaos or common being. There are three accidents in nature: generation, birth conservation, life destruction, death

There are three aspects in the created and material beings whose opposites must necessarily compose the Divine Trinity: 1. the created and material beings are visible: they have beginning and end. 2. every material being occupies only a limited space. 3. all created beings are immobile by themselves or when they apparently have motion, this is merely a borrowing. The opposites 1. Invisibility and eternity are the opposite of visibility and fleeting time and the end of the created beings are the first divine essence. 2. The infinite magnitude that designates the infinity of space is the opposite of created beings and the limited space which they occupy. They compose the second essence of God. 3. The presence of motion and life are the opposites of the existence of immobility and death that are inherent to matter. They compose the third divine essence. In order to help our intellect to understand the ternary essence of divinity, le∴ perceive that yesterday today and tomorrow (are three attributes that compose the Trinity). The day before time never had a beginning. Here is the eternity of God! The day which succeeds63 the day before and is the interval between the day before and the next day, is of a infinite magnitude. Here is the infinite magnitude of God!

If the night is dissipated with the coming of the sun, its darkness submits with much more reason to the eternal light, which never obscures nor ever will obscure the luminosity that comes from the day before and today; and it will never end because the motion of the day before towards tomorrow, through present day, can never be interrupted. And here is the omnipotence of God! S∴ Strength W∴ Wisdom B∴ Beauty These are the names of the three pillars that sustain the universal temple. These three pillars are related to: Strength, Hiram Abif Wisdom, Solomon Beauty, Hiram, King of Tyre Number 3: It is related to the: alliance promise perfection (between Solomon and the King of Tyre). Alliance of God with the creature Promise of God (Abraam) Perfection: the Name - flesh and blood. Number 3: faith hope

and charity (three virtues that are related to Hiram Abif, Hiram, King of Tyre and Solomon).

It is the square stone of the Perfect Master on which are inscribed four circles and four squares: the four circles represent: 1. the immensity 2. the power 3. the existence 4. the unity (of the G∴ Arch∴ of the Univ∴).

Note: Place the power first, the immensity in continuation; the existence and unity in the circle of the centre. The four squares symbolize the four corners of the world on which the Supreme Being extend His power. Number 4 Number 4: Four elements: fire

active ones

air

father

fire

sun pp.7,8.

water earth

passive ones

mother

water

moon

fire air water

salt sulfur

earth Number 4: Four humours of man. bile, fire blood, air phlegma, water melancholy, earth

mercury

The bile rules throughout the body as a fire spread throughout the whole nature, pp. 8, 19. melancholy, phlegma: ☿ blood, phlegma: phlegma, blood: Number 4: Four cardinal virtues: justice fortitude temperance prudence (p. 8). Fire, bile and justice spread by the extension throughout of the universe. fat earth, melancholy, prudence: ☿ Blood water, blood phlegma, temperance fortitude, subtle earth, melancholy, prudence: Moist air, blood, fortitude, pontic salty water, phlegma, temperance, crude air, blood, fortitude: Number 4: It is related to the four corners of the universe, the four parts of man, to wit: 1 2

head the hand

direction right

constitution

end nature

science subject

pp. 10, 11, 13.

3

the

left

distribution

condition

subject

gathering

nature

system

hand 4

the two feet

Number 4: Four trees in unity with the tree of life. the tree of nature the tree of the law

cedar

water

acacia

earth

good,

choice,

evil

sorrow- A

health, illness

sight, vision - B

faitful the tree of grace

palm tree

air

people,

good, evil,

ungodly

the king - C

people death, life, the tree of glory

oak

malediction, benediction,

fire

rewards,

the judge D

reproach

A

Eve

Adam

the

old

science

new

justice

serpent B

Joshua

Aaron

the serpent

p.14

C

Mary

Jesus

redemption

redemption

D

Death

life

sanctification

judgement

[112] earth,

good, evil,

prudence,

water

health, illness

temperance

good, evil

earth,

faithful

air

people,

ungodly people health, illness

water,

faithful

air

people,

ungodly people

fire

☿

prudence, fortitude

temperance, fortitude

judgement fire, jupiter air, Juno water, Neptune earth, Pluto

Number 4: water

J∴

pp. 4, 17, 19, agent

earth

F∴

fire

Boo∴

patient

18.

air

Beauty

Number 4: Colours: black, confusion white, yellow, elaboration red, explanation (pp. 20, 23). Number 4: The elements are triples and quadruples. fire air water earth (triples and quadruples, p. 23). Number 4: It is related to the four elements and to their spirits, p. 9. Number 4: Patient, p. 9. Number 4: The elements are triple and quadruple and produce the numbers 12 and 16, p. 9. Number 4: Elementary qualities, p. 13. Number 4: It is related to the seeds, to wit: 1. celestial seeds 2. mineral seeds 3. vegetal seeds 4. and animal seeds (p. 20 and 24 of this table). Number 4: It is related to the quiet world that includes: 1. the matter

2. the elements 3. the three beginning 4. and the seven metals (See p. 21 of our Alchemy and 24 of this table). Number 3 and 4: They are related to the elements, p. 9. Number 4: It refers to the four elements. Consider here that the four elements came from the thought of God, as from a matrix in which they were comprised until the moment of Creation. And these elements which were only an idea or thought, God, by means of the irradiation (impact and reverberation) that was made of His Divinity, made them animated and corporal after having subdued them to nature. It is from this subordination that is born all generated compositions. The wise, all the ancient philosophers, concerning the four elements, considered the number four as the symbol of nature and as the single number that constitutes the Divine essence by representing the four most essential perfections that are: 1. His unity 2. His infinite power 3. His kindness 4. and His wisdom Ponder well on this and consider that number 9, which is the square root of number 3, provides the philosophical basis for the nine choirs of angels and is also the multiplier of the number four, which gives the number 36. And this number is the same as that of the soul of the world. Note also that, still in connection with the number nine, we discover that when the first four odd numbers and the first four even ones are joined, they

also give the number 36, as we can see by the following progressions: 1. 1 + 3 = 4 + 5 = 9 + 7 = 16. It thus follows that we also find the number 16 in the numbers 1, 3, 5, 7, which are related to the 16 philosophical elements. These four numbers are included in the four letters of Jehovah. 2. 2 + 4 = 6 + 6 = 12 + 8 = 20. In the number two, we find the two agents of nature that finally lead us to the active and passive elements. In the number 6, we find the senary of the generations. In the number twelve, we find the band of universal energy. In addition, if we add the number 16 to the number 20 we will have 36, number that will necessarily refer to the number four and the four letters of the Name of God. This Name is uttered by three aspirations, as if it had come out of the ternary of this trinity in unity in the uncreated centre, from which emerged the manifestation of nature that contains itself the three principles and the four elements in unity in the septenary. Since the units do not exceed the number 9, any number that goes beyond it is a composite number. Nature, however, is invariable. It is contained in number 9, in which we find, as we have just said, four odd and four even numbers that by means of a double operation give the number 36. However, from these first two operations a third must occur and is necessarily equal to this same number 36, as we can see by the following operations: 1

3

5

7

9

|

2

|

4

|

6

|

8

|

1

+

3

+

5

+

7

=

16

0 under the number 9. under the

2

+

4

+

6

+

8

=

20

number zero, that is, in the invisible.

16 1

3

+

20

5

=

result of the first

36

7

two operations. 9 Note: The number 10 is related to the unity and cannot be included here

2/3

4/7

6/11

8/15

1/10

because it is beyond the number 9, and for that reason that numeral is already present.

11/36: number equal to the result of the first two operations. the numbers 1 - 3 - 5 – 7

the numbers 3 - 5 - 7 – 9 the numbers 2 - 4 - 6 – 8 the numbers 3 - 7 - 11 - 15 (all of them give 16, numbers that are related to the four elements). Consider again that the number four has a singular property, for by uniting the four numbers from which it comes, it gives the number 10 which belongs only to itself. That is the reason why it is considered as the symbol of nature and as the one representing all the wonders of the universe. 1 + 2 = 3 + 3 = 6 + 4 = 10 If the number four is the symbol of nature, then we must necessarily divide it into four parts: 4 seasons 4 winds 4 humours 4 angels 4 prophets (animals) The four prophets are: Matthew, human Mark, lion Luke, ox John, eagle See the table of the Art of Reasoning our Physics under the word ‘elements,’ letter E.

p. 6 of our Geomtery, p. 6 of our Geometry, p.10 of our Alchemy These are the four letters of the Name of God inscribed in the triangle related to the number 10. Permutation of the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 4

3

2

1

1

4

3

2

2

1

4

3

3

2

1

4

Total of 16 letters that give the number 10 both 10 vertically and horizontally. Permutation of the four letters ‫יהוה‬ ‫ה‬

‫ו‬

‫ה‬

‫י‬

‫י‬

‫ה‬

‫ו‬

‫ה‬

‫ו‬

‫ה‬

‫י‬

‫ה‬

‫ה‬

‫י‬

‫ה‬

‫ו‬

Total of 16 letters related to the 16 elements. Permutation of the numbers 1, 3, 5, 7 1

3

5

7

3

5

7

1

5

7

1

3

7

1

3

5

Total of 16 numbers that give the number 16, both vertically and horizontally. Permutation of the numbers 2, 4, 6, 8 2

4

6

8

4

6

8

2

6

8

2

4

8

2

4

6

Total of 16 numbers that give the number 20, both vertically and horizontally.

Permutation of the same numbers according to the order of the Hebrew letters 7

5

3

1

1

7

5

3

3

1

7

5

5

3

1

7

Permutation of the same numbers according to the order of the Hebrew letters 8

6

4

2

2

8

6

4

4

2

8

6

6

4

2

8

Page 29A [115] Jod

He

Vau

He These are the four Hebrew

‫י‬

‫ה‬

‫ו‬

‫ה‬

letters of the Divine Name that must be written thus: ‫יהוה‬

fire

air

water

earth

These are the four elements and their relationship with the four

Hebrew

compose world.

letters

the

that

elementary

These are the four angels of Michael

Raphael

Gabriel

Uriel

the celestial world or the spiritual

spirits

of

the

elements. bile

blood

phlegma

melan-

These are the four humours of

choly

the man or microcosm. This

je

ho

va

is

the

ternary

pronunciation of the Name of God These are the four numbers that belong to the four letters,

1

2

3

4

letters which are enclosed in the number 10. See p. 28 of this table.

2

3

4

These are the three numbers that belong to the first three elements that give the number nine, which belongs to the circumference that encloses itself senary. They are the

centre. It is the septenary, the dwelling

of

rest

and

the

habitation of the number 10. These are the four letters that belong to the regenerating fire I

R

I

N64

which is spread in all nature. The

four

quadruples

elements

are

and

give

16

the

four

odd

elements. These

are

numbers which belong to the 1

3

5

7

elements and which give the number 16. See the present table, p.28 These

are

the

four

even

numbers that belong to the 2

4

6

8

elements and which give the number 20, numbers 16 and 20 which when added gives the number 36 (see this table, p. 28).

3

7

11

15

These are other four numbers that belong to the elements and which give the number 36. See this

table,

p.

28.

These

elements are placed on the

cross which, by its motion, rules their spirits so that they give to the matter: action form and

motion.

See

this

table, p. 26. If we place four equilateral triangles within a circumference, this circle will be divided into twelve parts. These twelve parts will be the dwelling of the elements. The centre of the cross, containing all things, will be found in this centre: 1. the number 10, with regard to the 4 elements which belong to the number 1, 2, 3, 4. 2. the number 7, which is dwelling of the rest, the centre of the regenerating fire which is shown in the visible sun. 3. the number 12 that comes from the centre and yet belonging to the first three elements: air, water, earth. This is because the number 12 comes from the centre of the regenerating fire and belongs to the Zodiacal Band. Each division of this Band is subdivided into three, which gives the number 36 and belongs to the soul of the world represented by the four letters I.N.R.I. which is in the centre of the cross with the four visible elements in order to make us understand: how these elements were put in action how they did receive their form and how they were set into motion

The Duodecimal of the Elements

These are the elements repeated three times within the circle, which gives the number twelve and which determines the band of the universal energy.

This circunference is then divided into twelve parts, each of them are subdivided into three and also gives the number 36. This is how the elements are triple and quadruple. The Decimal of the Elements

These are the four elements that form the cross, whose centre is related to number 10. These elements are placed according to the permutation of numbers 1, 2, 3, 4. See p. 28 of this table. The Septenary of the Elements

These are the three constituent elements of nature that make us know how the central fire, this regenerating fire, is spread everywhere by the motion of

the cross. You need to carefully study the three crosses above. Note that they have no explanation in order to understand them, except through the spirit of your intellect. Element 4: See p. 29 of this table. Number 4: It is related to the: existence immensity power and unity (of the G∴ Arch∴ of the Universe. See this table, p. 27). and to the four corners of the world: North South East and West (See the present table on p. 27, on which the omnipotence of the G∴ A∴ O∴ T∴ U∴ is extended). These eight aspects are represented by four circles and four squares. See this table, p. 27. Number 4: It is related to the four letters I∴ N∴ R∴ I∴. Number 4: It is related to the upper world, heaven and earth, first mobile. In this first mobile, we find: 1. celestial seeds 2. mineral seeds

3. vegetal seeds 4. animal seeds (p. 21). [114] Number 4: It is related to the calm world that includes: 1. the matter 2. the elements 3. the three beginnings 4. the seven metals (p. 21). Number 4: It is triple, p. 17. Number 4: It is related to the four letters of the Name of God ‫יהוה‬. See this table, p. 29. Number 4: It is related to the four main parts of the celestial nature. See this table, p. 22. Number 5: It is related to the five aspects of the three attributes of God, to wit, past, present, and future, p. 3. See also this table, p. 28.

Matter is in the three attributes of God all spiritual and this spirituality has been drawn out of: 1. the spiritual 2. the visible from the invisible 3. the impotent from the omnipotence 4. the finite from the infinite 5. the transient from the eternal (p. 3). See also this table, p. 28. Number 5: See p. 12. It is the second Masonic number. Number 5: See p. 12. Number 5: It is related to the Holy Spirit p. 10 of this table. Number 5: It is related to the microcosm, to the corporal nature that includes:

1. the planets 2. the three principles 3. the four elements 4. the tincture 5. the terrestrial matter (p. 22) Number 5: It belongs to the philosophical mercury, p. 16 of this table. Number 1, 2, 3, 4, 12, 16, 72, 33: See p. 9. Number 5: Star of the Radical Spirit who proceeds from all things, p. 19. Number 5: It is the centre of the quaternary. It is the throne of the three kingdoms that is divided into four branches. This throne is built above the root of the Holy Spirit, of this Radical Spirit who proceeds from all things.

Vegetal, Animal, Mineral

These three kingdoms are in unity because they are everywhere in nature. Moreover, the spirit which comprises them is the triple Universal Spirit, who belongs to the number five and therefore to the number 15. Thus it can be observed by means of the following permutation: 1

2

3

4

5

2

3

4

5

1

3

4

5

1

2

4

5

1

2

3

5

1

2

3

4

Here we find the number 15 both vertically and horizontally. This number is equal to 5 multiplied by 3, for 5 is 3 as well as the spirit is 3.

the heaven and ♁ the earth father and mother

This is number 5 in the centre of the number 4. It is the spirit of the spirits of the four quadruple elements and the Divine essence. If you have carefully studied all that I said earlier about nature, about the elements, about the three kingdoms, about motion, about life, then you will can see yourself in the mirror of the quaternary, from which the four radiuses of the light surround nature on their centre, in order to diffuse the fire of life - this divine instrument without which everything would be only chaos. This fire is the philosophical fire that operates incessantly. God always holds the centre of this fire. If you want to become a philosopher, never turn away from nature. It is your mirror - it is in it that you see yourself. It is for this reason that I drew this divine mirror, whose centre is the residence where we find God and nature, heaven and earth. It is only after you have looked in wonder in this mirror that you can say: ‘O great God, how Thy works are admirable!’ Number 5: It is related to the divine and natural essences, p. 23. Number 5: It is related to the flaming star that contains in it the supernatural fire, p. 13. Number 5: Or the 5 divisions of the microcosm or small world, which are: 1. the planets whose sun holds the centre 2. the three principles 3. the elements

4. the tincture 5. the terrestrial matter (p. 22). Number 5 and 15: They belong to the Holy Spirit, p. 30 of this table. Number 5: It is related to: 1. a quadruple element 2. a planet 3. an intelligent spirit 4. a measure 5. a reason (These five aspects are present in all the members of man. See the discourse of our Alchemy, p. III). [115] Number 6: It is related to the six days of the creation mentioned by the V∴ S∴ Moses, number in which centre we find the seventh one. Consider carefully that these six days are only philosophical. We must understand these days as being the operations of sublimation and physical separation of the: subtle from the thick light from the darkness heaven from the earth and the agent from the patient.

This is the philosophical senary in which we means the six operations in order to separate: 1. the subtle from the thick 2. the light from the darkness 3. the heaven from the earth 4. the agent from the patient Number 6: Tree of good and evil, p. 25 of this table. Number 7: See above. Number 6 and 7: All things are originated from chaos by means of them, p. 4, 5. Number 7: Third Masonic number, p. 12. Number 7: Agent and patient, p. 13. Number 7: Numbers 3, 5, 7 are potentially contained in our subject, p. 13.

Number 7: Centre and root of all things, p. 25 of this table. Number 7: It includes: 1. the seven metals 2. time divided by the space of seven days 3. the seven planets

Saturn, Saturday, lead Jupiter, Thursday, tin Mars, Tuesday, iron Sun, Sunday, gold Venus, Friday, copper Mercury, Wednesday, quicksilver Moon, Monday, silver 7 planets

7 days 7 metals (It should be noted here that there are only six metals that can be stretched or extended under the hamme∴ work - mercury only being exempted because it is metal and not metal). Number 7: Accomplishment of the stone, p. 13. Number 7: The agent operates on the patient by the number 7, p 13. Number 7: Elements on the cross. See this table, p. 29. Number 7: In it we find: 1. the philosophical mercury 2. the philosophical sulfur 3. the philosophical salt 4. the male 5. the female 6. the child 7. the angel and the spirit (p. 22) Number 7: See this present table, p. 31. Number 7: Dwelling of the Rest, ibid., p. 33. Number 7: It is related to the 7 forms of nature, ibid., p. 36. Number 7: It is found on the centre of the cross, ibid., p. 47, 46. Number 7: Seven spirits of God, ibid., p. 44.

Number 8: These are the eight heavens, the wheel of essences, from which the sun holds the centre. And the sun being placed at its centre (as seventh form) is thus arranged to penetrate the other six forms or planets that revolve around it. It is this penetration that we find contained in the eighth number. Notice here that the upper planets are male and the inferior ones are female. Saturn Jupiter Mars (These are agents and as such, of the nature of fire and therefore of the spirit diffused in generations). Venus Mercury Moon (These are patient, of the nature of the air). From which we must conclude that the lower planets are of feminine sex. They have the matrix in them and the higher one the tincture of the matrix. The agent and the patient are mutually engendered: the superior engenders the inferior and the inferior generates the superior, however they are generated mutually and reciprocally so that they constitute a single body, of which the sun is the heart. The soul desires to possess the spirit and the spirit draws the soul into the body because the body began to attract the spirit. These are their desires - of the soul and the body - which give the body the spirit and the soul. This makes our visible cubic stone to receive: soul spirit

and body If you begin with Saturn, following the wheel of the planets, you will reach the sun, that is, the seventh number where the majesty of the Eternal rests. And this rest is the centre of the ternary cross, for the ternary rests upon the cross. It is the Word of freedom of God in the creation of the generations. The Word was generated as a radius that drew the great circumference of universe, which belongs to number 9. This number rests on the centre of the triangle. There we find this number as the limit or end of nature, the luminosity of Go∴ unity and His glory spread within the great Temple of the universe. This glory is the threefold divine essence that originated through the sun, and this origin is the eighth number that produced the ninth one - because one can not exist without the other. Now, if we want to find this eighth number, after having traveled the wheel of the seven planets - which are the seven forms of nature - we must enter the centre of the sun, penetrate it, then we will know how the Word was originated, for this Word rests on the cross, having in itself the triple essence, and how the number 10 belongs to God. Then, counting from 1 to 10, we will have the number of the cross. However, counting from one to 10, we will realize that there is a numerical principle that belongs to God alone, and that number is the first unit which we find repeated 9 times in generations. Thus, there will remain only nine visible units. That is why we must stop at number 10, number that the creature cannot scrutinize, for it is not allowed to go beyond the number nine. Moreover, the number 10 is hidden under the number nine, that is, the centre from which the Word originated dwells in God. In this way, let us not seek to scrutinize the threefold essence in the hidden unit, but let us search

it in the things which the Word made visible by the manifestation of the will of the Eternal. Then we will find the Word, flesh and blood on the cross, having in it the tenth number because God, being Creator, is united with the creature. Thus, 10 times 10 is 100; 10 times 100 is 1000 and these three numbers are the cube of our pure cubic stone, spotless by terrestrail nature. I tell you again: when you arrive at the seventh number, which is the sun, and have crossed its fire and reached the eighth number, then you will understand the number 9, which being carried in the centre of the cross (on number 10), you will have the end of nature, that is, the noble stone that will have in it the number 100 on the cross and 1000 in majesty. And this is a sum about which we said earlier when speaking about the number 10. [116] Natural temporal Light, p. 23.

This is the triple essence found in nature with its visible number. This is the number of the Word65 laid on the cross, which hides within itself the number of the Majesty of God. This is the ternary found on the cross. This is the Word made flesh and blood on the outer cross. It is you human! Heavenly eternal Light, p. 23.

This is the triple essence of God included in His Majesty outside nature and hidden in nature. This is the internal triangle laid on the cross. This is the number of the Word, hidden in the eternal centre. This is the inner ternary hidden in the Word made flesh and blood. It is you man because in you is the word ‘Christ’! Man has two crosses, two triangles, a visible and invisible ternary, two numbers - a terrestrial and a divine one. And he has these features because the spirit is united to his body, for the spirit has attracted the soul to him. It is by the operation of this spirit, by its ternary unity with God and the Verb, that its formless matter has received form and life. animal ternary, 999 divine ternary, 1000 makes 1999 which is the union of Divinity with humanity, and yet this number is only a thousand because everything must return to unity.

Man has two triangles within him and these triangles are tripartite. He has two crosses within him: a heavy, terrestrial cross and a light one, divine cross. We should not be surprised if our cubic stone, placed on the cross of nature, endures death since it is through corporal death that it must receive spiritual life. I invite you to understand me well. And if you understand me you will not go beyond the confines prescribed for you. Work for the greater glory of God and you will be rewarded for your work. However, leave the matter alone because matter is dead; if it lives, its life is only a loan that it must return. That is the reason why all matter must die! And through its own death that it defeats death by means of a regenerative resurrection in order to maintain the glory of the Creator and to make your souls savour eternal goodness. Leave all the sophists be and go out into nature because nature is the school of the Holy Spirit. Yet, who is this master which presides over the school of nature? This master is the subject that we must seek and know. It is the radical spirit, this root of the tree of all beings. It is the transmuter of all things. It is the philosophical potable gold. It is the one that proceeds from God and nature, of which the nature of man is the summation. As such, it is one that proceeds from God and the Word. It is the one which is united with man and gives man the soul of the corporeal and spritual life. Finally, it is the universal spirit - triple in the nature of the three beginnings and quadruple in the elements. It is quadruple as the centre of the ternary. It is quintuple because it holds the centre of the quaternary.

In order to explain this spirit, we need to study its operations, that which the ancient philosophers have done in different ways and especially by means of chemistry. And since these (purely material) operations could lead to serious mistakes, they designated their operations by the name of alchemy. Since their alchemy is the search for the stone that transmutes metals into gold, they have always been careful to warn that their gold and their metals are not the vulgar ones. But since few have understood and many will not understand, most of them have fallen and will fall into sophistic absurdity. This ought to be a warning for the reader of my book, which will remain a veritable chaos if interpreted to the letter. It is not about writing beautiful sentences. The art of writing is simply a convention that obeys its own principles. The man of nature flees from anything that satisfies vanity. And you can be sure that those who come out of common schools come out with their heads filled with the idea of writing sophisticated phrases. However, whoever enters the school of nature with a desire to hear the lessons of the Holy Spirit will come to know how useless all that he has learned is. In nature everything is but a mute language. There is nothing that can fathom it except for the spirit and that is enough to instruct us. Thus, science has no need to write, no need to write beautiful sentences in order for us to understand all that nature teaches in a basic, clear and enlightening way, without double meaning, whereas the masters of the profane schools, having the capacity to seek out and write a sentence in which they can be understood and understand themselves, end up falling from error to error. Rest assured that a shepherd who has never seen a single letter can become

very accomplished in science because he is a man of nature. Thus, leave these schools be. Get out from their seats, enter into nature and begin to study it as if you have never learned anything before, for if you mix up what you learn in nature with that which you have learned in common schools, then you will become a dangerous sophist. I implore you to work for the greater glory of God. Leave the dark matter be and remember that there is a hidden cause that gives form, motion and life. Number 8: See this table, p. 31. Number 9: The temple of Solomon is our stone in its perfect glory symbolized by the number 9. Number 12: It is related to the 12 radiuses of the eternal rest. See this table, p. 25. [117] Number 9: This is the number 3 which came out of the numbers 1 and 2.

Notice that the first centre represents the centre of God that is shared, in its Divine freedom, with the generations. The second centre is the pact of God the Son, of love, of this eternal Word of nature potentially contained in the uncreated centre. These two symbolize the numbers one and two which are nothing, but which are something in manifestation. And the manifestation is the radius of the Holy Spirit, the operator of the will of God in the creation of the generations. Therefore, the number 3 is all spiritual being comprised in the thought of God. This number is the demonstrating intermediary from which we conclude that the first number rests on the radius. And when the radius is taken in order to trace the great and incommensurable circumference of generations, then this number 3, all spiritual, has appeared in the triangle. Then the quaternary follows the ternary and so on until it composes the image of the septenary of nine equal sides. Since the septenary is the centre of eternal peace, the number nine is likewise found in this centre. And here we come to the end of the operations of nature. Note well, as I have told

you: We cannot go beyond the number nine because after this we find the number 10 which belongs only to God. The triangle of nature has not arisen previously during generations which the quaternary became itself the divisor of nature. And God has transported Himself in each of His divisions because this number belongs to Him: just as the ternary belongs to the Son of His love, so also the centre of the ternary is like that of the quaternary. However, these two numbers would be in a state of chaos without the Spirit that possesses the centre of these numbers. Just as the radius possesses the intermediary place between the two centres (the created and uncreated), so also this spirit, proceeding from numbers 3 and 4, is the quintenary that forms the double radiuses which keeps the ternary and the quaternary. And this is the explanation of the proportions of the square and the mystery of the right-angled triangle. Note also that this double radius is nothing more than the diameter of the circumference that encompasses all things. In this way the square becomes the principle of the cross and this cross is the motion that spreads the spirit of life in generations, that is, in every being allocated by it according to the proportional distances. If we transfer the numbers 3, 4 and 5 to the spirit of radius, we will find 1)º the number 3, which in nature belongs to the Son and to the Father outside of nature, since this number already existed in potential before the generations within the uncreated centre, before the manifestation; 2)° The number 4, which belongs to God, becomes the number of nature as if it contained all the elements themselves. In this way, this number becomes the generative matrix, in a way that the number three is related to the Father (heaven), while the number four becomes the mother, that is, earth, which contains in it in a potential and chaotic form, the other three elements.

It is to make us understand these matters that the V∴ S∴ Moses tells us: ‘In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.’ And when he tells us further on that the Holy Spirit hovered over the surface of the waters that covered the abyss, it is to make us understand that this spirit is the universal spirit, the proceeding one, without which there would never have been any manifestation. By God, in nature, becomes the father; God, the Son, the Word, and the Word is the mother of nature; and God, the Holy Spirit, in nature, become this radical humid, the principle of life, the messenger of God, finally the philosophical mercury, not yet generated, because the spirit is not generated, but the generated comes from number three and four. And what is generated begets within itself the Holy Spirit, that is, this fifth element, which is elevated and descends in order to transmute all things. It only attracts the soul, it only makes it rise back to its place. Finally, it only covered the visible virgin with its shadow, which by uniting with her, imparted her its generative virtue. It is through this conveying that the mother of the Word engendered the Word, and Nature received form, spirit and soul. And all this is contained within the number nine. Be very careful! When the V∴ S∴ Moses tells us that the Holy Spirit has covered the visible virgin with its shadow, this is to make us understand that everything which was created is simply nothing: since nature has a beginning it must have an end and God, in His freedom, can withdraw His will. In the end, there is only God who is eternal.

Top left triangle: This is the basic ternary. Top right triangle: Here we have each ternary raised to the power of two.66 The number 27 is in the centre. Middle left triangle: This is the quaternary in the centre of the ternary. Middle right triangle: Here we have each ternary raised to the power of three.67 The number 81 is in the centre. Bottom left triangle: This is the triple ternary. The number 9 is in the centre. Bottom right triangle: This is the value of each angle of the equilateral triangle.The number 180 is in the centre.

If we add the number 3 to its square which is 9, we will have the number 12. If we add at this number 12 its cube, which is 27, and if we add the largest square of the number 9, which is 81, we will have the number 120, which being multiplied by three will give the number 360, which it is related to the division of the circumference as a product of the number 9. Pay attention that the number 9 multiplied by 4 gives the number 36. This number 36, just like the number 9 is the multiplicand which needs its multiplier and that this multiplier is the number 10, for only God has the power to multiply by His Spirit. So 10 times 9 is 90 and 10 times 36 is 360. The number 36 is the square root of the number 6, of which the septenary holds the centre. If you continue from the number 1 up to 6, the multiplication of these numbers will likewise give 360. 1 multiplied by 1 gives

1

2 multiplied by 1 gives

2

which gives the number

3

After the number 3 we have the multiplier 4 which gives

12

then the multiplier 5 which gives

60

finally the multiplier 6 which gives

120

Number 9: It contains the 3 ternaries, p. 4. It occupies the centre. See the table above.

Number 9: It is the perfect light because it contains the triple essence of God, p. 5. The number 9 multiplied by 3 gives 27, which also multiplied by 3 gives 81. 9, 27, 81: these are the three cubes. Number 3 is known in the Apprentice degree, p. 5. Number 9 is known in the Master degree, p. 5, 20. Number 27 and 81 are known in the Scottish degree, p. 5, 20. Numbers 3∴ 5∴ 7∴ 9∴: See p. 9. The sum of these numbers gives the number 24. Number 9: The 9 philosophical sublimations. See p. 13. Number 9: Purification of the stone. See p. 13. Numbers 3∴ 5∴ 7∴ 9∴: Their relationship with the 4 letters of Go∴ Name. See p. 15. Number 9 and 81: The operations of nature are ended. See p. 18 of this table. See also p. 33. See this table, p. 19, 28, 31. Number 9: It belongs to the Word. See ibid., p. 31. It holds the centre of the ternary. See this table, p. 33. [118] The nine arches of the patriarch Enoch)

Ninth Arch Number 9: It is related to the nine arches of the Royal Arch. The ninth arch represents the end of all things, the border from where the triangle emerges from the darkness and makes light appear. When we say ‘end,’ we also mean ‘beginning,’ for in nature death gives life and darkness, light. Jibulum falls down three arches

distillation by

Jibulum rises up three arches

sublimation by

Jibulum falls down again six arches

distillation by

Jibulum rises up

sublimation by

Jibulum falls down nine arches

distillation by

Jibulum and his two fellows go down

sublimation by

3 3 6 6 9 9

Jibulum and his two companions go down the nine arches and rise up again by the number 27. Number 9: This number is related to the pronunciation of the Divine Name. In order to pronounce this sacred Name, we need to be necessarily in three persons because this Name is triple and yet it is only one, composed of three syllables: The first person must utter ‘Je.’ The second ‘ho.’

And the third ‘vah.’ And that at the same time so that all three pronounce ‘Jehovah.’ According to what I have just said, we will no longer be surprised at why the death of Hiram Abif is considered the loss of the Name. This pronunciation was lost in the Masonic lodges because the modern day Masons are all very attached to the letter only. They believe that by pronouncing the letters of the Name separately, they have both possession and pronunciation. The pronunciation of the Name has degenerated and this degeneration has been very useful, for this has prevented its desecration. The Worshipful and the two Wardens are the only ones who must possess the Word, but since the introduction of the annual appointments brought pride and vanity to the hearts of the Masons, these three workers do not cease to be in conflict. Freemasonry has changed insensibly in its character: it has been more occupied in placing the emblems of the Word in the lodges according to the custom of the secular world. And even their symbolic forms were altered and so in a way the lodges became no more than worldly and profane lounges. It may be said that all that constitutes the science of the luminous Word is no more than mere confusion. The Word must be pronounced in a secret and hidden place. Moses, Aaron and Joshua pronounced it in the Tabernacle once a year at the sound of the instruments and the people so that it was not heard. Solomon, Hiram, King of Tyre and Hiram Abif have pronounced it in the secret vault built under the Holy of the Holies in the Temple.

Peter, James and John have heard the pronunciation on Mount Tabor: The Word/Man, Moses and Elijah pronounced it before them and they saw the effects of this pronunciation. The Word must be pronounced yet the idea behind the Word can not be pronounced. The idea remains in the heart and the heart is the first centre of the Word in which it rests without being manifest. God imagined the Word (if we can explain ourselves thus) and the Word was in its ternary unity not manifested. The Word ‘fiat’ was pronounced, the Holy Spirit carried it on the radiuses of generations, then the Word was threefold manifested within the second centre (the centre of the nature), which is found everywhere: that is why it is necessary to pronounce it. It must be pronounced by aspiration. It must come out of the heart by the way of the spirit which forms it in the mouth. Then the mouth utters it and the Word is manifested in its second centre. Note that the numbers 3 and 4 are at rest in the number seven. The number 7 is in the centre of the cross and it is in this centre that we find the Word. The number 12 (product of 3 multiplied by 4) is likewise in the centre of the cross because this number divides the circumference into 12 parts, in each of which the elements have their triple dwellings. The number 9 is the square of the number 3. This number is also on the cross as the end of everything and as comprising all things, for it belongs to the circumference.

Likewise, this number is the symbol of the triple Divine essence that we find in the nine choruses of the celestial court – both outside and inside nature – because these choruses are inseparable from the Godhead due to His union as Creator with its creature, the Spirit being the indissoluble bond. Thus, the Word is threefold and three is tripartite. It can only be pronounced by nine aspirations. His Name is ‘Jehovah.’ It was thus that He called Himself to Moses when the luminous triangle appeared him in the burning bushes. This is the order we must observe in order to pronounce it.

First aspiration: triple in unity, Second aspiration: triple in unity, Third aspiration: triple in unity in the way that 3 persons pronounce the Word by means of three aspirations

The Word must be pronounced by aspiration because aspiration is the breath of life and the Word is life. Life is enclosed in the great circumference of the generations, to which belongs the number 9. The spirit of life is the universal soul (Holy Spirit). Thus, do not profane this Word. If I am giving you its pronunciation here, remember that it is the fruit of my meditation and that I could have kept it in secrecy. [119] Therefore, be three in order to pronounce the Word, and the Word will be in the midst of you. Do not pronounce it in vain. Know that the Divine intelligences68 tremble at its mere pronunciation and worried in order to know who calls God by His name. Know also that the Word flies away on the ray of the spirit up to the limits of the generations. The Word is one: 1, unity; It is double in the unity of the Creator with the creature: 2; It is threefold because it has the ternary and the three principles in itself: 3; It is fourfold because it is the name of God composed of four letters and it is filled with elemental spirits: 4; It is fivefold because it has the fifth element (spirit) in itself: 5; It is senary by the operation of its radius: 6; It is septenary because it is in eternal rest, outside the generations: 7; It is octonary because it has crossed the solar septenary in order to take the essences in the zodiacal band: 8;

It is nonary in the outline it has made of the great circumference of the generations, where it is found the end of all things: 9; It is decimal in the uncreated centre where it is hidden under the centre of the cross by the number nine, which has the number 7 in itself. It is enclosed in the Ephod and covered with the number twelve which is found in the 12 dwellings displaced by three rows of four, and again by four rows of three. Number 9: it is related to the nine choruses of the celestial court. See p. 18 and 23 of our Geometry. See the table of the Art of Reasoning our Physics in the word ‘eleven heavens,’ letter C. See the Art of Reasoning our Physics, p. 16. We will give here an idea of the spiritual and corporal substances. These substances come from the elements and are in resonance with each other. However, we must pay attention not to confuse them. There are different degrees of substances: do not take the celestial and infernal creatures for real – they are not palpable beings! Spiritual substances are created from the essence of the most subtle elements. Pay attention that the more subtle essences of the elements are, the more strength and power they have. Thus, the purest elements are the most subtle spirits. And it is these spirits of the elements that are our true philosophical Masonic instruments which are contained in the columns J∴ and Boo∴, which, in turn, have in them earth and water (J∴) fire and air (Boo∴). The spirits are superior and inferior.

The superior spirits live in heaven and should be considered in the following manner: 1. The pure spirits that compose the celestial and divine hierarchy are the spirits of light. Their dwellings are above the motion. Consequently these beings are not susceptible in any way to the temporal vicissitudes. It is these spirits that we can divide into three hierarchies and nine choruses, whose angels form the lower chorus. These spirits, without leaving their dwellings, extend their influence into nature, because God, the Creator is united with His creature, and where there is God, there are the spirits of His court. 2. The inferior spirits govern the temporal operations (of nature). They are the instruments of the higher spirits. They are therefore contained in columns J∴ and B∴. When we say that these choruses exercise such a power in nature, it must be understood that this power is followed by the inferior spirits which are at its command. The choruses of the celestial court are the perfect light: the light of the upper region, which is imparted to the spirits of the lower region, the region of created nature. These intermediary spirits are lunar, solar, saturnian, etc. That is why we place the higher spirits not only in the planets, but also in all the created stars. Thus, philosophically speaking, God came out of the uncreated centre in order to enter into the created one. He is Eternity and Beginning; He is the First and the Last;

His Ternary and the human are potentially contained within His centre; The human being is the creation of the Word. He holds the centre of the ternary in nature because he has the Word within himself and he can pronounce it in the bright and luminous glory of the majesty of God, in which the nine choruses of His court are integrated. As soon as the ‘fiat’ was pronounced, nature took its form by means of the operation of the spirit of generation, so the septenary appeared, that is, the seven celestial forms and the elementary qualities which contain in themselves the virtue, the power, the secret and the mystery. virtue in the spirit of air: power in earth; secret in water; and mystery in fire. When the ‘fiat’ was pronounced, the universal seed started to gain form, then the three kingdoms appeared as well as the seven metals, and the sky was filled with its ascending and descending influences. As soon as the ‘fiat’ was pronounced, then bodies appeared: masculine and feminine with their seeds. Note that the ‘fiat’ of form is contained in the majesty of God. The ‘fiat’ of the seed is contained in the form and the ‘fiat’ of the body is contained in the seed. Note also that these three ‘fiat’ are only one and it has brought out of the centre: the form the seed

and the body. And note that these three aspects must perish in order to be brought back into eternity. The number nine is a very mysterious number because in its circumferential interior it comprises: The number four The number 5: the beginning, the form, the seed, the body, and its destruction The number 7 or septenary All these mysterious numbers compose the philosophical ladder of the golden tree, which human beings must ascend and descend. God gathers in Himself all things and every being must return to God. This is how the beginning and the end touch each other though they are separated. However, this division amounts to nothing since between them there is the ‘fiat’ of nature, and nature has a beginning and end. Here is the order of the pure spirits that compose the celestial court in the celestial spheres: 1. Seraphim

Messiah

2. Cherubins

wheels

3. Thrones

Saturn

4. Dominations

Jupiter

triangle: first flat figure quadrilateral: figure

second

3 flat

4

5. Powers

Mars

pentagon: third flat figure

5

6. Virtues

Sun

hexagon: fourth flat figure

6

7. Principalities

Venus

heptagon: fifth flat figure

7

8. Archangels

Mercury

octagon: sixth flat figure

8

9. Angels

Moon

nonagon: seventh flat figure

9

10.

eternal

decagon: eight flat figure

10

Blissful

Army

Kingdom

According to the order shown above, it will be easy to understand what I said earlier: that unity rests on the number 3; the number two on the number 4; the number three on the number 5; the number four on the number 6; the number five on the 7; the number six on the 8; the number seven on the 9. This way, we must cross the centre of the sun in order to reach the eighth number, the centre which is the ninth where the angels reside, the lowest chorus and, consequently, the end of all things because beyond which we find the army of the Lord. [120]

Beginning of the Trinity

The figure above is the interpretative philosophical scale of everything we have said (p. 34, 35) of this table. It contains the mysteries of the numbers 4∴, 5∴ and 7∴ all enclosed in the number 9∴. It is the radius of the beginning and the end of all beings. It is the tree of wisdom. It is the remote matter and the proximate matter. It is the intermediate seed of the proximate and remote matter. It is the ternary of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit in unity within man - and this is God and man. It is the spirit of the celestial court which is united with the form within the spirit of generation. These are the seven forms of nature in which the spirits will be incarnated. These are the four elements in unity with the spirit of generation and the seed. And this is the virtue, the power, the secret and the mystery of the stone of the philosophers, which includes air, earth and water. It is the three kingdoms and the heaven in unity with the seed and the body. These are the seven metals that are chained to the seven spirits and the seven forms of nature – the heaven that includes all created beings. Finally, there is Adam and Eve, animal and spirit, seed and body, who must perish because every being must be brought back to the centre. It is there where we find the seven metallic, saline roots. Fiat, Amen. Here are all things. Here is the form, the seed, the body. Here is the first and the last.

Here is the union of gold. The ladder of philosophers which we must climb and come back down, descend and again ascend. Anyway, this will suffice for the wise man. Number 9: See p. 33 of this table. This number is the end of everything. Black colour: Symbol of the space of chaos, p. 10. Numbers 6 and 7: The senary stands on the septenary, and the septenary is the point of rest. See this table, p. 19. Number 666: Number of human being. Number of man, miraculous animal, ibid., p. 44. Number 10: It belongs only to God because this number re-integrates with unity. See p. 18, 28 and 33 of this table. Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9: See ibid., p. 28. Number 16: Centre of the Cross, ibid., p. 31, 35. Numbers 3, 4, 9, 27, 60, 180, 81, 120, 12, 24 and 360: See ibid., p. 33. Numbers 3, 4, 5, 7, 9: See ibid., p. 36. [121]

Number 11: Eleven heavens, p. 9, 13. Number 11: It belongs to the Holy Spirit. See this table, p. 32. The Holy Spirit is: 1. the radical spirit 2. the root of the tree 3. the transmutator 4. the potable gold 5. the proceeding one 6. united to human beings 7. the magnet of the soul 8. the universal spirit 9. triple 10. quadruple 11. quintuple, ibid., p. 32. Number 12: Zodiac, p. 9, 13. Number 12: Division of the lower part of the cross, p. 13. Union of the patient with the spirit, p. 13. Numbers 4 and 12: The number 4 is triple. See p. 17. Number 12: It is related to triple elements, p. 23. Number 12: See p. 11 of this table.

Number 12: Elements are repeated 3 times in this number, p. 29 of this table. This number 12 is related to the 12 features and 12 signs of the Zodiac. Tribes

Signs

Planets

Elements

Joabert

Judah

♌

Sun

fire

Stol Kin

Benjamin

♐

Jupiter

fire

Morphy

Ephraim

♉

Venus

earth

Tercy

Simeon

♓

Jupiter

water

Alquebar

Manasses

♊

Mercury

air

Dorson

Zabulon

♑

Saturn

earth

Kerem

Dan

♏

Mars

water

Bertemer

Aser

♎

Venus

air

Tito

Nephtali

♍

Mercury

earth

Zerbul

Ruben

♒

Saturn

air

Banayal

Issachar

♋

Moon

water

Tabor

Gad

♈

Mars

fire

The 4 letters of the Name of God, engraved in the triangle, is related to the four triple elements because the unique triangle that encloses them belongs to each one.

The three sides of this triangle are considered as three strings that support the three arcs which form the circumference of the universe, (strings) in which this single triangle is engraved. If we divide each string into four parts, we shall have twelve radiuses produced out of three multiplied by four. Then, if you add to this number 12 the central ternary which is related to the Trinity, you will have the number 15. However, since the number 12 is only half of the day, which is divided in day and night, in light and darkness, then you will really have the day divided into 24 parts, the division through which the ternary is spread. Thus, you will have the number 27 which is the cube root of the number 3.

These numbers 3 and 4 are the roots of the numbers 12∴, 15∴, 24∴ and 27∴. The Ternary light in the centre of the darkness of the night and the light of day, night, evening, day hue (light of day in the centre). The number 12 has a centre and this centre is the Ternary in eternal unity. God is the centre of all the universal energy.

God, in His visible sun, holds the centre of the twelve signs of the Zodiac. Solomon is like a sun in the centre of the twelve tribes. And it is this centre that gives us the number 13. Number 12: The Word is hidden under this number. See this table, p. 35. Number 15: This number is the summation of: 1. the sum of the unit multiplied 3 times by itself: 3 2. the triple triangle: 9 3. triple light: 3 (15, p. 5). This number is related to 1) the three companions who murdered our V∴ M∴ Hiram; 2) the nine Masters who looked for his body; 3) and to the three Masters who took away his body to bury it into the tomb built in the Temple of Solomon, according to the proportions 3, 5, 7, sums of which also give the number 15. Note that the numbers 3, 9 and 15 also give the number 81, which is related to the perfect light. Number 33: Age of the Knight of the Rose Croix, p. 9, 13. This number is also symbolized by the three candelabra of 11 lights of the Rose Croix Chapter. Number 16: Sixteen philosophical elements, p. 9, 20. See this table, p. 18, 28. Number 72: See p. 9.

Number 70: It is known in the Knight of the Orient degree, p. 13. Numbers 27, 69, 81: See p. 20. Numbers 10, 100, 1000: See p. 20. See this table, p. 31. Numbers 3, 9, 27, 81: See p. 20. Number 9, 81: They complete the operations of nature, p. 28 of this table. Number 36: See p. 28 of this table. Number 20: See this table, p. 20, 29. Number 10: See this table, p. 31. Number 3, 4, 5: Proportions of the square. Principles of the cross. Symbol of motion. See this table, p. 33. Numbers 3, 4, 5: number 3, father number 4, mother number 5, generated one (See p. 33 of this table). Numbers 4, 5, 7, 9: See ibid., p. 33. The sum of these numbers is 25. Number 3: death, wrath, darkness (p. 34 and 25 of this table).

Number 15 and 5: They belong to the Holy Spirit, p. 30 of this table. [122] Nature: Nature is not eternal, though for us it apparently seems eternal, p. 1, 21. Nothing: The nothing is not God, p. 1. Nothing: Everything else is but nothing, p. 11. Nature: It is imitated in Masonic works, p. 2. Nature: It is a thinking of God, but nature is not thinking, p. 3. Natural: divine, natural, artificial power (p. 4). Nature: It was created in time, space, eternity (p. 4. See ‘visible virgin’). Level: It is in unity with the line of the plumb rule in the centre of the square, p. 8. Level: square, level, rule (They form the cross, p. 8, 21). Level: Its centre is related to that of the cross, p. 8. Two Levels: Four squares, p. 8.

Level: Its form is taken within the square, p. 8. Level: It is related to air, fiery water and fire, p. 8. Level: Motion, p. 8. Level: It is related to the columns Boaz and Beauty, p. 8. Level: Its definition is found in the degree of Fellow Craft, p. 9. Level: Equality, p. 9. Level: square, level, plumb rule (They are in unity and as such we find them in the cross which, by its motion, ensures a perfect equality between the elements). Level: square spread good evil compass level life death (p.9)

Black: black, night. p. 10. Night: night, black Black, Black Colour, Chaos: All the other colours are contained in potential in black, p. 10, 11; p. 11-18. Black, Black colour: Space of confusion, p. 10. Revealed Nature: Symbolized by the rooster, p. 11. Revealed Nature: (Cubic stone). soul, fire spirit, air (p. 11) body, earth Nature: Nature suffers death and passion on the cross, p. 12. Nature: Nature has both sexes in itself. These are the two things we must look for, p. 13. Nazareth: Development of the intelligence, p. 14. This word means ‘Epheta.’ It also means ‘city of light.’ Name of God: Composed of four letters, p. 15 and 28 (29 (‫ יהוה‬of this table. Black Colour: Emblem of putrefaction, p. 16.

Number: number, upper weight, lower measurement, middle (p.16, 20). Nature: Second Being, p. 18. Level: level, square, plumb rule (their symbolic relationship, p. 20). Eternal Uncreated Nature: See p. 21. Nature: Similitude of God, p. 21. Black: earth, black, death (p. 22). Nature: Of God and nature, p. 23. Nature: Nature is sustained by propagation and multiplication (See this table under the word ‘corruption,’ letter C, p. 2). Black, Raven Head: See this present table under the word ‘putrefaction,’ p. 7. Black: black, white (colours that are manifested in the putrefaction. See p. 7 of this table). Black: Mortification. See this table, p. 9. Nature: It is symbolized by a long square, p. 10.

Nature: Charity descended into nature. See this table, p. 18. Nature: Philosophical vessel, Temple of the Eternal One, symbolized by the Temple of Solomon. See this table, p. 19. Nature: It has been blessed by God and God filled it with His glory. This is the dedication of the Universal Temple. This dedication is similar to that of the Temple of Solomon, ibid., p. 19. Nature: Three accidents in nature: 1. generation, birth 2. conservation , life 3. destruction, death (ibid., p. 27). Nature: Divided into 4 parts, 4 seasons, 4 virtues, 4 humours, 4 angels, 4 prophets (ibid., p. 28, 29, 27). Name of God: Composed of four letters, ibid., p. 29. Celestial Nature: ibid., p. 22. Nature: School of the Holy Spirit, ibid., p. 32. Nature: It can only be explained by the reverse sense of creation, p. 11. Nature: It has received shape, spirit and body. See this table, p. 33.

Nature: When the word ‘fiat’ was pronounced, nature took a shape the seed has entered into shape nature appeared with both sexes (ibid., p. 35). Black: black, white (yellow colour belongs to the Holy Spirit, p. 6), red. Nature: It was crumpled by the motion of the wheel of essences. This way, it has received: soul, mind and body (p. 11). Nature: It was commanded by eternity, p. 21. Eternity commands nature and time (p. 21). Nature: It is contained in chaos, p. 21. Nature: Trinity is the foundation of nature, p. 21. Celestial Nature: It is divided into four main parts. See this table, p. 22. Nature: It was generated by the ‘fiat’ with shape, seed and body (beginning of everything, ibid., p. 46). Nature: Practical philosophical study, ibid., p. 46. Nature and chaos are only one, ibid., p. 46. Nature: It is the will of God ibid., p. 46; it is the resemblance of God in the Trinity, ibid., p. 46. Nature: It needs to be aided. See the discourse of our Alchemy, p. I. It is not God; it depends on God, ibid., p. IV.

Cloud of the Holy Spirit: It leads man out of the desert, ibid., p. II. Nature: The knowledge of nature is based on the cubic stone, ibid., p. IV. O O, Omega: I am the Alpha and Omega, p. 3, 12. See this table, p. 26. Gold of the Philosophers: It is not vulgar gold, but the perfection of the stone, p. 3. There are 3 kinds of gold: astral gold elementary gold common gold

Orient: Masons must always be at their Orient, p. 4. Worker: It works on the passive matter, p. 12. water earth (passive matter) The hidden worker knows the way of purification, p. 3.

Oracle of God: The oracle of God is the ternary of the operations of nature which is above the Ark of the Covenant, p. 13. It predicts the operations of nature, p. 13. Potable Gold: mercury, tincture, soul (See this table under the word ‘dissolution,’ letter D, p. 6). Potable Gold: sun, mercury (radical humid. See this table, p. 12). Operations of Nature: Are symbolized by the workers of Solomo∴ Temple who work under the orders of: King Solomon King of Tyre and Hiram Abif (Ternary of Nature, p. 19). See this table in the word ‘Temple of the Lord,’ letter T. Visible Eye: It hides the invisible one. See this table, p. 25. Eye of the Wisdom: Eternity. See ibid., p. 25. Pure Gold: The cubic stone is pure gold, p. 6, 7. Gold of the Philosophers: It is not a common gold, p. 17. Eye of the Divinity: Sun, eye of the Divinity, p. 5. Potable Gold: Radical humidity, mercury, the fifth element. See this table, p. 43.

O, Omega: Alpha and Omega, p. 21. Oracle: The triangle is the divine oracle, p. 23. O: Amen, A: Fiat, O: Amen (ibid., p. 46). Hidden Worker: See p. 46. Order: Of the Masonic works are spread in the 3 hammers, ibid., p. 48. Hidden Worker: Holy Spirit. See the discourse of our Alchemy, p. I. Ornaments of the Lodges: They can not be altered or changed, ibid., p. III. [123] P Cubic Stone: Its knowledge is found in the ternary, p. 1. It contains: Religion Morality Justice (because it comprises their principle, p. 2). The three Principles are all spiritual, p. 1. Cubic Stone: It is freed from evil spirits, p. 2.

Purification of the Stone: It is the release of evil spirits. This is the judgment, p. 2. Purgatory, Judgment: Release of evil spirits, p. 2. Putrefaction: death, corruption, putrefaction (p. 2, 15, 10). Weight: number, measurement, weight (their distinctions, p. 2). Father: Father, Son, Holy Spirit (p. 2, 3, 18). Past: past, present, future. Jehovah, p. 3. Attributes of God, p. 3. Word: God the Son. It is He in whom God put His compliance and affection. He commands us to listen Him. God the Son (Word) is found on the cross, on the centre of the spirit of motion, p. 3. Prince: Prince, Religion, Justice (p. 2, 15).

Thinking of God: Nature. Nature is not thinking of God, p. 3.

Stone: Its formation is the gold of philosophers, p. 3. Three Powers: divine, natural, artificial (p. 4). Passions: Human beings are a slave of their passions, p. 4. A man who allows himself to be dominated by his passions rejects all science. The Mason, in his works, learns to overcome them by submitting his wishes, in order to make progress in science (Apprentice degree). In the Fellow Craft degree, he learns to dig dungeons for vices and to build up temples for virtue. These precepts are found in the works of the cubic stone. In order to overcome your passions, you must submit your will – it is the domination of elemental fire. To dig dungeons for vices69 – these are the descension of elemental spirits. Build up temples for virtue – it is the flight of spirits drawn by the Spirit of God in order to spiritualize the cubic stone. Spiritualized Cubic Stone: See ‘passion’ above. Tracing Board: Broken, cracked, p. 4. Principles: Ternary of the three principles of science, p. 6. Proceeding One: Holy Spirit, p. 4. Progression: regression: return, progression, go forward (p.5).

Original Sin of the Stone: See p. 6. See the Art of Reasoning our Physics, p. 23. Stone: Its original sin, p. 6. See the Art of Reasoning our Physics, p. 23. Sin of Nature: Concupiscence, p. 6. Cubic Stone: It contains the 4 corporeal and spiritual elements, p. 6. Cubic Stone: It has the germ of the love of nature in itself, p. 6. See the Art of Reasoning our Physics, p. 23. Stone: Placed in the centre of the mysterious cord (tessellated border), p. 6. Cubic Stone: It has two fathers and two mothers, p. 6, 11. Consequently, it has two aspects, p. 11. See the table of our Geometry in the word ‘point,’ letter P. See the Art of Reasoning our Physics, p. 22. Peace: peace, union, harmony, p. 6. Crude Stone: It is dissolved, p. 6. Cubic Stone: It goes through three colours, p. 6. Cubic Stone: It is not mineral, p. 6. It is pure gold (p. 6), purer than the common one, p. 7.

Cubic Stone: It is spiritual and material during its formation, p. 7. See the Art of Reasoning our Physics, p. 21, 28. Three Principles: In which the Three Theological Virtues are found, p. 8. Cubic Stone: It encloses the Three Theological Virtues, p. 8, 12. Phenix: Symbol of faith, p. 8. Pelican: Symbol of faith, hope and charity, p. 8. Word: It is enclosed in the 4 letters I. N. R. I., p .8. Prudence: prudence, fortitude, temperance, justice (Cardinal Virtues, p. 8). Tracing Board: Its proportions are found in the square, p. 9. Tracing Board: Marble of the hidden worker, p. 9. Cubic Stone: Perfect mixture, p. 9. Cubic Stone: Its matter is ground on the cross, p. 9, 22. Tracing Board: Symbol of a good example, p. 9. Broken Tracing Board: All the tools scattered, p. 9, 22. The breaking of the tracing board is like that of the cross and consequently of the square, level and plumb rule (and of all the Masonic tools).

Spiritualized Cubic Stone: purification, cleansing, purgatory (p. 9) Stone: Purified by the Holy Spirit, p. 9. Purification of the Stone: See p. 9. Cleansing of the Stone: See p. 9. Purgatory: See p. 9. Patient: Desire for concupiscence of the patient, p. 9. Poison: Of death and life, p. 9. Cubic Stone: In its explanation, p. 10. White Stone: Known in the Fellow Craft degree, p. 10. Red Stone: Known in the Scottish degree, p. 10, 13. Putrefaction: death, dissolution, putrefaction (three things known in the Master degree, p. 19, 15). Cleasing of the Stone: Known in the Elu degree, p. 10. Stone: It has in its explanation soul, spirit, body (p. 10, 11).

Cubic Stone: It is nothing to God´s eyes and yet it is something for us, p. 11. Cubic Stone: Both nothing and servant, p. 11. Cubic Stone: God presides within its form, p. 11. Cubic Stone: Its form is at the centre of the cross, p. 11, 23. Cubic Stone: It receives both death and life by the same philosophical poison, p. 11. Philosophical Poison: It gives death and life, p. 11. Stone: The stone needs to suffer in order to be spiritualized, p. 11. Stone: The stone must endure the passion on the cross, p. 10. It must be enclosed in a tomb in order to be spiritualized, p. 11. It must come out from its tomb vicorious, p. 11, 23. Cubic Stone: It exists only by the ternary, p. 11. Cubic Stone: Nature is manifested by receiving soul, spirit and body (p. 11). Stone: The stone dies and does not die, p. 11. Pelican: Emblem of death and life - life and death of the cubic stone, p. 11.

Pelican: Known in the Rose Croix degree, p. 11. It symbolizes the Three Theological Virtues, p. 12. [124] Perseverance: Perseverance in the good. This is related to the agent, which falls down into the patient in order to die in its embrace and to resurrect it so that it carries out the regeneration and maintains the glory of God. Perseverance: Symbolized by the column Boo∴. The Fellow Craft Mason learns that this column symbolically means perseverance in the good, p. 12. Here is the perseverance of the agent in order to be united with the patient, by marching on the radius of attraction on the line of concupiscence so that it perpetuates the harmony of all beings. Pelican: It shows us that everything is visibly restored by death, corruption and putrefaction (p. 12). Word: The Word is the Alpha and Omega, p. 12. Cubic Stone: Its passion is known in the death of the R∴ M∴70 Hiram, 12. Passion of the Cubic Stone: Peace: Standard of nature, p. 12. White colour means peace, p. 12.

Stone: Its proper noun is found in the union of the two columns J∴ and B∴ (Macbenac). JMB∴ Letter J∴ : patient Letter B∴ : agent Letter V∴ : visible virgin, mother of our subject. This letter V means ‘widow.’71 Cubic Stone: It is completed in the septenary, in which we find the number 9 and the number 10. Cubic Stone: Its perfect glory is symbolized by The temple of Solomon and the number 9, p. 13. Patient: agent: volatile, patient: fixed, p. 13. Cubic Stone: It is a generated subject, p. 13. Cubic Stone: It comes out of its grave bright, heavenly and divine (like a new flower, p. 13). Cubic Stone: In the death of R∴ M∴ Hiram, it is: whipped beaten and put to death upon the cross and then exalted in its resurrection restoring the broken cross, p. 13. Peace: peace, union and harmony (in nature, p. 12).

Cubic Stone: By its resurrection, it takes: soul mind and body (in peace, union and harmony, p. 13). Cubic Stone: It is all solar, p. 13; The cubic stone is body to the touch, p. 13; It is alive, p. 13; We can see it, p. 13; It has the Word: when it speaks, we hear it; Its smell is sweet; It has no flavor to taste; It is composed of a matter proper to its subject, p. 13; In order to reach its great day, it passed from confusion to elaboration and from elaboration to its explanation, p. 13; It has soul, mind and body, p. 13; Its formation is made by a cleansing and this cleansing is symbolized in the Elu degree, p. 13; It revenged by the number 9, p. 13; Cleansing: The cleansing of the stone also is symbolized by the dog in the Elu degree, p. 13. Cubic Stone: It changes from white to red colour passing through yellow, p. 13. It is red in the Scottish degree, p. 13. Stone: Passion of the stone.

Passion: The first day in the Master degree. The second day in the Scottish degree (p. 13). Pentecost: Pentecost, Cleansing, Purgatory (three equivalent words, p. 13). Passion of the Stone: Its third day in the Knight of the Orient, p. 13. Cubic Stone, during the turmoils: The time of its captivity is seven weeks of a philosophical year, p. 13. People of God: It symbolizes the spirit of the stone, p. 13. Stone: It is exalted in the Rose Croix degree, p. 14. Prudence: prudence, fortitude, temperance, justice (four Cardinal Virtues came out of the Three Theological Virtues, p. 14). Stone: In its passion, it is our faith, p. 14. Passion: Jurisprudence, p. 14. Stone: It was incarnated. It is the Son of the visible virgin, p. 14. Stone: Its ascension is necessary to sanctify us and instruct us in the true theology, freed from all sophistry, p. 14. Word: Judah, Word, Iliad (p. 14).

Stone: It is potentially present in the mineral kingdom, p. 14. Stone: Its wonders, p. 14; It cannot suffer damage; No power can prevail against it; It casts out the evil spirits from he who asks for faith; It raises the lame ones by leading them in the way; It teaches those who wish to listen it; It gives the Kingdom of its Father; It gives light to the blinds and unbelievers; It performs great miracles when it is touched; It gives us nourishment; It make us free because it is the bread and wine of angels, p. 14. Bread: See ‘wonders of the stone,’ p. 14. bread wine (p. 14. The are spiritual principles, p 14). Bread: bread, wine (represented by the Lamb, p. 14). Stone: To seek the stone is the same as to seek God, p. 14. Bread: broken bread, divided or separated wine (They do not divide the spirits, p. 14). Putrefaction: Blackness is its sign, p. 16. Putrefaction: See ‘decomposition,’ p. 16.

Weight: number, height

weight, middle measurement low (See p. 16, 20) Word: It is in unity in the centre, p. 16. Ternary came out of the Word and yet the Word was begotten within the Ternary, p. 16. Cubic Stone: It is found in the centre of the lodge, p. 20. Principles: Three principles, p. 21. Divine Persons: Three Divine Persons, p. 21. Word of God: Nature p. 21. Putrefaction: See p. 21. Projection: See p. 21. Phenix: See p. 21. Putrefaction: Head of the Raven, p. 22. Cubic Stone: Its development process in the three kingdoms. It passes from vegetal to mineral and from mineral to animal, p. 22. Cubic Stone: In its abandonment, p. 23. Cubic Stone: In its tomb, p. 23. It emerges radiant from its tomb, p. 23. It has two aspects:

the heavenly aspect the temporal terrestrial one (p. 23). Peace, Flag of Peace: See p. 24. Visible Father: Joseph, p. 24. Stone: Jesus, The Stone, the Divinity united to humanity. The covenant of God with nature; God, man, p. 24. Mosaic Floor: Symbol of union and harmony. See the present table under the word ‘ harmony,’ letter H. Cubic Stone: It is in the centre of the tessellated border. It gathers in itself: peace union and harmony (see the present table at the word ‘harmony,’ letter H, p. 3). Propagation: See ibid., ‘corruption,’ letter C, p. 2. Perseverance: For the good, p. 12. See Col∴ Boo∴ See also ‘concupiscence,’ letter C, p. 4 of this table. Patient: Force. See above ‘Col∴ F,’ letter C of this table, p. 4. Mosaic Floor: Emblem of union and harmony (See this table under the word ‘harmony,’ p. 3).

Father, Mother, Child of Science: See this table in the word ‘dissolution,’ letter D, p. 5. Cubic Stone: It is solar and lunar (See ‘dissolution,’ letter D of this table, p. 6). [125] Purified: calcined, purified, dissolved (See this table in the word ‘dissolution,’ letter D, p. 6). Putrefaction: See ibid., p. 6, 7, 12. Its colour, p. 7. Wage: Increasing of the Masonic wage. See ibid., p. 8. Cleansing of the Stone: See ibid., p. 8. Purgatory: Good spirits on the right, evil spirits on the left (See ibid., 9). Perfection: In the white and red colours (See ibid., p. 9) Putrefaction: sublimation, distillation, putrefaction (See ibid., p9. Three operations that follow each other). Crude Stone: It represents the chaos. In a lodge it is placed near the column J∴. See ibid., p. 11. Crude Stone: The elements are originated in the crude stone. See ibid., p. 11.

Pit of the Abyss: It is in the centre of the three columns. It is the same philosophical chaos. See ibid., p. 11. This pit is known in the Scottish degree. Stone: It has soul, spirit and body. See ibid., p. 12 and 31 of this table. Stone: It is filled with the radical humid. See ibid., p. 12. Passion: concupiscence, passion (These are the causes of generation, see ibid., p.12). Putrefaction: Separation of the elements by putrefaction. See ibid., p. 12. Principles: Three principles. Persons: There are three Divine Persons (two powers chosen in nature; but two others precede them which are the quintessence and the first matter (See ibid., p. 12, 21 and 24 of this table). Purple Colour: Emblem of friendship. See ibid., p. 14. Philosophe∴ Stone: See ibid., p. 15. Passive: Passive faith, suffering without motion. See ibid., p. 18. Word: It became flesh and blood. See ibid., p. 18, 31.

Word: Number one. Departure of the Word. See ibid., p. 18. Word: Its radius unites the Creator with the creature. See ibid., p. 18. It is the radius of the spirit which, when unites it to the body, imparts the soul to it. Tangent Point: It is everywhere. It is by this point that God is united with nature. See ibid., p. 18. Stone: The Master degree is one of the mysteries of the generation of stone. See ibid., p. 20. Bread, Bethlehem: Bread, nourishment of the human being. See ibid., p. 24. Present: present, future, together make eternity, God, Jehovah (See ibid., p. 24). Planets: Six planets united in the centre, in the centre of the septenary. See ibid., p. 25. Planets: Their orbits. See ibid., p. 25. Cubic Stone: It is trine and one. It is spiritual, divine and eternal (see ibid., p. 26). Power: existence, immensity, power, unity (of the G∴ Arch∴. See ibid., p. 27, 29).

Planets: Sun in the centre. Principles: three principles, four elements, tincture, terrestrial matter (in the microcosm. See ibid., p. 22). Putrefaction: dissolution, corruption, putrefaction (ibid, p. 22). Planets: In number of seven, they are the seven forms. See ibid., p. 31. The sun is the seventh form in the centre. Patient: Lower planets. The upper ones are the agents. See ibid., p. 31. They are only one body, ibid., p. 31. Word: It was generated as a radius. See ibid., p. 31. Cubic Stone: It endures corporal death. See ibid., p. 32. Divine Stone: Its pronunciation. See ibid., p. 34, 35. Word: It was lost along with the death of Hiram, ibid., p. 34. Word: Triangle of the Word was seen by the V∴ S∴ Moses in the Burning Bush. See ibid., p. 34, 35. Word: Its centre is on the cross, ibid., p. 35.

Word: Hidden under the number 12 contained in the Ephod of the High Priest Aaron. See ibid., p. 35. Point: The point is not in any place. It is everywhere, p. 8. Propagation: propagation, multiplication (See this table under the word ‘corruption,’ letter C, p. 2). Spiritualized Cubic Stone: ascension, descent (of the spirits, p. 9). Word: Key of the science, p. 13. Pray: See p. 3. Be moderate, watchful and meditate (and pray, p. 3). Power of God: It is spiritual, invisible, omnipotent and infinite (p. 3). Poison: It is in unity. Unity is poison. See this table, p. 50. Fathers, Mothers: The Cubic Stone has two fathers and two mothers, p. 6. Cubic Stone: It has two fathers and two mothers, p. 6, 23. See the table of our Geometry in the word ‘point,’ letter P. See the Art of Reasoning our Physics, p. 22. Three Principles: Three constituent elements in stone, p. 11 of this table. Stone: Three constituent elements in stone, p. 11.

Poison: Mercury is poisonous, p. 14 of this table. Point: This point of rest and perfection is the same as that of septenary, ibid., p. 19. Perfection: The perfection of all things is found in the septenary, ibid., p. 19. Planets: In the number of seven, they have the good and the bad in themselves, ibid., p. 25. Four Prophets: In the division of nature. See ibid., p. 29. Father: Father, Son, Holy Spirit (They are on the cross and the Word became human, ibid., p. 44). Word: It became human, ibid., p. 44. Word: It was born of the visible virgin, ibid., p. 41. Word: It was incarnated in the bosom of the visible virgin, ibid., p. 44. Word: It has spread the fire of generation, ibid., p. 46. Practice: philosophical theory and practice (See ibid., p. 46). Word: Its pronunciation. See this table, p. 34, 53, 54. See the second table for continuation of this letter.

Q Long Square: It gives the number 12, p. 9. Quintessence: See p. 21. quintessence first matter three principles and three Divine Persons (potentially contained in the eternal uncreated nature, p. 21). Long Square: Emblem of nature. See this table, p. 10. Metallic Quintessence: First matter. See ibid., p. 12. Quintessence: One of four things present in nature. quintessence first matter three principles and three Divine Persons (p. 21). Quaternary: It originated in the ternary. See this table, p. 18. Quintessence: See ‘Ephod,’ p. 9, and 42 of this table. Eye of Divinity: Sun eye of divinity, p. 5. Quaternary: It contains both the fire of love and the supernatural fire, p. 9.

Quaternary: It contains the four letters I. N. R. I., p. 9. [126] R Ray of the Life: See p. 3. It is the Holy Spirit who has given us the ray of the life. Kingdoms: Three kingdoms mineral vegetal and animal (See p. 5, 2. See also this table, p. 30). Three Regions: most celestial celestial and elemental (p. 5). Regression: relapse, progression, advancement (p. 5) Red: black, white, red (yellow tincture of the Holy Spirit, p. 6). Radius: The radius is undefined, p. 7; See our Geometry, p. 2, 3, 10, 11, 14; See the Art of Reasoning our Physics, p. 15, 25; See the table of the Art of Reasoning our Physics in the word ‘mercy,’ letter M. Ruler: The ruler represents the radius, p. 8.

Radius: It is represented by the ruler, p. 8. Radius: Four radiuses form the cross, p. 8. Spiritual Radius: It is symbolized by the straight line, p. 8. Radius: Line of the plumb rule that always tends towards the centre, p. 8. Ruler: square, level, ruler (form the cross, p. 8). Radius: The radius is everywhere; The cross The radius The centre of the cross, which is the same of the radius, is everywhere within our imagination. Within our imagination, we must conceive an infinity of little crosses which turn on their centres in the great circumference of the world and which rise vertically and march horizontally. These are everywhere in a spiritual way, p. 8; Ephod of the High Priest Aaron: See p. 9. It contains: unity trinity quintessence or number 4 number 12 number 72 and number 33 (p. 9).

Seminal Reasons: Constituents of the Universe, p. 10. They are: sulphur salt and mercury (p. 10).

Wheel of Essences: Its motion crumples matter and thus matter receives: soul spirit and body (p. 11). Red: Of the cross represents the blood of death and life, p. 12. Ruler: hammer, ruler and lever (p. 12). Resurrection of the Stone: See p. 13. In its resurrection it has: soul spirit and body (three component came out of peace, union and harmony (of nature, p. 13). Rose Croix: He knows the ternary in the Three Theological Virtues: faith hope and charity (p. 14. This degree is a summary of all those who preceded it). This degree is found in the centre of the cross, p. 14.

Rose on the Cross: This represents the quintessence of the elements. There it is the universal medicine which gives us life by means of death, p. 14. It reveals to us the merits of passion of the stone, p. 14. Ruth: Ruth: bread, Booz: wine (p.4). Religion: Prince, Religion, Justice (p. 15, 2). Triple Ruler: Fifth kingdom, p. 18. Three Kingdoms: See, p. 18. Red: It announces the birth of a metal, p. 18. Redden: whiten, redden (of the stone. See this table, p. 9). Ruach: This word means ‘wind,’ p. 21. Radius: The triangle is the radius. See this table, p. 18. Radius: It unites the Creator with the creature. See ibid., p. 18. Radius: The radius is everywhere. The three sides of the triangle are in unity (See this table, p. 8). Root of Everything: It is found in the septenary. See ibid., p. 25. Radiuses: The 12 radiuses of the Eternity. See ibid., p. 25.

Eternal Repose: Its 12 radiuses. See ibid., p. 25. Three Kingdoms: The elements compose all the mixtures in nature, which are divided into three kingdoms: mineral vegetal animal. See ibid., pp. 27, 36. Radius: The Word was generated as a radius. See ibid., p. 31. Ephod of the High Priest Aaron: It encloses the Word under the number 12. See ibid., p. 35. Radius: Beginning and end of all beings. See ibid., p. 36. Radius: The spirit on the radius unites the Creator with the creation, by uniting the body, it gives it a soul. See this table, p. 41. Wheels of the Seven Planets: See ibid., p. 25. Repose: Septenary is the center of the sabbath. See ibid., p. 25. Religion: The ternary contains in it: Religion Word Justice (which it is related to time, space and motion, p. 2)

It should be noted here that Morality alone cannot lead us to the tree of the life any more than space can make known time. We have said that space was in unity with time, but we needed a third principle: this principle was motion. Morality must necessarily be in unity with Religion because it is from Religion that we received Morality. Without Morality, no Religion; without customs, no states. The states are the container and the customs are the content, just as time is the container and space the content. But Morality and Religion can only be known by Justice, just as time and space can only be recognized by motion. From which it follows that Morality is not sufficient to lead us to the tree of the life. Thus, Religion must be the basis of our conduct. Just as the circle of time is the stability of space, our religious conduct can not be perfect without Justice, the same as space can not lead us to the time without the help of motion. And just as the Holy Spirit proceeds from motion and space, so also Justice proceeds from Religion and Morality. This shows us that without the help of the Holy Spirit we cannot have perfect knowledge of the bond which unites Religion to Morality. Morality is null without the proceeding Spirit which is the ring of the unity of Religion, Morality and Justice; of states, customs and Justice. Red: Colour of the soul of souls, p. 10. Raphael: Medicine of God, Elixir of the Stone, p. 14. Redemption:

Science,

Justice,

relationship with the cross, p 14).

Redemption,

Sanctification

(Their

Redden: whiten, redden (perfection. See this table, p. 9). Religion: Religion, Morality, Justice (their principles are in the cubic stone, p. 2). Reason: It is in man. See p. 2, 3. See our Physics, p. 11 ‘faculty of the soul.’ See the table of the Art of Reasoning our Physics in the word ‘mercy,’ letter M. Ruler: Symbol of space. compass, time ruler, space (p. 7). See the table of the Art of Reasoning our Physics, ‘number 3,’ letter N. See our Physics, p. 25. Red: red: day, day: red (p. 10). [127] Three Kingdoms: vegetal, animal, mineral (p. 16). Repose Septenary: See this table, p. 19. Religion: Religion, Morality, Justice (science is their basis. See the Discourse of our Alchemy, p. III).

Three Kingdoms: They have the elements air, water and earth (the fire of life, ibid., p. II). S Science: Science dwells in the mysterious abyss of Jehovah, p. 3. Sober: Be sober. Sobriety releases the spirit from the matter and sustains the intelligence. Be moderate, watchful and meditate (See p. 3, See ‘pray,’ p. 3). Sulphur: sulphur: salt: mercury: ☿ (philosophical principles, p. 3, 6, 7, 11, 21; alchemical ones, p. 5). See our Geometry, p. 13, 21. See the Art of Reasoning our Physics, p. 19, 20, 22. Spiritual: God is spiritual, invisible, omnipotent, infinite, eternal (p. 3). Wisdom: Ternary unit is the center of wisdom, p. 4. Wisdom: Invisible and visible. Invisible Wisdom: Came out of the mind of the Divinity and it gave birth to generations, p. 4.

Visible Wisdom: It gave birth to mankind. It gives birth daily, p. 4. See the Art of Reasoning our Physics, p. 21. Wisdom: Virgin visible in unity with invisible wisdom, p. 4. Eternal Sun: It is filled with uncreated virtues, p. 5. Created Heavenly Sun: It is the tabernacle of God, p. 5. It is the mirror of the glory of God. It is the eye of the Divinity, p. 5. Physical Sun: See p. 5. Sun: One of the main ornaments of a Masonic Lodge, p. 5. Sun: There are three philosophical suns, which are: 1. the first sun id related to: to the eternal heavenly world to the macrocosm that includes all created beings to the microcosm that is the human being In this first sun we find the kingdom of God within man, Father, Son, |Holy Spirit (here is that which regards to the eternal sun). Concerning its relationship with the macrocosm, which includes the space of the created beings space, we find: the Word, the three kingdoms and the human being. Concerning its relationship with the microcosm, which is mankind, we find: soul, spirit and body. 2. the second sun, which is the great sun, is father and mother of every being. It is related to the rainbow in the heaven that comprises God in

the first three elements, which are the three colours, blue, green and yellow. This sun is related to the sun of man, which is the vital spirit that dwells in his heart – being a little heart placed in the large heart. Finally it is related to the lowest sun of earth where we find God in the center of the elements. 3. The last three suns contain three times seven planetary forms or rulers of the whole world. The first one rules in the upper world, which includes the planets and the sun in the center. The second one rules the intermediary world of the earth, which regard to the states. The third one rules the lower world. These three suns are necessarily in unity and are transmuted.

Sulphur: Sulphur is sometimes called sun. When sulphur is purified, it is converted into air. Mercury cannot become sulphur. Mercury is accompanied by sulphur because of its internal heat, after its congellation it turns into radical humidity. Sun: Or agent, p. 7, 12. See our Geometry, p. 6. See the Art of Reasoning our Physics, p. 21, 23.

Sun: sun, agent, moon, patient (p. 17, 12). Salt: It is in solar mercury, p. 7. Silence: Way of the Mason, p. 7. Triple Sun: It encloses the secret fire, p. 8. Sulphur: sulphur, salt, mercury (constitutive seminal reasons of the universe, p. 10). Sun: It encloses the conditions, which are attributes of the three states that makes a distribution of the universe in order to instruct us in an orderly fashion, p. 10. Systems: The Egyptians introduced the systems of science, p. 10. Science: Ibidem. Sun: B∴. See p. 11. Moon: J∴. See p. 11. Sun: sun: agent, moon: patient (p. 12). Note that the sun and the moon are only philosophical in our Alchemy. These two stars symbolize our red earth and our white earth. sun, red earth

moon, white earth (from which earth must bear potable gold - that is to say, the radical humidity which is the universal soul). Our fifth element, which holds the center of the four primitive elements, and this potable gold are our mercury. S Sanctification, the Stone: Its ascension happens in order to sanctify and to teach us the true theology freed from any sophistical system, p. 14. The stone has been sanctified in the heart of the visible mother. Science: science, justice, redemption, sanctification (their relationship with the cross, page 14). [128] Schibboleth: Password of the Fellow-Craft. This word is related to bread and wine (p. 14). Eternal Wisdom: Mankind, came out of the heart of wisdom, was created as a summation of the wonders of nature, p. 17. Seals: Seven mysterious seals, p. 18. Sun: It is light, heat and motion (p. 20).

Eternal Sun: See p. 21. Sun: sun: soul, moon: spirit (p. 21). Sun: sun, moon (came out of the permanent water, p. 21). Like: Like produces its like, p. 22. Seeds: internal, and external (p. 23). Wisdom: It is called ‘ANNE,’ p. 24. Sublimation: Elevation, p. 21. Sublimation: See ‘putrefaction,’ p. 7 of this table. Serpent: Emblem of fire. See ibid., p. 7. Sublimation: sublimation, distillation, (See this table, p. 7). Sublimation: sublimation, distillation, putrefaction (three successive operations that follow one another. See this table, p. 9). Sublimation: It is carried out in 11 heavens. See ibid., p. 9. Sun: sun, mercury (potable gold, radical humidity. See ibid., p. 12). Seeds: In number of four in the heaven and on earth, namely:

celestial mineral vegetal and animals (p. 21). Note: The great mystery of the theory and practice of science is hidden in these seeds. If the human being wanted to know himself, if he wanted to study for the greater glory of his Creator, what kind of mysteries might be revealed to him? Therefore do study, O man! Do not be afraid to come closer to your nothing, for you are the wonderful animal related to the number 666; of this senary which contains the quaternary, the Eternity, time, God and youself, O man! You are the animal in the center of the star, as septenary of that number including in itself the three principles and the four elements of theory and practice, that is, the eternal, celestial and temporal ones. In you is the most heavenly, the supernatural (the seven Spirits of God). In you is the most heavenly cross, on which stands the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit – and thus the Word becomes human. In you is the supernatural light, which is the noble tincture contained in the abyss of the chaos of science. If you want to know the most heavenly, come back on your steps, for it is not necessary that you climb up too high, unless you do want to fall in ignorance. Do study in the center of the star, the natural flow of the seven metallic spirits. It is in this seventh spirit, entirely solar, that you will find your

number 666. Do study the temporal cross: you will find in it the three principles

,,

,, ☿and the sign of the star. After this, go towards natural light: Here is the tincture, also entirely natural, in the chaos. Gather the chaos in the sign of the natural star. Then you will find the sign of the Divine Star. But the sign of the star, although here it is double, is nevertheless unique. It represents the generation and by way of this sign God is united with His generation. You must note that the quintessence is quintuple by itself, although it is one. It is unique because it holds the center of the quaternary. It is the fivepointed star of the Holy Spirit. It is in God; It is heavenly; It is terrestrial; It is nature (God standing in the center hidden in His Holy Name, in His Septenary Name). Since we do not want to leave out anything and our intention is to communicate to our brothers the little knowledge we have acquired, we will give here a comparative table of the most heavenly chaos along with the temporal and natural chaos. Afterwards, we will give another comparative table of the theory and practice of science. First and foremost, I recommend

to the reader to observe great prudence and to be very discreet because discretion and silence is the way of the wisdom. First Table 1. The most heavenly seeds are found in the sign of the Divine Star which holds the seven Spirits of God and the number 666, which belongs to the most heavenly sun – father and mother, from which proceed the children. O Eternity! Where is your beginning? 2. The natural seeds are found in the sign of the natural star which comprises the seven spirits of metals and the number 666, which belongs to the natural sun – father and mother, from which proceed the children. O time! You have had a beginning. The Breath of God (Soul) 1. The supernatural heavenly cross encloses the divine nature and the Divine nature is: Father Son Holy Spirit and man The celestial animal is found in the light and the supernatural tincture – it is chaos. 2. The natural cross in the temporal time contains in it sulphur,

, Father

mercury, ☿, Holy Spirit salt,

, Son

the sign of the star, the human

The temporal and natural animal is found in the light and natural tincture – it is chaos. The star comprises the creation and its union with God 1. Quintenary essence Celestial72 God Heavenly essence Number 666 2. Quintenary essence Terrestrial Number 666 Natural essence Number 5 The cross comprises the secret of secrets ---- x ---The wonderful animal which has a beginning and end A&O It is God: human in the number

666 ---- x ---It has four main aspects Eternity

Soul

God: Human

Body

Time which reveals the truth

Spirit

Immortality the Divine and human nature which by its motion reveals us time

And all these things are included in the impenetrable triangle which stands in the pit of the abyss of science. This triangle, however, is kindly manifested in nature and in human since (man) is a summation of nature, and due to this, he is the wonderful animal having in himself the visible and invisible ternary, which is: Father, Soul Son, Spirit Holy Spirit, Body (and here it is how the Eternity has become time and how time returns to Eternity becoming like Eternity). [129] The star of the sages and of all the Mages composes the senary of generations whose center is the repose of God Himself. This star was seen by all the Mages and it has been their philosophical light, leading them to

the dark stable where they contemplated, in spirit, the union of the Creator with the creature. It is from the center of the spirit of this star that proceeds the center of nature. It is the hidden center that has entered into the visible center, which is found in the center of the triangle of nature, which includes in it the celestial seed and that seeds of vegetals, animals and minerals (p. 44 of this table). Note that this star is composed of two intertwined equilateral triangles. In the first triangle, which is a reversed one, we find the symbol of distillation of the first matter –water; distillation which has been accomplished by the Holy Spirit. It is this water that covered the surface of the abyss like a deluge, in which was earth, the first element. And it is this earth that is the mother and matrix of the elements, fire, air and water, which encloses in it death and life, that is, the spiritual and the temporal of all the beings created by the union of God with His manifest will. It is in this union that we find that God is Word and the Word is the fire of the life of all beings. In the second triangle, which is the right one, we find sublimation, that is to say, the re-melting of the vital fire which returns to its place. This star of the wise is composed of regenerative fire and water: of fire of life because it has the spirit of air and air receives from fire its favorable influences; of water because it has in it air and fire. Without water, earth would have been sterile, but also without earth, water would have no philosophical vessel. It is in the matrix of earth, this mother of nature, that we find water that contains fire and air and this is the fixation of the patient.

But air comes out of water, fire comes out of earth and water: thus these two elements are volatilized, released, fixed and sublimated. After having been distilled in the first matter, here we have the spirit of the double ternary. This star comprises the union of these two ternaries – the invisible and the visible. In the invisible, spiritual, celestial and divine ternary: Father Son Holy Spirit (the Word, turned flesh in the center, was born by the virgin of nature, daughter of the invisible virgin, the wisdom of God). In that which is visible we find the three corporal principles: sulphur salt mercury (the last matter in the center). In this senary we find the supernatural and the natural in unity. We find the two supernatural and natural temporal crosses in unity, whose lower vertical branch is the path of the Holy Spirit in manifestation. It is the radius of distillation of the manifested will: in the vertical radius, the path of the Holy Spirit in sublimation, for, note that the center of this star, which is the same as the cross, is always the unique center of God and nature. The two radiuses are related, to wit, the superior radius to the fire which has in itself the spirit of air and the inferior to the water in its philosophical vessel. Since the distillations and sublimations are established in nature and they are all spiritual, it is these continual operations that conjoin the elements, making them quadruple in order to give us the 16 philosophical elements.

In the two horizontal branches that compose the other two arms or radiuses, we find, in the radius on the right, (the visible) creatures and, in that on the left, the invisible ones being manifested in the natural light, within the visible sun. Thus, this star comprises in itself the supernatural and natural seeds, the two aspects: heavenly imperishable and perishable terrestrial. It is the root of the tree of God and nature (See this table, 23). It contains: the seven spirits of God; the seven spirits of metals; the supernatural and imperishable cross; the natural and perishable cross of time; the most heavenly animal; the natural animal; the Name of God, the septenary, which, nevertheless, it is composed of four letters and is pronounced by the ternary number.The generations: the Creator united with His creatures. It also contains the miracle of nature, which is the Word made flesh on the center of the cross and which we call the wonderful animal because he has within him eternity, soul, time, body. And all of this is the result of the shadow of the Holy Spirit who has been spread over the visible virgin. This Spirit has imparted her the: essences of God heavenly essences terrestrial essences natural essences (which are four on the Divine cross and on the natural cross).

When the ‘Fiat’ was uttered, then the will of God flowed as an infusion. Amen! So it must be, for everything must return to its place. All beings must come to an end: death is the great hieroglyph of nature, without which there is no life. ‘Fiat, O God of nature! Your will wanted us to have soul, spirit and body in order to manifest Your glory. Why are you hidden from our eyes, from the center of Your Divine light, of Your Eternity? You govern time and nature! You make everything re-enter into Your will. You bring back Your breath of life. Amen! So it must be for Your glory. Second Table of Comparison of the science of theory and practice, and which, however, comprise only one science Theory

Practice

Before we begin our table of comparison, we must invite the reader to study everything we have said about each matter in our table. We invite him to search our table for everything we said about each word. Eternity, the Divine world: ♒

Heaven, it is creature: ♒

This is the Divine Kingdom. See

Image of Eternity

this table, p. 43. God, the Father is one and three.

Adam, creature.

This is the ternary unity.

He has the ternary because he is the image of God.

God is the Word. He is the fire of

Fire made visible is spread over

manifestation which was spread over the great philosophical

nature, but its spirit, which is diffused everywhere remains

vessel.

hidden.

God, the Father, as Creator

Sulphur

God in Himself

Chaos

And this is the center of the ternary or the first quaternary Vegetables, creature: ♒ Adam and Eve: Children, ternary of

Firmament, temporal world: ♒ The Spirit of God is one and three. This is the ternary unity

nature. Permanent water, spirit of visible

The Word is God.

water

God, the Holy Spirit

salt

The Word

the first matter: ♒

And this is the center of the ternary or the second quaternary The

angelical

world:

the

Creature animal: human

imperishable spirits. The perfect light.

Adam and Eve: agent and patient in

God, the Son is one and three.

ternary unity.

This is the ternary unity.

Air came out of water

God, the Word personified.

mercury

God, the Son.

spirit

Heaven, Adam

This is the third ternary or the third quaternary The terrestrial and burning world

Mineral: creature

Godhead united with humanity.

Terrestrial mankind of time

God and the Word are persons.

earth

The visible virgin

body

Child is a person

last matter This is the fourth ternary or the fourth ternary

These four divisions are placed on the supernatural and natural crosses in their vertical dwellings. And since these two crosses are in unity, this way we have only a single Divine and natural cross, which by its circular motion, transmutes and by extension spreads the theoretical science and the practical science into the great philosophical vessel. In

this

center

of

theoretical

science, we must necessarily find God, with His four radiuses, on which are: God the Father God the Son God the Holy Spirit and the Word incarnated.

In this center of practical science, we must necessarily find nature, with its four radiuses, on which are: spirit of sulphur spirit of mercury spirit of salt and spirit of tincture: life.

In order to give a wider idea, we will give here these following interpretive figures about the great mystery of the cross. [130]

Explanation of the above Figures God is the owner of the center of His Eternity. In its incomprehensible immensity, this center is everywhere. This is the first center. Nature is the keeper of the center of created Heaven. And this center is likewise everywhere in the unity of the circle of generations - it is the second center. This second center is in unity with the first. This is the reason why we say that one center has entered into the second one: the ‘Fiat’ of the will of God descended over the second center. Amen! See this table, p. 36. God, in His Eternity, includes His Divine ternary and His Word. His Word, which is the fruit of His love, was incarnated in the heart of the visible virgin. Thus, His ternary was diffused into the manifestation of His will. Father Son Holy Spirit (the Word incarnated. Here we have the generations and the unity of God with His creatures). Nature has in its center both the three principles and their three spirits. These three principles of nature have produced the tincture. sulphur salt mercury (tincture. Here we have the generations made visible). God is unique in His Eternity. Chaos, which contains everything also contains, philosophically speaking, God Himself.

The four elements belong to God, and the philosophical chaos, which contains the elements in itself, also belongs to God because nature and chaos are but one. Chaos having never existed but philosophically, must be related to nature, which has been manifested and created in a single moment, for the word ‘Fiat’ means: ‘let there be.’ It is this pronunciation which has made God the Father of the generations - it is sulphur. God, by pronouncing ‘Fiat,’ became the Word and the Word has spread the fire of life throughout the generations. This ‘Fiat’ has spread the ternary, so God became one and three, and mankind, as a summation of nature and created in the image of God, was pervaded with the Divine ternary. Eternity which is the Divine world, has generated the created heaven out of its center. This created heaven is the firmament of the great vessel which contains the spaces of all beings. This vessel contains all the philosophical matters necessary to the hidden worker, which constantly works to maintain the glory of the Creator. Here we have the first part of theoretical science in unity along with that of practice. This first part is the center of the ternary which [131] includes: the firmament the angelical world and the heavenly73 and burning world, which in nature are related to the vegetal, animal and mineral kingdoms (just as we will explain by referring to everything we have previously said). In the second part we find:

the Word, which is related to the first matter in the practical science; God, the Holy Spirit, related to salt; God, the Holy Spirit, one and three. We also find Adam and Eve – the two sexes of nature – and their children one and three alike; the firmament, the temporal world, which is related to the vegetal kingdom. In the third part we find, in the understanding of theory, Heaven, Adam or the little heaven, which is related to the spirit in the practice. We also find: the Son of God, the Spirit of His covenant, related to the mercury in the practice; God, the Word personified, human in theory; Adam and Eve in marital unity, one and three; finally, the imperishable and angelical world and, in the practice of science, the animal creature. In the fourth part, we find: the Person, related to the last matter in the practice; the visible virgin, having the child, related to the body in the practice; the Word of God in unity as a Person, related to earth in the practice; the terrestrial and burning world, the fire of the manifestation, related the mineral, creature. Do study attentively all these matters and you will have the mystery of the cross on the center of which stands the number seven. Blood: The Word has become flesh and blood (See this table, p. 18). Septenary: It is the point of dwelling and perfection (ibid., p. 19, 33).

Senary: The senary stands on the septenary, ibid., p. 19, 33. Spiritual: spiritual, corporal (in Eternity, ibid., p. 24). Sun: interior (in sun), exterior (in Eternity, ibid., p. 24). Septenary: Center and root of everything, ibid., p. 25. Seals: Seven seals. Their Mystery, ibid., p. 25. Science: of good, of evil (ibid., p. 25). Sabath: Center and root of all beings, ibid., p. 25. Septenary: See ibid., p. 25. Septenary: good - evil, good - bad (in the septenary, ibid., p. 24, 25). Senary: of the tree of good and evil (ibid., p. 24, 25). Wisdom: Its eye, ibid., p. 25. Eternity. Seasons: Four: ibid., p. 28. Septenary: From which proceeds the four radiuses of the cross, on which we found the elements earth, air, water (ibid., p. 29). Sun: Seventh form, ibid., p. 31.

Sun: Center of the body of agent and patient, ibid., p. 31. Sun: Father and mother, ibid., p. 44. Seeds: most heavenly and natural (ibid., p. 44). Breath of God: See ibid., p. 44. Holy Spirit: Father, Son, Holy Spirit (on the most heavenly cross, p. 44). Silence, Discretion: Way of the sage, ibid., p. 44. Senary: Sign of the Star of the Mages, ibid., p. 45. Sublimation: of the Spirit of Life, ibid., p. 45. Sages: They are hidden in order to study Science, p. 3. Seed of seeds: Holy Spirit, p. 4. Sulphur: sulphur, salt, mercury (p. 2) Salt: See ibid., p. 2 Situation: greatness, situation, and motion (of created beings). Sun: Eye of the Godhead, p. 5.

Sulphur: Notes on sulphur: sulphur is sometimes called sun; when sulphur is purified sulphur, it is converted into air; sulphur is converted into mercury; but composed mercury cannot become sulphur; mercury is the seed of metals; mercury is fluid, adhering to every matter; mercury is compared to sulphur because of its internal heat; after its congelation, mercury becomes the radical humidity. Septenary: It is the point of dwelling and perfection. It is the center of the senary. See this table, p. 19. Senary: It is based on the septenary, ibid., p. 19. Seal of Nature: Number 3. See ibid., p. 26. Substances: They are spiritual and corporal, ibid., p. 35. Seed: The seed enters in form, ibid., p. 35. Seeds: They keep the center between body and spirit, ibid., p. 36. Adam, Eve Seeds animal, spirit Sulphur: sulphur, salt, mercur, sign of the star (they all are on the temporal cross, ibid., p. 44).

Salt: See ibid., p. 44. Senary: Double spirit of the ternary, ibid., p. 45. Seeds: See ibid., p. 45. Seeds: They are inseparable from the elements as well as from the three principles and the laws of nature. See the Discourse in our Alchemy, p. I. Seed: Its corruption, its multiplication, ibid., p. II. Sun: It has within it a fertilizing virtue. See ibid., p. II. Science: It is the basis of Religion, Morality and Justice. See ibid., p. III. Science: It is hidden in the Gospels under a parabolical style, ibid., p. III.

Sulphur,

: Philosophical oil, ibid., p. I.

Salt: Sulphur, oil, mercury, liquor, ibid., p. I. Science: It has different garments, ibid., p. IV. T Ternary: See p. 1.

Time: time, space, motion (ternary in unity. See p. 1, 15, 2, 3, 5, 15, 11). Ternary: Principle of life. It is all spiritual, p. 1. Masonic Works: They consist of imitating nature, p. 2. Ternary: The ternary contains within itself: Religion, time Morality, space and Justice, motion (see p. 2). Time: Time, space and motion, p. 2. Masonic Hoodwink of the Temple: The reason why, p. 2, 3. Temple: It is build up in the heart for lack of building sit, p. 2, 3. Scottish and Kn∴ of the Or∴ degrees. Time: Time as we perceive it internally, p. 2. It is the author of everything, p. 2. Time: time, space, motion, eternity, infinity (their destruction, p. 2). Head: head, heart, belly (of man, p. 2). Ternary: The ternary is three times holy, p. 2. Time: time, space, motion (p. 1, 2, 15, 3, 11. They are three uncreated beings, p. 2).

Trinity: School of the Holy Spirit, p. 2. Trinity: It is represented by a triangle, p. 2. Trinity: Symbol of the Trinity, p. 2. Ternary: The Word in the center of the ternary, p. 3. Ternary: Taken from the well of abyss, p. 3. This is one of the mysteries of the Scottish degree that is related to the nine arches of Enoch, which determines the age of the degree. Time: Author of all beings, p. 3. Heavenly Trinity: See p. 3. Terrestrial Trinity: See p. 3. Corporal, temporal. beginning middle end (p. 3). Terrestrial: Terrestrial Trinity, p. 3. Corporal Trinity: See p. 3; Temporal, p. 3. [132] Ternary: It is three:

most heavenly heavenly and philosophical, p. 45. Triangle: Symbol of God and His Trinity, p. 4. Triangle: Its center is uncreated. It is the center of Jehovah, center of amplitude, p. 4. Masonic Works: The masonic works are carried out from Monday to Saturday. Sunday is the day of rest that we must relate to the uncreated center, place of the reward of our works. The six days of work are philosophical. They are designated to us as a commandment that we must always copy the works of nature because nature does not stop working its seven operations. It is these seven operations that the V∴ S∴ Moses described in his genesis. Do not believe that the V∴ S∴ Moses understood that God lasted one week to create the generations. This would be the same as to fall into absurdity! These days are only philosophical, as we have just said. He is only describing the time of the formation of the stone. Just as the work of the day begins when the sun rises and goes on up to the moment of sleeping, so also this teaches us that we must always work like the sun that never ceases to be working, because the sun itself does not sleep: when he disappears in one hemisphere, it arises again in the other. The same occurs with the time from midday to midnight which encourages us likewise always to work. The work of the day is that which has been preceded by the night. In fact, it itself preceded the night. It is the equality of the light and the darkness

which is symbolized by the work from midday to midnight, that this work brings us back to the separation of light from darkness that we must carry out in order to make the cubic stone entirely solar. Ternary: Principles of the principles of science, p. 4. Ternary: The ternary is indivisible, p. 4. Ternary: Its unity is the center of Wisdom, p. 4. Triangle: The triangle is everywhere. The elements were originated in its center, p. 5. See our Geometry, p. 6, 7, 22. Their dwelling in the Zodiac, ibid., p. 7; The elements are related to the four letters of the Name of God and to the numbers 3, 5, 7, 9. See ibid., p. 15; Constitutive elements came out of three. See ibid., p. 21. Unique elements, center ibid., p. 9; Visible and invisible. See the table of our Geometry in the word ‘production,’ letter P; They belong to God, the Father. See the Art of Reasoning our Physics, p. 20; Their nobility, ibid., p. 24; They are the main originator, ibid., p. 29. Triangle: Three which are one. It encloses in itself: terrestrial heavenly most heavenly, p. 5.

Triangle: Triple, p. 5, 20. God the Father is triple; God the Son is triple; God the Holy Spirit is triple (p.5). Note that this unit 3 gives us the numbers 6 and 9. The Father has in Himself

The Son has in Himself

The Son has in Himself

But they are always

the Son the Holy Spirit the Father the Holy Spirit the Son the Father

2

3

2

3

2

6

Father

6

Son

3

and Holy Spirit

9

9

Note again that the number 9 multiplied by 3 gives 27, which also when multiplied gives 81. This number 81 is the same as 27 because 27 is the same as 9 and 9 is the same as 3. From which it result that 81 or 3 are the same thing. First operation, 3 Second operation, 9 Third operation, 27 Fourth operation, 81 The result of these numbers is 120

If we take 120 (which divided by 12 gives 10, number which belongs to God) and divide it by 3, it gives the number 40. If it is divided by 274, it gives the number 60, the value of one of the angles of the triangle. This shows us that the number 120 belongs to the ternary. Ternary: Seal of Nature, p. 6. Ternary as created in the image of God. Ternary: Seal of nature. Mankind was imbued with this ternary. Ternary: Mankind must study the ternary, p. 6. Triangle: Number 3, p. 6. Triangle: Its three angles are related to the letters S∴ W∴ and B∴, p. 17. Time: Its use is symbolized by the chisel, p. 7. Time and Space: Symbolized by the compass, p. 7. Temperance: prudence, fortitude, temperance, justice (cardinal virtues, p. 8). The permutation of time, space and motion are symbolized by the hammer of the Worshipful, by the ruler of the first Warden and by the claw or lever of the second Warden. They compose the three hammers, which are symbols of the order established in nature and that we must follow in our Masonic works.

Permutation of the nascent order Time: Symbolized by the square, p. 8. Darkness: light, darkness (p. 9. Light has came out of darkness). Trinity: It is present in the Ephod of the High Priest Aaron, p. 9. Darkness: Contained in chaos or confusion of the universe, p. 10. Ternary: of confusion, of elaboration, of explanation (of the universe, p. 10). Out of this ternary proceeds: direction constitution distribution gathering (of the universe, p. 10). Time: time, space, motion (in the constitution of universe, p. 10). Time: Symbolized by a sand clock, p. 11. Ternary: The cubic stone can not exist without the ternary, p. 11. Tomb: The tomb is near the cradle, p. 11. tomb cradle (in unity). Red Earth: See this table, p. 43.

Tomb of Hiram: Built in the Temple, p. 12. Temple: Filled with the glory of God, p. 12. Temple of Solomon: Completed in the seventh year, p. 13. The years which were employed in the construction of the Temple of Solomon are philosophical. The Temple of Solomon was the summation of universe. The time of its philosophical construction necessarily had to be the same as that which we use in our works, which also are related to the seven days of creation mentioned by the V∴ S∴ Moses. Time is not time in the sight of God. It is time only for our eyes in our study of nature. In the Fellow Craft degree, we learn that we have to work from Monday morning up to Saturday evening, the seventh day being of our rest. These days, philosophically speaking, are not literal days. The seventh day itself is not a day because all these days return to the immobile center, principle of all mobility. Besides, the chaos was conceived only to help us transcend to the unique center. This chaos which is nothing and its days which divide it, serves only to show us the seven philosophical operations and, nevertheless, they are something useful for us because they help us to work on the visible in order to acquire the science of the invisible. This is what constitutes the Mason of theory and the Mason of practice. [133]

The septenary represents the age of the Master Mason, for it is in this degree that this number is known in the dimensions of the tomb of Hiram, in which the hidden worker work for regeneration. The glory dispersed in the Temple of Solomon on the day of its dedication is the symbol of the one that is spread in generations, a glory that still exists today and that will exist as long as the will of the G∴ Arch∴ wants so in His manifestation. Temple of Solomon: It is our cubic stone in its perfect glory, symbolized by the number 9, p. 13. Tomb of Hiram: Its symbolic dimensions, p. 13. Tomb of Hiram: Broken cross, philosophical tools broken and scattered, p. 13. Head: The three heads of the compagnions, symbols of the stone that becomes white, p. 13. Theology: The stone is elevated in order to sanctify and teach us the true theology, which is exempt from any sophistry, p. 14. Ternary: Its hieroglyph is the main ornament of the symbolical Lodges. It is the symbol of nature in its operations, p. 15. Time: time, space, motion (in triple unity. They are represented by the ternary, p. 15).

Ternary: Symbol of the Prince, Religion and Justice (p. 15). Ternary: Symbol of: Number, upper part Weight, lower part Measure, centre (p. 16) Symbol of: fluid, head generation, belly life, heart (p.16) Symbol of the three Kingdoms: vegetal animal mineral (p. 16) Symbol of the three principles: sulphur salt mercury (p. 16) Symbol of: body soul spirit (p. 16) Symbol of: past

present future (p. 16) Symbol of: the truth the life the way (p. 16) Ternary: Jehovah in the center of the ternary, p. 16. Ternary: It is originated in the Word and, nevertheless the Word was engendred in the ternary, p. 16. Ternary: The elements came out of the ternary, p. 16. Clover: Magical and philosophical, p. 17. Temple: It came out of the Eternity, p. 18; in the visible nature, p. 18. Head of the Man: Seat of Intelligence, p. 18. Time: Father, Son, Holy Spirit (in time, p. 18). White Earth: Eve, p. 18; red earth is Adam, p. 18. Triple Triangle: See p. 20; seal of nature, p. 20. Three: Came out of one, three Divine Persons, p. 21.

Temporal Visible Trinity: In nature, p. 21. Time: It obeys Eternity, p. 21. Philosophical Tincture: See p. 21. Trinity: Foundation of nature, p. 21. Earth: black, and dead earth (p. 22). Triangle: Its chaotic expansion, p. 23. Ternary: Divine Oracle, p. 23. Earth: Main element of corruption. See this table under the word ‘corruption,’ p. 2. Tomb: Near the cradle. See ibid., p. 2. Earth: It becomes water. See ibid., ‘dissolution,’ letter D, p. 5. Tincture: mercury, tincture, soul (See ‘dissolution,’ letter D, p. 6). Darkness, Light: See ibid., p. 24. Universal Temple or Vessel: Sustained by 9 columns. See ibid., p. 11. Tincture: air, fire (See ibid., p. 11)

Tincture: fire, water (p.12 of this table). Earth: earth, water (passive elements, ibid., p.12; without motion). Earth: heaven, father earth mother (ibid., p. 12). Earth: Common matrix, ibid., p. 13. Triangle: It the radius, ibid., p. 18. Ternary: The quaternary came out of the ternary, ibid., p. 18. Tangent: God is united with nature by means of the point of tangent because the point of tangent is everywhere, ibid., p. 18. Triangles: Two equilateral triangles are in unity because they are everywhere just like the radius is, ibid., p. 18. Trone of Divinity: It stands on the septenary and the septenary is the tangent point of the circle to which belongs the number nine, ibid., p. 19. Temple of Solomon: It is the symbol of nature, this philosophical vessel which is the Universal Temple, ibid., p. 19. Temple of Solomon: The matters that were used in its construction represent the chaos. See ibid., p. 19.

Note that the operations of nature are symbolized by the Solomo∴ Temple workers who work by the orders of: this King Solomon King of alliance, King of Tyre and Hiram Abif, Hiram who represents the ternary of nature. The Masonic degrees based on this temple are nothing else than the different operations of the hidden worker. Darkness: Fruits of: death anger and darkness (See this table, p. 25). Darkness: Principle of darkness, ibid., p. 25. Trinity: Alpha and Omega, beginning and end of all beings. See ibid., p. 26. Trinity: permanent water, fixed spirit, spirit is necessary for everything (ibid., p. 26). Ternary: It is everywhere, ibid., p. 26. Trinity: Man must study the Divine Trinity if he wants to possess divine knowledge, ibid., p. 26, 27. Trinity: Its three essences are entirely spiritual. They belong only to God, ibid., p. 27.

Earth: heaven, earth (ibid., p. 30). Ternary: God is ternary and mankind is ternary. See ibid., p. 36. Earth: It encloses death and life (it is mother of elements, ibid., p .45; mother of nature, ibid., p. 45). Double Ternary: Senary of spirit, ibid., p. 45. Ternary: time, past, future (p. 3, it is the heavenly trinity). Philosophical Ternary: Made visible in time, space, motion (p. 11). Earth: earth, air, water (in opposition, p. 12). Ternary: Symbol of faith, hope, charity (p. 15). Eternal Trinity: See p. 20. Tincture: See this table, p. 8. It is oil, the radical humidity. Earth: Water is converted into earth by means of mortification. See ibid., p. 9. Earth: Earth would be barren without water. Water fertilizes earth, ibid., p. 12.

Ternary: Eternity is visible and invisible in the ternary, p. 21. See this table, p. 24. Terrestrial: terrestrial, celestial (dwell in Eternity, ibid., p. 24). Theory: (philosophical) theory and practice (See ibid., p. 46). Triangle of Earth: It contains three differences in the formation of the stone´s matter, p. 5. Philosophical Ternary: Chaos, p. 11. Time: Time destroys everything. The hammer represents time and the death of Hiram. Our V∴ M∴ teaches us that time destroys everything, p. 12. Temple of Solomon: Its walls were built by the people of God. They signify the limits of the great circumference of the generations fixed by the spirits, p. 13. Ternary: Faith, Hope, Charity (Ternary is known in the degree of Rose Croix, p. 14). Temperance: One of the four cardinal virtues, p. 14. [134] White Tincture: Tincture in which fire is not present, p. 12 of this table.

Universal Temple: Nature is blessed by God and God filled it with His glory and this is universal dedication. See ibid., p. 9, 19. Darkness: death, anger, darkness (see ibid., p. 25). Divine Ternary: Number 3. See ibid., p. 26. Tincture: One of the five parts of the corporeal microcosm, p. 22. Ternary: On the cross. See this table, p. 31. Ternary: God is ternary and mankind is ternary, ibid., p. 36. Triangle of the Word: It appeared to Moses in the burning bush, ibid., p. 34, 35. Ternary: The human being was imbued with the ternary, ibid., p. 46. Darkness: death, anger, darkness (ibid., p. 24, 25). Flat Earth: It receives a depth, that is, a body by spirit. See the Discourse of our Alchemy, p. I. Heanvely Ternary: In unity with temporal ternary, ibid., p. I. Tincture: The elements are combined and preserved themselves by means of the tincture which is our philosophical balm, ibid., p. I.

Tomb of Hiram: Its mystery, ibid., p. II. Earth: It is the matrix of water, ibid., p. III. It is irrigated by water, ibid., p. III. Darkness of the Soul: Source of false religious systems, ibid., p. IV. U V Truth: The truth must be hidden and kept away from the profane, p. 1. Truth: divine truth, earthly truth (p. 1). Earthly Truth: Came out of divine truth, p. 1. Virtues: Good and bad ones (two aspects perceived within the stone by the sages, p. 2). Vices: See ibid., p. 2. Belly: head, heart, belly of man, p. 2. Life: seed, life, generation, p. 2. Voice of God: It is heard in our interior. It is He who tells us ‘I am the truth, the way and the life’ (p. 3).

The truth is contained in God, p. 3. It is given to us by the Holy Spirit by the radius of life, p. 3. Life: Life is imparted by means of the radius, the proceeding way of the truth and life, p. 3. Watchful: Let us be sober. Let us be watchful; Let us meditate and pray, p. 3. Ternary Unity of Wisdom: See p. 4. Visible Virgin: (Nature) in unity with the invisible virgin, p. 4. Unity: Good principle, p. 5. Unity: It is not an element although the elements came out of it, p. 5. Unity: Unity is a being without form. It is: impalpable: you cannot touch it invisible: because it is without form (p. 5). Unity in philosophical spirit: They are heavy, light, p. 5. Because it is from there that the elements originate. Unity comprises everything, although it is: without form impalpable and indivisible (p. 5).

This is the mystery of the philosophical chaos which teaches us that everything that is created is nothing at the sight of God and, nevertheless, that which is created is something for us. Unity is a being, philosophically speaking, subject to weakness, to be crushed and to be fused (to be melted). Unity is the poison that gives: death and life. Unity kills and resuscitates itself (it is the cubic stone). Invisible Virgin: soul, visible virgin, body, Holy Spirit, life (p. 6). Union: Symbolized by the tessellated border, p. 6. peace harmony union (p. 6). Virtues: Theological and cardinal ones, p. 7. The cardinal virtues originate in the theological ones, p. 7, 14. The path of the Mason is the way of silence, p. 7. See this table, p. 44. The theological virtues are found in the three principles and in the cubic stone, p. 8. Theological Virtues: Symbolized by the phoenix, the pelican and the dove, p. 8.

Cardinal Virtues: They are four, which are prudence, fortitude, temperance and justice, p. 8, 14. Theological Virtues: Their relationship with the three principles and with: the body soul spirit, p. 8. Their relationship: with the elements; with the 4 letters I. N. R. I .; with the agent and the patient; with the darkness and light; with the midnight and midday; with the four cardinal virtues; with the four humours of humans; with the four parts of the world; with the upper and lower meridians, p. 8. Moral Virtues: Their relationship with the four elements, p. 8. Invisible Virgin: It can only exist by way on the visible one, p. 11. It gave birth to the visible virgin. The invisible virgin is called ‘Anne,’ a philosophical name which means ‘gracious’ or ‘merciful,’ p. 11. The visible virgin is called ‘Mary,’ name which means ‘exalted,’ ‘mother of bitterness,’ which gave birth to the love of the Father, and this love is the Son of God in Eternity, incarnated in the visible virgin by the all powerful will of the Creator, p. 11.

Life: Life returns to death, p. 11. Life: Earth comprises death and life, just as mother and matrix of the elements. See this table, p. 45). Vapor: Fermentation, mercury, p. 12. Underground Vault of Scottish: See p. 12. Visible Virgin: Daughter of virgin wisdom, invisible and eternal, p. 14, 24. Wine: bread, wine (their explanation, p. 14; spiritual principles related to the word ‘Schibboleth,’ p. 14). Wine: The breaking of the bread does not divide the spirit, p. 14. Life: life: heart, generation: lower abdomen, fluid: head, p. 16. Belly: Related to lower abdomen and generation, p. 16. Virgins: They are invisible and visible, p. 17. Unity: Unique being, p. 17. Unity: Its hieroglyph, p. 17. Unity: Central being, p. 17.

Simple Truth: Its hieroglyph, p. 18. Source of the Life of Human: It is in his heart, p. 18. Unity: Alpha and Omega, p. 21. Visible Virgin: V∴ Column J∴: patient, J∴ (ternary that composes the sacred word of the Master Column B∴: agent B∴ , degree, p. 24. JMB: The invisible is shown by the visible one. See this table in the word ‘corruption,’ p. 2. Visible Virgin: It is called ‘Mary,’ p. 24. Life: Flow of natural fire. See this table, p. 8. Life: a spirit, a fire, a life, a light (p. 21). Life: The Holy Spirit gives life. See this table, p. 11, 16, 18 of the Art of Reasoning our Physics. Philosophical Vessel, Universal Temple: Sustained by three columns. See this table, p. 11.

Life: Fire of life produced by air, ibid., p. 12. Visible Virgin: It was covered by the shadow of the Holy Spirit, ibid., p. 13, 33, 45. Thief: Good and bad thieves. They are the regenerative mercury which has within it the poison of death and the medicine of life. See ibid., p. 16. Universe, Mas∴ Lodge: Symbol of the universe, ibid., p. 16. Unique Will of God: Generation, ibid., p. 20. Life: good, evil life, death love, wrath light, darkness (ibid., p. 24). Visible and Invisible: Present in Eternity, ibid., p. 24. Virtues, Vices: Of the planets, ibid., p. 25. Winds: There are four main winds, ibid., p. 28. Visible Virgin: It gave birth to the Word, ibid., p. 45. Virtues: All the virtues rise and fall, p. 5.

[135] Theological Virtues: Present in the eleven heavens, p. 9. These virtues are known in the degree of Rose Croix. Visible Virgin: Mother of the stone, p. 12. Life: Life touches death, p. 12. Virtues: All the virtues are in the center, p. 12. Union: peace, union, harmony (of nature, p. 13). Unity: existence, immensity, power, unity (of the G∴ Arch∴. See this table, p. 27, 29). Life, Ternary: Principle of life because it is entirely spiritual, p. 1. Volatil: Unity is a volatile being, p. 5. Vertical: Everything is carried vertically and horizontally (p. 8). Volatil: It dominates the fixed, p. 9. Life: life, death, good, evil (are diffused by the square, the level, the compass, p. 9). Unity: It is contained in the Ephod of the High Priest Aaron, p. 9.

Universe: Its four parts are related to the human being. They are on the cross, p. 10. Invisible Virgin: It can only be known by the visible virgin, p. 11. Life: Falls into death, p. 11. Vapor: Smoke which comes out of the sepulture of V∴ Hiram, p. 12. Thieves: good, evil (thieves, p. 15 of this table. They are mercury, poison and medicine). Philosophical Vessel: Nature is represented by the Temple of Solomon. See this table, p. 19. Life: life, love, light (See ibid., p. 25). Life: Mercury, principle of life, ibid., p. 33. Virgin: It was covered by the shadow of the Holy Spirit, ibid., p. 45. This must be understood in a philosophical way since the Spirit does not have a body and, therefore has no shadow. Will of God: Nature, ibid., p. 46. Life: Infused in the heart of human. See the Discourse of our Alchemy, p. III.

Life: God, principle of life, ibid., p. IV. Life: Its principle is entirely spiritual, ibid., p. IV. Life: It proceeds from the invisible principle, ibid., P. II. X Y Z Zodiac: It is divided into twelve parts. The reason why, p. 9, 17. Zodiac: Universal energy, p. 13. Of Zodiac: And of Elements, p. 17. Zodiac: It comprises all the universal energy. See this table, p. 11. Second Table of Contents Contained in the First Chapter of Our Alchemy A

Wonderful Animal: Mankind is related to the number 666, p. 44 of this table. ADONAI: Name of God composed of seven letters, ibid., p. 44. Soul: Breath of God, ibid., p. 44. Animal: heavenly supernatural, corporal, natural and temporal one (ibid., p. 44). Human is the Wonderful Animal: Because he has within himself: the Father, soul the Son, body and the Holy Spirit spirit (ibid., p. 44). A: Alpha beginning O: Omega end of the being, amen. } (See ibid., p. 46, 26). A: Amen it must perish (See ibid., p. 44). Air: Purified sulphur is converted into air, ibid., p. 47. Souls: God formed the souls, p. 7. Ascension of the Stone: It teaches us the true theology, p. 14. Anne: Name which means ‘gracious,’ ‘merciful,’ p. 14.

A and O: In unity, p. 21. Apprentice: He knows the rough stone in column J∴, p. 11 of this table. Air, Fire: Ether (See p. 12 of this table). Air, Fire: Joined together, p.12. Air: Air receives fire. Its influences, ibid., p. 12. Friendship: Purple colour, symbol of friendship, ibid., p. 14. Love: love, wrath (See ibid., p. 24). Tree of Good and Evil: It is like a miracle of nature, ibid., p. 24, 25. Future, Present: Jehovah. See ibid., p. 24. Love: life, love, light (ibid., p. 25). Reasonable Soul: It is immortal, ibid., p. 26. Accidents: We observe three accidents in nature, to wit, generation, birth conservation , life destruction, death (ibid., p. 27). Angels: Four angels in the quaternary division of Nature, ibid., p. 28. Agents: Higher planets are agents, ibid., p. 31.

Agent, Patient: Are only one body, ibid., p. 31. Soul: Soul is attracted by spirit, ibid., p. 31. Animal: spirit, seed (ibid., p. 36). Adam: Eve, seed Universal Soul: Holy Spirit, ibid., p. 34. Amen: Everything is brought back to its center, ibid., p. 46. [136] Soul: Eternal fire. See our Discourse, p. I. Soul: soul, body, spirit (ibid., p. I). Soul: Breath in the body of human, ibid., p. II. Air: Nourishment of fire, ibid., p. II. Soul: Imagination of soul, ibid., p. III. Darkness of Soul: Source of the false religious systems, ibid., p. IV. B

C Heart of Human: Temple of Solomon is built up in the heart of humans for lack of building sit, p. 2. Compass: Symbol of the exact proportion, p. 3. Wrath: Fruits of death, wrath, darkness (See this table, p. 24, 25). Charity: faith, hope, charity (symbolized by the pelican, p. 8). Cross: square, level, plumb rule (in unity on the cross, p. 9). Cross: It provides, by its motion, perfect balance between the elements, p. 9. The cubic stone in its form is on the centre of the cross, p. 11. The stone suffers on the cross, p. 10. Column J∴ and B∴: Their places, p. 12. Centre: Word in unity in the centre and the centre is the unity of the Word, p. 16. Catholic: Catholic development of the triangle, p. 23. Black Colour: In mortification. See this table, p. 9. Key of the Ternary: Holy Spirit. See ibid., p. 11.

Column J∴: earth, water (See ibid., p. 11). Column B∴: fire, air (See ibid., p. 11). Column J∴: The rough stone is near this column. See ibid., p. 11. Chaos: Symbolized by the rough stone. See ibid., 11. Column J∴: water, moon. See ibid., p. 11. Column B∴: fire, sun. Compass: square, compass (they fix the elements according to the proportional distances and exact proportion. See ibid., p. 11). Cross of St. Andrew: Junction of the elements. See ibid., p. 11. Three Columns: The pit of the abyss is found in its centre. This pit is the symbol of chaos. See ibid., p. 11. Chaos, Column J∴: Rough stone, symbol of chaos. See ibid., p. 11. Columns: The three columns of the universal temple sustain: fire air water (See ibid., p.11). Charity: charity, hope is an active virtue that gives motion to charity. See ibid., p. 18.

Charity: Faith potentially contained in charity. See ibid., p. 18. Charity: It is in the heart of human. See ibid., p. 18. Heart of Human: Seat of charity. See ibid., p. 18. Uncreated Centre: Intermediary mercury between the uncreated centre and the limit of manifestation. See ibid., p. 18. Creator, Creature: are in unity. See p. 18. Charity: faith, hope (depends on charity. Charity is an independent virtue. See ibid., p. 18). Chaos: Symbolized by the matters of the Temple of Solomon. See ibid., p. 19. Wrath: love, wrath (See this table, p. 24). Corporal: corporal and spiritual (within Eternity. See ibid., p. 24). Wrath: death, wrath, darkness (See ibid., p. 25). Centre or Sabbath: Septenary, root of all things. See ibid., p. 25. Chaos: Three aspects perceived in the philosophical chaos. See ibid., p. 27.

Conservation: One of the three accidents of nature. See ibid., p. 27. generation, birth conservation, life destruction, death (See ibid., p. 27). Cross: The four elements found on the cross give the number 10 in the centre. See this table, p. 29. They similarly give the number 9. See ibid., p. 29. Corruption: dissolution, corruption, putrefaction (See ibid., p. 22). Heaven: heaven, earth (ibid., p. 30). Body: It attracts the spirit. See ibid., p. 31. Cross: The ternary is on the cross. See ibid., p. 31; its centre is the number 10, ibid., p. 31, 35; its motion, ibid., p. 33. Beginning: It must have an end. See ibid., p. 33. Cross: Its centre is the same of the Word. See ibid., p. 35. Choruses: The Divinity is surrounded by nine choruses. See ibid., p. 35. Columns J∴ and B∴: The spirits of the elements are contained in these two columns. See ibid., p. 35. The Nine Choruses of Divinity: They compose the perfect light by their number. See ibid., p. 35 for their order.

Body: Body appeared with both sexes and the four elements. See ibid., p. 35. Beginning and Ending: They touch each other. See ibid., p. 35. Heaven: Heaven comprises all created being. See ibid., p. 36. Body: Body includes: animal

spirit woman

Adam

See ibid., p. 36. Eve

Creator: He is united with the creature by the spirit of the radius. The spirit of radius gives soul to the body. See ibid., p. 42. Most Heavenly Cross: On the most heavenly cross we find: the Father the Son the Holy Spirit and the Word made human (See ibid., p. 44). On the temporal cross we find: sulfur salt mercury and the sign of the star (See ibid., p. 44).

Analysis of the Two Crosses Father

sulfur

Son

salt

Holy Spirit

mercury

the Word made human

the sign of the star with its number 666.

Creator: United with the mysterious creature of the tenebrous stable. See ibid., p. 45. Chaos: The chaos belongs to God. See ibid., p. 46. Chaos: chaos, nature (are only one. See ibid., p. 46). Cross: It is the secret of the secrets of the number seven. See ibid., p. 46. Cross: See p. 47. Heart of Human: It contains all things. See our alchemical Discourse, p. II. It contains the visible firmament of heaven. See ibid., p. III. Beginning of All Things: It is everywhere. See ibid., p. I. Corruption of Seeds: Multiplication. See ibid., p. II.

Temporal Centre: It has come out of the eternal centre and will return to it. See ibid., p. II. Visible Heaven: It is contained in the heart of human. See ibid., p. III. Heaven: Three heavens and three worlds in man. See ibid., p. III. Cross: The foolishness of the cross is a wise foolishness. See ibid., p. III. D E Space: It is the container, p. 3. Spirits: Their ascension. See the table p. 39 or the word ‘elevation.’ Elements: Originated in the unity, p. 5. Hope: faith, hope, charity (symbolized by the pelican, p. 8). Elixir of the Stone: Raphael, p. 14. Spirits: Spirits are not divided in the bread and wine, p. 14. Eternity: Time has come out of Eternity, p. 18. [137]

Holy Spirit: Letter G. See this table, p. 10. Eternity: Within eternity we find the spiritual and the temporal (See ibid., p. 24). Limited Spaces of Material Beings: See ibid., p. 27. Elements: The elements found on the cross give the numbers 9 and 10. See ibid., p. 29. Holy Spirit: It is 1. the radical spirit 2. the root of the tree 3. the transmutator 4. the potable gold 5. the proceeding one 6. It is united with human beings 7. the magnet of the soul 8. the universal spirit 9. triple 10. quadruple 11. quintuple (See ibid., p. 32).

Holy Spirit: radical humour. See ibid., p. 33. principle of life messenger of God philosophical mercury. See ibid., p. 33.

Holy Spirit: It covered the visible virgin with its shadow. See ibid., p. 33. Spirit of the Elements: Masonic instruments. They are enclosed in the columns J∴ and Boo∴. See Ibid., p. 35. Elements: Their spirits are the Masonic instruments. See ibid., p. 35. Elements: The elements contain: in air: virtue in earth: power in water: secret in fire: mystery (ibid., p. 35). Eternity: Everything is brought back to Eternity. See ibid., p. 35. Philosophical Scale: See ibid., p. 35, 36. Four Elements: See ibid., p. 36. Enoch: His nine vaults, ibid., p. 34. Holy Spirit: Spirit of Life, Universal Soul, ibid., p. 34. Holy Spirit: It is a ring that unites Religion, states Morality, customs and Justice, laws. See ibid., p. 42.

Star, Its sign, Its number 666: This sign is the same as of the Word made human. See ibid., p. 44. Star of the Mages, ibid., p. 45. See ‘Most Heavenly and Temporal Cross,’ p. 2 of this table. One Essence: Centre of the quaternary. This essence is: in God celestial terrestrial nature (God in the centre hidden in His Holy Name Adonai. See ibid., p. 44). Spirit of God: Seven, ibid., p. 44. Essence: One and five, ibid., p. 44. God in the centre of His essence, ibid., p. 44. Tenebrous Stable: Union of the Creator with the creature, ibid., p. 45. Elements: Earth is their matrix, ibid., p. 45. Spirit of Life: Sublimation ibid., p. 45. Double Spirit of the Ternary: It gives the senary, ibid., p. 45. Elements: Sixteen philosophical elements. Spirit: Its shadow covered wisdom, the visible virgin, ibid., p. 45. Notice here that this shadow is only philosophical because a spirit does not have a shadow.

Essence: See ibid., p. 45. Elements: They belong to God, ibid., p. 46. Spirit: Father, Son, Holy Spirit (on the most heavenly cross, ibid., p. 44). Holy Spirit: Over the surface of the waters, ibid., p. 33. Star: Symbol of the star of the sages, ibid., p. 44. Elements: They are inseparable and they have their ethereal spirits and as such they conserve matter. They are double: light and heavy. They are agent and patient. Their conjunction yields the elemental cross. They are quadruple in every point. They are the cause of universal communion. They circulate everywhere; they are combined and preserve themselves by means of the tincture which is our philosophical balm. See our Alchemical Discourse, p. I. The elements are present in the three kingdoms. air is related to animals earth related to vegetables and water to minerals (the fire of life in present in all. See ibid., p. II). Water irrigates earth and earth is the matrix of water whereas air nourishes fire, ibid., p. III. The Holy Spirit is the hidden worker. It is also our stone, our

. H

Human: The wonderful animal because he has within: the Father, soul the Son, body the Holy Spirit, spirit (ibid., p. 44). Human: He was imbued with the ternary, ibid., p. 46. Oil, Sulfur: See our Alchemical Discourse, p. I. Hyram: Mystery of his tomb, ibid., p. II. Human: He has all the natural and supernatural advantages. He must study and know himself. He has all things his heart. He has two fathers and two mothers: one is celestial and another is temporal, ibid., p. II; the firmament heaven is in his heart, ibid., p. III. The human being has within him a trinity: three heavens and three worlds. See ibid., p. III. He is a perfect original who communicates with spirits. See ibid., p. III. He must study in order to know himself. See ibid., p. IV. Garment: Science has different garments. See ibid., p. IV. M Soft: Unity is a gentle state, p. 5. Death: Fruits of death, wrath and darkness (See this table, p. 24, 25).

Evil: The evil and the good in the planets, ibid., p. 25. Mercury: Note on the philosophical mercury: composed mercury cannot become sulphur; it is the seed of metals; it is fluid, adhering to every matter due to its internal heat; after congelation, mercury becomes the radical humidity; See this table, p. 47. Mothers: The cubic stone has two mothers and two fathers, p. 6. Mercury: Potable gold. See this table, p. 43. Macbenac: It is found in the union of the two columns J∴ and B∴. See p. 12. JMB∴ Macbenac Medicine of the Stone: Raphael, p. 14. Mary: Name which means ‘exalted,’ ‘mother of bitterness,’ p. 14. Miracle of the Stone: See p. 14. Matter: It is not nothing, because it is by itself:

without action without form and without motion (See this table, p. 26). Mixtures: The mixtures are composed of the elements and they are divided into three kingdoms: vegetal animal and mineral (See ibid., p.7). Material: Material and spiritual beings. Their distinctions are: visible ones: invisible ones limited space: infinite magnitude immobility: motion (See ibid., p. 27). Matter: It is dead; it lives only by borrowing. That is why it must give life. See ibid., p. 32. Death: Death is conquered by death in the philosophical work, ibid., p. 32. Manifestation: Holy Spirit, radius of manifestation, ibid., p. 33. Motion: Cross, ibid., p. 33. Terrestrial Matter: One of the five parts of the microcosm, p. 22. World, Microcosm or Corporal Nature: (Microcosm) in which we find five aspects which are: 1. the planets with their elementary qualities ♄, ♃, ♂, ☉, ♀, ☿, ☽;

2. the three principles 3. the four elements 4. the tincture

, ☿;

, ,

,

,

;

;

5. the terrestrial matter .

Messenger of God: Mercury, ibid., p. 33. Philosophical Mercury: See ibid., p. 33. Morality: Without it, there is no customs, no states, ibid., p. 42. Morality: United to Religion and Justice by means of the chain of the Holy Spirit, ibid., p. 42. Mercury: It is found with sulphur, salt and the sign of the star on the cross, ibid., p. 44. First Matter: It is distilled by the Holy Spirit, ibid., p. 45. Death: It is enclosed in earth, and nevertheless earth encloses life because it is the matrix of the elements, ibid., p. 45. Death: It is the hieroglyph of nature, ibid., p. 45. Hammers: The three hammers of the order of Masonic works, ibid., p. 48.

Mothers: Fathers and mothers, celestial and temporal ones. The human being possesses them. See the Discourse of our Alchemy, p. III. Morality: Religion and Justice are based on science, ibid., p. III. Freemasonry: It is persecuted by fanaticism, ibid., p. IV. Freemasonry: It is governed by the same laws and the same customs, ibid., p. IV. Mercury: Philosophical liquor, ibid., p. I. Medecine: Balm of the vegetables, ibid., p. I. Three Worlds, Three Heavens: The human being has them within him, ibid., p. III. P About the Word and its Pronunciation The Word composed of three syllables, must be pronounced in a single instance and without interval. That is impossible to one single man, even for two persons, since there would always lack one or two aspirations. That is the reason why there must be three persons so that the three aspirations are made without interruption. Since the Word is ternary, it must be pronounced three times.

Blessed is he who [138] understands the true sense of this ternary pronunciation, so he will be fully convinced that nothing could exist without this number and nothing would have existed without this divine and spiritual pronunciation. Thus, it is necessary that the glorious Name ‘Jehovah’ is pronounced by three persons, since it must be pronounced without interruption and repeated three times. We must take great care about the right moment, so that as soon as the first man pronounces the first syllable, the other two men immediately each pronounce their own syllable. But, although the first one who uttered the first syllable has not pronounced the whole Name, even so the Word has been pronounced. When the second one starts again pronouncing the first syllable, the first and the third ones also immediately utter the two other syllables, thus every one will have pronounced two syllables. Finally, when the third man pronounces his syllable, the other two follow him and the Word is repeated three times in unity in the order as follows: 1º

2º

3º

Je

Ho

Va

2º

3º

1º

Je

Ho

Va

3º

1º

2º

Je

Ho

Va

in unity. This is Time

the Father

in unity. This is space

the Son

in unity. This is motion

the Holy Spirit

Note that these three pronunciations are made:

☿

1. Horizontally and diagonally, composing their connections in the quaternary of the four Hebrew letters ‫יהוה‬, which by its pronunciation is contained within the number 9, which by turn hides the number 10 in its centre. The plate of gold on which was engraved the true pronunciation of the Name, contained therefore on one side, the Hebrew quaternary or letters and on the other side the pronunciation. Since this pronunciation is all spiritual, it is necessary that it is done by aspiration. Moses and Joshua possessed the knowledge of the true pronunciation of the Name and pronounced it within the Sanctuary where the Ark was kept. The oracle was pronounced in the midst of the noise made by the people and the trumpets. Solomon, Hiram King of Tyre, and Hiram Abif (had the true pronunciation of the Name and pronounced it in the silence, within the vault which was built under the Holy of Holies). Plate of Gold of the Name and its pronunciation

Side of the pronunciation

Side of the Name

It is this Name that was conveyed through the radius of nature and on this radius of the fiat, which has been repeated by 3 times 3, in every chorus of the heavenly court (Number 81). It is this Name that performs all the wonders and establishes order in the universe. It is this Name that constitutes the three columns that sustain the vessel of our Alchemy. Finally, it is the mysterious number that gives our stone the power to perform wonderful things because (this Name) is the Divine Oracle.

When it is pronounced, the spirits of the celestial court tremble and wonder who dares to call God in order to bring Him down from His Throne. Within the order of the nine choruses, it is triple in the seraphim chorus and nonuple in its pronunciation. There it is the Prince of the World. There it is ‘Jod’ ‫י‬. It is by means of this letter that God tells us: ‘I am who I am,’ ‘I am Ehje,’ that is to say, ‘I will cause to be.’ It is triple (nine) in the chorus of cherubins. There it is the crown of the Prince of the World, the Crown of God, Wheel of motion. In this chorus, it is God Himself, ‘Being by Himself,’ ‘Being of Beings,’ ‘I am,’ ‘Jehovah.’ It is triple in the chorus of trones where it is powerful in its entrance, in the circle of created beings. There it is ‘Jesus,’ that is, human. There it is ‘Elohim,’ ‘Jehovah.’ It is triple in the chorus of dominations where it is bright. There it is ‘Jehovah,’ ‘God.’ It is triple in the chorus of powers where it is inflamed. There it is the ‘Savior,’ ‘God,’ ‘Almighty God’ and ‘Powerful.’ It is triple in the chorus of virtues. There it is ‘King,’ it is ‘God,’ ‘Mighty God.’ It is triple in the chorus of principalities. There it is ‘gods’ by conveying its Divine nature, and yet it is ‘Immutable.’ There it is ‘the Lord of Hosts.’ It is triple in the chorus of the archangels who are the children of God. There it is the science of God.

It is triple in the chorus of angels who are like the children of God. There it is also ‘the Lord of Hosts,’ ‘the Almighty.’ It is in the centre of these nine divisions that resides the true ‘Majesty,’ ‘the Lord,’ ‘Adonai.’ Study well what I have just told you concerning this Name. Do not fall into false ideas; do not try to divide it because it is one by itself. Always be careful so that this Name be composed of three syllables, giving the number nine. This number applied to each chorus of the Heavenly Court gives the number 81. This number is nothing else than the number nine and the number nine is only the number three which we find in the three hierarchies. Finally, since these three hierarchies are in unity in the heart of God, the Name is one, immutable, indivisible, and yet it moves, divides, binds and unbinds, gives death and life, destroys and restores, for it is the radius of the universal spirit, which unites the celestial, incorruptible to the perishable and temporal. It is in this Name that we find the sacred Word of the Royal Arch, which is composed of nine words which means: 1º

Jod

God

triple

3

9

2º

Jao

Mighty God

triple

3

9

3º

Jah

Almighty God

triple

3

9

4º

Haïah

He is

triple

3

9

5º

Elion

the Most High

triple

3

9

6º

Jahac

Eternal God

triple

3

9

7º

Adonai

O thou who only is Eternal

triple

3

9

8º

Eléhanam

Mercy of God

triple

3

9

9º

Johabulum

my joy is in God

triple

3

9

triple

27 x3 81

81

Note that the four letters of the Name of God are related to the numbers 3∴ 5∴ 7∴ and 9∴. Each of these letters is triple in the 12 signs of the Philosophical Zodiac just as there are four elements to which they are related. See p. 28 of our Geometry. See ‘the Wheel of the 12 Main Winds,’ p. 13 of our Physics. (These 4 letters) are similarly related to the 4 triangles placed inside the circle. See p. 29 of this table. The numbers 3∴ 5∴ 7∴ and 9∴ are related to the Name of God and are similarly triple, giving the numbers 9∴ 15∴ 21∴ and 27∴, which when added to 24 multiplied by 3, that is to say, 72, which is related to the 72 qualities of God and the great Name S∴ H∴ Ph∴ which composes the sacred Name of the Scottish degree, New Rite, and also is related to the number 16, that is to say, to the 16 philosophical elements to which the Name of God is related likewise. This number twelve is explained in the degree of the Royal Arch, from which has been extracted the pronunciation of the sacred Name of this

degree. See the relationship of these letters with the elements, p. 29 of this table. See the the relationship of these letters with the numbers 3∴ 5∴ 7∴ and 9∴, p. 15 of our Alchemy, which remit us to p. 18 of our Geometry. See p. 9 for the word S∴ H∴ Ph∴. [139] First Table of Relationship of the 4 Letters of the Name of God with the Numbers 3∴ 5∴ 7∴ and 9∴ ‫ה‬

‫ו‬

‫ה‬

‫י‬

4

3

2

1

10

9

7

5

3

24

27

21

15

9

72

81

63

45

27

216

This table will give a general idea of the mystery of the duodecimal letters that make up the Name of God. Jod ‫י‬

Jao Jah

God 3∴, 9∴ and 27∴

Mighty God Almighty God

‫ה‬

‫ו‬

‫ה‬

Haïah

5∴, 15∴ and 45∴

He was

Elion

the Most High

Jahah

Eternal God

Adonai

O thou who is only eternal

Schadai

7∴, 21∴ and 63∴

Who

is

complete

Himself

Jehovah

Bright God

Hélé´anam

Mercy of God

El Sabaoth

9∴, 27∴ and 81∴

Joabulum

God of Hosts My joy is in God

Second Table of Relationship of the four letters of the Name of God with the numbers 3∴ 5∴ 7∴ and 9∴ and their cubes ‫ה‬ ‫ו‬ ‫ה‬ ‫י‬ 9∴ 7∴ 5∴ 3∴

by

24 Their squares 81 49 25 9 164 Their cubes 729 343 125 27 1224 From all that we have just said, it will be easy to perceive that the number 12 originates from the four threefold letters of the Name of God. The number 9 originates in the triple pronunciation of this mysterious Name. One might ask why the pronunciation is not made by the number four. I will answer this by saying that nature operates by the number three. It is the only number which is suitable to the pronunciation of the Name. On the other hand, we must note that in the permutation of the triple quaternary, the fourth pronunciation is only a repetition of the first. Thus, it will be easy to be convinced by means of the following figure: 1 2 3

2 3 1 3 1 2 1 2 3 The four letters of the Name of God are threefold and are repeated three times in the Wheel of essences in the Zodiac of the universal Energy (p. 28 of our Geometry).See ‘the Wheel of the 12 Main Winds,’ p. 13 of our Physics. These four threefold letters are also related to the four equilateral triangles. See the duodecimal figure of the four elements, p. 29 of this table. These 4 letters are related to the numbers 3∴ 5∴ 7∴ and 9∴, which when are triplicated give the numbers 9∴ 15∴ 21∴ and 29∴. Note that these last four numbers gives 72, which is related to the sacred word S∴ H∴ Ph∴ and the number 16, which is the quadruple of the four elements and constitutes our 16 philosophical elements. Pay attention again to the fact that the number 3 is in the great circumference of generations. We cannot go further than this number. That is the reason why God can only be named by means of the ternary, held in the centre of His Name.

He tells us by the way of His Word: ‘Gather you in three and I will be in the midst of you.’ The pronunciation of the Name is the Divine Oracle of the alliance of God with mankind. In order to utter it, in spirit, it is necessary to gather in unity by reciprocally holding the hands as a sign of good faith, to position in the form of a triangle to represent the mysterious ternary. In this position, it is needed to have in the centre the Ark of the Covenant or the pedestal in which is placed the delta covered with the cubic stone, and to be extremely covered75 so that no profane can hear this mysterious pronunciation. I repeat to you: the Name must be pronounced by aspirations because it is the breath of the spirit of life which is enclosed within it. I say that you have to hold your hands as a sign of good faith in order to form the link of unity. The first pronunciation is related to God, the Father. The second related to the pact of His love, to the engendering of the Son. The third related to manifestation, to this proceeding Spirit which give life and motion to nature as soon as the ‘Fiat’ was pronounced. The first pronunciation begins by the first person. The second one utters the second syllable and the third one, the third syllable. After that, the second person pronounces the first syllable. The third man pronounces the second syllable and the first person the third syllable. Then the third man pronounces the first syllable. The first one utters the second syllable and the second person the third syllable. As I mentioned to

you above, in the following order: 1

2

3

Je

ho

vah

2

3

1

Je

ho

vah

3

1

2

Je

ho

vah

I recommend you not to profane this Name; that it be always kept in your heart and do pronounce it only by means of the ternary number. Never teach its pronunciation to anyone except he who is worthy to possess it, but always with great reservation. The pronunciation of the Name is related to God, to His pact and to His manifestation and all that is contained in man, for he is a microcosm within the macrocosm and a microheart placed within the macroheart. Humankind in his heart perceives all beings according to their forms. He names every being that he has perceived. So the first centre of the Name dwells in his heart that - the centre of his will which cannot come out except by the way of the Spirit, that is, by the way of air or aspiration in order to enter the second, the heart, where the Name of his will is formed. Only then it is pronounced by his mouth and thus manifestation occurs. It is necessary to the greatest glory of God:

that the inner being desires the outer Being tthat the inner heart longs for the outer heart for the outer Being wants to be manifested in the inner one and the inner heart has a desire to seize the outer. Study well what I have just said to you, and be very careful that no man pronounces any Name without first embodying the image of God Himself.76 If human were well versed about this truth, he would carefully keep this in mind, but unfortunately he is far away from his Creator and he seems to be ashamed77 for seeing the light of day. Fathers, Mothers: Humanking has two fathers and two mothers - one celestial and eternal, the other temporal and perishable. See the Discourse of our Alchemy, p. III. Cubic Stone: All the knowledge of nature is deposited on it. See ibid., p. IV. Stone: It is our spirit, our transmutator. See ibid., p. I.

Endnotes

1 A symbol signifying the Orient or Masonic Lodge. 2 Page numbers of the original are included for reference.

3 Allusion to the rite of initiation through which the Mason initiate passes by.

4 Literally: ‘If you consider all our hieroglyphs as being pure matters your mind will never penetrate their interior.’

5 Orient or Masonic Lodge

6 Ibidem.

7 Mackey´s Encyclopedia: A Lodge is said to be tiled when the necessary precautions have been taken to prevent the approach of unauthorized persons; and it is said to be the first duty of every Freemason to see that this is done before the Lodge is opened. The words to tile are sometimes used in the same sense as to examine, as when it is said that a visitor has been tiled, that is, has been examined. But the expression is not in general use, and does not seem to be a correct employment of the term. The English expression close tyled means that a Lodge is formally secluded against all persons not fully qualified and authorized to enter.

8 Allusion to Neh. 2:18.

9 Here he is using the analogy of the ternary that he has shown throughout his treatise, presenting the truth as analogous to time, to the Father; the path analogous to space, to the Son; and the life analogous to the motion and to the Holy Spirit.

10 Sir Galahad (sometimes referred to as Galeas or Galath), in Arthurian legend, is a knight of King Arthu∴ Round Table and one of the three achievers of the Holy Grail.

11 Literally ‘spirit.’

12

Mat. 7:7

13 It also is called ‘indented tassel,’ ‘indented tarsel,’ ‘tassellated border,’ ‘indented tessel’ and ‘tessellated border.’ It a cord forming true-lovers´ knots, which surrounds the tracing-board.

14 Here the author presents a V symbolizing a compass crossed by a line meaning the ruler, making a symbol resembling an A upside down.

15

Or black bile, according to the theory of humors.

16

Or yellow bile.

17 Reference to the Holy Spirit. See ‘Œuvres Complètes de François de Salignac de La Mothe Fénelon,’ Volume 4, page 125 et seq.

18

Matthew 25:34.

19

Or highest heaven; the mansion and dwelling place of God.

20 In the Scottish rite there are four degrees which are called by Elu (9, 10, 11 and 14 degrees). Since the author does not specify what grade it is, it is not possible to ascertain exactly which grade he is referring to.

21 The text may contain an error here. In alchemical theory of male and female, the male is the fixed part and the female is the volatile one. It is the female that draws in the male, embraces it, dominates it and kills it, being subsequently resurrected.

22

In the sense of ‘alignment.’

23 This portion of the text is very confusing since there are words superimposed on each other. It is difficult to know the reasoning of the author.

24

See pages 5B and 9B.

25

Matthew 25:34.

26 Likely an allusion to the Ascension of Mary, as the virgin mother of the Son of God.

27

Literally ‘Nature purifies fire by renewing it.’

28 This word is difficult to read.

29

Literally ‘borrowed.’

30 Columns Jak∴ represents the summer solstice, while columns Boo∴ represents winter solstice.

31

Literally ‘meridians.’

32

Literally ‘rays.’

33 According to the Humor Theory, there are four bodily fluids: yellow bile, blood, pituitary or phlegm and black bile, which corresponded with the choleric, sanguine, phlegmatic and melancholic personalities of a man.

34 The author has included mankind in each of the kingdoms of nature to underline that mankind belonged to the three kingdoms of nature.

35 Reference to the ‘hieroglyphical senary’ which is composed by a double equilateral triangle, symbol of physical man.

36 The author seems to be reasoning about the multiples of 9 and 3. He begins by saying that 9 is the square root of 3, symbol of the ternary. That same 9 contains three parts of 3 and that if 9 is triplicated, just as the 3 tripled gives 9, we get the number 27. The author then concludes, starting from this premise, that if we take 27 and triple it, as we did with 3 and 9, we get the number 81, which is the largest square root of the numbers from 1 to 9 and which is the square root of the number 9.

37

Maybe ‘trés raisonnable,’ which means ‘very wise’ or ‘very prudent.’

38 The manuscript is a bit confusing in this part.

39

‘Great Architect of the Universe.’

40

Or ‘Mahabone.’

41

Or ‘mercury.’

42 If ‘a’ and ‘b’ are the lengths of the legs of a right triangle, ‘c’ is the hypotenuse. Thus, the smaller parts of the side of the triangle to which the author refers are the legs ‘a’ and ‘b’ of the right triangle and which together form the right angle of the same.

43 This part of the manuscript is stained.

44 On page 9 the author refers to the fire of life which is symbolized by a triangle, which geometrically speaking also has the figure of a ‘cone.’ Here in the index, the author presents this triangle-cone as the ‘wheel’ that the occult worker uses to subtilize the elements. See p. 9A and pp. 3B, 20A in the word ‘cone’ and ‘fire of life,’ respectively.

45

See §4, p. II ‘Continuation.’

46 The original says ‘masculine,’ but it seems that the author was referring to ‘feminine,’ as perceived by the immediate context.

47 Here the author refers to water as a batter probably in the same terms as a pizza chef would refer to the dough of a pizza.

48 The original says ‘figurer,’ which means ‘to figure,’ ‘to appear,’ ‘to feature.’

49 ‘Converted’ or ‘altered.’ The author repeats here an ancient axiom that elements can only be transmuted into other elements by means of an intermediary, following a linear chain beginning with earth (first matter), water, air, and fire.

50 This portion of the text is a bit difficult to read because of several erasures in the original.

51 That is, water.

52 That is, earth.

53 That is, water.

54 This reference does not make sense since the author is at the letter E and the letter P must be ‘below’ instead of ‘above.’

55

[Translator note: the logic of this statement is unclear.]

56 [Translator´s Note: The French word ‘froissement’ can also mean ‘creasing,’ ‘crumpling’ and ‘shrinkage.’]

57 [Translator´s Note: The meaning of this term, beginning with the letter S, is unclear.]

58 [Translator´s Note: In some other legends, he is the illegitimate son of Sir Lancelot and Elaine of Corbenic.]

59

See The Sacred Writings of St. John of Damascus, p. 132.

60

Literally ‘word’ in reference to the ‘Lost Word.’

61 This way in the original.

62

Likely reference to the Middle Chamber of King Solomo∴ Temple.

63 The original says ‘precedes.’

64 Unlike the order we usually see, here the author arranged the letters I.N.R.I. in the order ‘Ignis Renovatur Integra Natura.’

65

Reference to Jesus Christ in John 1:1.

66

Or ‘raised to the second power.’

67

Or ‘raised to the third power.’

68

Or ‘spirits’ and ‘angels.’

69 Masonic proverb reference: ‘To erect temples to Virtue and dig dungeons for Vice.’

70 Abbreviation for ‘Respectable Master.’

71

In French ‘veuve.’

72 This word is missing in the original. It was added here by the translator because the context seems to suggest it.

73 There he calls it ‘the terrestrial and burning world.’

74

In the original we have 4 instead of 2.

75 Reference to the act of tiling performed by the tiler in the Masonic Lodges.

76 This is a well-known axiom within Magic that no one should be reckless in invoking superior beings by their names without first embodying the image or authority of God Who controls all beings in the universe. In Magic, besides being dangerous, this is a sign of the magicia∴ immaturity.

77 Reference to Adam who when he sinned felt shame and hid from the face of God.