Great Chariot

The Great Bear, otherwise known as the Great Chariot, Arktos, the Big Dipper and Charlie s Wain is the most prominent constellation in the Northern Hemisphere. 

Sasilius Valentinus. Although the collection of chemical writings attributed to the fifteenth-century Benedictine monk, Basilius Valentinus, contains this alleged portrait, there is no conclusive evidence that such a person ever lived. Although the Triumphal Chariot of Antimony and other writings commonly attributed to him are much too modem for the fifteenth century, they are nevertheless of great historical value. 

By another famous writer, this Matter at the dark stage is called "Antimony, the chariot of the King." (See Tarot VII). It is so called because of the brilliancy of the blackness assumed after solution. The Sage rejoices when he sees the blackness, for he knows what it portends. Paracelsus say that an ignorant man often picks up and throws away a stone of more value than a cow. This is literally true, so that this very saying of the great alchemist becomes a Key to the Art itself. 

Nearly all oxidation reactions involve an electronic mechanism, and on this basis Roginskii has proposed certain orienting rules for the selection of extensive oxidation catalysts. As indicated in Table VI, these rules are based largely upon color and other physical properties which reflect upon the electronic properties of the solid catalyst. Up to the present the application of these selection principles to inextensive oxidation catalysts has been unsuccessful. This is due, in part, to the great diversity in opinions concerning the oxidation mechanism on the catalytic surface and its connection with the inextensive oxidation reaction. Chariot (170) has advanced the idea that the reactions of inextensive and extensive oxidation occur independently and with different reaction velocities. This view, however, has been opposed by Marek (217) who finds it difficult to conceive of a catalyst which would accelerate the... 

As for the last part of our three causes of inspiration, prayer, Kirchringius, in his commentary on Basil Valentine s Triumphal Chariot of Antimony, tells us, regarding enigmatical writings, such as these Hermetic treatises may well be called, that " if you burn with a great desire of knowing them, that is prayer." And while this need not be taken as a complete definition, it would seem that the reader who has persevered thus far with us has, in some measure at least, fulfilled all three conditions. 

At the top of the picture, Saturn, or Hermes, rides in a chariot pulled by two prancing, firebreathing dragons. He holds a sickle in his right hand and a caduceus in his left hand. The sickle refers to Hermes Saturnine aspect as the Great Reaper, the representation of Death or Limitation. In life, Hermes Saturnine aspect is associated with resignation and with futile, useless repetition and suffering. 

The use of the bow is of great antiquity. Plato credits Apollo with the invention. Ishmael became an archer (Gen. xxi. 20). The Philistine archers overcame Saul (1 Sam. xxxi. 3). David commanded it to be tai ht (2 Sam. i 18). Aster of Am-phipolis shot Philip of Macedon, and was hanged therefor. An ancient Egyptian bow is preserved in the Abbott Museum,-Newiorki together with the leather cm that contained it and fastened it to the war-chariot. Four arrows, made of reed and tipped vrith flint-stone, are suspended with it. 

Chariot (106) investigated the activity of a great number of various metal oxides in the reaction of toluene with oxygen, and stated that the high and low conversion processes are independent of each other. 

In two hundred days you will rise to heaven and enter the earth, and the immortals will become your attendants. In one year the Great One will welcome you in a chariot of clouds pulled by dragons and horses. Jiudan jingjue, I.rob)... 

Fire is called Child-Light ziming), and mercury too is called Child-Light. The One yi) is the Essence of Lead (qianjing) some call it Great Yin (taiyin), others Duke Metal (jingong), others River Chariot (heche), others the Handsome Maiden (chanii), and others quickly conquered stone lizhi shi). 

In the fourth century BC, King Midas in the city of Gordium in what is now the nation of Turkey tied his ox-cart/chariot to a post with an intricate knot. It was prophesied that whoever could undo the knot would become the next king of Persia. In 333 BC, Alexander the Great attempted to untie the knot. He could not find an end to the rope, so he simply cut through the knot with his sword. He went on to conquer most of the known world, including Persia. 

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