Mercury of the Wise

ARSENIC OF THE PHILOSOPHERS — The Mercury of the Wise — otherwise, the matter from which this Mercury is extracted. It is also the Hermetic Matter when it has reached the black stage, and the Sulphur or active and masculine seed. Some also understand by this term that Salt, which is the bond between Sulphur and Mercury, and is one of the three principles of Nature, and of all composites. 

Symbol of the red color in The Wodc. The Phoenixes egg is the Philosopliical Egg. The Phoenix is also Sulfur and Mercury of the Wise, united and conjoined in the last term of The Work. 

Result of the amalgamation of Cold of the Wise and Mercury of the Wise, double matter, both wei and dry, having received form Nature and An a double occult properly which is exactly equilibrated. 

Same significance as for the Dragon. Three serpents designate the three Principles Salt, Sulfur, Mercury. Two serpents on the Caduceus Sulfur and Mercury of the Wise. Winged serpent the Volatile. Without wings the Fixed. Crucified serpent designates the fixation of the Volatile. 

Silver of the Wise Also called Mercury of the Wise as opposed to Philosophical Mercury which precedes it in the previous stage, or Mercury of the Mad, which is common quicksilver), also Philosophical Silver. Tt results from the absorption of a certain quantity of the... 

In effect, by the copu I at ion of the Mercury Principle and the Su ur Principle the Adept obtains Philosophical Silver or Mercury of the Wise as by the copu lation of the Sulfur Principle and the Salt Principle they obtain Philosophical Golck or Sulfur of the Wise ... 

Finally, through the copulation of Mercury of the Wise and Sulfur of the Wise The Work passes from White to Red. The Adept obtains the Chrysoprase the Philosophical Stone I). 

As is born at the appointed time, from the union of5w//wrand Mercury of the Wise in the Philosopher s Egg (which the Alchemists still called the Sublimator), the Red Stone , the Chrysoprase is thus born in the Soul of Man, this athanor (or philosophical furnace), whose Heart is the Sublimator (or Philosophical Egg) - Total Illumination, the decisive factor in Reintegration (Fig. 4). 

The prophet is always possessed of the Holy Spirit, the diviner is always possessed of an Interm ediary Spirit, and the medium is always possessed of a D ead Person. Identifying the source of their prophecies is to locate the level of their sp iritu al ity. Clairvoyance corresponds to Mercury of the Wise and Clairaudience to Sulfur of the Wise. 

And it is here we find the true Philosophical Stone of Spiritual Alchemy, the Eucharist, in which Water image of the Mercury of the Wise and of the CHURCH, is united in the Chalice, image of the crucible, with of Sulfur of the Wise and CHRIST. Moreover, and from... 

The purified white vapor of Mercury, Shakespeare s Portia, ultimately rises from the reaction. To the Alchemists this is Air, their term for Heat plus Humidity. It is the vapor of Antimony Trichloride that forms as a white metallic, volatile humidity or sweat, similar to saliva. Alchemists call the vapor of antimony the Mercury of the Wise , the white wife or White Goddess of the First Perfection. 

Mercury Principle + Sulfur Principle = Philosophical Silver (Mercury of the Wise)... 

Sulphur of the Wise to Wisdom Mercury of the Wise to Understanding... 

And it is here we find the true Philosophical Stone of Spiritual Alchemy the Eucharist, in which Water, image of the Mercury of the Wise and of the Church, is united in the Chalice, image of the crucible, with Wine, symbol of Sulfur of the Wise and Christ. Moreover, and from this union of the PHILOSOPHICAL SuN (the Wine) and the Philosophical Moon (the Water), of these newlyweds called the "RedBridegroom" and the "White Bride", according to the treatise by Ripley, joins together as the PHILOSOPHICAL Earth (the Com), symbol of the Salt of the Salt of the Wise. ... 

One of the purposes for attaining the Stone of the Wise enshrined in the Mercury center (astrologically, Mercury rules communication) is to produce a receptor capable of receiving the more rarefied spiritual influences and an organism capable of transmitting them. Selfish salvation there is none. It is for all others, as well as for ourselves, that we undertake the Work. Likewise, in Mahayana Buddhism, all rituals and meditations end with the dedication that Whatever benefits are accrued may help all beings to reach Enlightenment. ... 

Among the Alchemists, the Sun [Soleil] means vulgar gold. The Hermetic Philosophers call their Sulphur and Gold Sun. The Sun of the Wise with a mercurial source is the fixed part of the Matter of the Great Work, and the Moon means the volatile part. They also call Sun the fire which is within or innate to the Matter. ... 

WATER — Thickened or Solidified Water. The Mercury of the Philosophers in that state wherein the spirit is conjoined with the body, or in that during which they say that Mercury contains all that is desired by the Wise. When spirits and body have united to compose this Mercury, they are no longer distinguished by separate names, but are known under the one name of Mercury, because it is then properly Animated Mercury, or Mercury of the Sages. 

Eudoxus, in his First and Second Keys, which are really only two sections of one operation, namely the Solution, and an introduction to the Sublimation, tells us that "the First Key is that which opens up the dark prisons in which the Sulphur is shut up this it is which knows how to extract the seed out of the body, and which forms the Stone of the Philosophers by the conjunction of the spirit with the body—of sulphur with mercury. Hermes has manifestly demonstrated the operation of this First Key by these words In the caverns of the metals there is hidden the Stone, which is venerable, bright in colour, a mind sublime and an open sea. This Stone has a bright glittering it contains a Spirit of a sublime original it is the Sea of the Wise, in which they angle for their mysterious Fish.. . . Take heed, therefore, not to be deceived here for it is a truth that in each work the Wise Artist ought to dissolve the body with the spirit.. 

The two Philosophical Metals Silver of the Wise and Cold of the Wise) born from the copulation of the three Principles Sulfur Mercury and Salt) correspond to the two Sublime Virtues, being ... 

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