Andrew, the hermit and humble fisherman, served the Christus John, when he became a disciple of the great kabir, Jesus.
The Christic gospel of the solar humanity indeed tells us that when the great being initiated his esoteric mission, he went to Capernaum. About this city near the sea in Galilee, Isaiah, the Prophet, had said:
“The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death, light is sprung up”
(Matthew 4: 16).
The Solar Logos, walking by the shores of the sea, took as his first disciples, two fishermen, Peter and Andrew, and told them that he would make them “fishers of men” (Matthew 4: 13).
Andrew assisted Jesus, the great Gnostic priest, in the miraculous fishing of Lake Gennesaret or Jainesareth — the symbolic Jinns lake — where the sacred fire performed so many prodigies.
It is written in letters of gold in the Book of Life, about the various resurrections and miracles performed by Andrew after the death of the great kabir.
Legend centuries old tells us that in Nicaea, seven sinister, vicious, and tenebrous demons wandered about and murdered travellers. Andrew, facing the judgement of the people, transformed them into dogs and drove them out of the region.
Andrew’s tremendous torments, full of enigmas and prodigies, made famous the “X” cross. It was to an “X” cross that his dismembered limbs were cruelly attached.
We can and we must assert that this symbolic “X”, which is indeed a Greek “K”, was, is and will always be one of the most valuable symbols of Christic esotericism.
Many mystical fraternities adopted Andrew’s magical sign, the “X”, Khristos, or the fish. Ostensibly, Andrew was fully accepted by the esoteric fraternities of Scotland. It goes without saying, in this Christmas Message 1974-1975, that such institutions have a plant as their emblem, the thistle.
For many centuries, there existed in Scotland various occult fraternities of St. Andrew of the Thistle.
It has been said again and again that extraordinary men like Thomas a Kempis, Geber, Raymond Lully, Nicolas Flamel, Sendivogius, Albert the Great, St. Thomas Aquinas, Wigelius, Roger Bacon, Mathia Kornax, Paracelsus, Arnold of Villanova, and many others, were active members of similar fraternities.
If the immaculate lamb of God that forgives the sins of the world, carries the symbolic cross on the oriflamme —just as the hierophant Jesus does on his bleeding shoulders — if he courageously holds it with his hoof, such as some religious images show him, it is because he has the sacred symbol securely nailed in his hoof.
Whoever receives the ineffable spirit of the sacred fohat, has it within, and is properly identified by its glorious sign, has certainly — in the name of truth — nothing to fear of the fire of the elements.
These are the authentic Sons of the Sun, the true disciples of Helias who have as a guide the star of their ancestors.
The sign of the cross, the sublime monogram of our Lord the Christ — from which St. Andrew’s cross and the miraculous St. Peter’s key are marvelous replicas of equal alchemist and kabalist value — is, therefore, the sign, which provides the victory to the workers of the Great Work.
The Kabalist Hebrew Tree of Life is placed in the central crossing of the Palenque cross. This is a true wonder of ancient Mexico.
Undoubtedly, the Tree of Science of Good and Evil and the Tree of Life share their roots.
Let us never forget those prophetic words which appeared around the shiny cross seen in the astral world, by Constantine who joyfully painted on his labarum: IN HOC SIGNO VINCES (for this sign you will vanquish).
The sexual cross — the living symbol of the lingam-yoni crossing — has the unmistakable and marvelous essence of the three nails used to immolate the Matter- Christ. These also symbolize the three purifications by iron and fire without which Lord Quetzalcoatl in Mexico could not have achieved resurrection.
The cross is the ancient Alchemists’ hieroglyph of the crucible (creuset), formerly called in French, cruzol, crucible, croiset.
In Latin, crucibuluin, crucible, has as its root crux, crucis, cross. This is a matter for reflection.
It is in the crucible where the prima materia of the Great Work suffers with an infinite patience, the passion of the Lord.
In the erotic crucible of Sexual Alchemy, the ego dies and the Phoenix Bird is reborn from among its own ashes.
INRI: In Nescis Renascor Integer. In death to be reborn, pure and intact.
In victory, death is immersed. “Where is, O death, your sting? Where is, O grave, your victory?”
Roger Bacon, in his great work Azoth (a book very similar to the Azug of the powerful Oriental wisdom) shows, in a transcendental engraving, the first stage of the alchemist process, by means of a decomposed corpse lying down in the wonderful retort of Alchemy.
The shining sun, the pale moon and the various planets of our Ors solar system — with its correspondent alchemist signs — totally dominate the scene.
It is rather strange to see that corpse lifting his head as if willing to resuscitate from among the dead.
The black crow of Sexual Alchemy removes the flesh from the bones while the psychic Essence leaves the body.
This image of the profane dead one, who later resuscitates to the Initiation, to reality, is truly an extraordinary Osirian symbol.
“The flesh leaves the bones,” is a liturgical phrase of St. Andrew of the Thistle and similar brotherhoods.
St. Andrew’s torments on the terrible “X” cross truly denote the annihilation of the much beloved ego in the laboratorium oratorium of the Third Logos. This is a dreadful as well as indispensable death that could never be accomplished with any ordinary fire.
Customarily, the extra help of an occult agent, a secret fire of a sexual type is required for this kind of work, and to give an idea of its shape it appears more like water than a flame.
This fire, or burning water, is the vital spark that the Logos imparts to inert matter. It is the divine fohat contained in all of creation. It is the igneous ray, Kundalini, the sacred serpent of Anahuac’s wisdom, which ascends through the adept’s spinal column.
The connection of the lingam-yoni without ejaculation of the ens seminis: this is the specific key by means of which Adam and Eve can awaken Saturn’s Serpent in their occult anatomy.
The careful reading of Artephius, Pontanus and the work entitled Epistola de Igne Philosopho rum would benefit the reader, because in those immortal pages we can find valuable guidelines on the nature and overall features of this “watery fire” or “igneous water.”
In the cobblestone yards of the majestic and sacred temples of Anahuac men and women — all candidates to the human and solar initiation — in a mutual exchange of caresses, performed the lingam-yoni (phallus-uterus) connection; they then withdrew from the chemical coitus without ejaculation of the ens seminis (the seminal entity). This is how they achieved the awakening of the Saturnian Serpent.
The sexual transmutation of the ens seminis into creative energy is truly the fundamental axiom of hermetic science.
The bi-polarization of this extraordinary kind of energy within the human organism has been, since ancient times, carefully studied in all colleges of initiation of Mexico, Peru, Egypt, Yucatan, Greece, India, Tibet, Phoenicia, Persia, Chaldea, Troy, Carthage, and others.
The miraculous ascent of the seminal energy to the brain is made possible by a pair of nerve fibres which, taking the shape of an “8”, evolve at the left and the right of the spinal cord.
This pair of ducts takes the classical names of Yin and Yang in Chinese philosophy; the Tao is the path of the middle, the spinal canal, the secret way through which the serpent ascends.
Evidently, the first of these two vessels is of a lunar nature. The second one is of a solar type.
When the solar and lunar atoms make contact in the tribeni, near the coccyx, the Igneous Serpent of our magical powers awakens.
Hebrew kabalists talk to us about the mysterious Daath, which appears in the Tree of Life. Neither divine name nor angelic hosts of any kind are assigned to it. It does not have a planet or element, or any mundane sign.
Daath, the Sephiroth of the Hebrew mystery, is the result of the esoteric conjunction of Abba, the Father who is in secret, and Ama, the Supreme Mother.
The Father and the Mother, Osiris and Isis, are perpetually united in Jesod, the foundation, the ninth Sephiroth, sex. However, the latter is hidden by Daath ‘s mystery, or Tantric knowledge, and it evolves with the Sahaj Maithuna (Sexual Magic).
The loom of life weaves and unweaves between these two bi-polar aspects of creation: our Father who is in secret and our Divine Mother Kundalini.
Legend centuries old tells us that when Semele, mother of Dyonisius, saw Zeus, his divine lover, she was destroyed by his divine lightning and she gave birth to her son prematurely.
Certainly, nobody can see God face to face without dying. The death of the self or myself is essential before being able to contemplate the resplendent face of the Elder of the Days.
In the same way as life represents a gradual and ceaseless process of externalisation and extraversion, the death of the ego is a process of gradual introversion. In the latter, the individual Consciousness, the pure Essence slowly divests itself of its useless clothing — the same as Ishtar in her symbolic descent — and thus, naked, it awakens to the Great Reality of free life in motion.
Undoubtedly, in order for the light which makes up the Essence, now imprisoned in the animal ego, to begin to shine and radiate, it must free itself. Truly, I tell you that this is possible however, only by undergoing the terrible Buddhist annihilation — dissolving the I, dying in ourselves.
Sexual energy is certainly a tremendous, highly explosive and amazing power. Whoever learns to wield the erotic weapon, the lance of all magical pacts, will be able to reduce the psychological Ito cosmic dust.
It goes without saying that the lance, as an occultist emblem of sexual, virile power, plays a great role in numerous Oriental legends. Being the instrument of salvation or liberation, and wisely handled by the Gnostic ascetic, it enables us to reduce to ashes the multitude of undesirable elements which make up the ego, the self, the myself.
In the passion of Our Lord the Christ, Longinus plays the same role as St. Michael and St. George. Among the pagans, Cadmus, Perseus and Jason have similar duties.
Piercing the Dragon or impaling Christ’s side with the spear is a meaningful act, just like the ones that the legendary knights or the Greek heroes performed.
St. Andrew’s cross and the Holy Staff, fully allegorize the work of the Buddhist annihilation. When, with profound veneration we cite St. Andrew’s cross and the Holy Staff, we must never forget the Holy Grail.
The sacred vessels of all religions represent the feminine sexual organs of generation and regeneration. They correlate to Plato’s cosmogonic vase, Hermes’ and Solomon’s cup, and the holy vessel of ancient mysteries.
The mother of our own flesh, or the woman Serpent, is revered in all Mexican traditions, which represent her, fallen from her primeval state of joy and innocence.
According to Zoroastrian books, the first man and the first woman were created pure and obedient by Ormuzd, their maker. Ahriman saw them and felt jealous of their happiness. Disguised as a snake, he offered them some fruit, and convinced them that he was the creator of the universe. They believed him, and since then, their nature was totally corrupt.
Hindu traditions and monuments support Adam and Eve’s story, and their fall. This tradition also exists among Tibetan Buddhists, and was taught by ancient Chinese and Persians.
Thus, the original sin is the root of the ego, the causa causorum of the self or myself.
The purification performed in different cultures in order to cleanse the baby when coming to life, is indeed a pact of Sexual Magic.
In Yucatan, Mexico, the newborn child was taken to the temple and there, the priest sprinkled baptismal water on his head and gave him a name. In the Canary Islands, women, instead of priests, had this duty.
Adam and Eve are always separated by the trunk of the tree of paradise. In most cases, the serpent coiled around it is depicted with a human head.
Only by fulfilling the Sexual Magic pact, the sacrament of baptism, can the original sin be annihilated so that we may return to paradise.
Jakin and Boaz, Urim and Thummim, Apollo and Diana, are certainly the chief columns of the temple of wisdom.
The arcanum A.Z.F., the key of the Great Work, is found in the centre of the two columns of the temple.
Adoring his Divine Mother Kundalini, the sacred serpent that ascends along the Tao path (the spinal cord), Goethe exclaimed in total ecstasy:
Virgin pure in the most noble sense Mother worthy of all veneration Queen by us chosen In equal condition to the gods
Longing to die in himself at that instant, that great initiate, after having totally understood a psychological error, and during the metaphysical copulation, cried with all the forces of his soul:
Arrows, pierce me Spears, submit me Maces, wound me
May everything disappear May everything be vanished May the perennial star
Source of eternal love, Shine….
Understanding and elimination is the key to St. Andrew’s cross. This is how we undergo death from instant to instant.
It is impossible to radically eliminate a psychological defect without fully understanding it at all levels of the mind.
During the chemical coitus, Devi Kundalini, our Cosmic particular and individual Mother, can and must wield the Holy Lance — Minerva’s staff, Achille’s spear, Longinus’ weapon — in order to destroy the psychological defect that we have totally understood. “Ask and you will be given, knock and it will be opened.”
Legend says that Lord Quetzalcoatl, in the eve of his fall, said: “They say I will have to leave my rich feathered houses and my houses decorated with snails.”
The Nahua epics literally says:
Full of joy, he then ordered the queen to come to the beautiful mat.
“Go and bring with you, queen Quetzalpetatl (in Hebrew mythology, Eve), who is the joy of my life, so that together we drink, and drink until intoxication.”
The valets went to Tlamachuayan’s palace and from there, they brought the queen.
“Our queen, our child, king Quetzalcoatl ordered us to take you to him. He wants to share joy with you.”
She answered them: “I will go.”
When Quetzalpetatl arrived, she sat beside the king; they filled her cup with liquor four times, and the fifth was a toast to her greatness.
And when she was intoxicated, the magicians began singing. The king got up, and, staggering, said to the princess in the middle of the songs, “My wife, let us enjoy and drink this liquor.” (He was referring to the liquor of lust).
Since they were intoxicated, they spoke nonsense (the lustful lose their reason).
The king did no more penance, nor went he to the ritual bath, neither did he pray in the temple. Finally, they fell asleep. The next day, upon awakening, both were sad, and their hearts were broken.
In Hebrew mythology, it is said that Adam and Eve were also sad after eating the forbidden fruit. “And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons.”
Quetzalcoatl then said: “I got drunk, I have transgressed. Nothing will remove the stain I have put on myself.” Then, with his guards, he started chanting. The crowd waiting outside was made to wait longer.
Afflicted and crying, distressed and grieving, knowing that everyone was aware of his wrongdoings, having no one to comfort him, he cried before his God.
The following verses of the Hebrew Bible can be easily compared to the citation above:
Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
(Genesis 3: 23, 24)
Quetzalcoatl’s flight and his mysterious departure from paradisiac Tula are certainly remarkable.
It is said that he then burned his houses of gold, silver, and red shells, made by the crafty hands of the Toltecs.
Superb works of art, prized and beautiful works of art, were buried. He hid everything in secret places, in the mountains and in the ravines.
Later, he had to look for this great treasure, or esoteric wealth that was hidden in the bowels of the earth.
When translated into Gnostic or Alchemist terms, these mystical paragraphs of Anahuac are superb.
The metallic decrease of the “spiritual gold” is the inevitable consequence or result of any sexual fall.
When alluding to “superb works of art” and “prized and beautiful works of art”, we can study — between the lines — the General Epistle of James, the blessed patron of the Great Work (see the Bible).
Enoch found the “hidden and imperishable treasure” in the living bowels of Mount Mona. We all have to look for our hidden heritage.
The “treasure” is never found on the surface of earth; we need to descend to the Avemus in order to find it.
Visita interiora terrae, rectjficando invenies ocultum lapidem: Visit the earth’s interior and by rectifying you will find the occult stone.
Undoubtedly, the Philosopher’s Stone and all the precious gems of the Celestial Jerusalem, which symbolise cosmic and transcendental virtues and powers, are Quetzalcoatl’s treasure. It is our innermost particular wealth, and we hid it when we left Eden; we must look for it within ourselves, here and now.
In front of the tree of old age, the Lord saw his face and in infinite pain he said: “Old am I.”
He arrived at another place and he rested. He sat on a stone and there he placed his hands. He then looked at Tula and began to cry.
He cried in great sobs. Drops of water ran from his eyes, forming a double stream of tears. His falling teardrops pierced the rock.
As he leaned on his hands against the rock, the tears were imprinted on it, as if the rock were made of mud. His hands as well as his buttocks were thus engraved on the rock. A clear imprint remained in the place where he sat. The imprint of his hands can still be seen in the place called Temacpalco.
In reality, strictu sensu, sexual electricity lies buried in the rock, in the stone (sex). It can either free or enslave man.
These paragraphs encourage reflection. Quetzalcoatl’s event is always wondrous to ponder, and has tremendous validity.
These are not mere semantic clarifications. We only want to comment on the Quetzalcoatlian message by means of phenomenology.
It is said that the Blessed One, after having suffered so much, arrived at a place called “The Stone Bridge.”
“In this place there is water, (ens seminis) a water that springs and rises, it expands and builds up.”
Modern anthropologists have mistakenly interpreted this in a totally different way. They know nothing about Nahua esotericism. They do not know the religious meaning of this chant.
Although this seems in toto far from Gnosticism, in reality, it is not. Let us emphasise the following: The Blessed One returned to the path he had left. It is said that he seized a rock, made a bridge and crossed over to the other side.
In this way, the great avatar of the Aztecs returned to his path and reached a place called “The Water of the Serpents.”
Arab authors call this source Holmat, and also teach us that its waters gave immortality to Elijah, the prophet. They place the famous source in the Modhallan, a term whose root means “obscure and dark sea.” This refers to the “metallic chaos,” the sacred sperm or prima materia of the Great Work.
This knowledge evades any standard intellectual analysis. It is a matter of supra-rational teachings that can only be comprehended or grasped with the help of a guru.
We miss the cervus fugitivus, the mineral water, the metallic water, which is solid and cutting, appears like a stone, and can easily be liquefied.
This coagulated water, in the shape of a rocky mass, is the alkaest or universal solvent, the water of serpents, the metallic soul of the sacred sperm, the mercury of secret philosophy; it is the marvelous result of sexual transmutation.
The sages were always reluctant with respect to the philosophical mercury, whose successive stages can be directed at will by the intelligent operator.
Although the technique demands some time and effort, it is also extremely simple. No professional duties or skill is required. The knowledge of a curious technique, the secret secretorum is enough. We, the Gnostics, have disclosed it publicly: connection of the lingam-yoni (phallus-uterus) without ever spilling Hermes’ cup.
Karl Meagh says:
“At the moment of muscular tension, before the currents are inverted and when the sensation of imminent ejaculation appears, the seminal fluid can be stopped by pushing the tongue as far backwards as possible, and by stopping the breath. The contraction of the muscles of the anus, as if practicing the exercise of concentration in the muladhara chakra, is recommended.”
The “metallic soul of the sperm” is Hermes, or the dyeing Mercury. He carries the “mystical gold,” just as St. Christopher carries Jesus, and the lamb its own fleece.
This was how, by means of the mercury of secret philosophy, the Blessed Lord Quetzalcoatl regenerated the gold in his soul, in his spirit, and in the superior existential bodies of his Being.
Without success, the tenebrous ones try to make the Blessed One return to the sinful path.
“In no way can I now return,” the Lord answers, “I must go.” “Where will you go, Quetzalcoatl?” “I will go,” he said to them, “to the Red Color Land, I am going to obtain knowledge.”
They asked him: “And what will you do there?” “Someone calls me; the Sun calls me.”
“Very well. Leave then, the Toltec culture.”
And the Blessed One threw his gem necklaces into the water and they sank right there (his material goods, illusory and worldly possessions). Since then, that place is called “Water of Rich Jewels.”
He travels on, and reaches another site called “Place Where One Sleeps” (The Orcus of the classics; the Christian Limbo or the Consciousness’ sleep in this vale of tears.)
He then meets an adept of the left path who asks him:
“Where are you going?” And the Blessed One answered him: “I am going to the Red Color Land. I am going to get wisdom.”
“Very well, drink this wine to forget. I came to bring it to you.” “No, I cannot. I cannot taste, even a bit.”
“I will force you to drink. If you do not drink, I cannot let you pass, nor can I let you go on your path. I must make you drink and even get you drunk. Drink, then!”
Then, Quetzalcoatl drank wine with a straw (for he was a fallen boddhitsattwa).
Once he had drunk, he tired of the path and fell asleep, snoring (for man)’ reincarnations he passed through unspeakable bitterness), and his snores were heard from afar. Finally, he (awakened consciousness again) looked from side to side, looked at himself, and brushed his hair up. For this reason, that site is called: “Place Where One Sleeps.”
He then started on his journey once again, and reached the top of the path, which is between the Smoking Mountain (it symbolizes the lingam) and the White Woman (it symbolizes the yoni). There, snow fell upon him and his companions — his fools and simpletons (his psychological aggregates or inhuman elements), and all of them froze to death.
“May flesh abandon the bones,” said the old medieval Alchemists during chemical coitus.
The fraternities of St. Andrew of the Thistle had their esoteric type of penance. Undoubtedly, the X cross is the wonderful symbol of the death of all those inhuman elements that, in their entirety compose the ego or I.
St. Andrew’s torment allegorizes frightful tortures in the Ninth Sphere (the sphere of sex), remorse, and Buddhist annihilation.
It is possible to create the gold of the spirit or regenerate it only by annihilating those fools, simpletons or psychological aggregates that personify our defects.
The Blessed One at times cried or sang. He worked with infinite patience in the forge of the Cyclops (sex).
He cried for a long time, and profound sighs came from his chest. He stared at the “Shaded Mountain” (the mountain of resurrection) and there he went. He performed prodigies everywhere he went, and left amazing signs on his path (Just as the great Kabir Jesus did in the Holy Land.)
When he reached the shore, he started an assemblage of snakes (he had achieved the full development of the seven degrees of power), and, once he finished, he sat on it and used it as a boat.
This reminds us of Gautama Buddha, who sat on a serpent near the Boddhi tree, the extraordinary fig tree, which is the symbol of sexual potency.
It rained, and the water formed puddles that threatened to drown him, but Gautama, sitting on a serpent, steered the snake as if it were a boat.
The common ground present in various texts talks to us about the Igneous Serpent of our magical powers, the feminine aspect of the Hebrew Binah, the wife of Shiva, the Third Logos or Holy Ghost. By means of her eliminating the inhuman elements that we carry within, our particular Cosmic Mother saves us from the tempestuous waters of life.
The Blessed Lord Quetzalcoatl went further and glided on the waters (the primeval spermatic waters) and no one knows how he reached the Red Color Land.
Unquestionably, the great Kabir Jesus also reached the Red Color Land when he was dressed in purple and a crown of thorns was put on his head.
“And began to salute him, Hail, King of the Jews! And they smote him on the head with a reed, and did spit upon him and bowing their knees worshipped him” (St. Mark 15: 18, 19).
It is indeed in the sexual or erotic crucible where the prima materia of the Great Work — the Christ — suffers its own passion. It is in the Ninth Sphere crucible where it dies to resurrect, to be purified, spiritualized and afterwards transformed.
In Chaldea, the ziggurats or three-storey towers — the famous Tower of Babel belongs in this category — were painted in three colors: white, black and purple-red.
To convey an idea of the far reaching symbolism of the colors of the Great Work in Hermetic philosophy, let us note that the Virgin is always depicted dressed in blue (corresponding to black), God in white, and Christ in red.
In the sacred temples of the pharaohs in ancient Egypt, when the neophyte was on the eve of undergoing initiation trials, a master approached him and uttered into his ear a mysterious phrase: “Remember that Osiris is a black god!”
This is clearly the specific color of darkness and of the cumerian shadows, the Devil, — to whom black roses were offered — the primeval Chaos where all the elements and principles of life are mixed and completely blended. This is the symbol of the earth element, of the night, and of the radical death of the psychological aggregates which compose the self.
Just as in the Hebrew Genesis, where day ensues night, light succeeds darkness also.
Blessed are those who have been regenerated and washed by the Lamb’s Blood (sexual fire). They will always wear white clothing….
In the Sacred Land of the Pharaohs, Ptah, the Regenerator, always wore a white linen tunic, thus pointing out the rebirth of the pure ones, those who have died in themselves.
In order to apply our viewpoint about the colors of the prima materia of the Great Work, in a systematical way, we must remind Gnostic students that, before he reached the Red Color Land, Quetzalcoatl, the Mexican Christ, rightfully wore the yellow tunic.
White succeeds black, yellow succeeds white, and the purple color of sacred kings of the solar dynasties always ensues the yellow color.
When the Blessed One arrived at the Red Color Land, he put on his shoulders the divine kings’ purple color and resurrected from among the dead.
It is said that he then looked at himself in the waters as in a mirror (the mirror of alchemy).
His face was beautiful again (he returned to Lost Paradise). He then put on the most beautiful clothes, and, having lit a fire, he threw himself into it (the sexual fire completely annihilated his psychological I; not even the ashes remained). Precious feathered birds (the birds of the Spirit) came to see him burning: the redpoll, the turquoise colored bird, the sunflower bird, the blue-red bird, the golden-yellow bird, and one thousand other precious birds.
When the fire stopped burning (he completed the Great Work), his heart rose and reached heaven. There, he became a star. That star is the star of dawn and of dusk. He had previously descended to the kingdom of the dead and, having been there for seven days, he became a star.
The initiator always hands us the mirror of alchemy with one hand, while he holds Amalthea’s horn with the other. To his side, we see the Tree of Life, which the Hebrew kabalists study so intensely. The mirror always symbolizes the beginning of the Great Work — the Tree of Life points out its end, and the plenty’s horn symbolizes the results.
Quetzalcoatl transformed the Devil, the raw and coarse, crude stone, into Lucifer, the cornerstone of the Great Work, the Archangel of Light or the Morning Star.
The Devil, the reflection of our inner Logoi, was the most sublime creature before we fell down to animal generation. “Burn your books and polish your brass,” the masters of the Hermetic arts repeatedly remind us.
The Blessed One — when passing through the torments of the brothers of the Fraternity of the Thistle — polished the Devil and he turned it into his primeval shining state.
Whoever dies in himself, here and now, frees the enchained Prometheus. The latter pays him in excess, because he is a colossus who has power over heaven, earth and the infernos.
Lucifer-Prometheus, when totally integrated with all the parts of our Being, converts one into something different: an exotic being, an archangel, or a mighty and divine Power.
When the holy women went into the sepulchre of the Saviour of the World, instead of the man they knew, they saw an angel dressed in a long, white robe, and they were frightened.
It is written:
And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations;
And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers; even as I received of my Father.
And I will give him the morning star (Venus-Lucifer). [2: 26 – 28]
Heinrich Khunrath writes in his Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae:
“Finally, when the work has passed from an ashy to a white color, and then to yellow, you will see the Philosopher’s Stone (the cited archangel), our king (the Third Logos), who rises over his dominators, and leaves the glass sepulcher. He gets up from his rest to attend to mundane scenery with his glorious body, that is to say, he is regenerated, and more than perfect.”
As a way of clarification, let us say that the term “Philosopher’s Stone” means, in sacred language, the stone that bears the sign of the Sun. This solar sign is of a red color whose hue can vary.
An old alchemist said:
What we, the philosophers, pursue is not the union of a body and a metallic spirit, but rather the condensation, the conglomeration of this spirit into a coherent, hard and refractory covering, which is able to cover it, impregnate all its parts, and provide it with efficient protection.
This soul, spirit or blended fire (properly mixed with Venus Luc concentrated and coagulated, in the most pure, resistant and perfect of all terrestrial matter is what we call our stone.
We can warrant that any enterprise that is neither guided by this spirit nor founded in this matter, will never lead to the proposed goal.
Samael Aun Weor
