1. The Philosopher’s Stone is produced by means of the Greening and Growing Nature

The Philosopher’s Stone is produced by means of the Greening and Growing Nature

THE FIRST TREATISE. Treatise In the Following Discourse on the Origin of the We shall the Philosophers Stone and the Art of How to Produce It. The Philosopher’s Stone is produced by means of the Greening and Growing Nature.

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HALI the Philosopher, says thereof: “This Stone rises in growing, greening things’. Wherefore when the Green is reduced to its former nature whereby things sprout and come forth in ordained time, it must be decocted and putrefied in the way of our secret art.

That by Art may be aided, what nature decocts and putrefies, until she gives it, in due time, the proper form, and our Art but adapts and prepares the matter as becomes Nature, for such work, and such work provides also, with. Premeditated Wisdom, a suitable Vessel.

For Art does not undertake to Produce Gold and Silver, Anew, as it can not Endow matter with its first Origin, NOR is it necessary to search our Art in places and Caverns of the Earth, another Way to Work. and with different intention from Nature, therefore also does Use different Art Tools and Instruments.

Produce Extraordinary Things Art Can For that reason out of the Aforesaid beginnings Such as Natural Nature of herself Would never be Able to create.

For unaided Nature does not produce things whereby imperfect metals can in a moment be made perfect, but by the secrets of Our Art this can be done.

~ Splendor Solis.

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The Stone of Invisibility

 

Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 12: Psychology and Alchemy

The glass corresponds to the unum vas of alchemy (fig. 86) and its contents to the living, semi-organic mixture from which the body of the lapis, endowed with spirit and life, will emerge —or possibly that strange Faustian figure who bursts into flame three times: the Boy Charioteer, the Homunculus who is dashed against the throne of Galatea, and Euphorion (all symbolizing a dissolution of the “centre” into its unconscious elements).

We know that the lapis is not just a “stone” since it is expressly stated to be composed “de re animali, vegetabili et minerali,” and to consist of body, soul, and spirit; moreover, it grows from flesh and blood.

For which reason the philosopher (Hermes in the ’Tabula smaragdina”) says: ’The wind hath carried it in his belly” (fig. 210).

Therefore “wind is air, air is life, and life is soul.”

The stone is that thing midway between perfect and imperfect bodies, and that which nature herself begins is brought to perfection through the art.”

The stone “is named the stone of invisibility” (lapis invisibilitatis). Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, Page 178.