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The Rosicrucian Key of True Wisdom: Excerpt from the
Foreword and Two Prefaces,Translated by Radiant Ra
Foreword
My concern is this: Coincidentally about 40 years ago during
my
travels I bought in Venice an ancient manuscript that specially
deals
with your highly commendable and worthy Order, in which all
the
hidden secrets of the higher chemistry, are discovered with
all
possible steps as clear as day, and described in detail.
Thismanuscript is entitled Key of True Wisdom: Under the heading of
a
conversation of well-experienced Sophists, coming very close to
the
truth; with the wisdom which discovers any errors, by the F.R.C.
(To
be used only in front of the Children of the lilies and roses,
but to hide from
the wicked).
Furthermore, on the cover are drawn on the left and right
two
outstretched snakes with tails wrapped around one another.
Under
these snakes is drawn a circle, or ring, made of figured parts
placedtogether the same as stones, in which are found a square,
two
triangles, two winged-serpents looped into each other, the 4
elements, and the 3 principles; following which, are two
prefaces.
Here is the First Preface:
Dear brother and friend. What is the use of a lock that you have
no
true keys to in hand? Either the same must be opened with a
strange
key, or dashed to pieces by force. So also, one may encounter
many a
laboratory technician and sophist who has the good Subjectum
in
hand, from which they well might do something, but because they
put
contrary things together or even burn them, theprimum Ens
cannot
come to light. Because the heat has to allow a view of the core
to
show, rather than the mass, for it to emerge rightly after its
slaying
and rebirth (like withlike); and such remains hiddenfrom all
the
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worlds children. For the wisdom does not reveal itself to
the
unworthy und unregenerate. Solely with this manipulation orKey
of
True Wisdom can one even align ororienthis Work towards
something
fruitful. Many a man has a true Subjectum in hand, also wellsees
what
lies hidden in the same; but because the Lord holds his hand
over it,it is hidden from him and many thousands. All of this is so
that his
soul, dear brother, would indeed not be subjected to the
eternal
spell. The Second Preface follows this:
From the golden conception of the Gold and Rosy Cross, as an
opened hand with its three Wonder-Stones: Here commences the
opened hand with 3 Wonder-Stones, which God has freely given;
they
are often found in all parts of the world, and the poor can get
these as
well as the rich: yea, the greatest mystery is hidden in them,
and
especially how in a short time you can prepare from them the way
to
the Wise Masters Stone. Hidden in them is the blessed Oil of the
Wise
as a volatile spirit, which makes all other metals with it into
an oil. It is
volatile, and its corrosive spirit deadens all, and crushes
every raw
body; and pursued again in a little further distillation, it is
as volatile
as a bird, and leaves the body lying in its own blood. Then if
the oil is
poured on it, it takes its equal into itself, and leads the
wholeAnima
about with it.
And those 3 Stones which the wise Creator has freely given us
are
these: 1) - - - 2) - - - and 3) - - - [Translators Note: most
likely Sulphur,
Mercury and Sal]. These are also the 3 Stones which God revealed
to
his Children, yet all is lost if the same fall from time to time
into
wicked hands; for Nature does not let its treasures be stolen
from it
by such raptors. So how to handle or process these 3 Stones,
and
how to make from them the true Oil-metal, and simultaneously (or
at
the same time) the Stone of the great Masters, all these things
will be
required of us as a Memorial, in addition to its corresponding
Key,
which riseth or goeth forth from the - - and - -
[Translators
Note: most likely, the fire and light].
