1/11/2024 0 Comments Alchemical sulfur![]() It has also been associated with the Ouroboros, the Stone, and the Astral Body. The Emerald Tablet calls it "the Glory of the Whole Universe." For Paracelsus, Salt was like a balsam the body produced to shield itself from decay. Salt is the third heavenly substance in alchemy and represents the final manifestation of the perfected Stone. Paracelsus called this fire οthe light of NatureΆ a reference to the οanima mundi', the soul of the world. This fire controls life, movement, energy, the heavens, the planets. This wisdom vivifies the invisible fire that energizes entire Nature. In albedo salt arises as a pure form and fixated, that is crystallized into a pure salt.Īs symbol for wisdom, salt is the breath of the divine energy. The impure salt has to be dissolved (οsolutioΆ) into the divine water (quicksilver, or οprima materiaΆ), by which it is purified. Here it equals the earth, the body, our every day consciousness or being. In the beginning of the Great Work, the salt is called impure. Christ is called οSal sapientiaeΆ, the Salt of WisdomΆ. ![]() Salt is also seen as a symbol for the second phase of the Great Work, albedo, or whiteness, because here light breaks through, and thus also wisdom. As water or the sea stands for the soul, it is a reference to the same self-knowledge. Sometimes they speak of the bitter οsea waterΆ. Here salt is symbol for knowledge and wisdom. The alchemists say that in its lower aspect salt is οbitterΆ. So it is also a name for the οprima materiaΆ, for the stone of the philosophers. As mercury is the water aspect, sulfur is the fiery aspect, so is salt the form aspect (salt is a crystalline form, or crystallized energy). Salt is the third element in the trinity of the alchemical substances in the Great Work. He is οthe spirit of truth hidden in the earthΆ. In his air aspect, he is the spirit, the air, the wind that is present everywhere in Nature and vivifies everything. Mercury is the spirit of man that works in the lower aspects of being, and thus is looked upon as an infernal fire. He is the fire of hell, the infernal fire in the earth. He is an οinvisible, secretly working fireΆ. He is the working force in the Great Work. In his aspect of fire, Mercury is the sole fire in the entire process. Symbolic of course, it indicates volatility or fluidity, by which it is also named οwater of lifeΆ or οroot humidityΆ. Usually mercury is used in its chemical form, quicksilver. In general sulfur is the symbol for the omnipresent spirit of life. The alchemists speak of red sulfur at the beginning of the Great Work, while white sulfur is the purified red sulfur, at the end of the Great Work. Red sulfur and white sulfur are actually one and the same. Red sulfur is the infernal fire inside the body, the earth, the mixture it is the rough stone (sulfur crudum, sulfur vulgare). White sulfur is the heavenly or secret fire, the divine spark in man, the philosopherΆs stone. Sometimes alchemists equal sulfur with the Sun. Inside the Sun is an active substance, sulfur.
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