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"The Higher Part in us never sins, never consents to evil, always
resists error and only gives counsel for the best. In this manner, the
lower part submerges itself, the animalistic Soul, always into evil, sin
and carnal desires. This is the Law of the Limbs, of which Paul said, it
imprisons us in the Law of Sin. The Upper Part in us will never be
damned, but instead returns to its origin, untouched by the
punishments of its companions. . The Spirit, which is called the
reasonable Soul by Plotinus; however, according to its nature is free,
can in its own discretion attach itself to both parts, but will, when he
consistently attaches himself to the Upper Part, unite with the Upper
Part and is transfigured into a blissful life, until he is accepted by God.
However, should he attach himself to the lower Soul, he then becomes
subject to sin, and becomes worse and worse, until eventually he
becomes an evil Demon."
-(Agrippa von Nettesheim,
Geheime Philosophie, Bd. III.)
That is exactly what has been said in regards to the separation of the Spirit from the
Soul. If the Spirit of a Human Being is not being illuminated by higher understanding,
then he is not free from error. The divine intelligence of a Human Being does not lend
itself to provide the Spirit with Light, unless it is being illuminated by God Himself,
the Prime Light.
The Divine Intelligence in Human Beings is above fate and rests upon Divine
Providence. The Soul however, is subject to the Might of Destiny. In the meantime,
the Soul totally retreats into the Spirit, where she either thinks about other things or
observes herself (the State of Contemplation).
Through the Spirit, the Soul can ascend into the Upper Intelligence, where she is
being satisfied or fulfilled by the Divine Light (the State of Contemplation).
In the language of the ancient Mystics, a Soul, which is united with the Divine
Intelligence, is called a standing Soul. Such a Soul is truly immortal. A Soul which is
submerged in the lower and the animalistic, is called a fallen Soul, and will not reach
immortality, but will instead, perish with the animalistic part, as is written in the
Scriptures.
-(Ecclesiastes 3, 19)
"For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even when
one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they
have all one breath; so that a man has no pre-eminence above a beast,
for all its vanity."
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It should now be understood, as Geber states in his writings in respect to Alchemy,
that nobody will ever reach perfection in this Art, who has not become cognizant of
these principles within himself.
Everything is therefore dependant upon the Spirit, the Middle Principle, between the
Divine and the animalistic in the Human Being.
It is therefore of the utmost importance, when it comes to the Magnum Opus of the
true Hermetics, that the Soul and Spirit join into an inseparable union. What is meant
by this, is the union with the Divine Spirit, because only through this can the Soul of
the Human Being reach immortality.
The Soul is, as the Platonists say, the picture (eidolon in greek), that is, the mirror-
image, the reflected form of the Uppermost or the Lowermost in a Human Being.
The destiny of the Soul is essentially dependent upon the personal Spirit of that
particular Human Being, with which she is connected. Without that communication
she cannot make a connection with the Uppermost. This Spirit of the Human Being is,
therefore, the true focal point of the middle Nature, upon which everything is
dependant. Therefore, the first and foremost work of the Alchemists is the cleansing
and exaltation of the Spirit, which the Hermetics call Mercurius.
The modern Philosophers and Psychologists do not recognize over and above the
common conceptual thinking of a Human Being, a higher, transcendental ability of
the Spirit. That is, ever since Kant disputed the existence of the pure intuitive
intellect, yet Goethe made use of this in his poetic visions.
However in reality, Kant, with his one-sided conceptual intellectual comprehension,
unwillingly confirmed, the Truth of the Apostle Paul's words, when he said:
"But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for
they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they
are spiritually discerned."
-(1 Corinth. 2, 14)
The Apostle explicitly assures that the believer did not receive the World-Spirit of the
common Human Being, but instead, he received the divine Spirit, which by itself
explores the Depth of Divinity.
According to the Words of the Apostle Paul, when a Human Being is not "spiritually
appraised," that means as long as a Human Being within himself has not directed his
Spirit upon the Higher (the Divine), that is why he will not be able to free his Soul
from the bondage of the lower and the demonic. Therefore, it is the first task of the
Alchemist to draw his Spirit out of the earthly and the worldly, to "extract" and to
"distil above the alembic,": that means to lift over and above all ratio into the
transcendental and into the Divine.
However, it is not of much use to have only the Spirit, the fleeting white, mercurial
Lily-Liquid ascend. It is more important when it comes to the Magnum Opus, that
both principles, the Spirit and the Soul, the white mercurial and the red sulfuric Lily-
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Liquid rise together simultaneously above the alembic. That is why it says: In the
kleine Bauern" (little Farmer):
"Govern the Bath with such Warmth, that both Natures ascend
simultaneously, otherwise, if there is only one, you will never enjoy,
nor partake in its scent of Balsam."
However, it is not so easy to lure the Red Lion out of his earthly prime-material den,
because it is the masterpiece of the whole hermetic art. The Red Lion is locked up in
the Inner of the Salt-Crystal, like in a prison, so that he is weak and incapable of
freeing himself through his own power. Therefore, a special key is required to open
the crystal prison of the bound Soul and to dissolve her earthly chains.
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