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Alchemy Unveiled
By Johannes Helmond
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Notice:
This book was originally copyrighted by
Gerhard Hanswille and Deborah Brumlich 1991.
Rights to translate the original into English and to
publish that translation were given to
Merker Publishing Co. Ltd in Canada.
The original German edition written by Johannes Helmond
under the title "Die entschleierte Alchemy", from which
the first English translation was taken, was published in 1963
by Rohm Verlag Bietigheim.
This version, first prepared in 1996
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Alchemy Unveiled
For the first time,
the Secret of the Philosopher's Stone
is being openly explained
by
Johannes Helmond
fr. R+C
By decree of the Order
of the
hermetic initiated
Gold- and Rosicrucians
of 1710
Monte Abiegno,
MCMLVII, Sol 18
o
gemini.
Translated into English and Edited by
Gerard Hanswille and Deborah Brumlich
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CONTENTS
Introduction
6
The Symbolic Language of Alchemy
10
The Subjectum Artis
14
The Primaterialistic Subject
15
The Sulphur of the Philosophers (Sages)
18
The Mercury of the Philosophers
21
The Four Fires of the Alchemists
24
The Receptacle of the Philosophers
27
The Erring Ways of the Pseudo-Alchemists
29
The Process of Magnum Opus
42
I. The Work of Dissolution.
The Preparation of the Azoth
50
II. The Main Task or the Main Work.
The Task of Cleansing
60
The Preparation of the White Lapis
62
The Preparation of the Red Lapis -
"Sow the Gold into the White Foliated Earth!"
71
III. The After-Work.
The Conjunction or the Unification
73
Remarks Regarding the After-Work
81
The Necessity of Rebirth
83
The Three Worlds
86
The Rebirth as the Mysterium of Initiation
87
The Osiris Mysterium
90
The Mysteries of Eleusis
92
The Great Mysteries of Eleusis
94
The Mysteries of Israel
101
The Christ-Mysterium as the History of Initiation
104
The Two Paths
106
The Mystery of Alchemy
121
Prologue
8
The Last Cooking
75
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Introduction
Just a few decades ago, Alchemy was belittled as medieval superstition. However,
since then, scientists have been successful by means of atomic-fission, to produce a
transformation of the elements. Now, at last, the possibility of Alchemy in Principle
has to be admitted. In our present times, psychology began to embrace Alchemy and
reached a certain level of understanding, whereby they came to the conclusion that
Alchemy was less a process of physical transmutation, but more a process of an inner
psychic transformation of a Human Being. On account of this conclusion, Alchemy is
now being looked upon in a different light.
It should, however, be pointed out that modern psychology, especially as it is
represented by C.G. Jung, did not grasp the central problem of Alchemy. C.G. Jung
conceives the process of Alchemy to be solely and totally as "psychological" and
looks upon it as just a kind of "Individuation-process"; that means, an integration of
the content of the unconscious. However, Alchemy is considerably more than that.
Jung and his fellow psychologists overlook hereby the eminent realistic character of
Alchemy, which is interdependent with the "inner body", the "corpus subtile" of the
Human Being. Jung, however, considers this to be the purely, psychological collective
unconscious. Even though, upon closer examination, the substantiality of this "Corpus
sideribus", as it was named by Paracelsus, cannot be doubted.
Concerning the question of Alchemy, we are not dealing with a mere psycho-
analytical process, nor are we dealing with a simple "Cooking of Gold" which it is
deemed to be, by many. The "Lead" which the Alchemists are changing into Gold is
not the Pb of the common chemists, but instead, is the dark Saturnus of the hermetic
Philosophers. Again, this is not the external "celestial or heavenly body" but instead,
is its inner astral principle, which is present everywhere, in the materia.
When we are dealing with Alchemy, we are not dealing with the processes of the
great Outer-World, but instead, we are dealing with the very secretive microcosmic
processes, which form, since time immemorial, the central subject of the mysteries.
Therefore, it can be said, and rightfully so, that the hermetic sciences are the oldest
sciences mankind has. It is probable that this science originated from a tradition, to
which even the ancient Egyptians were in awe of and they depicted them as "Secrets
of primeval Times."
The Greeks and Israelites received these mysteries from the Egyptians and they were
well-kept by them, especially by the School of the Prophets, which became extinct
during the "babylonian Captivity". Later on, this ancient hermetic tradition was
taken up again, by original Christianity and it was continued by the first Disciples and
Apostles as "Disciplina arcani". The hermetic science came to the New Platonists and
to the arabian Philosophers from the original christian Nazarenes and through them, it
reached Europe in the middle ages.
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