Salt

Through want of Skill and Reasons light Men stumble at Noone day Whilst buisily our Stone they seeke That lyeth in the way Who thus do seeke they know not what It's likely they should finde? Or hitt the Marke whereat they ayme Better then can the Blinde? No, Hermes Sonns for Wisdome aske Your footsteps shee'le direct Shee'le Natures way and secret Cave And Tree of lyfe detect Sun and Moone in Hermes Vessell Learne how the Collours shew The nature of the Elements And how the Daisies grew The Eagle which aloft doth fly See that they bring to ground And give unto the Snake some wings Which in the Earth is found

Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Apr 24, 2025

I Shew you here a short Conclusion To understand it if ye have grace Wrighten without any delusion Comprehended in litle space All that is in this Booke wrighten is In the place comprehended is I have declared micle thing If you have grace to keepe in minde How our Principle is One thing More in Number and One in kinde For there ben things Seven That in Principle doe dwell Most precious under Heven I have so sworne I may not tell I Shew you here a short Conclusion To understand it if ye have grace

Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Apr 24, 2025

On the ground the is a hill Also a serpent within a well His tail is long with wings wide All ready to flee by every side Repair the well fast about That thy serpent pass not out For if that he be a gone Thou lose the virtue of the stone Where is the ground you must know here And the well that is so clear And what is the dragon with the tail Or else the work shall little avail The well must run in water clear On the ground the is a hill Also a serpent within a well His tail is long with wings wide All ready to flee by every side The fire with water bright shall be burnt And water with fire washed shall be

So that of Hyle, nor Chaos, nor quintessence high Is there any generation to multiply In species or kinde here in Earth below Of creatures abiding under the sky But the four elements do make influence By their special powers into all things below As they are simple and pure in kind And into every thing do put quintessence To reap such seed thereof: as men do sow In every species together we them find Creating Sulphur, Salt, and Argent vive The inward bodies of things that make them thrive Whose gross bodies to destroy, if we them have We must not spare thereof to deprave

Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Apr 24, 2025