The Theatre of Terrestrial Astronomy
Edward Kelly
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The Theater of Terrestrial Astronomy
Of the Perfect
Red Elixir
Xiphilinus and the
rest of the philosophers agree in this, that the white colour must precede the
red. As you can have no red colour where the substance has not first been white,
so the black cannot become orange unless it first become white. In like manner,
the Rosary says that nothing can become gold that has not first been silver. He
who knows how to convert gold into silver, also knows how to convert silver into
gold. Gold, to become silver, must first be corrupted and made black, and there
is no method of becoming yellow except by way of white; in the same way the white
must become red by way of yellow. Heat, acting on moisture, causes blackness;
acting on dryness, especially if it be continued carefully and unceasingly, there
is developed true whiteness; out of white comes yellow, and out of yellow a permanent
and tinging ruby colour.
An old man in a tunic
stands by a furnace, one tower of which is open, and in the urinal of the other
is a purple Sun.
A King, like a Pontiff,
in a purple robe, sits on the throne, and at his feet kneel the Sun and Moon,
with the five planets; behind the King stands an old man with uncovered head.
The Circles are:
1. Black,
2. Blue,
3. Red,
4. Golden,
5. Ruddy,
6. White,
7. Argentine, with the sign of the Moon.
The Circle is black,
white, blue, red, yellow, tawny, blue; in the Cross are the Sun and Moon. The
lower Circle is blue, and contains a quadrangle of red, blue, black, and white.
The triangle is black, blue and red, and in its centre are the Sun and Moon.
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