Yygdrasilian
Resting upon the royal CROWN, atop the SCEPTER of rule, or cupped in the Palm of an enthroned sovereign, the Globus Cruciger has long attended the EMPEROR’s reign.
O +
+ O
As a sign for antimony, this alchemical glyph is the inverse of that drawn for Venus - a distinction emphasized by Sir Isaac when he writes of the ancients calling it Aries by Virtue of its being “...the first Zodiac Sign in which the Sun begins to be exalted and Gold is exalted most of all in Antimony.” Thereby acknowledging a connection between the exaltation of the Sun (19º Aries) - among the oldest astrological factors known - and the use of antimony in the refinement of gold☉
While Biringuccio’s Pirotechnia (1540) may be the earliest known explicit reference to this metallurgical process, it is a relatively cheap, quick & less dangerous method for purifying the ‘king of metals’; One which he admits was “...found by clever men (alchemists, I believe)...”
Though widely known by the 17th century, this process was a well kept secret for centuries, perhaps millennia, long before.
When☉and antimony ore are heated together, the sulphides in the antimony combine with ‘lesser’ metals which separate from the alloy of metallic antimony and gold, the regulus. In Newton’s time this “little king” was also known by the name cor Leonis as Regulus is brightest STAR in the heart of Leo. During the Age of the Ram, Aries was the House of Spring’s initiation - when the equinox marked the day our Sun began to overtake the darkness; a journey that reached its zenith with ☉ shining from this Lion’s STAR.
Antoine-Joseph Pernety’s Dictionnaire mytho-hermétique (1758) designates Aries to calcination; a process which, sufficiently applied to antimony ore, yields a decolourizing agent utilized by ‘the ancients’ for the manufacture of clear glass - very useful in making a Window to see through. However, this Window can also be understood as a key feature in the atmospheric OXidization of the regulus necessary to remove metallic antimony from ☉ as depicted by the Emperor's CROWN:
..\....\............../..\.........../...\.......... /..../..
...\..♃..\........../....\........./...\......../.☉./...
....\.....\....../. ☽ \....../...♀...\..../.../....
.....\ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . /.....
......\..... 0=22 ......... .......... ...../.......
.......\__________________________/........
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Up until this point, has been the fish hook, drawing out the Nun of lesser metals (Silver-Lead-Copper) from☉, thus forming the ‘little king’. Re-melting this regulus, AIR is blown across its surface, OXidizing as it fishes out the remainder of impurities until this cloudiness atop the molten surface becomes clear, like a Window; at which stage the fish hook has caught our STAR, the cor leonis (an Adjustment initiated by using Lamed to Goad the OXidization of antimony).
The 8:11 + Heh:Tzaddi transpositions unveiled by Crowley’s Book of Thoth and 777 are fully in tune with this alchemical operation. To understand how, One need simply look at their relationships both spatially upon the ecliptic wheel and as constellated in their ‘arabic modifications of root’. In so doing, One may see how the operation of refining gold also gives us the means of Adjusting the lunisolar calendar by insertion of the Mensis Intercalaris.
An interesting designation for Aries made by Basil Valentine in his Last Will and Testament, is its attribution as a glyph for mensis: __[X] (http://www.alchemywebsite.com/val_symb.html) - the latin word from which we derive menstrua, menstruum and ‘month’. The Mensis Intercalaris was the 13th extra onth added every other year in the old Roman calendar after the 55th day (2.24). In so doing, Februarius was shortened -4 ( ) days by the Pontifex Maximus (“Greatest BRIDGE-maker”). To this was added the intercalary month of 27 days ( + ), lengthening the year by an additional 22=0: _+
[The Cipher, Zero, is the Ουροβόρος swallowing it’s own tail; the point between 13th interval > . <double octave; when Sifr=Root we cast out its’ nines. Thus it follows, from the Axiom of Maria, that out of Four (1+2+3+4) comes One (10=1).]
Tarot is a current form of the ciphertext encoding this process (and others), using glyphs that provide mytho-poetic formulas which have allowed sufficiently learned alchemists through the ages to communicate in mutually intelligible allegories. Using the chemical facts of metallurgy as metaphor, these formulas also describe the orbital/synodic cycles of the seven ‘planets’, the correction of the lunisolar calendar, and the process of enlightenment by working One’s way up the Hermetic Tree of Life.
And it is the role of Antimony, its relationship to Aries and the ‘little king’ (our Emperor) that provides us the Key to entering the first of Twelve Gates that unlock this ancient secret of the Gnostic Brethren of Purity.
O +
+ O
As a sign for antimony, this alchemical glyph is the inverse of that drawn for Venus - a distinction emphasized by Sir Isaac when he writes of the ancients calling it Aries by Virtue of its being “...the first Zodiac Sign in which the Sun begins to be exalted and Gold is exalted most of all in Antimony.” Thereby acknowledging a connection between the exaltation of the Sun (19º Aries) - among the oldest astrological factors known - and the use of antimony in the refinement of gold☉
While Biringuccio’s Pirotechnia (1540) may be the earliest known explicit reference to this metallurgical process, it is a relatively cheap, quick & less dangerous method for purifying the ‘king of metals’; One which he admits was “...found by clever men (alchemists, I believe)...”
Though widely known by the 17th century, this process was a well kept secret for centuries, perhaps millennia, long before.
When☉and antimony ore are heated together, the sulphides in the antimony combine with ‘lesser’ metals which separate from the alloy of metallic antimony and gold, the regulus. In Newton’s time this “little king” was also known by the name cor Leonis as Regulus is brightest STAR in the heart of Leo. During the Age of the Ram, Aries was the House of Spring’s initiation - when the equinox marked the day our Sun began to overtake the darkness; a journey that reached its zenith with ☉ shining from this Lion’s STAR.
Antoine-Joseph Pernety’s Dictionnaire mytho-hermétique (1758) designates Aries to calcination; a process which, sufficiently applied to antimony ore, yields a decolourizing agent utilized by ‘the ancients’ for the manufacture of clear glass - very useful in making a Window to see through. However, this Window can also be understood as a key feature in the atmospheric OXidization of the regulus necessary to remove metallic antimony from ☉ as depicted by the Emperor's CROWN:
..\....\............../..\.........../...\.......... /..../..
...\..♃..\........../....\........./...\......../.☉./...
....\.....\....../. ☽ \....../...♀...\..../.../....
.....\ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . /.....
......\..... 0=22 ......... .......... ...../.......
.......\__________________________/........
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Up until this point, has been the fish hook, drawing out the Nun of lesser metals (Silver-Lead-Copper) from☉, thus forming the ‘little king’. Re-melting this regulus, AIR is blown across its surface, OXidizing as it fishes out the remainder of impurities until this cloudiness atop the molten surface becomes clear, like a Window; at which stage the fish hook has caught our STAR, the cor leonis (an Adjustment initiated by using Lamed to Goad the OXidization of antimony).
The 8:11 + Heh:Tzaddi transpositions unveiled by Crowley’s Book of Thoth and 777 are fully in tune with this alchemical operation. To understand how, One need simply look at their relationships both spatially upon the ecliptic wheel and as constellated in their ‘arabic modifications of root’. In so doing, One may see how the operation of refining gold also gives us the means of Adjusting the lunisolar calendar by insertion of the Mensis Intercalaris.
An interesting designation for Aries made by Basil Valentine in his Last Will and Testament, is its attribution as a glyph for mensis: __[X] (http://www.alchemywebsite.com/val_symb.html) - the latin word from which we derive menstrua, menstruum and ‘month’. The Mensis Intercalaris was the 13th extra onth added every other year in the old Roman calendar after the 55th day (2.24). In so doing, Februarius was shortened -4 ( ) days by the Pontifex Maximus (“Greatest BRIDGE-maker”). To this was added the intercalary month of 27 days ( + ), lengthening the year by an additional 22=0: _+
[The Cipher, Zero, is the Ουροβόρος swallowing it’s own tail; the point between 13th interval > . <double octave; when Sifr=Root we cast out its’ nines. Thus it follows, from the Axiom of Maria, that out of Four (1+2+3+4) comes One (10=1).]
Tarot is a current form of the ciphertext encoding this process (and others), using glyphs that provide mytho-poetic formulas which have allowed sufficiently learned alchemists through the ages to communicate in mutually intelligible allegories. Using the chemical facts of metallurgy as metaphor, these formulas also describe the orbital/synodic cycles of the seven ‘planets’, the correction of the lunisolar calendar, and the process of enlightenment by working One’s way up the Hermetic Tree of Life.
And it is the role of Antimony, its relationship to Aries and the ‘little king’ (our Emperor) that provides us the Key to entering the first of Twelve Gates that unlock this ancient secret of the Gnostic Brethren of Purity.
Basil Valentine said:"O! if foolish and vain Men had but Ears to hear, and true eyes with understanding, not only for hearing what I write, but for understanding the Arcanum and knowledge of the use; assuredly they would not suck in those insalubrious and turbid Potions, but hasten to these limped Fountains, and drink of the Well of Life.”- The Triumphant Chariot of Antimony