The Hermetic Museum, Vol. II — trans. A. E. Waite (1893)

And God made the beast of the earth, after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the earth, after his kind ; and God saw that it was good.

And God said: Let us make man in our image, after our likeness ; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him : male and female created He them.

And God blessed them, and said unto them : Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

And God said: Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.

And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was S0.

And God saw everything that He had made, and behold it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

GEORGE RIPLEY,in the Prologue to his * Twelve Gates," says : O incomprehensible Light, glorious in Majesty, the brightness of whose rays obscures our lights: O Unity in the substance, and Trinity in the Godhead. Merciful purifier of souls, who dost exalt us from this troublesome vale of vanity to heaven. Infinite power and wisdom, unspeakable goodness, sustain and govern me day by day so that I may displease Thee in nothing. O Thou with whom are all treasures of wisdom and knowledge, out of whose infinite mind this universal frame sprang forth in a moment of time—when heaven and earth were made by Thy word, and all that is in them by the breath of Thy mouth— grant unto me grace to know Thy blessedness and Thy goodness. In no other way shall I come to the knowledge of the Blessed Stone. As Thou didst make all things out of oze chaos, so let me be skilled to evolve our microcosm (little world) out of oze substance in its three aspects of Magnesia, Sulphur, and Mercury !

EIE GS USROBE VS

n^n*- Jehovah.

ANNUS SOLARIS — The Solar Year. ANNUS STELLATUS — The Year of the Stars ANNUS VENTORUM — The Year of the Winds.

Mercurius Philosophorum — Mercury of the Sages.

Mercurius Corporeus — Corporeal Mercury.

AMercurtus Vulgaris — Common Mercury.

Sulphur Cembustibile — Combustible Sulphur.

Sulphur Fixum — Fixed Sulphur.

Sulphur ZEthereum — Nolatile Sulphur.

Sal Terrenum — Earthy Salt.

Sal Elementorum — Elementary Salt.

Sa/ Centrale — Central Salt.

Jenes quatuor ad opus requiruntur — Four kinds of fire are requisite for the work.

Pheniv — Phenix. Aguz/a — Eagle.

BV (HE WORD ORB 'rHE XEZORD WERE THE HEAVENS ESTABLISHED, AND THEIR HOSTS BY THE BREATH OF HIS MOUTH. THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD HAS FILLED THE WORLD. "ATI, TEIENGS ARE SATISELIED WILH HY GOODNIESS; O LORD: IqEIOUSSRURNNIBSIQPANVANOSBEIY OBAGB; BESEYOOARIESUDBROUBISBEID? /'HOU "PAKESE AWAV THY SPIRIT, THEY DIE ANDPRETURN AGAIN TO THEIR DUST. THOU SENDEST FORTH THY SPIRIT AND THEY ARE CREATED, AND RENEWEST THE FACE OE THE EARTH. LHY GLORY IS FOR EVERLASTING.

THE EMERALD TABLE OF HERMES.

It is most true, it is without error, it is the sum of verity : 'That which is beneath is like that which is above, and that which is above is like that which is below, for the performance

LZHE ALL-WISE DOORKEEPER a2

of the wonders of one thing. As all things were created from the Mind of One, so all things arose by modification of this One Thing. It is so with our Substance. [ts father is the Sun, its mother the Moon The Wind bore it in its belly. The earth is its nurse. The father of all, the Thelema of the whole world, is here. Its strength is undiminished if it is changed into earth. Separate the earth from the fire, the subtle from the gross, gently, but with great skill. It rises from earth to heaven, and again descends to the earth, and receives the strength of things above and of things below. "Thus you have the GLORY OF THE WHOLE WORLD, and all darkness will flee away from you. This is the strength of every strong thing ; it overcomes every subtle thing, and penetrates all solids. IN. THIS WAY WAS THE WORLD CREATED: These are the wonderful modifications, the manner of which I have described. Hence I am called Hermes Trismegistus, having the three parts of the wisdom of the whole world. I have now said all I have to say concerning the operation of the Sun.