The Aureus
otherwise known as
The Golden Tractate
of
Hermes Trismegistus
 by Hermes Trismegistus

 The Translation here used and followed is from
"A Suggestive Inquiry into the Hermetic Mystery,"
Published in London, 1850.


This CD also Contains:

The Hermetic Arcanum
 An Anonymous Work
 The secret work of the hermetic philosophy
Wherein the secrets of nature and art concerning the matter of
the philosophers' stone and the manner of working are explained
in an authentic and orderly manner.
The work of an anonymous author, penes nos unda tagi.

The Emerald Tablet of Hermes
 Translation of Issac Newton in 1680.

 Hortulanus Commentary
on the
Emerald Tablet of Hermes

A briefe Commentarie of Hortulanus the Philosopher,
upon the Smaragdine Table of Hermes of Alchimy.

The Book Of
The Revelation Of Hermes
Concerning The Supreme Secret Of The World
 Interpreted By Theophraastus Paraclelsus


On the Philosophers' Stone
 From A.E. Waite's Collectanea Chemica, London, 1893.


Golden Chain of Homer
Of the Generation of things,
Homer was a legendary early Greek poet and rhapsode traditionally credited
with the composition of the Iliad and the Odyssey. In antiquity, he was
sometimes credited with the entire Epic Cycle.

Tradition held that Homer was blind, and various Ionian cities are claimed
to be his birthplace, but otherwise his biography is a blank slate.
There is considerable scholarly debate about whether Homer was actually a
real person, or the name given to one or more oral poets who sang
traditional epic material.


Hermes Trismegistus (Greek for "Hermes the thrice-greatest", Mercurius ter Maximus in Latin, is the syncretism of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian Thoth. In Hellenistic Egypt, the god Hermes was given as epithet the Greek name of Thoth. He has also been identified with Enoch.

Hermes Trismegistus is the alleged teacher the magical system known as Hermetism of which high magic and alchemy are thought to be twin branches. The name Trismegistus means thrice greatest Hermes, and is the title given by the Greeks to the Egyptian god Thoth or Tehuti, a lord of wisdom and learning.

At one time the Greeks thought two gods inseparable. Thoth governed over mystical wisdom, magic, writing and other disciplines and was associated with healing, while Hermes was the personification of universal wisdom and the patron of magic.

The myths go further. Both gods are associated with sacred writings. As scribe for the gods, Thoth was credited with all the sacred books. In various Egyptian writings he is called "twice very great" and "five times very great." Hermes is credited with writing 20,000 books by Iamblichus (ca. 250-300 BC), a Neo-platonic Syrian philosopher, and over 36,000 books by Manetho (ca. 300 BC), an Egyptian priest who wrote the history of Egypt in Greek, perhaps for Ptolemy I.

The combined myths of these gods report that both Thoth and Hermes revealed to humankind the healing arts, magic, writing, astrology, science, and philosophy. Thoth wrote the record of the weighing of the souls in the Judgment Hall of Osiris. Hermes led the souls of the dead to Hades.




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Tables of Contents

The Golden Tractate of Hermes
 Contents

Section I

Even thus saith Hermes: Through long years I have not ceased to experiment, neither have I have spared any labour of mind And this science and art I have obtained by the sole inspiration of the living God, who judged fit to open them to me His servant ...

SECTION II.

MY SON, before all things I admonish thee to fear God, in whom is the strength of thy undertaking, and the bond of whatsoever thou meditatest to unloose; whatsoever thou hearest, consider it rationally ...

SECTION III.

Know my Son, that the philosophers bind up their matter with a strong chain, that it may contend with the Fire; because the spirits in the washed bodies desire to dwell therein and to rejoice. ...

SECTION IV.

Understand, then, O Son of Wisdom, what the Stone declares; Protect me, and I will protect thee; increase my strength that I may help thee ! My Sol and my beams are most inward and secretly in me my own Luna, also, my light, exceeding every light, and my good things are better than all other good things. I give freely, and reward the intelligent with joy and gladness, glory, riches, and delights ...

SECTION V.

MY SON, that which is born of the crow is the beginning of Art. Behold, how I have obscured matter treated of, by circumlocution, depriving thee of the light. Yet this dissolved, this joined, this nearest and furtherest off I have named to thee. Roast those things, therefore, and boil them in that which comes from the horse's belly for seven, fourteen, or twenty-one days. Then will the Dragon eat his own wings ...

SECTION VI.

It behoves thee to give thanks to God who has bestowed liberally of his bounty to the wise, who delivers us from misery and poverty. I am tempted and proven with the fullness of his substance and his probable wonders, and humbly pray God that whilst we live we may come to him. Remove thence, O Sons of Science, the unguents which we extract from fats, hair, verdigrease, tragacanth, and bones, which are written in the books of our fathers. ...

SECTION VII.

Know ye then, O Sons of Science, there are seven bodies, of which gold is the first, the most perfect, the king of them, and their head, which neither the earth can corrupt nor fire devastate, nor the water change, for its complexion is equalised, and its nature regulated with respect to heat, cold, and moisture; nor is there anything in it which is superfluous, therefore the philosophers do buoy up and magnify themselves init saying that this gold, ...




Hortulanus Commentary on the Emerald Tablet of Hermes

Chapter I.

That the Art of Alchimy is true and certaine.

Chapter II.

That the Stone must be divided into two parts.

Chapter III.

That the Stone hath in it the foure Elements.

Chapter IV.

That the Stone hath Father and Mother, to wit, the Sunne and Moone.

Chapter V.

That the coniunction of the parts of the stone is called Conception.

Chapter VI.

That the Stone is perfect, if the Soule be fixt in the bodie.

Chapter VII.

Of the mundification and cleansing of the stone.

Chapter VIII.

That the unfixed part of the Stone should exceed the fixed, and lift it up.

Chapter IX.

How the volatile Stone may againe be fixed.

Chapter X.

Of the fruit of the Art, and efficacie of the Stone.

Chapter XI.

That this worke imitateth the Creation of the worlde.

Chapter XII.

An enigmaticall insinuation what the matter of the Stone shoulde be.

Chapter XIII.

Why the Stone is said to be perfect.




On the Philosophers' Stone
From A.E. Waite's Collectanea Chemica, London, 1893.

CHAPTER I.

The Introduction.

CHAPTER II.

Of the Vegetable Tincture, or the Process called the Lesser Circulation.

CHAPTER III.

Of the Uses of the Vegetable Tinctures, with some general remarks on their great efficacy in medicine.

CHAPTER IV.

Of the Metallic Tincture.

CHAPTER V.

Of the Second Matter, or Seed in Metals.

CHAPTER VI.

Of the Dissolution and Extraction of the Seed in Metals.

CHAPTER VII.

Of the Separation and Further Treatment of our Philosophical Seed.

CHAPTER VIII.

Of the Union or Mystical Marriage in the Philosophical Process.

CHAPTER IX.

Of the Further Treatment and Ripening of our Seed.

CHAPTER X.

Of the Further Process to the Ripening of our Noble Seed.

CHAPTER XI

A Further Description of the Process.

CHAPTER XII.

Of the Stone and its Uses.

CHAPTER XIII.

Of the Transmutation.




Golden Chain of Homer
Of the Generation of things,

Chapter 1

What Nature is.

Chapter 2

How all things proceed therefrom.

Chapter 3

How all things are further generated.

Chapter 4

How the Universal Sperm is generated by the four Elements

Chapter 5

In what manner the divided Chaotic water is regenerated and becomes the Universal and General Sperm of all Things, called Anima or Spiritus Mundi.

Chapter 6

Of the Heavens and their Influence.

Chapter 7

Of the Atmosphere or air, and its Influence.

Chaper 8

Of Water and its Effluvium

Chapter 9

Of the Earth and its Effluvium.

Chapter 10

Discovery of the genuine Universal Sperm in the regenerated Chaos, the corporified Animal or Spiritus Mundi.

Chapter 11

That nitre and salt are found in the air and in all things in this World.

Chapter 12

That there is nitre and salt in all waters and earths.

Chapter 13

That nitre and salt is found in Animals, that Animals proceed from nitre and salt, and are resolved into nitre and salt.

Chapter 14

That nitre and salt is found in Vegetables; that Vegetables consist of nitre and salt, and are resolved into nitre and salt.

Chapter 15

That nitre and salt is found in Minerals; that Minerals are formed of nitre and salt, and are resolved into nitre and salt.

Chapter 16

Of the principal Gate Key to Nature, the author of destruction and regeneration of all things, called Putrefaction.

Chapter 17

What Putrefaction is.



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