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Practical Astrology

Chapter 12: ל Lamed | The Apostolate

The Arcanum 12 of the Tarot

The Athanor

1. The alchemist needs an athanor to work in the great work.

2. The athanor is the woman.

3. All the beauty of nature is synthesized within the woman.

4. Within the woman is synthesized all the beauties of the universe.

5. The woman is called to fulfill a gigantic mission in the future.

6. The woman is called to be the queen of nature.

7. He who wants to transform himself into an infallible god has to adore the woman.

8. He who wants to transform himself into a majesty of the star-studded skies of Urania has to be willing to give the last drop of his blood for his wife.

9. I consider it impossible for a man to realize himself without a woman.

10. Adam and Eve exit the earthly paradise alone.

11. Man and woman united, we have shared the bitter bread of exile.

12. Man and woman united, we have not been able to stop loving each other.

13. The woman is adorable.

14. She rocked us in our cradle and blessed us with blessings from above and below, with blessings from the breast and the womb.

15. The woman lulled us in the cradle and fed us with the breast of the blessed Mother Goddess of the world.

16. The woman is the blessed goddess that has the power to transform us into ineffable gods.

17. God shines over the perfect couple.

18. The nitrogen of alchemy is the sacred fire of the Kundalini.

19. This nitrogen is only achieved by working intensely with the mercury of the secret philosophy.

20. It is impossible to be an alchemist if one does not work with the Philosopher’s Stone.

21. This blessed stone has four names.

22. Nitrogen, INRI, Adam, Eve.

23. This venerable, semi-solid, semi-liquid matter is our own Christic semen.

24. The athanor of alchemy is the magnificent instrument that we possess in order to work with the nitrogen.

25. One has to transmute lead into gold.

26. One has to transmute the lead of the personality into the pure gold of the Spirit.

27. One has to engender the Sun King crowned with the red diadem.

28. This Sun King is engendered within ourselves by practicing Sexual Magic intensely with the woman.

29. The woman transforms us into ineffable gods.

30. The woman is the athanor of Alchemy.