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From NAOS. By Thorold West. Copyright 1989 e.v.
_Abyss_:
One of the 'secrets' of the Abyss is contained in the following quote
from an 'Alchemical text':
"The secret of the Magus/Mousa who lies beyond the Grade of Magister Templi/Mistress of Earth is a simple unity of two common things. This unity is greater than but built upon the double pelican being inward yet like the stage of Sol, outward though in a lesser degree.Here is the living water, AZOTH, which falls upon Earth nurturing it, and from which the seed flowers brighter than the sun. The flower, properly prepared, splits the Heavens - it is the great elixir which comes from this which when taken into the body dissolves both Sol and Luna brining exaltation. Whosover takes this elixir will live immortal among the fiery stars ..."
This secret is contained in several of the medieval alchemical texts:
from the double pelican comes Azoth. The 'seed' must be watered by this
living water - from this, given certain conditions of prepartions (i.e.
nurture) the seed flowers. The seed, note, is watered in Earth. From this
flower, the final elixir is prepared.
_Alchemical_texts_:
Those which have become public over the centuries fall into three groups. To the first belongs those who[se] basic symbolism (of the alchemical stages, processes and so on) is basically seven-fold; the second group contains those based upon other symbolism (sometimes twelve, sometimes ten, fourteen); while the third group contains no 'numerical' system for classification or a mixture of several. (For earlier allusions to the septenary see the works of Robert Fludd.)
It should be obvious that those deserving serious study belong to the
first group."
I: THE NINE ANGLES - ESOTERIC MEANINGS. Paragraph 5.
From: Black Book 3. By Christos Beest. Copyright year of fire 103 e.h.
"The nine also represents the tetrahedron (for example, the crystal one used in the Rite of the Nine Angles) which is itself symbolic of the nexion described by the Tree of Wyrd. Thus, for instance, in the Nine Angles Rite, the crystal represents one apect of the nexion, the Priest and Priestess the other: together (ie. the bringing together in the ritual) they enable the nexion to be opened. In this sense, the Priest and Priestess (when joined) form a tetrahedron which, joined with the crystal one, enables acausal energy to become manifest in the causal(the 'world') - this is the secret hinted at in the many historical MSS (for example the 'Rosarium Philosophorum': "Make a round circle of the man and woman ...") and occasionally depicted in drawings. This 'double tetrahedron' is a magickal form of the double described above in the first paragraph (the casual geometric one)."