"To change rhe natures’’—says Pernery (Dicn'onnairc, 4.1)—is nor ro make rhe mixtures pass from one kingdom of nature to another, but on the contrary and precisely, it is to spiritualize rhe bodies and corporealize, rhe spirits, rhar is, ro fix the volatile and volatize the fixed. And, in synthesis, to achieve consciousness as a body and the body as consciousness through the pure acrion tit the life-light,"
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Ibid.. 427
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Litre d'Arccphkis, (BBC 2:164) adds, "This is impossible if it’s not separated beforehand," Petrus Bonus (in BCC, 2:29ff.) speaks of an almost incredible subrlery (suhriliras fere incredibiiis) and of a narure "as much spiritual as corporeal,"
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17 In our Yoga of Power we have employed ir to explain rhe ran me doctrine of the world as "word” and the " names of power," or mantras. We have also used it in our Doctrine of the Awakening to clarify similar analogies.
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Cf Triomphc Hcrmeuque, BPC. 3:296: "Just as there are three kingdoms in nature, so there are also three medicines in our Art, which are three different works in practice (corresponding to A, V and A] which are nothing more than three different steps that raise our elixir to its ultimate perfection."
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C'f. Fihun Anachiae. 107: "The Work begins with the Earth element, which is reduced to Water; then the Water is reduced to Air, the Air to Fire and the Eire to Fixation, that is, in Earth, so that the work ends where it began. This is the philosophic conversion of the elements, from one to another.
