w that the divine salt
is hidden in all men. It goes on: "but it has lost its power and savor,
and such is the principle of light that includes all other principles,
because man, although quite unknown to himself, is an abstract and concept
in brief of all worlds. Therefore he may find in himself all that he
seeks; only it cannot happen before the salt alone, which has lain as
dead, has been again raised to life through Christ the Freestone (who
calcines the black to a jasper brilliance and to a beautiful whiteness).
This is the true theosophic medicine, which indeed gradually, or little by
little, works out of itself, from itself, and into itself, even as a grain
of wheat which when it is sown does, by the cooeperation of the sun and the
outer planets, forms itself into a body. Only one has to watch and pay
attention so that no birds of prey come and pick it up [Cf. Figure 3, p.
199] before it comes to its maturity and full time. For just such a state
[as with the grain of wheat] exists in the case of the gold stone, which
lies hidden in the foundation of nature, is nourished by the warm fiery
influence of the divine sun and through the moist seeds of the spiritual
Luna [sperma luna] is watered, which makes it grow through the inner
penetration and union of the planetary powers of the higher order, which
draw the weaker and lower into themselves, impregnate and swallow them.
Whereby the mastery is obtained over all that is astral and elemental. In
this manner the beloved John revealed to me the nature of the royal stone,
as it was revealed to him in the island of Patmos (there by him was
brought forth what he possessed in the spirit). And he told me further
concerning this: that where the universal or general love is born in any
one, such would be the true signature and token that this seraphic stone
would there be formed and take to itself a bodily shape." (L. G. B., I, p.
44).

[Here we meet clearly the trinity [Symbol: Sun] [Symbol: Philosopher's
Stone] [Symbol: Moon], sun, moon, and as an outgrowth of both the [Symbol:
Philosopher's Stone] gold stone, the Philosopher's Stone, which unites in
itself the [Symbol: Gold] and [Symbol: Silver] or which is the same
[Symbol: Fire] and [Symbol: Water]. It is therefore not at all a mistake
to see in the [Symbol: Water] a union of action and reaction. The G must
be conceived in the anagogic sense, as the genesis of the Philosopher's
Stone or as regeneration.] In L. G. B., I, p