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Arcana Divina

( The Divine Secret )

Anonymous

Published by Dr. G. A. Fuchs in Collected Volumes 1885-1916 of the

Provincial Library (Vol. 8, History of Literature , p. 417), and in the Annual

Report of the Communal College of Komotau (Bohemia) from a Manuscript

from the Ossegg Foundation.

Produced by R.A.M.S.

Restoration of Alchemical Manuscripts Society, 1989

Forward

The Arcana Divina, as published in manuscript form, in what is to follow, originally

came from the Ossegg Cistercian Foundation of Bohemia. The manuscripts consists of

sheets fastened together in folio format. Since the information given by the authors, as

well as their of publication, has not been strictly verified, it cannot therefore be accurately

determined whether an original manuscript or merely a copy is under consideration here.

The entire nature of the manuscript report, which cannot yet be ascribed to the organized

written effort of individual people, or even to an actual stage of development, while other

words, appended subsequently, probably appear in the manuscript due to additions in the

17th century. In order for the alchemical literature to make a contribution, the manuscript is

translated freely enough that an inquiry from the Biographical Institute of Berlin involving a

subsequent publication of the Arcana Divina would not be required. Critical remarks about

subject matter and text of this publication will be the subject of a later investigation.

Arcana Divina

From the providence of God, on an actual basis: The source and fabric of wisdom,

the Rock of Ages, from whom no secrets are hidden and at the same time, from all three

Persons a universal work will be accomplished, which we will reveal, openly to you through

God’s love in our subsequent writings; which we carried out even as we were commanded

to do.

The first man, Adam, was a universal man made in the image of God, from whom his

son Seth afterwards derived children and descendants, which had knowledge of all this.

So two columns were provided --- one of water, the other of fire --- both with rejoicing.

Since afterwards the flood of sins came from the Assyrians and the Chaldeans, and

after Abraham’s time, from the Egyptians, and finally fro Greece, such columns were

destroyed in the abomination of desolation. See! In those times there was distress and

there were lamentation; indeed so, but nevertheless everything will be revealed so that no

longer will anything remain hidden, as though exposed by the brilliant light of the sun, with

its golden rays, but those who are still able to rejoice at that very moment because of the

unmerited mercy of God, will be made whole.

Oh, Almighty God, Oh Wonderful Creator, Oh Light of Unfathomable Eternity,

enlighten us and send us your Holy Spirit, by the help of whom we will be able to fulfill our

calling completely in Thy Holy Will and to Thine Honor and Glory, given to us in that great

Mystery for the races of men who are to follow us and leave behind us, as much as it is

possible, a useful record and thereby show our love for the Eternal God and to honor His

Holy Name and to praise Him.

Will you then, oh man, consider that you, who should consider this, our writing, and

come to realize that it is of very great value, since it will cause you to marvel at the Majesty

of God and the miracles he performs daily. Moreover, where the Majesty of God is not

thwarted, so that (even as in Joshua’s time) the sun can be made to stand still in its daily

course for a period of 24 hours and entire mountains can be consumed in flames of fire,

while such shadows still surround us that we must trust God for everything. One day,

however, we will soon come to understand our true worth and, submitting to God’s

sovereignty, we shall make a proper beginning with Jehovah and give to Him the highest

Glory He merits. Thus we will write to you herewith in the certain assurance on the basis of

all three realms of Nature, each in itself alone being made manifest from Universal

Knowledge. In you ultimately will come to reside these highest and greatest treasures

which are possible, and in which lie the basis for all wisdom and knowledge. The Creator

and Maintainer of all who are in need, especially making whole all who are sick in spirit,

the Liberator and Saviour of all those who are in prison, and the Overcome of all obstacles

in the whole world, and the Possessor of that wisdom that comes from the Most High God,

which He has had throughout all eternity and which remains in Him unchangeable through

all eternity and always will, until revealed by Him.

Many, indeed almost all, of the great philosophers strive with great zeal to find a

universal solution for all problems and devote considerable amounts of time, effort and

expense, but as yet, in our times, they have not been able to provide such assurance as is

suitable for this effort and this has resulted only in deceptive boasts from those who have

attempted such things and has limited the materialistically inclined and cooled the ardor of

those who saw the impossibility of demonstrating the results hoped for by the use of

mercury in demonstrations using various kinds of wood, coal and lamp oil. So drastic were

these results that such materials must always be treated with caution. Finally, by

penetrating this chaotic mass of information, from which it was originally taken, the results

indicated here were those arrived at.

For this reason we report to you and tell you that it should be understood from the

beginning, under circumstances where you will be considered an expert in this matter, that

even a learned philosopher or practitioner on the subject of fire, will find that working with

combustible material is quite dangerous and, even more, during the preparation of such

materials in the natural course of events of such things, the danger is added to and even

compounded. It could be demonstrated to you just where we might want to discontinue

such precautions in an effort to save time, such error will now be pointed out to you as

inadvisable.

Just as the familiar mercury involves the correct method of using our apparatus and

the passion for Natural Philosophy (i.e., Science) is the primary object for our art and the

body of knowledge about life is of necessity to be sought after, so there must be a

universal solvent which can be prepared according to our standards of measurement.

Let it now here be correctly understood (and trust that Nature will be on our side and

help us) that taking the familiar mercury and putting it in a sealed receptacle in front of our

apparatus, as noted in out first tabulation (index) and in several ways in our first

experiments indicated at the end of our work, such as the separation of the mercury

through our "magical Natural Fire" in the form of a cloud which rises to the top of the

receptacle, leading to the receiver, without the passing over of the heavy material

(introduced) as a continuous flow of liquid, while the active spirit (reactive gases) evolving

therefrom still remains confined to an area in which further measurements can be made.

This can be made now not only on metals and minerals but also upon vegetables and

animal matter in aqueous solution, as well as the original material in water in which the

living spirit (active principle) is retained without being distorted at all along with its entire

power to grow; and also that henceforth no more can be brought, in the future, as had

been obtained previously, and then it will be a matter solely of operating with our same

magic and our passion for Science and can readily from time to time, within the span of

three hours, produce an entirely new material, and far better than would seem probable by

its creation therefrom. We will now report on our study of this process and instruct you

further about its character. Here is how you should make a quantity of such a universal

solvent.

Here we will demonstrate the true philosophical purpose (using the Philosophers’

Stone, by the help of a permissive God and our magical knowledge of Nature). Fire must

be used, but nothing else is required that is necessary for life. Astral spirits, from which all

of the elements arise, are created by God and through Him is everything created that has

been created, even to the end of the world, and it will be under His control, for without Him

there is nothing at all, except death. Therefore, it falls to us, through the Holy Orders of

God to us who dwell here below, in all the Kingdoms of the World, which produce,

maintain, and even cause the increase in everything that life has here. Where, however,

planting is the earthly realm, you see, it represents the plan of creation, which is no other

than a purposeful idea. Thus Nitrum (crude sodium carbonate) when mixed intimately with

common salt, even though impure, can be a beautiful thing, but the impurities can bring, in

this instance, a heavenly appearance through our magical natural philosophy ("natural

fire"). The same now gives up its effectiveness and becomes a splendid magnet with

which we continue our evaluation, which subsequently will follow with more than one

example, which will suffice for the present. We shall now bring out the pertinent points

about mercurial properties.

How splendid and strong this love of nature is portrayed and tests the general idea of

a world spirit, which is the true philosophic subject, and the only one of all of them, through

which the most discerning thoughts are fulfilled, is to be seen as true by them, since a

pound of mercury in pure form is placed in an open glass dish specifically selected for this

purpose and for our magical passion for science (i.e., the "natural fire") as well: That the

focus might not be too strongly affected and even, little by little, might tolerate a little

Nitrum thereupon, so that it will then be see how sodium carbonate behaves like the

universal spirit of a magnet of the world, toward the mercury which is present in the liquid

state and serves as a universal standard. Some, and to a certain extent the most part,

may be selected. Philosophical concepts will result only when these processes will be able

to make gold and other noble metals, but not including minerals.

Three is a prima material which is considered to be the first (original) material from

which the Philosophers’ Stone or the Universal Tincture can be produced. This is very

likely an impossibility since, as is widely but mistakenly believed, by reducing it to such a

state, no other use can be obtained from it. Still, as has been previously indicated, it may

even remain for a long time in a higher state, by exerting greater care in an ordinary fire.

Yet it is still possible that nothing of universal value may result, but only an empty idea, the

particulars of which are not worth mentioning here, that the transmutation of metals has

been known to take place. When, however, such an occurrence does take place, it is of a

magical nature known only to us and involves heating of the salt on our apparatus, which

salt must be nitrified to a strong degree by the process of ethereal calcinations followed by

treatment with nitric acid, whereby it is quite possible to obtain a thousand times greater

yield than from previous methods. This volatile mercury vapor, then, can be dissolved in

vitriol (sulfuric acid) with vigorous action, resulting in the transmutation of all imperfect

metallic materials into large amounts of gold and silver, each of the finest quality. But know

you from the outset that this vitriol (from which you will recover the gold, will be the same

ferment as that from which you will recover the silver) requires that you have to have a

particularly rich (i.e., concentrated) tincture, that is, there is no universal material, of long

standing which will apparently be useful to you, even to a very limited extent, for without

the ferment there will be no progress toward transmutation at all. So we will now examine

this, very briefly, and report to you further about this.

How and in what way control of all types of medicinal materials and mineral (both

pure and impure), regardless of the dosage, will be brought about will become a

completely fixed standard.

We will now describe to you substances that can be both wild and domestic

medicinal agents and minerals, noting thereon the weight and registering them under such

crude designations as given them by the mountainous areas where they were obtained

and then further classifying them to the extent that it is possible, so that it happens that

when the crude earth is dried and then mixed with a little natural soda (i.e., sodium

carbonate) on a clean, flat piece of tile and subsequently exposed to the magical

Philosophers’ Stone and then afterwards calcined and stirred with a small stirrer, while

heat was applied evenly, so that when the product was finished and the calcined materials

weighed, a miracle was observed. That is to say, there was a significant increase --- nay,

even a large increase --- in the gross weight found, as though this magical preparation

were able to capture and concentrate the Spirit of the World and be blessed by the

resulting increase in its value as well. Both wild and domestic mineral products

themselves, without the addition of anything except the attaching of the universal magnet,

can provide the best metals available, which can then be put to the best use.

In addition to the above, we must also add the following information which should

prove useful to you and it is not at all astonishing that both the refined minerals and the

crude minerals can be used in increased amounts after contact with our Philosophers’

Stone, so that even the volatilized sulfur can be fixed and then volatilized. Whether it

follows that by such an operation (which must not be attributed, at least in part, to the

universal magnet), the Spirit of the World resides therein and participates in the same,

when a mineral containing sulfur will then be in a crude state, as indeed it almost always

will be, it should be taken, registered, and subsequently subjected to calcinations by our

apparatus and then nitrified. This material is, in turn, pulverized and in this condition fused

with gold dust, along with some of our Philosophers’ Stone, whereupon in two hours it will

be turned into a perfect tincture of silver, where one part in a thousand is extracted in the

gold dust, whereupon the Secret of Secrets will be revealed.

Not a single one of all the great secrets will be revealed without knowledge of our

magic and the Philosophers’ Stone, and I tell you that the great Secret of al Secrets, which

from the beginning to end reveals all things from Almighty God, established by His holiest

principles that which also abodes forever and will be governed by Hi, so that all things

which you discover will be dependent on His revelation to you. So, mark it well and fix it

foremost in your mind that the work of God’s only Spirit enables you to participate in all of

this, so that you will be revealed to you will be brought to light by the Eternal One.

We will now further pursue our revelation in an exemplary manner, and with God’s

Holy Spirit make a proper introduction to the truth of our knowledge of philosophy in a

worthy manner and point out how everything flows out from the Eternal Center and

enlightens to His Holy Nature, but before we write about universal truths applying to both

the world of the microcosm and the world of the macrocosm, we will start with the realm of

minerals as the beginning in which imperfect and impaired metals are found in the

brilliance of the Sun in all its glory, and this provides very little for us to use.

Now, then, take in the Holy Name of God, the crude gold-bearing mineral cobalt,

discovered and obtained in the mines, as previously noted, was used in the secret

preparation, which was then placed on a flat piece of tile and mixed with a little Nitre and

allowed to remain for 2, 3, or even 4 hours, whereupon an astonishing change will be

noted in the manner in which this material behaves, since there is now a penetrating force

of the General Spirit of the World; which shows an increased oscillation and finally, to a

very pronounced degree, reveals its astral nature: on heating to a brilliant red, an artificial

ruby-red gemstone of inestimable value, exceeding the value of gold and termed the

Treasure of Treasures results. When, however, the ferment involving an artificial gemstone

such as just described is set aside you have a tincture suitable for preparing all metals.

When, however, you observe flakes of gold in the artificial gemstones which have

been heated in our astral natural fire, you will observe that after vitrification, it becomes a

royal treasure, and such a magnificent stone of this nature has never at any time been

obtained in the natural state, regardless of the length of the search. And this is still the

case at this present time.

How, and in what manner, can a gemstone be produced in an hour?

Take a quintel of fine gold, put it on a flat piece of tile or flat porous rock in front of our

apparatus and calcine it on our astral refractory hearth for a quarter of an hour, then allow

the entire focus to fall thereon and add to the gold a little nitre whereupon it will melt and

become a deep ruby-red glass, which will be suppurated and will increase by about a half

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