Three Major Elements Of The Cosmic Hermeticum

In the Corpus Hermeticum, it also emphasizes the kinship between the created and the creator. Everything in creation, accordingly has its root in the transcendent, or the “One Thing”. The Emerald Tablet itself teaches in veiled language how to produce the alchemical Elixir of Life or “Quintessence”, the “fifth element”, that which is born from the “One Thing”. The father of this final product is the sun and the mother being the moon, which “defeats all subtle things and permeates all solids”. The sun symbolizes the fire, the moon, water, wind, air, and the earth, obviously, the earth. The first three elements also correspond to Sulphur, Salt and Mercury.

The Sun provides its life giving rays to all life in the solar system in a cyclical manner by providing its solar seeds into the earth so that they may be “perfected” or manifested in life. These all come from the One as adaptations, splitting off into specialized roles. The first three principal aspects of the One gather together to form the Earth. When the three principal elements are separated out from the fourth element and purified and then recombined to form a new type of Earth, being the Fifth Element being the “Cosmic Quintessence.” That is the key to understanding all alchemy. The “Hermetic art” of alchemy itself may act a mirror for psychological or spiritual transformation has a long
The alchemist allows that creative imagination to descend into earth and bringing with it the perfected substance. By the power of the “One Thing” it becomes so. This is the true meaning behind the idea of transforming base metals like lead into gold. In the Corpus Hermeticum, Poimandres the Man-Shepard (1), we find this idea of ascending into the higher spheres, where the material body is dissolved into light and