{"id":44585,"date":"2026-04-04T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vopus.org\/todas-las-cosas-existen-por-medio-de-mercurio-azufre-y-sal\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:53:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T11:53:27","slug":"all-things-exist-through-mercury-sulphur-and-salt-azufre-y-salt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vopus.org\/en\/all-things-exist-through-mercury-sulphur-and-salt-azufre-y-salt\/","title":{"rendered":"“Omnia mercurio, sulphure et sale” (All things exist through Mercury, Sulphur and Salt)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Dearly beloved friends:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am sending you this engraving which is the forty-fifth emblem of the book Emblematum sacrorum et civilium miscellaneorum <\/em>\u2500’Various Sacred and Civil Emblems’\u2500, <\/em>written by Jacob Bornitz (1560-1625).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The title of this print is…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2026OMNIA MERCURIO, SULPHURE ET SALE<\/em><\/strong> \u2500\u2018All things exist through Mercury, Sulphur and Salt\u2019\u2500<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Principium trinum est, quo cuncta creata ligantur: Si dubitas, faciunt haec resoluta fidem.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Translation: ‘Threefold is the principle by which all created things are held together: If you doubt, these things made clear give faith.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Venerable Master Samael, the revealer of contemporary Gnosis, forcefully affirms in his various dissertations that the whole Universe itself is the child of the union of these three substances that he calls SALT, SULFUR AND MERCURY. He also tells us that such substances originally constitute what in alchemical terms is called THE ARCH\u00c9.<\/strong> And he assures us that from this ARCH\u00c9 then arise the various metamorphoses that finally give rise to creation itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Words of V.M. Samael Aun Weor, The Fifth Gospel<\/em> volume III:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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“Unquestionably, the first thing we have is raw quicksilver, the sacred sperm. Second, the sexual energy, the result of the transmutation of the sperm. Third, mercury fecundated by sulfur or, in other words, sexual energy already fecundated by the Sacred Fire, a mixture of energy and fire that rises up through the spine to lead us to the intimate Self-Realization of the Being. This third mercury is the “Arch\u00e9”<\/strong> of the Greeks. So in the Arch\u00e9<\/strong> there is salt, there is sulphur, there is mercury; that is obvious.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Up there, in the macrocosm, the nebula, for example, is composed of salt, sulfur, mercury. There is Arch\u00e9<\/strong>, it is the Arch\u00e9<\/strong> of the Greeks. From there cosmic units emerge. Down here, we need to fabricate the Arch\u00e9<\/strong>. How? By means of transmutation. And from that Arch\u00e9<\/strong>, which will be a compound of salt, sulfur and mercury, the Superior Existential Bodies of the Being will be born. […]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
In any case, my dear brothers, carrying out the Great Work is the only thing worth living for. Peter, the beloved disciple of our Lord the Christ, has as his gospel the Great Arcanum, the mysteries of sex. That is why Jesus called him Petrus, ‘stone’: “You are rock and on that rock I will build my Church.” Sex is the basic stone, the rough stone, the stone that we must chisel with a chisel and a hammer to transform it into the perfect Cubic Stone. That unchiseled stone \u2013 the rough stone itself \u2013 is Lucifer. Once chiseled it is our inner Logoi, the “Arch\u00e9”<\/strong> of the Greeks. The important thing is to chisel it, work with it, elaborate it, give it a perfect cubic shape. […]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Creating such bodies is possible when one knows sexual alchemy thoroughly. The old\/ancient medieval alchemists tell us about salt, sulfur and mercury; the Greeks, in their conception of the origin of creation, affirmed that the worlds come from the “Arch\u00e9”.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
The “Arch\u00e9” of the Greeks \u2013 or <\/em>Archeus, as it is also called\u2013 is made up of those three universal substances which are salt, sulfur and mercury. […]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do we want to have the astral, mental, and causal bodies? Let us fabricate the Arch\u00e9 within ourselves. Does universal intelligence want to create a new solar system? It has to fabricate the Arch\u00e9 up there, in the interplanetary space. “As above, so below.” […]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Obviously, we have to say the way, the manner of fabricating the Arch\u00e9, because from there we are going to get the Superior Existential Bodies of the Being, the bodies that are going to turn us into real men. It would be worthless to give you all these explanations if I did not teach you how to make the <\/em>Archeus. You have to know how it is fabricated; otherwise, this talk would be very illustrative, but without a practical application.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Salt, sulfur and mercury: foundations of Arch\u00e9. What is salt? Jesus the Great Kabir said: “If salt were to degenerate, what would food be seasoned with?” or more or less: “You are the salt of the earth.” But the salt, \u2013he says\u2013 is degenerated, it will only serve for the outer darkness, where weeping and gnashing of teeth are heard. […]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
When such energy receives the Fire, when it is fed by sulfur, Arch\u00e9 is inevitably created. So the mercury must be fecundated by the sulfur \u2013the Sacred Fire of the Holy Spirit in us\u2013; and the operations of the Fire \u2013of the sulfur\u2013 and of the mercury on the salt are splendid, the Exioehary is formed. […]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is how one comes to possess the Superior Existential Bodies of the Being. But we must first of all form the Arch\u00e9 in us, based on salt, sulfur and mercury; from there, from that Arch\u00e9, the Superior Existential Bodies of the Being emerge.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Up there, from that Arch\u00e9, the stars and the worlds spring forth, which shine and palpitate in infinite space, because “as above, so below”; what happens up there in the macrocosm is repeated in the microcosmos. […]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now, it is well worth understanding all these operations of quicksilver or mercury. To do this, I will make a specific, defined drawing, like a kind of first bottle that I would call the first mercury, that is, quicksilver. Quicksilver equals sperm. But that first bottle, or first recipient, gives rise to a second recipient, which is the second mercury; and the second mercury, in turn, gives rise to a third mercury, which is mercury fecundated by sulfur. That third mercury is the most important one. Because the third mercury is what is called, among the Greeks, the famous “Arch\u00e9 or <\/em>Archeus“. From that third mercury, which is the Arch\u00e9, come the Superior Existential Bodies of the Being. […]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
What is the nebula? What is the macrocosmic Arch\u00e9? It is a mixture of salt, sulfur, and mercury. And here too there is salt, sulfur and mercury. Salt is contained in the sacred sperm and is sublimated through transmutations. So in the Arch\u00e9 of the microcosm there is also salt, sulfur and mercury. […]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Master: Down here it has to be the same. If up there, in order for the worlds to emerge, to come into existence, we need the primal matter which is the Arch\u00e9 \u2013a mixture of salt, sulfur and mercury\u2013 here below in the microcosm-man we must also elaborate our particular, individual nebula, with salt, sulfur and mercury; and from it, just as the worlds up there [emerge], here the Superior Existential Bodies of the Being emerge. […]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, then, it is necessary to create the Arch\u00e9 within us. The Arch\u00e9 is salt, sulfur and mercury, both above and below. Once the Arch\u00e9 is created, that Arch\u00e9 comes to crystallize in the bodies. A body is a mixture of salt, sulfur and mercury, both physically, astrally, mentally and causally. That is, then, the matter.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
And how is the Arch\u00e9 fabricated? So here comes the question of the bottles: the first mercury, the second mercury, the third mercury. The third mercury is already the Arch\u00e9; that is what the bodies are made of. […]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dry mercury and arsenic sulfur must be eliminated so that the Superior Existential Bodies of the Being \u2013created with the Arch\u00e9 of Alchemy\u2013 can become vehicles of pure gold of the best quality. […]<\/em>Normally, the notes DO-RE-MI-FA-SOL-LA-SI vibrate in the sex, but if we pass them on to a higher octave, the Arch\u00e9 comes to crystallize in the astral body. In a higher octave the Arch\u00e9 crystallizes in the mental body, and in a still higher octave in the body of the conscious will. This is how \u2013I repeat\u2013 we become Buddhas.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
I now attach a few quotations for reflection:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Do not worry about people who do not know you, but strive to make yourselves worthy of being known.”<\/em><\/strong> Confucius<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Glory is to the old man what diamonds are to old women: they adorn but do not embellish.”<\/em><\/strong> Chateaubriand<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The whole earth is the mausoleum of illustrious men.”<\/em><\/strong> Pericles<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Of all the calvaries in history, there is no greater Calvary than that of glory.”<\/em><\/strong> Campoamor<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Glory follows merit as indefatigably as the shadow follows the body, although it is walking, like the shadow, sometimes ahead, sometimes behind.”<\/em><\/strong> Seneca<\/p>\n\n\n\n
GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO.<\/em><\/strong> \u2500\u2018Glory to God in the highest’\u2500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am sending you this engraving which is the forty-fifth emblem of the book Emblematum sacrorum et civilium miscellaneorum \u2500’Various Sacred and Civil Emblems’\u2500, written by Jacob Bornitz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":44552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[476,161,466],"tags":[536,571,1041,1467,1698],"contenido":[271],"fuente":[],"pilar":[],"fase":[],"conferencia":[],"read_online":[],"author_tax":[322],"class_list":["post-44585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-universal-symbols","category-alchemy","category-messages-vm-kwen-khan-khu","tag-simbolos-universales-en","tag-alquimia-en","tag-grabados-en","tag-mercurio","tag-jacob-bornitz","contenido-articles-en","author_tax-v-m-kwen-khan-khu-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vopus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vopus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vopus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vopus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vopus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44585"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vopus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44587,"href":"https:\/\/vopus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44585\/revisions\/44587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vopus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vopus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vopus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vopus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44585"},{"taxonomy":"contenido","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vopus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contenido?post=44585"},{"taxonomy":"fuente","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vopus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fuente?post=44585"},{"taxonomy":"pilar","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vopus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pilar?post=44585"},{"taxonomy":"fase","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vopus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fase?post=44585"},{"taxonomy":"conferencia","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vopus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/conferencia?post=44585"},{"taxonomy":"read_online","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vopus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/read_online?post=44585"},{"taxonomy":"author_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vopus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/author_tax?post=44585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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