Thank you for sharing Florius Frammel and Illen A Cluf. There are so many similarities, it’s like everything is connected by something.
I started reading a translation of "Fulcanelli: Le Mystere des Cathedrales" by Mary Sworder and came across this:
"It is indeed in the crucible that the first matter suffers the Passion,
like Christ himself. It is in the crucible that it dies to be revived,
purified, spiritualized and transformed. Further, do not the common
people, those faithful guardians of the oral tradition, express the
human ordeal on earth by religious parables and hermetic similes?
-To bear one's cross, to climb one's Calvary, to go through the
crucible of existence, are all current sayings, in which we find the
same sense expressed by the same symbolism.
Let us not forget that around the luminous cross, seen in a
vision by Constantine, appeared those prophetic words, which he
adopted on his standard: In this sign thou shalt conquer. Remember
too, my brother alchemists, that the cross bears the imprint of three
nails used to sacrifice the Christ-body: an image of the three
purifcations by sword and fire. Meditate similarly on that clear
passage of St. Augustine in his Dispute with Tryphon (Dialogus cum
Tryphone 40): 'The mystery of the Lamb which God had ordered
to be sacrificed at Easter,' he says, 'was the figure of Christ, with
which those who believe stain their abodes, that is to say themselves,
by the faith which they have in him. Further, this lamb,
which the Law prescribed to have roasted whole, was the symbol
of the cross which Christ had to endure, since the lamb to be roasted
is disposed in such a way as to represent a cross. One of the arms
of the cross pierces it through and through, from the hind quarters
to the head. The other pierces its shoulders and the forefeet (the
Greek says: the hands) of the lamb are tied to it.'
The cross is a very ancient symbol, used in all ages, in all
religions, by all peoples, and one would be wrong to consider it as
of Lucifer (the morning star), was the symbol of our corner stone,
the headstone of the corner. The stone which the builders rejected,'
writes Amyraut,'has been made the headstone of the corner, on
which rests the whole structure of the building; but which is a
stumbling-block and stone of shame, against which they dash themselves
to their ruin.' As for the dressing of this corner stone-I mean
its preparation-it can be seen translated in a very fine bas-relief
of the time, sculptured on the outside of the building, on an absidal
chapel facing the Rue du Cloitre-Notre-Dame"
Fulcanelli: Le Mystere des Cathedrales
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"A cornerstone (Greek: Άκρογωνιεîς, Latin: Primarii Lapidis) will sometimes be referred to as a "foundation-stone", and is symbolic of Christ, whom the Apostle Paul referred to as the "head of the corner" and is the "Chief Cornerstone of the Church" (Ephesians 2:20). A chief or head cornerstone is placed above two walls to maintain them together and avoid the building to fall apart. Many of the more ancient churches will place relics of the saints, especially martyrs, in the foundation stone."
Psalm 118:22
22 The very rock that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone!
1 Peter 2:6-9
6 This is why the Tanakh says, “Look! I am laying in Tziyon a stone, a chosen and precious cornerstone; and whoever rests his trust on it will certainly not be humiliated.”
7 Now to you who keep trusting, he is precious. But to those who are not trusting,
“The very stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone”;
8 also he is a stone that will make people stumble, a rock over which they will trip.
They are stumbling at the Word, disobeying it — as had been planned.
9 But you are a chosen people, the King’s cohanim, a holy nation, a people for God to possess! Why? In order for you to declare the praises of the One who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
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What is the stone which the builders rejected?
What is the crucible?
What is the rotation?
