Note I (411). As to the Chamber of the Companion hung in red, it represents the sphere of action of our individuality, measured by the extent of our sulphurous radiation. This radiation produces a kind of refractive [refringent] medium, which refracts the surrounding diffused light [[Symbol: Mercury] is meant] to concentrate it on the spiritual nucleus of the subject. Such is the mechanism of the illumination, by which those benefit who have seen the blazing star shine. Every being bears in himself this mysterious star, but too often in the condition of a dim spark hardly perceptible. It is the philosophic child, the immanent Logos or the Christ incarnate, which legend represents as born obscurely in the midst of the filth of a cave serving as a stable. The initiation becomes the vestal of this inner fire [Symbol: Sulfur]; archetype or principle of all individuality. She knows how to care for it as long as it is brooded in the ashes. Then she devotes herself to nourishing it judiciously, to render it keen for the moment when it finally should overcome the obstacles that imprison it and seek to hold it in isolation. It means, as a matter of fact, that the Son is put en rapport with the external [Symbol: Mercury], or in other words, that the individual enters into communion with the collectivity from which he comes. BIBLIOGRAPHY. OLD. (Before 1800.) Agrippa ab Nettesheym, Henricus Cornelius, Opera. Alchemisten, Griechische, v. Berthelot, Hoefer (moderne). “Allgemeine (und General-) Reformation der gantzen (weiten) Welt” vide “Fama.” “Amor proximi” (“Das Buch Amor Proximi Geflossen aus dem Oehl der Göttlichen Barmhertzigkeit ...”) Ans tag-licht gegeben per Anonymum. Franckfurt und Leipzig, 1746. (Andreae, Valentin) Anonym, Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz. Anno 1459. Gedruckt zuerst zu Strassburg bey Lazari Zetzners seel. Erben MDCXVI. Regenspurg, MDCCLXXXI (eigentlich Berlin, bei Nicolai). Arabi v. Horten (mod.). Arnaldus de Villa Nova, Chymische Schrifften. Aus dem Latein übersetzet durch Joh. Hoppodamum. Frankfurt und Hamburg, 1683. Bādarāyana v. Deussen (mod.). Basile, Giambattista v. mod. “Bauer” (“Der grosse und der kleine Bauer”). Zwey Philosophische und Chymische Tractate. Leipzig, 1744. Beaumont, Iohann, Historisch-Physiologisch- und Theologischer Tractat von Geistern. Aus der Englischen Sprache in die Teutsche mit Fleiss übersetzt von Theodor Arnold. Halle im Magdeburgischen, 1721. Bekker, Balthasar, Die Bezauberte Welt. Amsterdam, 1693. Bernhard, Graf von der Mark und Tervis, Abhandlung von der Natur des (philosophischen) Eyes. Hildesheim, 1780. “Bhagavad-Gîtā” v. Schlegel, Schroeder (mod.). Boehme, Jacob, Schriften. Gesammtausgabe von Johan Georg Gichtel. 2 Bde. 1715. Bonaventura, Opera. Booz, Ada Mah (Dr. Adam Michael Birkholz), Die sieben heiligen Grundsäulen der Ewigkeit und Zeit. Leipzig, 1783. “Confessio” (der Fraternität R. C.) v. “Fama.”