Roger Bacon says: "It is necessary

that the body be transformed into

spirit and the spirit into body."

This is the solution of the Work. If

you wish to carry it out, your own

body, burned by the philosopher’s fire

and worn away by the fiery water of

constrictions, must reach such a high

degree of purity that it truly becomes

immaterial.

Then, transforming as if on a Mount,

it will become unalterable. It will no longer be an obstacle to the spiritual

path; on the contrary, it will participate as do glorious bodies and will

itself contribute—oh prodigy! —to the Work.

Then corporealize your spirit, that is, cast a scrutinizing gaze upon this

impalpable substance that accompanies your body, the mysterious nature

you had not imagined you could ever know.

Study meticulously all its hidden mechanisms to know how to guide it,

how to harness its power and feed it with the intellectual nourishment it

needs.

You possess, my Disciple, an immense treasure of hidden forces that you

ignore, considerable and invincible powers gathered within you, and that

surpass all bodily forces. Learn to use them, make them obey your will,

learn to become an absolute master.

And therefore, above all, you must first separate from you everything

superfluous and banal from your intellect. Vigorously scrub the thickness

of your vulgar thoughts. Boldly prune in this forest the commonplaces

and banalities that may still occupy you. Cut away all that does not

represent vigor or strength; it is an unhealthy vegetation that only

produces losses of spiritual energy.

“Thought is a substance of almost fluid nature. Once emitted, it exists.”

Thought is immutable. It provokes in the sphere of pure existence an

echo that resonates in eternity. Therefore, guard yourself from infernal

meditations that you may create and that will fix themselves on you for

your condemnation.

Be pure, for it is your virtue that you must project onto the atanor to

animate it. Avoid indifferent acts in themselves. Let your gaze never fix

on objects that are not worth an instant of your attention: you would lose

a portion of your being without ever being able to recover it.

Then, freed from the burden of useless things, precious gather the living

forces you wish to preserve and direct this thought, this mental

archetype, with vehemence toward the Work. Observe carefully the colors

of the Magisterium and converge even the smallest of your actions

toward the final objective.

Some will tell you that miraculous power is obtained and transmitted by a

breath, by a word cabalistically whispered in the ear, for the reading of

some pages of a Grimorium or for the making of a rod. No, learn, on the

contrary, that such great power will only be granted to you by a slow and

laborious cultivation of the psychic forces that remain latent within you.

One must abstract oneself in the higher life, and at the same time

powerfully exalt one’s will, carrying out a true segregation between

yourself and the physical and external world. Raise a wall around you to

retain what emanates from you toward the things that are tangible; thus,

enclose yourself in the hermetic citadel, from which you will emerge

invulnerable one day, and surely you will already see a little of the Light I

have promised you and you will rejoice.

Patience! Think of your inexperience! You are only in the fourth degree of

the Path of the Absolute. You have more than half the journey still to go

and you can still stumble and fall.

Men more skilled than you have fallen and nearly reached the end. Put a

finger to your lips, like Harpocrates, and pray, my Disciple, in the silence

of your soul.

Grillot de Givry

DISOLUTION