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    Fig. 13 reads: “Here the father devours the son; the soul and spirit flow forth from the body.



My Son, I was dead without thee,
And lived in great danger of my life.
I revive at thy return,
And it fills my breast with joy.
But when the Son entered the Father's house,
The Father took him to his heart,
And swallowed him out of excessive joy,
And that with his own mouth.
The great exertion makes the Father sweat.

    Fig. 14 reads: “Here the father sweats profusely, while oil and the true tincture and the sages flows from him.



Here the Father sweats on account of the Son,
And earnestly beseeches God,
Who has created everything in His hands,
Who creates, and has created all things,
To bring forth his Son from his body,
And to restore him to his former life.
God hearkens to his prayers,
And bids the Father lie down and sleep.
Then God sends down rain from heaven
To the earth from the shining stars.
It was a fertilizing, silver rain,
Which bedewed and softened the Father's Body.
Succour us, Lord, at the end,
That we may obtain Thy gracious Gift!


  

    And finally in Fig. 15 we read: “Here father and son are joined in one so to remain forever.



The sleeping Father is here changed
Entirely into limpid water,
And by virtue of this water alone
The good work is accomplished.
There is now a glorified and beautiful Father,
And he brings forth a new Son.
The Son ever remains in the Father,
And the Father in the Son.
Thus in divers things
They produce untold, precious fruit.
They perish never more,
And laugh at death.
By the grace of God they abide for ever,
The Father and the Son, triumphing gloriously
In the splendour of their new Kingdom.
Upon one throne they sit,
And the face of the Ancient Master
Is straightway seen between them:
He is arrayed in a crimson robe.

    Now, we have our first example of how the alchemy allegory is applied. This is repeated over and over, in various ways through all alchemical tracts.

    The Protestant Reformation & Anglican Church

    In 1534, the Church of England had split from the Roman Catholic Church. King Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was seeking a consort to give him a male heir, and found it more expedient to reform the English church as it had existed dating back to the mission of St. Augustine in 597 AD, rather than accept papal authority for his marriage. King Henry VIII introduced the first English version of the Bible in 1538. Following this act, the Dissolution or Suppression of the Monasteries occurred under his authority and in 1540, assets seized from the Catholic Church fell into Crown hands and control.

    King Henry VIII had attempted to expand the rights of Royal authority and frequently used Bills of Attainer, to deny political adversaries their due process.

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