The Secret Work of the Hermetic Philosophy

74God created Adam from the mud of the earth, in which the powers of all the elements were implanted, especially those of Earth and water, which chiefly constitute tangible, bodily mass. Into this mass God breathed the breath of life and quickened it with the Sun of the Holy Spirit. He gave Eve as a wife to the male, and, blessing them, gave them the command and the capacity to multiply. The generation of the philosophers’ stone is not unlike the creation of Adam. From an earthly, heavy body dissolved by water, mud is first made, which has earned the distinguished name of Adamic Earth; all the qualities and powers of the elements are within it. At last a heavenly soul is poured into it through the spirit of the quintessence and the Solar influx; and through the blessing and dew of Heaven it receives the power of multiplying without limit through the union of the two sexes.