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"And Alphidus in his book speaketh of the treasure house, which he teacheth can be opened by four keys, which are the four elements." Aurora consurgens.             

"The writings attributed to him, have introductions in which in a legendary way is described how these texts were found in temples, caves and sepulchral vaults. The "Emerald table", a brief text full of symbols, was considered to be the key to the ultimate secrets of nature. Sentences by Hermes are to be found in almost every Arabic alchemistic work. (1)Apollonius of Tyana (2) is considered to be the intermediary of the hermetic wisdom. Under his name a big commentary ....  

Taylor, F. Sherwood, The sayings of Hermes quoted in the Ma’ al-Waraqi of Ibn Umail, Ambix, iii (1949), pp.69-90.  


Corinne Heline:             

"There is a very old Masonic legend stating that the biblical Master Initiate, Enoch, made excavations through the entire nine layers of the Earth. In each of these excavations he placed a four-square door, and in the ninth door he set a golden triangle bearing the mystic four-letter name of Deity. He then fashioned two columns wherein he placed the secret instructions on how to find the nine excavations with their closely guarded foursquare doors; in other words, how to pass through the Earth's nine-layers and so reach its central core." Corinne Heline, `Mystic Masonry.'          

"The "first Hermes" is identified with Akhnukh (Enoch) and Idris. He lived in Egypt before the Flood and built the Pyramids (see HARAM, their name being connected with his) and other sanctuaries (barabi); on their walls he wrote down the scientific achievements of the first men, in order to preserve them from destruction and loss by the Flood." Hirmis, Encyclopedia of Islam.  


Strike on this Spot.  

Andre de Koning gives the following story of Dhu'l-Nun the Egyptian mystic (and alchemist), drawn from Idries Shah.  

Andre de Koning. Alchemical Mix-Up, IAAT Newsletter, - confirm date and p.  

"There was a statue with pointing finger upon which was inscribed: "Strike on this spot for treasure'. Its origin was unknown, but generations of people had hammered the place marked by the sign. Because it was made of the hardest stone, little impression was made on it, and the meaning remained cryptic. Dhun-Nun, in contemplation of the statue, one day exactly at midday observed that the shadow of the pointing finger, unnoticed for centuries, followed a line in the paving beneath the statue.             

Marking the place he obtained the necessary instruments and prised up by chisel-blows the flagstone, which proved to be the trap-door in the roof of a subterranean cave which contained strange articles of a workmanship which enabled him to deduce the science of their manufacture, long since lost, and hence to acquire the treasures and those of a more formal kind which accompanied them.  

Shah, Idries, The Sufis. Octagon Press, 1982, p.55.