First Lecture

It was also in such times that those ancient priests sought to capture the workings of the sun and moon in the substances with which they celebrated the Act of Consecration of Man, in order to extend what they had received in the sacred times over all the remainder of the year. In this way they also preserved what the gods had made out of these substances and forces of the earth in the sacred times. They kept the water of those times, the Mercury element, in order to celebrate the Act of Consecration of Man with it during the rest of the year in such a way that it contained transubstantiation in the same way as it had been done by the gods themselves during those acts of consecration of man that had taken place in the “dead times”, as they were called, but which were precisely the holy times.