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Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum - The Alchemical oath
Identifier
016166
Type of Spiritual Experience
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Background
This oath, in only slightly modified form, is still being used by some present day Adepts:
This is background not an experience
A description of the experience
from Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum (London, 1652).
Will you with me tomorrow be content,
Faithfully to receive the blessed Sacrament,
Upon this Oath that I shall heere you give,
For ne Gold ne Silver as long as you live,
Neither for love you beare towards your Kinne,
Nor yet to no great Man preferment to wynne:
That you disclose the secret that I shall you
teach,
Neither by writing nor by no swift speech;
But only to him which you be sure
Hath ever searched after the seacrets of Nature?
To him you may reveale the seacrets of this Art,
Under the Covering of Philosophie before this
world yee depart.