"You might legitimately ask: Does the world really need another book; and would it not be better for people to read, understand and apply much of what has already been written? It is indeed true that all of the Ancient Wisdom is available to anyone who is ready to receive it. Only certain details are temporarily withheld, or concealed in mystical language, to protect those who have not yet prepared themselves through appropriate trials and disciplines. It is a given, however, that High Wisdom is so global and all-encompassing in its scope, that it, as an active, masculine potency, must be presented in a variety of forms and styles to the analytical mind before it can be assimilated by the passive, receptive feminine potency of the equally global and all-encompassing intuitive faculty. The harmonizing and reconciling of these two polarities constitutes the essence of both Kabbalistic and Alchemical teachings.
This made me think of the Widow as an employer ... to whom we have apprenticed ourselves. "Employer" being the significant word here. I have never thought of the Widow in that light before.
I like all of what Dr Fisher has to say, and the early founders of modern freemasonry were practicing alchemists. This book may be one for the shelf.
The sons of the Widow can reasonably aspire to progress the work of the Widow. She put a lot of effort into culturing the human race.
It seems obvious to me that alchemy is part of what is intended by the secrets of nature and science. These days however, I suggest we need not confine our investigations to the secrets of matter, but can extend to the secrets of relationship and the secrets of mind.
Generally it is more important to seek the relationship secrets rather than the material secrets.
