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This can be a reprint of the 1920 version of an immense yet virtually unknown paintings. whilst Atwood made her suggestive inquiry into what used to be termed "The airtight Mystery," she meant that the adept Hieophants positioned the candidate right into a deep trance and his soul used to be led into anything that used to be for her the splendid Oneness of every thing.

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Tract. Secret. (109) See New Light of Alchemy, preface. (110) Epilogue to the Twelve Treatises. (111) Ripley’s Fifth Gate. (112) De Arte Alchemica, p. 345, etc. 1. The theory of Alchemy, though arcane, is very simple; its basis indeed may be comprehended in that only statement of Arnold di Villanova, in his Speculum, --- That there abides in nature a certain pure matter, which, being discovered and brought by art to perfection, converts to itself proportionally all imperfect bodies that it touches.

Artis. Auriferae, vol. ii (44) Eiranaeus, Marrow of Alchemy, book i, 45 (45) See Hunt’s Poetry of Science (46) New Light of Alchemy, Preface to the Phil. Enigma (47) Invnestig. Of Perfection (48) New Light of Alchemy, Tract 10; also Augurellus Chrysopaea, lib. i (49) Nuysement, Sal, Lumen et Spiritus Mundi, Phil. ed. Combachius (50) See Eiraneaeus, Ripley Revived (51) Norton’s Ordinal Chapter 3 The Golden Treatise of Hermes Trismegistus, Concerning the Physical Secret of the Philosopher's Stone.

Our water, that wets not the hands; without which nothing grows or is generated in the whole world! And these are the Epithetes of Hermes, his Bird, which is never at rest. It is of small account, yet no body can be without it, and so thou hast discovered to thee a ting more precious than the whole world; which I plainly tell thee is nothing else than our sea water, which is congealed in gold and silver, and extracted by the help of our chalybs, or steel, by the art of philosophers, in a wonderful manner by a prudent son of science.

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