some more about alchemy02:15 Jan 18 2007
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I had discovered, early in my researches, that their doctrine was no mere
chemical fantasy, but a philosophy they applied to the world, to the elements,
and to man himself.
- W.B. Yeats, Rosa Alchemica
Transmute yourselves from dead stones into living philosophical stones.
- Gerhardt Dorn
These are not fables. You will touch with your hands, you will see with your own
eyes, the Azoth, the Mercury of Philosophers, which alone will suffice to obtain for you
our Stone. . . . Darkness will appear on the face of the Abyss; Night, Saturn and the
Antimony of the Sages will appear; blackness, and the raven's head of the alchemists,
and all the colors of the world, will appear at the hour of conjunction; the rainbow also,
and the peacock's tail. Finally, after the matter has passed from ashen-colored to white
and yellow, you will see the Philosopher's Stone, our King and Dominator Supreme,
issue forth from his glassy sepulcher to mount his bed or his throne in his glorified body. . .
diaphanous as crystal; compact and most weighty, as easily fusible by fire as resin,
as flowing as wax and more so than quicksilver . . . the color of saffron when powdered,
but red as rubies when in an integral mass...
- H. Khunrath Amphitheatrum
Crave wisdom of God, the sense to understand,
Else meddle not herewith, nor take it in hand.
For it will cost thee much wordly wealth;
But trust not to other, but do it thyself.
Learn, therefore, first to cleanse, purify and sublime,
To dissolve, congeal, distill and sometime
To conjoin and separate, and how to do all,
That when you think to rise, thou do not fall,
Trust to thyself and not to another;
I can say no more to thee if thou were my brother.
- Simon Forman, 1597
One becomes two, two becomes three, and by means of the third and fourth
achieves unity; thus two are but one....
Invert nature and you will find that what you seek...
Join the male and the female, and you will find what is sought...
- Maria the Jewess, 300 A.D.
Alchemy is the art of manipulating life, and consciousness in matter, to help it
evolve, or to solve problems of inner disharmonies.
- Jean Dubuis
“The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.”
Arthur Schopenhauer quotes (German Philosopher, 1788-1860)
Medicine rests upon four pillars -philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
Paracelsus
The matter lies before the eyes of all; everybody sees it, touches it, loves it, but knows it not. It is glorious and vile, precious and of small account, and is found everywhere... But, to be brief, our Matter has as many names as there are things in this world; that is why the foolish know it not.
- The Golden Tract
I had discovered, early in my researches, that their doctrine was no mere chemical fantasy, but a philosophy they applied to the world, to the elements, and to man himself.
- W.B. Yeats, Rosa Alchemica
The alchemical operation consisted essentially in separating the prima materia, the so-called chaos, into the active principle, the soul, and the passive principle, the body, which were then reunited in personified form in the coniunctio or "chymical marriage"... the ritual cohabitation of Sol and Luna.
- C. G. Jung, Mysterium Coniunctionis
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