The Symbolic Treaty of the Philosophical Stone in 78 Figures

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THE SYMBOLIC TREATY OF THE PHILOSOPHAL STONE IN 78 FIGURES

Johann Conrad Barchusen

Sheets extracted from his “Elementa Chimiae quibus subjuncta est confectura lapidis philosophici imaginibus repraesentata”,

Leiden,

1718

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“The essence of this Art is in like manner a certain one thing which is stronger and more exalted than all other things, and is called the most powerful acid, because it changes gold into a clear spirit, without which there is neither whiteness, nor blackness, nor redness. When the spirit is joined to the body it becomes one with it; and yet again becomes a spirit, and is saturated with the spiritual and unchangeable tincture, and thus again by combination receives a bodily tincture which cannot be annihilated. If you place the body without the acid over the fire, it will be burnt and destroyed.”

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