The Symbolic Treaty of the Philosophical Stone in 78 Figures

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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“Take a Metal pure, and purged of all its dross, whose Spirit recedes in its secret part, and being pressed with a great weight, lives privily, and desires to be released from bands, and to be sent out of prison to Heaven, being spread into thin plates. The same in Chrys. lib. 1. Seek not the principles of Gold and where else: for in Gold is the seed of Gold; though being close shut up, it retires further, and is to be sought by us with tedious labour.”

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