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 first preparation and foundation of this Art, is the solution [i.e., reduction] of the body into water, i.e., into quicksilver, and this they call the solution, when they say: Let the gold be dissolved, which is hid in the body of magnesia, that it may be reduced to its First Matter, that thence it may become sulphur and quicksilver, and not be again liquefied into water. The object of our solution is to make it liquid, and resolve it into the substance of quicksilver that the saltness of its sulphur may be diminished, which divine sulphur is prepared by extraction from two sulphurs, when the spirit meets the body.”

Anonymous

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