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id: 14641
author: Helvetius, Johann Friedrich
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  Wonder of Nature, In Transmuting of Nature, The Mercury of Philosophers mind; for in it I shall relate all things purpose, in Natural things, especially Sons of this Laudable Art, shall at length, was transmuted into a God. Likewise we will not forget into the best Gold, if an exceeding small changeth into a Nature like it self, This Gold and Silver is more noble, Gold, is able to tinge all Red Metals Transmutation is a great natural Medicinal Stone of philosophers. Tincture of Gold with it self in the the Silver and Gold made thereof. things of Nature, by the benefit of of this thing, or Art, in the Writings their Works to so great a God Art; but if I could behold things into like Gold Homogeneal to it self. that God in the things of Nature, any Great Man, or Men, should Gold and Silver of Philosophers,

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  The Golden Calf, Which the World Adores, and Desires In Which Is Handled the Most Rare and Incomparable Wonder of Nature, in Transmuting Metals; viz. How the Intire Substance of Lead, Was in One Moment Transmuted in Gold-Obrizon, with an Exceeding Small Particle of the True Philosophick Stone


id: 26340
author: Basilius Valentinus
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  the dead, gaining its perfect operation, and the natural Body being Water was the Matter whereon the everlasting Spirit of God moved; the of all Metals, is likewise a supernatural, flying, fiery Spirit; which World it is likewise Gods Power, and the Operation to work into the Soul, of the Spirit, and of the Body, let it be and remain a Magnet, make all Metals into one, it is the true Spirit of _Mercury_, and Soul sensible Soul, which hath operated the Natural Life from a Supernatural Take a Spirit of Salt, therewith extract the Sulphur of Gold, separate the Oil of Salt from it, rectifie the Sulphur of Gold with Spirit of Matter which remaines dry in Spirit of _Mercury_, according to a just projection upon the imperfect Metals, and in the Body of Man. Take ten times as much of prepared _Saturn_ as I taught you before, by

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  Of Natural and Supernatural Things Also of the first Tincture, Root, and Spirit of Metals and Minerals, how the same are Conceived, Generated, Brought forth, Changed, and Augmented.


id: 14218
title: The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry
author: Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison)
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  object of Nature in all things is to introduce into each substance the The alchemical notion of a natural state as proper to each substance Price_ says, "Nature is continually at work changing other metals into If we think of the alchemical elements earth, air, fire, and water, as _Water_, in the cold substances the element _Air_ preponderates, and properties of substances, made since the time of the alchemists, have fixed substance, which brings all metals to the perfection of gold or that word: the alchemist regarded the metals as composite substances; experiments on the calcination of metals and other substances, But the terms _substance_, _thing_, _properties_ were used separate the calcined substance into two different things, one of help of it, what kind of air a great variety of substances, natural to cause a metallic calx (that is, the substance formed by calcining the way nature works, she _must_ begin with certain substances which


id: 713
title: Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2
author: Mackay, Charles
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  then, your war-cry in the combat, for those words came forth from God. Let the army of the Lord when it rushes upon His enemies shout but that short time, an army was raised amounting to two hundred thousand men. men, besides a great number of women who followed their husbands and gave great offence to the King of France, who became from that time Most persons said the number of these demons was so great that they witches to raise evil spirits--shed blood like water--taken the lives In the mean time, accusations of witchcraft spread rapidly in France, persons by thousands as guilty of this crime." In the same year, Sir number of persons brought to trial was about forty a day. condemned a number of women to death, in the year 1670, on the old day-time, and was seen by a whole room full of people.


id: 884
title: Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3
author: Mackay, Charles
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  Seventeenth Century.--De Lisle.--Albert Aluys.--Count de St. Germains.--Cagliostro.--Present State of the Science. manner, lost from this time till the eighth century, when it appeared gather the opinions of philosophers upon the great secrets of nature. year 1245, and studied medicine with great success in the University of years in Paris, and made great wealth by killing and curing, and telling physician, a great philosopher, and a successful alchymist. acquainted with the great secret of the philosopher''s stone. no secret of his wonderful powers; having, it is said, performed who has wasted fifty years of his life in this great study, brought me of the philosopher''s stone, I deemed it impossible, for a long time; and last of the great pretenders to the philosopher''s stone and the water A little time, great fortune that time, Animal Magnetism, or, as some called it, Mesmerism, became time; but I cannot turn my eyes from the spirits; they are in magnetic


id: 1271
title: Bygone Beliefs: Being a Series of Excursions in the Byways of Thought
author: Redgrove, H. Stanley (Herbert Stanley)
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  to a belief in God. But man felt the need of unity, and crude animism, not, the stars were still symbols of spiritual forces operative on man. Philosopher''s Stone--the concentrated Essence of Nature,--as man''s soul "Man''s nature," writes CORNELIUS AGRIPPA, "_is the most complete Image Man, taught the old mystical philosophers, is threefold in nature, of cure is of great force unto this day; for I have seen a certain man neatly calls it, and perhaps man''s earliest view of natural phenomena, between spirit and matter AGRIPPA places the stars: modern thought devils--spirits supposed to be superior to man in certain powers, but In the metals the alchemists saw symbols of man in the according to the alchemists, are the powers and life of nature in writes one alchemist, "is the Spirit of Truth, which the world cannot of Crates_ says that copper, like man, has a spirit, soul, and body,"


id: 636
title: Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1
author: Mackay, Charles
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  life of its great author, John Law. Historians are divided in opinion as made for the fifty thousand new shares, and Law''s house in the Rue de in the streets for hours every day before Mr. Law''s door to know the The crowds around the bank were so great, that hardly a day years the South Sea Company''s stock was in high favour. It is time, however, to return to the great South Sea gulf, that At a general court of the Bank of England held two days afterwards, the having lent out great sums upon South Sea stock were obliged to shut up there was no law to punish the directors of the South Sea Company, who court of the South Sea Company, or set aside by due course of law. House of Parliament, during such time as the South Sea Bill was yet "A great man shall come into England,


