автордың кітабынан сөз тіркестері  Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts

Herbert Silberer

dissolves and joins itself,

“Our stone consists of a body, a soul, and a spirit.

This first goal is a preparation for a further work.

all the nations of men are of one blood,’

“For as of one mass was made the thing,

Right must it so in our praxis be,

All our secrets of one image must spring;

In philosophers' books therefore who wishes may see,

Our stone is called the less-world, one and three.”

prima materia is semen,

O Man, know thyself; in thee is hid the treasure of treasures.”

in him God has placed his eternal Wor

or authority but Truth, you may easily discover something of hermetic philosophy; and if at the beginning there should be ‘fear and trembling’ the end may be a more than compensating peace.”

“The work of the alchemists was one of contemplation and not a work of the hands. Their alembic, furnace, cucurbit, retort, philosophical egg, etc., etc., in which the work of fermentation, distillation, extraction of essences and [pg 153] spirits and the preparation of salts is said to have taken place was Man,—yourself, friendly reader,—and if you will take yourself into your own study and be candid and honest, acknowledging no other guide