Alchemy philosophers stone

“The alchemist realizes that he himself is the Philosopher’s Stone, and that this stone is made diamond-like when the salt and the sulphur, or the spirit and the body, are united through mercury, the link of mind. Man is the incarnated principle of mind as the animal is of emotion. He stands with one foot on the heavens and the other on earth. His higher being is lifted to the celestial spheres, but the lower man ties him to matter. Now the philosopher, building his sacred stone, is doing so…

Alchemy,a tradition more than a practice,had a profound effect of our history,from the quest for philosopher's stone to the discovery of effective medicine,it has always received exceptional attention

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George Ripley (alquimista). Creación del omúnculo, que recuerda a la creación cabalística del GOLEM. Cryptogram 1 of 7, an Alchemist holds an almebic, within it are images of a frog, seven feathers, and nine smaller images of different groups of individuals surrounding almebics. Image taken from Rotulum hieroglyphicum G. Riplaei Equitis Aurati, an alchemical manuscript of the 16th century showing the processes for the production of the philosopher's stone in pictorial cryptograms.