Note 18 — Chapter I · THE MEANING OF ALCHEMY
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Which, in virtue of man’s self-consciousness, is, by the grace of God, immortal.
[19] See the work Of Natural and Supernatural Things, attributed to “Basil Valentine,” for a description of the “spirits” of the metals in particular.
[20] The Book of Lambspring, translated by Nicholas Barnaud Delphinas (see the Hermetic Museum, vol. i. p. 277). This work contains many other fantastic alchemistic symbolical pictures, amongst the most curious series in alchemistic literature.