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" Bernard of Treviso, La paruk c/c/a/ssce, (BPC 2:434): in the subtilization "the white Rose, celesrial, sweet, so beloved of rbe ‘Philosophers’, is complered.”

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^Potkr. Philosophic pura (Frankfurt, 1619), 64. quoted in ignis (1925),

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^In CAG, 3:118-19.

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ⁿ Whose name means "good daimon.” The classical daimon corresponds to the "double,” that is to rhe lunar and subtle form, which then is actualized as the first transformation of the consciousness of the corporeality and is converted inro immortal form. Later on we shall speak ot the "cloud” or ''.smoke, ” Again, this is the "double” or die "soul-daimon” of which Empedocles speaks and which in Homer is designated by thymus, the same word, exactly, as Latin fumns. {Cf. Gomperz, Gcschiclue dcr Griech. Philosophic, chap, 4, §Z)

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Cf. Livre de la misericorde, (CMA, 3:167): "The action of the soul on the body transforms it gives it a non-material nature like its own, . . . The innermost nature of the substances is that - hich is contained in the inner part of the body and this is united to the intimate nature of the oul, though ic must he returned after the latter has been separated from the intimate nacure of the tody.”

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 CAG, 2T07, 112, 114, 122-23, 129, 130, 146, 151, 172-73, 195. iivte de Ja misericorde, CMA, 3:183-84

‘ Flamel, Figures hieroglyphic]ues, §6 (BPC, 2:251). Q. Bernard of Treviso Parole dehisse, BPC, 2:345, De pharmaco anholfco, 12, §5.
’ Boelime, De signacura, 7, §53.

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^ Aurora., 20, §66. Ramety (Diccionmure, 349) thus sums up the hermetic interpretation of the Gospels: "Their elixir is originally a part of the universal spirit of the world, corporealized in a virgin Earth. From this it must he extracted by passing through all the required operations before it reaches its goal of glory and immutable perfection Tn rhe first preparation he is tormented to the poinr of bleeding; in the putrefaction he dies, when the white color rums black, he steps out of the dark and the comb and is gloriously revived, rises to Heaven, all quintessentialized, whence he comes to judge the "quick and the dead,” the dead being everything in man that lacks purity, which succumbs to alteration, cannot withstand the fire and so will be destroyed in Gehenna. ”

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