b D’Espagnet, Arcanum hermetic ae, §§122.123. An engraving of the Margarita pretiosa shows a coffin in which the king has been enclosed. Out of this comes a Child (first phase: the Regenerated) that the alchemist, nevertheless, must shut away again with the Father or King, which is an allegory of the necessity for the Regenerated to be enclosed with the still dormant and subterranean forces of the primordia 1 individualizar ion.
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In symbols that must by now be rather transparent to the reader, Zosimos [CAG, 2.-93, 95) says that the black Lead is fixed in the “Spheres of Fire,” Its heaviness attracts a new soul, and “in that consists the Great Mystery," called the "Great Medicine" which induces new colors and new qualities in the subject.
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sCAG, 2:292-94, 2%ft In rhe rraditons ot some primitive peoples, which we have ro consider as degenerated and materialistic survivals of more ancient traditions, they speak, of magic "stones” or "crystals" substituted by the spirits in place ot the. body organs, pur in them during rhe magical sleep of initiation leading ro rebirth, Cf Hubert-Mauss, Melanges cl'Insecure de h religion (Paris, 1929).
