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^ See Boehme (Aurora, 10, §40): "The seven are not separate, hut they are as you see the stars in heaven, standing apart from one another and yet all together, one in the other, like a single spirit."

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^ Monde magico, 207.

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■" Ibid., 208. This passage is rarher important: because it says that the Gold is "the Soul and Life of the

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thing itself,’’ which when it has been "magically regulated and prepared” is transformed intu tills Gold

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^Pernety, Fables. 1:73.

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^Philalethes, Introiuis upertus, §§7,4-30. Another symbol used for the different symbolical colors is tbc peacock’s rail In Boehme (De signurura, 7 §§74-76), the order is the following: Saturn, Moon, Jupiter Mars, Venus, Mercury, Sim The process is described as follows: "When the corporealizarion of cbe Child has begun, Saturn carries it off and drops it into the darkness . . the Moon’s taking possession of it follows, mixing the celestial properties with rlic earthly, and thereby manifesting the vegetarian life (i e., ^ ). But there still remains a danger to be overcome (see p. 130-131). After the Moon, Jupiter

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