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^Livre d'Arccphius, BPC, 2:162; Entrcticns, BPC, 2:92.

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^Fernery, Fables, 1:16, 21,

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* Lfvre de la misericord?, CAM, 3:136.

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^i:) Theatnmi chenv'cum, 5:64Z

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^Liber Platon is qualmum in Theztruin chcmicum, ,5:ll4ff._; Dorn, Specuhmvae philosophize, ibid , 1:48,5.

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^Livre de h demence, CMA, 3:135. In dlls same text (p. 1.36) it is said that the "removal of its corporeal and material form from a thing” is the foundation of "all operations, internal and external,” whether ir he exercised on the principles of man, or on substances. Cf. later, page 218.

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^The Greek alchemists declared that whar words like fjljpiov— an ancient name for the "powder ot projection” that changes common metals into silver and gold meant is the spirit (03(7, 2:2.58). And they added that only the Stone (that is, only the human organism) in which resides the (j>ap/.iaKOV to rfjv dtivaptv S%ov— the Remedy of the just power—can produce the "Mithraic Mysrery,” that is, the Sun and the Gold, here and now in a real sense, (ibid.. 2:114)

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^Olympiodorus, text in CAG, 3:110. Cf. the same theme in Zosimos (C4G, 2:114); Flame.1 (Desir desire. §§1,6); Arnold of Viilanova (BCC, 1:665); Rusinus (Art/'s auriferae, 1:300); B. Valentine (Dndici chizvi, 20); etc.

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^B. Valentine, Dodici chiavi, 37 (second key, §5). O. Agrippa, Dc occulta phihsophia, .?.!(): "It is necesary to know how to mtellcctualizc exactly the perceivable properties by means of a secret analogy.”
Musaeum hcrmcncum, .174

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^!f’ Here, one could also cite the three conditions that Thomas Aquinas himself, in following Avicenna, considered necessary for rhe exterior materia to ohey the prophet: to know the clarity of intelligence, a perfect creative imagination, and a mightiness of the soul. Cf, M-L von Franz, Auroni cousnrgens,

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^1/ Livk dArtephius, BPC, 2:128, 135.

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^ CAC, 2-28.5 Cf. Braccesco, Fsposidnnc, fob 80a: "Neither metals nor stones receive celestial virtues when they are in the form of metals and stone, bur only when they are in the form of vapors.”

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¹ Livrc ck h misericords, CMA, 3:180. Cf. Livre dc FI liabir, CM4, 3:107

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^Syrian texts, in CMA, 2:1.

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^Interpretable in relation to this, in one of its aspects, is the symbolism of the "circular distillation,” which results in "the external becoming internal and the internal, external," and everything "is in a circle, so that inner can no longer be distinguished from outer, or higher from lower.” from Tractatus aureus {Leipzig, 1610), 43.

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¹¹ Rosarium phibsophorum in Ards auriferae, 2:214; Novum lumen in Musaeum hermedcum, 534.

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^ Cf, Arnold of Villanova (Scmica sanicae, §10): "They are correct who assert chat transmutation is not possible if the metals cannot be returned to their prima materia"; Raymond Liiliy, (Ckivicula, 2i): "The metals cannot be transformed, unless they are reduced to the first matter"; Zacharms, (Philosophic naturdks cks metaiix, BBC, 2:501): "If you know not die true dismantling of our body, do not begin the work: because if this remains a stranger no you. the rest will be useless."

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