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^Oeuvre des quaere elements in CAG, 2:340.

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^j Ibid., 285.

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^ De hide er Osiris §56. We must understand "good” in the sense of Platonic philosophy, that is, as completion, as nature complete and perfect in itself.

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"Latium a latere," Virgil, Aeneid, 1.8. (Latium, an ancient country in Traly, is etymologically a place ot "concealment" or "retirement. —Trans.]

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^Syrian texts, CMA, 2:158.

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^"Hie esc Parer er Mater eius, sivc lapis nos ter ct Phi'hsophorum "(Codex plumbeum, reproduced in Introduzione alia magi a. 1:298). In the same codex is found the expression "leprous Gold,” referring to Saturn, in which leprosy, the sickness that consumes, represents the sudden infection suffered by the Sun in the terrestrial body (cf. vulture that consumes, thirst that consumes, etc.). Tn a text of Isaac the Hollander (reproduced by Re we Theosophiquc, (l 927], 379 91) we read: "From Saturn proceeds, and from Saturn is made, the Philosopher’s Stone. . . . There is no greater secret than this: that this is found in Saturn, since in rhe Sun [the vulgar Sun, that is tn say, in the intellectual faculties of external consciousness) we do not find the perfection that we find in Saturn. Tn its interior, and in this all the Philosophers agree, it is a most excellent Sun. ... In truth, Saturn is the stone that the ancient philosophers did not want to name. ’’ "Nothing does it lack, bur to he cleaned of its impurity; its interior must be made exterior that is to say, its Redness must be brought out and then it will be an excellent Sun.” (§§1, 4, 5, 16-17).

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^Boehme, De signature, 4, §§22-23. .

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^O. Della Riviera (Mundo magico, 207-8); "Now this. Lead or Sarurn, is called Father of the ocher Gods, that is of the other magic metals; given that all of them in the beginning were hidden in him: but they come to light during the construction of the magic world, being rendered manifest and visible by the spagyric Arr of rhe Hero.”

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