Hermes: A Journal in Occasional Issues

effect [change] into the lower regions. Of what kind are they? Altogether of the kind that draws in much mephitic gas original: "mephitisches Gas." In the 18th century, this term referred to "fixed air" (carbon dioxide) or other gases that did not support life or combustion., or consists of this [gas] and of inflammable air original: "brennbarer Luft." An early chemical term for hydrogen. themselves. Priestley. Ingenhoufz. Fagräus. Baumé. These are prominent 18th-century scientists: Joseph Priestley, Jan Ingenhousz, Jonas Theodor Fagraeus, and Antoine Baumé, all of whom studied gases and plant physiology.

This gas is that which kills: in that it, according to the note on §. 21, takes away the light-particles that sustain life; but it also, for that very reason, makes things alive again, in that it awakens the slumbering life-forces and sets them into new activity, (§ 50. 56.) bringing light into the darkness and life after death. This very correct experience often delighted the Hermetics term: Hermetics (Hermetiker) Followers of the Hermetic tradition or alchemy, who sought to understand the spiritual and physical laws of nature. so much that they believed they saw all the higher destinies of humanity reflected in their Great Work. term: the Work (das Werk) The "Magnum Opus" or Great Work of alchemy, which aimed at the creation of the Philosopher's Stone and the perfection of matter and soul.

§. 78.

Modern chemistry approaches Hermeticism.

It is remarkable what a learned chemist of the latest antiphlogistic system term: antiphlogistic system (antiphlogistisches System) The "new chemistry" pioneered by Lavoisier, which replaced the old theory of "phlogiston" (an imaginary fire-element) with the discovery of oxygen's role in combustion., namely Mr. Vincenzo Dandolo (Fon-