The Resurrected Brother Basil Valentine: An Explanation of the Process for the Great Stone of the Ancient Sages

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...of which the churchyard at St. Denis original: "S. Dionysio." While Flammel’s famous alchemical allegories were actually located at the Cemetery of the Innocents and the Church of Saint-Jacques-de-la-Boucherie in Paris, the author here attributes them to St. Denis., near Paris in France—where he had the entire Art depicted, as can still be seen—is a certain witness; to that place, I would direct any "Doubting Thomas" A reference to the biblical Apostle Thomas, who refused to believe in the Resurrection without physical proof; used here to describe those skeptical of alchemy..

Although many more such examples could have been brought forward, because I am minded not to be long-winded, but rather to set a clear and bright light before the eyes of the simple, I shall rightly let it rest at this and turn to the second chapter.

The 2nd Chapter.

Declares that the Stone of the Wise must be made in metals, from metals, through metals, and with metals.

Since our work and Art is a work of Nature—which above all things should be followed as closely as possible—it cannot be accomplished without that same matter original: "Materia." In alchemy, this refers to the "First Matter" or the raw physical substance required to begin the Great Work. which she [Nature], through her wisdom, has brought to light and established as the initial mother of the six metals. Instead, the matter of the Art (besides which no other is found in the whole world, nor created by God for this purpose) shall be only the singular matter of Nature. However, since the matter alone is not suited for form and generation, but rather [requires] its own agent In alchemical theory, the "agent" is the active, masculine principle (often associated with sulfur or heat) that acts upon the "patient" or passive feminine matter to produce growth or transformation., to which it...

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