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'Then, said he, 'how is it, since the stars are set going by various impulses, that this light is not scattered, or carried along with the stars in their courses? I replied: 'It does indeed move with them, but at a speed vastly greater on account of the difference of our point of view; as, for instance, when the prism is cast upon the wall by the sun and the crystal, then the least motion of the crystal will shift the position of the reflection to a great distance. The King said: 'But how can this be done when no subjectum is provided? for in the case you quote the wall is the subjectum to the reflection. I replied: 'It is a similar effect to that which we observe in the Milky Way, and in the reflection of light when many candles are lighted in a mass; these always produce a certain clear and lucent medium.
She proves herself of constantly devoted will and from this time wisdom speaks to her as an inner illumination. The uninitiated who is to be admitted is, to use the language of alchemy, the subjectum, in whom the process of purification is to be perfected. The alchemists put the subjectum into a narrow vessel so as to be hermetically sealed from the outer world.
We can also avail ourselves of a play on words and say the subject or substance is the subject. The uninitiated read with amazement in many alchemists that “our subjectum,” that is, the material to be worked upon, is also identical with the vessel, the still, the philosopher’s egg, etc. That becomes intelligible now.
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