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Thank God, the library is not burning. But are you practising the spagyric art, sir?" "I do not want to conceal from you," said M. d'Asterac, "that I have made great progress in it, but withal I have not found the theorem capable of rendering my work perfect.
That old spagyric raven is not the man fit for such a beauty, and I am rather inclined to take an interest in her myself. "Mosaide will have to hide her very secretly and carefully; should she show herself once only at the promenade or the theatre, she would have all the world at her feet on the following morning. Don't you wish to see her, Tournebroche?" I replied that I wished it very much.
Their vengeance on the perjurer is of the cruelest. The divine Paracelsus gives one example, which will suffice to inspire in you a salutary fear. "There was in the German town of Staufen a spagyric philosopher who had, like yourself, connection with a Salamander. He was depraved enough to deceive her with a woman, certainly pretty, but not more beautiful than a woman can be.
"That," he said, "is the effect of the stone, which has transmuted the copper into silver, but that's only a trifle." He went back to the chest and took out of it a sapphire the size of an egg, an opal of marvellous dimensions and a handful of perfect fine emeralds. "Here are some of my doings," he said, "which are proof enough that the spagyric art is not the dream of an empty brain."
"What's that Zosimus?" "Zosimus, sir, Zosimus of Panopolis, was a learned Greek, who flourished at Alexandria in the third century of the Christian era, and wrote treatises on the spagyric art." "Do you fancy it matters to me? Why do you translate it? "Battons le fer quand il est chaud Dit-elle, en faisant sonner haut Le nom de sultan premiere Laire lan laire."
He saw the true gold into which the beggarly matter of existence may be transmuted by spagyric art; a succession of delicious moments, all the rare flavors of life concentrated, purged of their lees, and preserved in a beautiful vessel.
Let us add that at that epoch the edict of Charles interdicting spagyric labours under pain of prison and hanging, and the bull, Spondent pariter quas non exhibent, which Pope John XXII fulminated against the alchemists, were still in vigour. These treatises were, then, forbidden, and in consequence desirable.
In contradistinction to Galenic medicines, which were largely derived from the vegetable kingdom, from this time on we find in the literature references to spagyric medicines and a "spagyrist" was a Paracelsian who regarded chemistry as the basis of all medical knowledge. One cannot speak very warmly of the practical medical writings of Paracelsus.
Stuff and nonsense all these globes and powders, with all the other follies of the cabala and the spagyric art." I imagined I could hear him talk like that in the interval between two pinches of snuff, and I really did not know what to reply to such a Christian speech.
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