The Philosophers’ Stone
The end of the Work, able to perfect all it touches; for the philosophical alchemists, a transformed and incorruptible self.
From Alchemy.
In Symbols of the Psyche
- The Treasure Hard to Attain: What is guarded because it is worth the danger.
- Squaring the Circle: The impossible figure of the whole.
- Gold: The incorruptible: not the common gold.
- Vitriol: Go down into the earth, and you will find the hidden stone.
- The Stone: What endures: the philosophers’ stone.
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