He never quite relinquished the idea of transmutation of metals, and at times astrology was quite as interesting to him as astronomy.
The Darwinian Theory of theTransmutation of Species examined by a Graduate of the University of Cambridge.
Facts and fossils adduced to prove the Deluge of Noah and mollify the transmutation system of Darwin, etc.
But the experimental alchemist had a yet stranger transmutation wherewith to convince the most sceptical.
But if MacDowell's method of transmutation is not the method of Strauss, neither is it the method of Schumann, or of Debussy.
MacDowell had a peculiar affinity for the spirit of the Arthurian tales, and he was happy in whatever musical transmutation of them he attempted.
It displays a power of imaginative transmutation hitherto undisclosed in MacDowell's writing.
For even supposing that the transmutation of Man-like Apes into Men had taken place several times, yet those Apes themselves would again be allied by the one pedigree common to the whole order of Apes.
A transmutation of our souls, such as just described, necessarily involves a rupture with the natural man, a discarding of the original individuality.
But in England nationalism came first; then under Edward the economic revolution; and lastly, under the Puritans, the transmutation of spiritual values.
This transmutation of everything into new mathematics was a revelation to those who knew him intimately.
The transmutationis the mathematical process in the establishment of the law.
The whole question was not so much one of a transmutation or transition of species as of the production of forms which became permanent.
It does mean annihilation (evolutionary transmutation of lower into higher), but only of all those forces or elements which constitute man as an animal.
And when a child is stolen by the Munster fairies, 'Lough Gur is conjectured to be the place of its unearthly transmutation from the human to the fairy state.
Transmutation is not erroneous when it is intentional; misrepresentation does not please for being false, but only because truth would be more congenial if it resembled such a fiction.
Calculation and transmutation can never make their own counters or the medium in which they move.
The transmutation of the base into the noble, above all of the baser metals into gold, was accepted as feasible from the earliest historic times until the seventeenth century.
Sir Henry Grey of Codnor in Derbyshire, authority to labour by the cunning of philosophy for the transmutation of metals, with all things requisite to the same, at his own cost, provided he answer to the King if any profit grow therefrom.
After all, he was only Etteilla a second time in the flesh, endowed in his transmutation with a mouth of gold and a wider casual knowledge.
The tract contains the mystery of what is called the mystical or arch-natural elixir, being the marriage of the soul and the spirit in the body of the adept philosopher and the transmutation of the body as the physical result of this marriage.
There the process for the performance of the great work of transmutation is depicted in fourteen copper-plate engravings, which exhibit the different stages of the matter in the various chemical vessels.
Development is a transmutation of physical and chemical forces into vital energy.
His transmutation into a fresh-water fish was achieved in reality tranquilly enough; it is doubtful whether he ever dreams now of the salt-water stretches of the Bible, and nobody has ever declared so forcibly that he is happy.
The human brain is a transmutation of solar heat; one must dissipate this heat, to become once more a ray of the sun.
It compels transmutation of the love-nature into interior channels.
If the student can learn that much love is the price of transmutation only after exhausting every other method, what does it matter, so that he finally learns it?
But if we read these alchemical treatises as they relate to transmutation of sex-love from the pro-creative function to regeneration through spiritual or counterpartal union (solar mates), we have the key to every statement.
If you would follow the law of transmutation and acquire the throne of angelhood, get busy within the laboratory of your own mind.
Transmutation is not synonymous with, extinction, or elimination, or abandonment.
And if this view of saintly ecstacies, postulating the transmutation of sex-force into spiritual channels, be objectionable, what can be said of the only other view which is possible in the light of the evidence submitted?
Mortals raised to the abode of the gods; and the gods descended into mortal life; symbolize the interchangeability of what we term matter and spirit--the power of transmutation of the lower into the higher life.
The retention andtransmutation of the sex-force is typified by the serpent forming a circle.
I am doubtful about the wer-jaguar--the property of transmutation is said to be conferred solely by the god, or a god, of the tribe.
The hour of metamorphosis also varies according to locality--though it is at sunset that the change most usually takes place, the transmutation back to man generally occurring at dawn.
Next, the positive ecstatic stretching forth above reason into our 'highest life,' where we undergo complete transmutation in God and feel ourselves wholly enfolded in Him.
In September 1858 I set to work by the strong advice of Lyell and Hooker to prepare a volume on the transmutation of species, but was often interrupted by ill-health, and short visits to Dr.
From September 1854 I devoted my whole time to arranging my huge pile of notes, to observing, and to experimenting in relation to the transmutation of species.
This is shown in the following extract from his Pocket Book for this year (1837): "In July opened first note-book on Transmutationof Species.
And, in like fashion, another vehement opponent of the transmutation of species, the elder Agassiz, was doomed to help the cause he hated.
Bacon seems to have been a believer in the transmutation of metals, and solemnly gives a formula for changing silver or copper into gold.
He also believed in thetransmutation of plants, and had arrived at such a height in entomology that he informed the world that "insects have no blood.
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