Since gold was considered to be the most perfect metal, it was self-evident to the alchemical mind that nature must form gold slowly in the earth, must transmute gradually the inferior metals into gold.
Hence, if he was able to transmute one metal into another, he would have strong evidence in support of his general conception of the unity of all things.
Although gold is formed by the aid of Mercury, it is only when Mercury has been matured, developed, and perfected, that it is able to transmute inferior metals into gold.
It only remained totransmute fire that the transmutation of the four elements might be completed.
Is there any remedy which can transmutethis evil into good?
Therefore, we must conclude that physical conditions may limit the range of a species, but can not transmute it into another.
Is there any view which mitigates this evil, any philosophic alchemy which can transmute this evil into good?
Do you understand that whoever can do what you have just seen can also accomplish the reverse of it, and transmute gold into baser metal?
Throughout what all nations have agreed to call the dark ages there have been men called alchemists, whom other men have mocked because they sought to transmute baser metals into gold.
Problem of the Hermetics to transmutemetals and possess the elixir of life, 772-l.
You should pass practically through the five points or rules of the Master, and by the use of one part to a thousand, transmute and ennoble metals.
As the silkworm transmutes the mulberry leaf into satin, so you shouldtransmute your knowledge into practical wisdom.
What about a power that shall take all the black coals in the world andtransmute them into flashing diamonds, prismatic with the reflected light that comes from His face, and made gems on His strong right hand?
For the state that to-day is made up of slaves, can not to-morrow transmute her bond into free; though lawlessness may transform them into brutes.
Can not the divine cunning in thee, Bardianna, transmute to brightness these sullied pages?
Neither Dr Katterfelto, nor Breslaw, were present to transmute it.
Tincture willtransmute so great a quantity of Lead into Gold.
Stone of Philosophers can so exceeding swiftly transmute Metals; having virtue potentially insited in it self, so as it is deduced into Art, as in Iron by contact of the Magnet.
I am too old to be a combatant, and too much of a specialist in literature to transmute my activities.
Most people think that it is a sort of charm which, if you could discover it, would transmute all baser metals into gold.
From every point of view, it is seen to be possible to transmute the idea into a helpmeet to the form.
A vast deal of pretty sentiment may hang about and all but transmute the most prosaic object.
The caresses of parents and the blandishments of friends transmute us into idols.
Among other pretensions, they claimed to be able to transmute metals, to prolong life, to know what is passing in distant places, and to discover the most hidden things by the application of the Cabala and science of numbers.
By inherited traits, and indiscreet treatment, self-love had early become so excessive that only severest discipline could transmuteit to disinterestedness.
I will go--I must go unless you, who can do so much, can teach me to kill this passion or to transmuteit into calm, brotherly regard.
Lovingly must it trace out the methods whichtransmute it into wisdom.
He must transmute into divine images the divine force which is active within him before the creation of those images.
I see thine eye sparkle, and I know thy beard is not altogether so white as art has made it--THAT, at least, thou hast been able to transmute to silver.
Wherefore O frail, weak, human heart, seek thou out carefully constructed means by which to transmute sunshine and soil and showers into flowers and fruit.
Every atom of soil, every drop of sap, goes to produce flowers and fruit and seed: root and branch and leaf are but carefully constructed means by which to transmute sunshine and soil and flower and fruit and seed.
And yet again, How many women there be, would, if they could, transmute love into friendship!
The philosopher's stone has never been found which should transmute all metals to gold; but gold itself is worthless in the presence of such truths as philosophy reveals.
On the contrary, To transmute creatures belongs to Him Who preserves them.
Consequently, just as it transmuted the slime of the earth into Adam's body, so could it transmute the matter supplied by His Mother into Christ's body, even though it were not the sufficient matter for a natural conception.
And though the natural power cannot transmute other than determinate matter to a determinate form; nevertheless the Divine power, which is infinite, can transmute all matter to any form whatsoever.
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