Anything Is Possible Again HWYL 04 013

2023-12-30T00:00:00Z

Anything Is Possible Again "The allegory of the philosophical egg can be traced to the Greek alchemists. A short treatise is still extant under this title, and another on the Nomenclature of the Egg , which is described as the Mystery of the Art. It is composed of four elements, because it is the image of the world. It is the stone which is not a stone, the stone of copper, the Armenian stone, &c. The shell is likened to the earth, being cold and dry; it has been named copper, iron, tin, lead. The white of the egg is divine water, water of the sea, water of alum, &c. The yolk is copperas, native sulphur, mercury, &c. The oily part (? the chicken) is fire. But the egg, symbolical as it is, is sometimes itself described symbolically, after the similitude of a seed; the shell is likened to the skin which covers the seed; the white and the yolk are the flesh, and the watery part is the breath, or air" (footnote, p. 11). Waite, Arthur Edward. Alchemy the Turba Philosophorum; or, Assembly of the Sages . G. Redway, 1896. https://archive.org/details/alchemyturbaphil00waitrich/page/n5/mode/2up