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Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025
the Second Week after Epiphany
the Second Week after Epiphany
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Philosopher's Stone
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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With the Elixir of Life, the object of the search of the mediæval alchemists. Their theory regarded gold as the most perfect metal, all others being removed from it by various stages of imperfection, and they sought an amalgam of pure sulphur and pure mercury, which, being more perfect still than gold, would transmute the baser metals into the nobler.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Philosopher's Stone'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/p/philosophers-stone.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Philosopher's Stone'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/p/philosophers-stone.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
