i decided to pick up a book i have been meaning to read and flipped to a random page in the book to read this lol..
The treatise "Minerva Mundi" attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, contains, under the most poetical and profound allegories, the dogma of self-creation of beings, or of the law of creation that results from the accord of two forces, these which the alchemist called the Fixed and the Volatile, and which are, in the Absolute, Necessity and Liberty.
When the Masters of Alchemy say that it needs little time and expense to accomplish the works of Science. When they affirm above all, that but a single vessel is necessary, when they speak of the great and single furnace, which all can use, which is within reach of all the world, and which men possess without knowing it, they allude to the philosophical and moral Alchemy.. In fact, a strong and determined will can, in a little while, attain complete independence; and we all possess that chemical instrument, the great and single furnace, which serves to separate the subtile from the gross, and the fixed from the volatile. This instrument, complete as the world and accurate as the mathematics themselves, is designated by the sages under the emblem of the pentagram or star with five points, the absolute sign of human intelligence.
The end and perfection of the Great Work is expressed, in alchemy, by a triangle surmounted by a cross: and the letter Tau, the last of the Sacred alphabet, has the same meaning.
The "elementary fire" that comes primary by attraction, is evidently Electricaly or the Electric Force, primarly developed as magnatism, and in which is perhaps the secret of life or the vital force.
