grgr (34): "the tower" (747)(rocks)

[Paul Mackin]

So isn't it the stones' souls that are being referred to. And if stones
have souls they are the most immortal of all souls. Stones are the
closest thing to eternal we have.  Same goes for mountainsides--faces
being the mirror of the soul--even with all those German youth out
dissipating their blues on them.

Pretty rosy scenario I'd opine.

			P.

On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, s~Z wrote:

> >>>But my earlier question hangs out there: whose souls end up in all those
> stones? As I read it "a soul in every stone" refers to some state of
> damnation, rather than to an aprehension of a supernaturally animated
> natural world.  What do you think?<<<
> 
> "God created Adam out of the mud of the Earth, wherein were inherent the
> virtues of all the Elements, of the Earth and Water especially, which do
> more constitute the sensible and corporeal heap: Into this Mass God breathed
> the breath of Life, and enlivened it with the Sun of the Holy Spirit. He
> gave Eve for a Wife to Adam, and blessing them he gave unto them a Precept
> and the Faculty of multiplication. The generation of the Philosophers Stone,
> is not unlike the Creation of Adam, for the Mud was made of a terrestrial
> and ponderous Body dissolved by Water, which deserved the excellent name of
> Terra Adamica, wherein all the virtues and qualities of the Elements are
> placed. At length the heavenly Soul is infused thereinto by the medium of
> the Quintessence and Solar influx, and by the Benediction and Dew of Heaven;
> the virtue of multiplying ad infinitum by the intervening copulation of both
> sexes is given it."
> 
> from: The Hermetic Arcanum
> 
> "This was a key work of 17th century alchemy. It was written in Latin by
> Jean d'Espagnet as 'Enchiridion physicae restitutae...' and the first
> edition was issued at Paris in 1623. A number of editions were issued over
> the next decades and it was included in a number of alchemical compendia. An
> English translation, translated by Elias Ashmole, was printed in 1650, in
> Arthur Dee's 'Fasciculus chemicus: or chymical collections'."
> 
> online at: http://www.levity.com/alchemy/harcanum.html
> 
> 
> 
>