"The Universal Mind, before referred to as the true and only source of Life, is pure and perfect, enduring and beautiful, the principle of principles, the Truth of truths, the Law of laws, the Life of lives, and he who has awakened to the Consciousness of being in harmony with this principle, one with this Mind, merged in this Eternal Source possesses the Philosopher's Stone—the true Elixir of Life. Such a one is in the highest sense of the term an Alchemist, knowing how to transmute the baser metals of the 'animal nature' into pure nature of Spirit."
— Alchemy and the Alchemists, Part 2 by R. Swinburne Clymer
The Alchemist Now that he dreams, seeing his pride dissolve, his poor dream, He sees how brief the law is, and maybe, at last, seeks less of the superfluous, trusts in God without dreams. Oh, to know everything — that desire of the crucible! And yet, here he is at the bottom of the crucible... ...already, he no longer desires anything. For having glimpsed the abyss he suddenly understood that his effort was in vain! And Death for him is the birth of Life!
