"Everything in Nature has a threefold aspect. The highest aspect of alchemy is the regeneration of man in the spirit of God out of the material elements of his physical body. The physical body itself is the greatest of mysteries, because in it are contained in a condensed, solidified, and corporeal state the very essences which go to make up the substance of the spiritual man, and this is the secret of the " Philosophers Stone." - The life of Philippus Theophrastus Bombast of Hohenheim, c. 1896, by Franz Hartmann