“One becomes two, two becomes three, and out of the third comes the One as the fourth.” - Mary the Jewess
also known as Maria Hebraea or Maria Prophetissa
Alexandria during the early centuries of the Common Era—possibly as early as the 1st or 2nd century AD.
She is best known for her invention of essential laboratory apparatus that remain in use even today: the bain-marie (Mary’s bath), a gentle double-boiler method still used in chemistry and cooking; the tribikos, a kind of alembic with three arms; and the kerotakis, a sealed vessel used for distillation that many associate with the alchemical womb of transformation.
