"In matters of history, where testimony to facts is important, it is otherwise. In this case, the veracity and competency in judgment of the historian must be established, or the facts recorded may be looked upon as comparatively unimportant... Divine Justice, rests upon quite other grounds, making it possible, as the Alchemists say, for the poor to be “employed in making the Philosopher’s Stone”; that is, the most humble man living may be honest, and enjoy the blessings of probity. Whoever is conscious of a failure on this point is disqualified for passing an adverse judgment upon the results claimed as the fruit of well-doing ; for the work is one of experience, as all of the writers testify, — in what I understand to be the spirit of the text, John vii. 17: “If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God or whether I speak of myself.” Whoever will rightly interpret this text, and abide by it, will find the “pearl of great price”; and what does it signify whether it be called a pearl, or a stone, the Magaritte of Chaucer’s Testament of Love..."
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Remarks upon alchemy and the alchemists, indicating a method of discovering the true nature of Hermetic philosophy: and showing that the search after the philosopher's stone had not for its object the discovery of an agent for the transmutation of metals, Published by James Miller (1865)
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