"When speaking of her search of the unknown, Blavatsky talked of alchemy, of union or “marriage of the red Virgin” with the “astral mineral,” and of the philosopher’s stone (union of the soul and the spirit). She was influenced by her studies of the books in her great-grandfather’s library on “alchemy, magic, and other occult subjects... Paracelsus, Kunrath, and Agrippa,” she wrote, “all spoke of the ‘marriage of the red Virgin with the Hierophant,’ and of that of the ‘astral mineral with the sibyl,’ of the combination of the feminine and masculine principles,” or what the East calls the harmonizing of yin and yang ... Blavatsky believed that the truest practitioners were not seeking vulgar gold, but the golden understanding; not the transmutation of base metals, but the psychic transformation of their own personalities, nor the elixir of immortality by the philosopher’s stone, that mysterious lapis that symbolized the total man. She wrote, “the philosopher’s stone symbolizes the transmutation of the lower animal nature of man into the highest and divine.” The latter she calls “the universal solvent of everything” (Idem, p. 41 42)."
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Slyvia Cranston H. P. B.: The Extraordinary Life & Influence of Helena Blavatsky, Founder of the Modern Theosophical Movement. New York: Putnam, 1993.
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