"As Michael Maier (Symbola Aureae Mensae Lib. XI 1617) informs us, Melchior Cibinensis, a Hungarian priest, expressed the secrets of the forbidden art in the holy form of the Mass. For as birth, life, exaltation, suffering in fire and then death were, as it were, ascribed to the Philosopher's Stone in black and gloomy colors, and finally resurrection and life in red and other beautiful colors, so he compared his preparation with the work of the salvation of man (and the "terrestrial" stone with the "celestial" stone), namely, with the birth, life, suffering, death and resurrection of Christ.... The making of the Philosopher's Stone is, so to speak, the Imitation of Christ."
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Herbert Silberer in Problems of mysticism and its symbolism (1917)
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