Лютер об алхимии
May. 23rd, 2007 12:05 pmЛютер об алхимии:
The science of alchemy (ars alchimica) I like very well, and, indeed, it is truly the natural philosophy of the ancients. I like it not only for the many uses it has in decorating metals and in distilling and sublimating herbs and liquors, but also for the sake of the allegory and secret signification, which is exceedingly fine, touching the resurrection of the dead at the Last Day. For, as in a furnace the fire retracts and separates from a substance the other portions, and carries upward the spirit, the life, the sape, the strength, while the unclean matter, the dregs, remains at the bottom, like a dead and worthless carcass, ..., even so God, at the day of judgment, will separate all things through fire, the righteous from the ungodly. [Tischreden, Weimar edition, I, 1149].цитируется по Eliade, The Forge and the Crucible