12 The aim of philosophy is not simply to arrive at the distinction of principles which is realized physically by the
which results from the power of fire, but also to arrive at that distinction of principles to which no material agent can, since the soul, which is insepa- rable from sulphur, mercury and salt, is a formal principle; that principle is not susceptible to material qualities, but totally dominates matter and is not touched by the experiments of the alchemists, whose divisions are limited
12 The reference is to Paracelsus.
12 The reference is to Paracelsus.
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