Manly Palmer Hall
The Alchemist realizes that he himself is the Philosopher's Stone, and that this stone becomes like a diamond when salt and sulfur, or spirit and body, join together through mercury, the link of the mind.
Man is the principle incarnate of the mind, as the animal is of emotion.
He has one foot in the sky and the other on the ground.
His superior being ascends to the “celestial” spheres, but the lower man binds him to matter.
Now the philosopher, when building his sacred stone, does so by harmonizing his spirit and body.
The result is the Philosopher's Stone.
The harsh blows of life are peeling and carving until it reflects lights from a million different angles. [Manly Palmer Hall, The Flame Starters"]
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