Nikola Tesla
"As it is, I believe my abstinence from alcohol during the latter part of my life has lopped off fifteen years from my life, and now I expect to live only 135 years. Alcohol is the elixir of life, but when this country passed the Prohibition Law I felt that as a patriotic American I should stop drinking whisky. I have not touched it since.“ [Nikola Tesla, "Tesla, 80, Reveals New Power Source." New York Times. July 11, 1936.]
Robert Fludd
"Latent adhuc Lilium et Rosa inter spinas. Experientia Veritatis sigilum."
"This Elixir is the true temple of wisdom, the impregnable castle of Cupid, that powerful god of Love, the beauteous and bright city of the sages, the true pattern of the heavenly Jerusalem, the mark of perfection at which all imperfect spirits do tend as to the port of their final happiness, the scale of Justice, the queller and extinguisher of vice, and the final complement and exaltation of form, and exact being.
And therefore he that is not a true believer and lover of this excellent masterpiece, is drowned in darkness and has an iron gate before his eyes of understanding, for this is the mirror of truth, the clear Thummim of the ancient Jews in whose centre dwells their bright Urim as a divine soul in an unpolluted and chaste and virginal body, the gold of God, the gold that is to be bought of Christ, the guider of men's actions, the house of wisdom propped up with pillars.
And to conclude, instead of being an enemy to philosophy, it is the greatest friend she has; for the only Lady she serves, as the body does the soul, is wisdom, which is the summum bonum of the philosophers, and main subject of philosophy who therefore has her denomination from her love [of wisdom. Now the Elixir is the temple of wisdom, or the earthly sun of the philosophers which is as well the tabernacle of the divine emanation as the heavenly. The earth shall open and bring forth a saviour. Light is in darkness and darkness does not comprehend it." [Robert Fludd From book - "Robert Fludd", Edited by William Huffman]
Georgius Aurach de Argentina
“It is therefore necessary that we draw our Stone of nature from two bodies, before making a perfect Elixir of it, because it is necessary that the elixir be purer and more perfect than silver and that gold, since it must change imperfect bodies into the gold of the philosophers and the silver of the philosophers; what neither gold nor silver can do except as much as if they gave to another body their perfections; they would be imperfect, nothing being able to redden except as much as it is red and nothing can whiten as as much as it is white, but our Elixir in its perfection can perfect absolutely all the imperfect Bodies.” [Georgius Aurach de Argentina "Donum Dei"]
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