“These groups are the Magicians, Hermetics skilled in the lore of the
arcane. They flourished in the first gardens of magic and philosophy from our
great mother in Atlantis, Egypt, and China, to the daughter realms in the
Orient, and then India and Greece. Long have there been true magicians, but
they were far less common before Aizai, and ever was their order secret even to
the lesser sages, and so too were they dispersed. They are the powerful ones
who were awakening morsels of immaterial greatness in our world. Had they but
united, they could have easily taken over the world a millennium before your
time. Yet they cared not to rule the world, but rather transform it. Unite the
physical and nonphysical wonders into a state of contentment, awaken the long-slumbering
immaterial sphere, and thus jolt to awareness the physical sphere from its mindless
indolence. But surely, this should not have taken so long, that encyclopedic
visage of yours cries. And you are right: it should not have taken so long.
What is now Aizai might have been alive and well in the days of Christ…oh, and
you and I would have been born into such a land. But we are forgetting the
Great Magi.”
-Paulo de la Costa Santamiguero
-Paulo de la Costa Santamiguero
The Alchymist, in Search of the Philosopher’s Stone, discovers Phosphorus, and prays for the successful conclusion of his operation, as was the custom of the ancient chymical astrologers (Joseph Wright of Derby: 1734-1797)
An Alchemist in His Study (Egbert Van Heemskerk I: 1610-1680)
Interior with an Alchemist (Thomas Wyck: 1616-1677)
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