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Alchemy Lab
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The alchemist went about his business using simple instruments: he needed an oven for heating, retorts for distilling, and materials such as ores and minerals to make acids.The essentially down-to-earth apparatus and the phases in the process in the course of time generated a repertory of symbols and metaphors. Fire stood for both destruction and life force, the retorts were a reflection of the cosmos, because in these the creation was re-enacted, during distillation vapours would rise, - 'spirits' - which precipitated as a result of condensation and descended as it were into matter: the body had to become spirit. In the retorts a process of death and resurrection/rebirth was taking place. The studies of Carl Gustav Jung show it is possible to detect correspondences between alchemy and mysticism: the alchemist himself, too, was to live through the process of transmutation, and become transformed as a result.

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