Alchemy, ancient and modern . SYMBOLICAL ILLUSTRATION Representing theCoction of Gold Amalgam in a Closed SYMBOLICAL ILLUSTRATION Representing theTransmutation of the Metals. [To face page 33 §25] PHYSICAL ALCHEMY 33 It must be borne in mind, however, that the alchemistsused the terms putrefaction and decay ratherindiscriminately, applying them to chemical processeswhich are no longer regarded as such. Pictorialsymbols of death and decay representative of such pro-cesses are to be found in several alchemistic is a curious series of pictures in A Formand Method of Perfectin
Alchemy, ancient and modern . SYMBOLICAL ILLUSTRATION Representing theCoction of Gold Amalgam in a Closed SYMBOLICAL ILLUSTRATION Representing theTransmutation of the Metals. [To face page 33 §25] PHYSICAL ALCHEMY 33 It must be borne in mind, however, that the alchemistsused the terms putrefaction and decay ratherindiscriminately, applying them to chemical processeswhich are no longer regarded as such. Pictorialsymbols of death and decay representative of such pro-cesses are to be found in several alchemistic is a curious series of pictures in A Formand Method of Perfecting Base Metals, by JanusLacinus, the Calabrian (a short tract prefixed toThe New Pearl of Great Price by Peter Bonus—see § 39), of which we show three examples inplates 3 and 4. In the first picture of the series(not shown here) we enter the palace of the king(gold) and observe him sitting crowned upon histhrone, surrounded by his son (mercury) and fiveservants (silver, copper, tin, iron and lead). Inthe next picture (plate 3, fig. B), the son, incited bythe servants, kills his father ; and, in the third,
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