Twelfth Key of Basil Valentine, 1651. Artist: Unknown

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Twelfth Key of Basil Valentine, 1651, illustrating that the Philosophers' Stone must be combined with gold to produce new gold, just as a lion eats a serpent to change it into its own substance. From Von dem gross Stein Uhralten by Basil Valentine. (Strasbourg, 1651).

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