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

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

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