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themagicfarawayttree:

In this image from the Mutus Liber, or “Silent Book”, a 17th-century pictorial book, the philosopher’s stone is shown (below) in the Athanor (alchemists’ furnace), while its archetype is personified as Mercury (above) in the hands of the angels. The image emphasizes that the physical operations of alchemy mirror a spiritual reality.
le-rose-lune:

Patience, Hans Sebald Beham, 1540
nuclearharvest:

Man beaten blind in the Nazi Concentration Camp Bergen-Belsen