#alchemy quote

[petitjeanofficial]

We now know that the heart is the philosophers' stone. Our music is our alchemy.

Saul Williams

[petitjeanofficial]

Alchemie is werkelijk de geheime traditie van het vrijmaken van de geest uit de materie.

Terence McKenna

[tattooed-alchemist]

Decisions, Decisions

Okay, so remember the sex toy contest I won back in the fall?  Well, I got a big ol' gift certificate and have been trying to make up my mind ever since. 

I finally picked a new toy back in December, but because it has an engraving option, and because I'm just so jazzed to have my Vesper etched with the alchemical law of vibration (how freakin' me is that?), I have been stuck all this time trying to find the right alchemy-derived quote for the new toy.

For Virgo-alchemist-former-sex-toy-seller writers, this is not a casual decision.  Not with a 40 character limit, anyway. 

I really loved "In metallic generation is a twofold humidity" but sadly that is 4 characters too long.  And then in one of the PDFs I got from taking Robert Bartlett's Prima class, An Hundred Aphorisms Containing the Whole Body of Magic (translation by Adam McLean), I found this gem of an excerpt.

The internal heat is excited by reason

It's part of aphorism #85, and I can't think of a better way to describe my sexuality.  Srsly.  So it's a Duet for Valentine's Day for this single person