"Athanor" Quotes from Famous Books
... to the philosophical and moral Alchemy. In fact, a strong and determined will can, in a little while, attain complete independence; and we all possess that chemical instrument, the great and single athanor or furnace, which serves to separate the subtile from the gross, and the fixed from the volatile. This instrument, complete as the world, and accurate as the mathematics themselves, is designated by the Sages under the emblem of ... — Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry • Albert Pike |