Argchymist
The term "argchymist" is used in Alexander Roob's Alchemy & Mysticism to describe false prophets, fake alchemists, one encounters on the path to the alchemistic fortress. It was originally found in the Rosarium philosophorum.
Twenty-one paths lead to the alchemistic fortress but only on one, the enthusiastic path of the fear of God and of prayer, can it be entered. This path alone brings the knowledge of the correct source material. The other paths represent false concepts of godless "argchymists". The seven corner-points of the fortress are the seven phases which lead to the central rock of the lapis. Here is the throne of "our Mercury", the dragon, "who marries himself and impregnates himself, who gives birth on one day and with his poison kills all living creatures". (Rosarium philosophorum, Ed. J. Telle, Weinheim, 1992)
Twenty-one paths lead to the alchemistic fortress but only on one, the enthusiastic path of the fear of God and of prayer, can it be entered. This path alone brings the knowledge of the correct source material. The other paths represent false concepts of godless "argchymists". The seven corner-points of the fortress are the seven phases which lead to the central rock of the lapis. Here is the throne of "our Mercury", the dragon, "who marries himself and impregnates himself, who gives birth on one day and with his poison kills all living creatures". (Rosarium philosophorum, Ed. J. Telle, Weinheim, 1992)
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