Bernard declared the process of dissolution, accomplished not with fire but with mercury, to be the supreme secret of alchemy,
THE SYMBOLS OF ABRAHAM THE JEW.
From Flammel’s Hieroglyphical Figures. Robert H. Fryar, in a footnote to his reprint of the Hieroglyphical Figures by Nicholas Flammel, says: “One thing which seems to prove the reality of this story beyond dispute, is, that this very book of Abraham the Jew, with the annotations of ‘Flammel,’ who wrote from the instructions he received from this physician, was actually in the hands of Cardinal Richelieu, as Borel was told by the Count de Cabrines, who saw and examined it.”
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