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and (2) The more important essential anatomy — i.e., the 

 anatomy of the living inner man. The latter is the 

 kind of anatomy which it is most important for the 

 physician to know, but it will be difficult to bring it 

 to the understanding of those who merely judge by 

 external appearances and refuse to follow the way of 

 the truth. If we know the anatomy of the inner man, 

 we know the Prima materia, and may see the nature 

 of the disease as well as the remedy. That which we 

 see with our external eyes is the Ultima materia. By 

 dividing and dissecting the external body, we can learn 

 nothing about the inner (astral) man ; we merely destroy 

 the unity of the whole " (Faramir., i. 6). 



The life of a thing, being latent in the form, is set 

 free when the form is destroyed; its entering into a 

 new form is regeneration. 



" The rose is beautiful and has a sweet odour as long 

 as it remains in the form ; but to manifest its medicinal 

 qualities in the constitution of man, its form must be 

 destroyed and its spirit enter the body of man. Only 

 that which enters into regeneration is useful; the rest 

 is useless. In this regeneration enters the true Sulphur, 

 Mercury, and Salt " (the ethereal essences contained 

 within the gross particles). 



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" As each of the component parts has its own life, 

 so it has its own death ; there is a continual process 

 of death and regeneration going on in man. As a 

 tree or a plant grows out of its seed, so the new life 

 grows out of the old one, and that which was hereto- 

 fore invisible becomes visible. The physician should 

 be able to see that which is not visible to everybody. 

 He should see it in the light of Nature, and if this 

 light is to be called a light, it must be visible and 

 not dark," 



