1 8 The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony. 



stances and foundation of all things. 

 Now, this Contemplation is two-fold : 

 one is called impossible, the other 

 possible. The former consists in end- 

 less meditations, which can have no 

 result because their object is intangible. 

 Such problems are the Eternity of God, 

 the Sin against the Holy Ghost, the 

 infinite nature of the Godhead. They 

 are incomprehensible, and necessarily 

 baffle the finite enquirer. 



The other part of Contemplation, 

 which is possible, is called Theoria. It 

 deals with the tangible and visible which 

 has a temporal form shewing how it 

 can be dissolved and thereby perfected 

 into any given body; how every body 

 can impart the good or evil, medicine 

 or poison, which is latent in it ; how 

 the wholesome is separated from the 

 unwholesome; how to set about des- 

 truction and demolition for the purpose 

 of really and truly severing the pure 

 from the impure without any sophistic 

 guile. 



This separation is brought about by 



