Translations:Alchemy/45/en

Earth symbolizes the natural crystalline densities created out of Spirit’s energies and sustained by the beings of the elemental kingdom. These tiny creators, in their mimicry of human discord, have transferred to nature mankind’s inharmonious patterns.... It is this discord imposed upon the very atoms of substance which the alchemist must remove from his laboratory before he can create. It is the dross which the alchemist will purify by fire.