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and annihilation to a new life and con-sciousness.—Page 202.

CHAPTER IV. —The Mysteries concluded—with a view of the ultimate object of theseinitiations to prove the perfection, purity, andintegral efficiency to which the human spiritmay arrive by divine assimilation coming invital contact with its Source.—Page 233.

PART III.

CONCERNING THE LAWS AND VITAL CON-DITIONS OF THE HERMETIC EXPERIMENT.

CHAPTER I.— Of the Experimental Methodand Fermentation of the PhilosophicSubject according to the ParacelsianAlchemists and some others —whereby thePrinciples of the Art are yet more intimatelyunfolded, and the methodical order in whichthe experiment was conducted to discoverthat hidden Light which is the specific Formof Gold—how to educate this and multiplyit by the ethereal conception until it is madeconcrete and substantially brought forth.—Page 271.

CHAPTER II.—A further Analysis of theInitial Principle and its Education intoLight —comprising the Metaphysics of theMatter ; gathered more particularly from theGreek Ontologists and Kabalists, to show theprogress of the consciousness through thevarious stages of purification and dissolutionuntil the rectified ferment, overwhelming,becomes established in life.—Page 324.