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and threw them into the sea, from the mixture of whose blood with the foam of the sea Venus was created. Of the same, who is said to have eaten his sons as soon as they were born. Of Aesculapius who raised those who were already almost dead. Of Jove, who turned himself into a golden rain. Of the battle of Hercules and Antaeus. Of the eyes of Argus turned into the tail of a peacock. Of Orpheus. Of Pyrrha and Deucalion. Of the Androgynes or Hermaphrodites. Of the Gorgon, who turned all who looked at him into stones. Of Midas, who, with Bacchus agreeing, turned everything he touched into gold. Of Jove turned into an eagle, who flew up with Ganymede to heaven. Of Daedalus and Icarus. Of the thick cloud with which Jupiter surrounded Io. Of the Phoenix, which always revives. Of the Salamander. Of the dragon, which kills men with its heavy breath. Of Demogorgon, as Boccaccio writes, the great-grandfather of all the pagan gods and surrounded on every side by darkness, clouds, and gloom, dwelling in the midst of the bowels of the earth, who, when he is born, is dressed in a certain green mantle, sprinkled with a certain humidity, and not born from anyone, but eternal, and the parent of all things. Of Vulcan, who, when he was recently born, was ugly and deformed, and was thrown onto the island of Lemnos. Of the drug of Helen, which induced forgetfulness of grief, bile, or evil in all who drank it: and similar inventions and enigmas of poets and ancient philosophers, Eustathius, Suidas, and other most grave authors interpret as having to be referred to the Chemical art.

Sileni of Alcibiades.

Also under various buildings, such as was the Labyrinth: paintings, little images, such as were the Sileni: characters, monsters, such as were the Sphinx, with a girl's face, bird's wings, and lion's feet: and the Chimera, the first part, an image and ingenuity of a lion, the middle of a dragon, the last of a goat: and animals variously depicted and transmuted, which were carved on the doors of temples and palaces.

Year of the Lord 1393.

Of this kind and invention is the enigma of Nicholas Flamel, by which are depicted two serpents, or dragons, of which one is winged, but the other not, and one winged lion, etc. Which is seen today in the cemetery of the Holy Innocents in Paris. Which were understood only by the most learned, who had knowledge of this Chemical secret so rare, so latent, so heavenly a treasure. Thus Pythagoras and Plato obscured their philosophy with their numbers. For Pythagoras asserted that God, and our souls, and all things that are in the world consist of numbers, and from their concert and harmony all things are born. And Aristotle, in a certain letter to Alexander, testifies that some books edited by him were such that it was as if they had not been edited.