Alchemy and Daimonology

[Paul Ferguson]

"A most remarkable example of daimonological transmission across the entire Eurasian expanse concerns geothermal eruptions: boiling mineral springs, gas vents, volcanos, petroleum seepage, and the like. So it is that we find a virtually identical set of instructions for the ‘capture’ of mercury in three alchemical works."

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