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Join, therefore, that male, who is son to the red slave, * in marriage with his fragrant wife, which having been done, Art is produced between them ; add no foreign matter unto these things, neither powder nor anything else ; that conception is sufficient for us, for it is near, yet the son is nearer still. T How exceeding precious is the nature of * The allegory ot the Serous Fugitivus abounds in later alchemy, and is found also in old Arabian treatises, such as the Twelve Chapters of Ostanes:... "They have defined this Stone by saying that it is running water and permanent water ; burning fire and frozen fire ; dead earth ; hard stone and soft stone. It is the flying slave, the swift and the stable ; the thing which makes and is made, " &c. In the Speculum Majus of Vincent de Beauvais it appears as a synonym of Mercury, which of course is an obvious symbolism. Rulandus attributes it to some treatise ascribed to Hermes. According to other lexicons, the Red Servant is the matter from which the Philosophers extract their Mercury, which must therefore be the marriageable son mentioned in the text above.
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