ABSTRACT
The alchemist was therefore compelled to formulate his quasichemical facts metaphysically too.275 Thus the white earth corresponds to the earth that signified "mankind, is exalted above all the circles of the World, and placed in the intellectual heaven
of the most holy Trinity/' 276 (Where, we may add, it is obviously added to the Trinity as the "Fourth/' thereby making it a totality.) 277 This cheerful piece of heterodoxy remained unconscious and its consequences never appeared on the surface.
