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The ever-shifting intellect has at last been established in the eternal stillness of the soul that now dominates it; the leaping mercury has been solidified and the alchemical instrument prepared wherewith human base metal can be turned into spiritual gold, immune to the corrosive acids of earthly experience.

-- Notebooks Category 23: Advanced Contemplation > Chapter 7 : Contemplative Stillness > # 51