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Card #c320IR // #c320Synthesis

The Solar heat of nature in her working to produce a crop for man's needs and benefit, is also a type of the Hidden Fire by which the alchymist is able to separate the impure from the pure, and to produce the mystic gold from amongst the dross of worldly mind and common matter.

— In our words · Source: A Short Enquiry concerning the Hermetic Art (A Lover of Philalethes (Vol. III))

[Use when]

When an analogy from agriculture needs to carry into psychic or craft purification.

[Why it matters]

Ordinary sun-heat is the type; Hidden Fire is the same logic applied to mind-dross.

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