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The Binarius (n.) was for Dorn the devil of discord, feminine because even, born on the second day, the day God did not call good.
The Centre (n.) is, for Dorn, most like God because it occupies no space and cannot be grasped, seen or measured, "an infinite abyss of mysteries"; the distillation "from the midst of the centre" develops what psychology calls the self.
The Centre (n.) is, for Dorn, the One in which the unitary man is rooted; whoever studies and devotes himself wholly to it is freed of bodily and spiritual disease and restored to his original monarchy.
The Devil (n.) is the number two — the quadricornutus binarius, who at the fall tumbled into the realm of the four elements.
Evil (n.) is contained in everything in nature as much as good, Dorn held, expressing the alchemists' sober view that the dark side of the world had not been conquered and was theirs to work on.
An Experiment (n.) is the only way to resolve a doubt — and there is no better way to make it than on ourselves.
Experiment (n.) is for Dorn the manifest demonstration of truth and the only way doubt is resolved, and the best place to make it is on oneself.
Medicine (n.) presides over the great Hospital built on the left-hand side of the road, where men flock, seeking as before a remedy in themselves rather than asking help from God.
A Panacea (n.) lies concealed within the human body: a metaphysical substance, known to very few, which needs no medicine, being itself an incorrupt medicine.
The Philosopher's stone (n.) must be made of yourselves: "Transform yourselves into living philosophical stones!"
Self-knowledge (n.) is the alchemist's first rule: go forth as you wish your sought-for work to be — whatever you expect from the work, demand of your own ego.
Self-knowledge (n.) means knowing what, not who, you are — on what you depend, to whom you belong, and for what end you were made.
Self-knowledge (n.) must begin, Dorn held, from knowing what one is rather than who, on whom one depends and to what end one was made, since by the law of truth no one belongs to himself.
Solutio (n.) is alchemical dissolution understood by Dorn first as a moral event: as bodies are dissolved in putrefaction, so the philosopher's doubts are resolved by knowledge.