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Adam (n.) is, by the four letters of his name, the four quarters of heaven — East, West, North, South — and his inner man's common name is Man, which is Light.
Antimimos (n.) is the jealous counterfeiting daemon who comes declaring himself Son of God though formless in body and soul — and the wise kill their own earthly Adam rather than follow him.
Art (n.) even of the same kind is reached by different roads according to men's characters and their stars: one inactive, one solitary, one greedy for too much, one too timid to progress.
Nature (n.) applied to nature transforms nature, wrote Zosimos: all things are woven and undone, mingled and separated, by method and exact measure of the four elements in the bowl of the altar.
The Philosopher's stone (n.) is man himself: “you are its mineral; in you it is found, and from you it is extracted.”
Prometheus and Epimetheus (n.) are, allegorically, but one man — soul and body; Epimetheus erred by not heeding Prometheus, his own mind.