noun
- a mythical substance supposed to change any metal into gold or silver and, according to some, to cure all diseases and prolong life indefinitely. Its discovery was the supreme object of alchemy.
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The "Philiosophers Stone" or stone of the philosophers was the central symbol of the mystical terminology of alchemy and is also called the elixir of life. Efforts to discover the philosopher's stone were known as the Magnum Opus (Great Work).
Before starting on this puzzle, you must have correctly solved the puzzles for each of the Alchemical processes associated with the "Philosophers Stone" - Incineration (♐), Separation (♏), Sublimation (♎), Distillation (♍), Digestion (♌), Dissolution (♋), Fixation (♊), Congelation (♉), Calcination (♈), Projection (♓), Multiplication (♒) and Fermentation (♑).
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