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From: glass@panix.com (Robert Scott Martin)
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Subject: Re: skeptics in magic land
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In article <3d29da20.68947175@news.cis.dfn.de>,
Joe Cosby <joecosby@mindspring.com> wrote:

[bah]

>To the alchemists, or really to anybody in their day, the idea of
>trying to separate mind and body would have just been confusing. 

Solve. Et coagula. Make the volatile fly -- distill it out of the fixed -- 
and then feed the body back its own soul.

The exciting thing is seeing this type of operation occur in the history 
of the art: alchemy --> al+chemistry --> alchemy