Astro*Dictionary
by Michael Erlewine

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"Philosopher's Stone"

An imaginary substance through the means of which the ancient alchemists sought to transmit baser metals into gold. Probably an early concept of a catalytic agent. Used in occult terminology to indicate the power by which all life evolvcs and through which all minds and souls realize a mutual kinship. It signified the highest aspirations and the purest ideologies of altruism.