THE ALCHYMISTS; OR Searchers for the Philosopher’s Stone and the Water of Life.

him. He boasted of being able, like the Rosicrucians, to converse with the elementary spirits; to invoke the mighty dead from the grave, to transmute metals, and to discover occult things by means of the special protection of God towards him. Like Dr. Dee, he summoned the angels to reveal the future; and they appeared and conversed with him in crystals and under glass bells.²¹ “There was hardly,” says the Biographie des Contemporains, “a fine lady in Paris who would not