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Emancipation of a man when alive, as declared in the mercurial system, O subtile Thinker! is (to be found) in the tenets of other schools though holding different methods of arguments. It is according to all sacred texts to be known by knowledge. None, when not alive, is likely to know the knowable and therefore a man must live (to know the knowable)."
"It is mercury alone that can make the body undecaying and immortal, as it is said:—
"Only this supreme medicament can make the body undecaying and imperishable."
"Why describe the efficacy of this metal? Its value is proved even by seeing it, and by touching it, as it is said in the Rasárnava:—
"By means of seeing it, touching it, eating it, remembering it, worshipping it and bestowing it
समानं कुरुते देवि प्रत्ययं देहलोहयोः।
पूर्व्वं लोहे परीक्षेत पश्चाद्देहे प्रयोजयेदिति॥
Here Cowell and Gough render धातुवादार्थं as "eulogistic of the metal;" and लोह as "blood." Regarding धातुवादः See p. 191.
