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3. Contemplation
According to Hitchcock 1857, contemplation is a look thoughtfully upon what are the circumstances of anything; what the matter; what the form;
whence its operations proceed; whence it is infused and implanted; how generated. It is also how the body of everything may be dissolved, that is,
resolved into the first matter or first essence. How the last matter may be changed into the first, and the first into the last. This contemplates that which is perceived
by Touch and Sight, and hath a nature formed in Time: this considers, how that nature may be helped and perfected by resolution of itself; how everybody may
give forth from itself the good or evil, venom or medicine, latent in it; how destruction and to be cleft or opened are to be handled. In which contemplation
under a right proceeding, without sophistical deceits, the pure may be severed and separated from the impure. pp.109-111
4. Divine love
Hitchcock 1857 describes the nature of Divine Love to be a perfect unity and simplicity. Love is the most one, undivided, simple, pure, unmixed, and
uncompounded thing, as working the greatest of wonders, that of a transformation of the subject of it into the object loved, which gives unity and harmony to all
things. In the second place Hitchcock finds Love to be the most perfect and absolute liberty. Thirdly, Love is all strength and power. If we make a diligent
search through Heaven and Earth, and we will find nothing as powerful as Love. What is stronger than Hell and Death is Love, since it is the triumphant conqueror
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of both. In the fourth place, Love is of a transforming and transforming nature. The great effect of Love is to turn all things into its own nature, which is all
goodness, sweetness, and perfection. p.133
5. Omen
Omen is s prophetic significance, which in Paulo Coelho‟s The Alchemist,
left for man throughout the path that God has prepared for everyone to follow.
6. Personal legend
A personal legend is the path we decide to take that fills our heart with enthusiasm. It is the path of our dreams. In the novel, described by Melchizedek,
it is what people have always wanted to accomplish. http:paulocoelhoblog.com20090602your-personal-legend-2nd-of-june-2009
updated on September 21, 2011
7. Master Work
In the novel The Alchemist, the Master Work is the achievement of alchemists after purifying metals in their laboratory. It is part solid, the
Philosophers Stone, which its fragment from that stone turns any metal into gold, and part liquid, the Elixir of Life, by whoever swallows this elixir will never be
sick again. p.35
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8. Universal language
In the novel The Alchemist, universal language is described as the language without words. It is the language with which all things communicate. It
is said as being understood by everybody but already forgotten, and man who knows it is an Alchemist. p.35
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