Judgment of Paris by (pseud.) Thomas Aquinas

Judgment of Paris
De Alchimia, (pseud.) Thomas Aquinas (16th century). Cod. Voss. chem. f.78, Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit, Leiden.

• The awakening of the sleeping king depicted as a Judgment of Paris, with Hermes as psychopomp.
• Alchemists use the Judgment of Paris to refer to the end of the First Work, a fixation of the volatile; the making of the Stone is thus the siege of Troy, and that of the Elixir is its fall.

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