Athanor

These are the athanor -- immortal but not invincible -- and many dream of the day they can live openly. ❋ Blue Tyson (2007)

None of us would have admitted that we believed in stone or elixir, the old Oxfordshire clergyman excited no belief, yet one among us certainly laboured with crucible or athanor. ❋ W.B. Yeats (1965)

Alchemy contributed to this appraisal of the vital cycle that was thought to be realized in the alchemist's oven (athanor); and the incorruptible nature of the starry world lost its prestige. ❋ H (1968)

On the contrary, the jumble of experiences and impressions which fell to the lot of the author as to us all had assuredly been placed in the athanor of art, in that furnace of the sages which is said to be governed with wisdom. ❋ Richard Middleton (N/A)

A vessel of this sort was employed for heating bodies in a closed space, the top being sealed up when the substances to be operated upon had been put inside, and the vessel heated in ashes in an athanor, a uniform temperature being maintained. ❋ Unknown (1922)

Plate 6, fig. A, shows an athanor (or digesting furnace) and a couple of digesting vessels. ❋ Unknown (1922)

In fact, a strong and determined will can, in a little while, attain complete independence; and we all possess that chemical instrument, the great and single athanor or furnace, which serves to separate the subtile from the gross, and the fixed from the volatile. ❋ Albert Pike (1850)

I have sat whole weeks without sleep by the side of an athanor, to watch the moment of projection; I have made the first experiment in nineteen diving engines of new construction; I have fallen eleven times speechless under the shock of electricity; I have twice dislocated my limbs, and once fractured my skull, in essaying to flyc; and four times endangered my life by submitting to the transfusion of blood. ❋ Unknown (1751)

I have sat whole weeks without sleep by the side of an athanor, to watch the moment of projection; I have made the first experiment in nineteen diving engines of new construction; I have fallen eleven times speechless under the shock of electricity; I have twice dislocated my limbs, and once fractured my skull, in essaying to fly [l]; and four times endangered my life by submitting to the transfusion of blood. ❋ Samuel Johnson (1746)

Preservativation (Game and Poultry) Act, playing lallaryrook cookerynook, by the dodginess of his lentern, brooled and cocked and potched in an athanor, whites and yolks and yilks and whotes to the frulling fredonnance of Mas blanca que la blanca hermana and Amarilla, muy bien, with cinnamon and locusts and wild bees-wax and liquorice and Carrageen moss and blaster of Barry’s and ❋ Unknown (2006)

He himself, at the time I speak of, was seeking with furnace and athanor for the philosophers’ stone.15 ❋ W.B. Yeats (1965)