MAGIC WORDS • Human frailty -- Chris Roberts, Heavy Words Thrown Lightly (2004) • Soul -- Chris Roberts, Heavy Words Thrown Lightly (2004) Facts: The mystical "philosopher's egg" was "one of the main goals of any alchemist, a substance that among other things was thought to effect the transmutation of ordinary metals into gold."10 Figure 19. The Cosmic Egg contains all of the numerals and alphabetical letters, showing how all that can be numbered or named is contained in one primal form. Egypt In Literature: • "Egypt! What wondrous pictures are conjured up by that magic word! Scenes of white-robed priests moving in solemn procession through columned aisles to the sound of stately music; . . . of royal pageants wherein King and Queen, bedecked in silks and cloth of gold, embroidered with a mine of gems, pass through the crowded lines of their acclaiming subjects; scenes of light and life and colour, which cannot fail to rouse our admiration, even our awe: such are some of the pictures that rise before us at the sound of the mystic name." -- F. H. Brooksbank, Legends of Ancient Egypt (1914) 10 Brian Clegg, The First Scientist: A Life of Roger Bacon (2004)