Philosopher's stone and the serpent of alchemy from the 1622 edition of Philosophia Reformata by J. D. Mylius.
( FORTEAN PICTURE LIBRARY)
The acknowledgement of (or belief in, if you insist) one God empowers in life as well as in philosophy.
Philosophers who intellectually reach God - or to be precise: who reach the God conclusion - gain an incredible* advantage: they have only Him to explain, whle all the others - everything.
*not the best choice of word, this one; sophisticatedly credible or instinctively/illuminatedly# credible
would be an apter one.
#yes - I don' t think St Augustine has said his last word yet.
