<P> The English philosopher Sir Thomas Browne in his spiritual testament Religio Medici (1643) identified the religious aspect of the quest for the philosopher's Stone when declaring: </P> <P> The smattering I have of the Philosophers stone, (which is something more than the perfect exaltation of gold) hath taught me a great deale of Divinity . </P> <P> A mystical text published in the 17th century called the Mutus Liber appears to be a symbolic instruction manual for concocting a philosopher's stone . Called the "wordless book", it was a collection of 15 illustrations . </P> <P> The equivalent of the philosopher's stone in Buddhism and Hinduism is the Cintamani . It is also referred to as Paras / Parasmani (Hindi: पारस / पारसमणि) or Paris (Marathi: परिस). </P>

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