Knowledge (22) curiosity, earnest research to learn... (30) I ardently desired the
acquisition of knowledge (36) path of knowledge
Creation, Life (19) I was their plaything and their idol, and something better—their child,
the innocent and helpless creature bestowed upon them by heaven (26)I entered with the
greatest diligence into the search of the philosophers stone and the elixir of life (33)the
elixir of life is a chimera (33)unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation
(37)whence I often asked myself, did the principle of life proceed (38)became myself
capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter (39) it was with these feelings that I
began the creation of a human being
Passion (21) my temper was violent, my passions vehement (24) birth of that passion
Hidden Laws of Nature (22) to learn the hidden laws of nature (23) the physical secrets of
the world (25)penetrate the secrets of nature (23) the secrets of heaven and earth
Ruin (25)the fatal impulse that led to my ruin (33) enounced to destroy me
Power (32)masters of science sought immortality and power (33) they have acquired
new and almost unlimited power
Death (37)to examine the causes of life, we must first recourse death (4)renew life where
death had apparently devoted the body to corruption