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In Wilde’s version of Narcissus, the beautiful boy who falls in love with his reflection and drowns in it, is himself, a vehicle for the Lake to realize its own beauty. The two were parts of a whole, completing the other in a ‘oneness’ of synergism. This too was the objective pursued by medieval alchemists. In their quest to transform base metals into silver and gold, these proto-chemists were ultimately exploring a transcendental state of universal symbiosis. The idea was to ascertain the metaphoric principle of an omnipresent ‘oneness’ performed and exhibited in the material world through …