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Welcome
to Vulcan Glassworks, featuring flameworked glass art by Matthew Olian.
“Alchemy is an art and Vulcan (the governor of fire)
is the artist in it: 'He who is Vulcan has the power of the art ... All
things have been created in an unfinished state, nothing is finished,
but Vulcan must bring all things to their completion. Everything is at
first created in its prima materia, its original stuff; whereupon
Vulcan comes, and develops it into its final substance ... God created
iron but not that which is to be made of it. He enjoined fire, and
Vulcan, who is the lord of fire, to do the rest ... From this it
follows that iron must be cleansed of its dross before it can be
forged. This process is alchemy; its founder is the smith Vulcan. What
is accomplished by fire is alchemy-whether in the furnace or in the
kitchen stove. And he who governs fire is Vulcan, even if he be a cook
or a man who tends the stove.” -Paracelsus
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