It is suggested that the story of The Magic Flute owes much to alchemy and related early mineralogy; the operaÕs architectonic structure, including its musical structure, owes much to numerology. The plot is in large part an allegorical account or description of the alchemical process and the production of the PhilosophersÕ Stone from the prima materia stibnite (spiessglanz) (antimony trisulphi...