Philosopher

1. a: one who seeks wisdom or enlightenment.
   b: a student of philosophy.
2. a: a person whose philosophical perspective enables him to meet trouble with equanimity.
   b: the expounder of a theory in a particular area of experience.
   c: one who philosophizes.
        -- Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary

Philosopher's Stone

• The stone or material that practitioners of alchemy believed capable of changing other metals into gold
• Figuratively, the "philosopher's stone" is a substance thought to be capable of regenerating man spiritually.
               -- The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy

AZJ reading
"Abraham Lincoln's Children"
Banff Centre for the Arts, Sept. 2005.