Aphorismi Urbigerani

Immortality

the stated ultimate end of creation.

Language and Publication

the choice of English and projected other languages; the separately titled companion.

Magnetic Attraction

the residue’s capacity; the rival magical magnets; the true magnet after loss of soul.

Menstruum

the universal menstruum as champion; its asserted perpetual character; limits of the vegetable menstruum; dissolving distinguished from improving.

Mercury, Common

contrast with the philosophers’ mercury; a proposed preparation from common mercury; the projection amalgam.

Mercury, Double

impregnation with metallic essence; the claimed test; the elixir’s own flesh and blood.

Mercury, Simple

the separated heaven; the third way; its changing sexual capacities; its claimed perpetual nature.

Mercury, Triple

the completed union of principles.

Microcosm and Macrocosm

the required analogy of creation; waters, spirit and fruits; the philosophical little world maintained.

Mottoes

the plate’s Latin legends; the repeated appeal to experience; the motto on the tree explained.

Paracelsus

the alkahest attribution; the elixir of properties attribution.

Philosophical Month

ordinary weeks and philosophical months; the promised maturation of metal; the promised duration of the lesser work.

Phlegm

the superfluous water; the plant’s watery fraction.

Plant of the Noblest Degree

the unnamed plant in the second vegetable way.

Projection

the historical application to an amalgam.

Proportion

the requirement for the common-gold marriage; the stated relation; the fermentation warning; volatile and fixed in the vegetable work.

Putrefaction

coagulation and putrefaction after dissolution; the stage preceding distillation; the claimed rapid plant separation.

Regeneration and Resurrection

glorious resurrection; the second regeneration; the third regeneration; descent and rebirth.

Retrogradation

the limits of reversing ordinary metals; reduction to first being; the mercury’s changed condition.

Reverberation

the earth before moistening; the earth before extraction.

Salt

salt of nature and clarified earth; fixed vegetable salt; reception of its own spirit.

Serpent

the feminine subject nearest the dragon; water, eagle and mercury; its need for assistance.

Silver

the claimed deep-red tincture test; fermentation of the white elixir; multiplication before fermentation.

Spirit of the World

astral attraction into the residue; a menstruum distinguished from the great work.

Spirit of Wine

extraction of a metallic tincture; extraction from the residue.

Sulphur and Internal Fire

metallic essence in double mercury; the coordinated names of the red tincture; sulphur containing the soul; the sulphurous medium.

Three Ways

the first way; instructions for first and second together; the explicit third way; their representation in the plate.

Tincture

tincture extracted from gold; the deep-red essence; tincture without separation of all principles.

Vegetable Work: Three Ways

Diana’s tears; the unnamed noble plant; salt, spirit and a medium; the second way revisited.

Virgin and Virgin’s Milk

the silvery metallic water; the bound virgin; the prepared chaos; simple mercury nourishing the infant.

White Elixir

its signs and silver fermentation; multiplication before fermentation; the choice to proceed further.