Spirit of the world — 28; cannot be obtained in its bare, simple spiritual form — 29; is enclosed in all visible creatures — ibid.; opens the body — 31; reunites soul and body — ibid.; is universal matter — ibid. Strength should not be sought in weakness — 18 Relieving the pain of the stone — 184 What cannot itself exist without a subject cannot be the subject of another — 213 Every substance consists of three principles — 219; receives no contrariety into itself — 220; what substance means in natural philosophy — 218 Sulfur is not without Salt and Mercury — 35; is fire — 86 T. True foliated earth — 231

The Devil did not raise the storm during Christ’s voyage — 100; descended as a mighty fire and consumed Job’s sheep and servants — 102; hinders preparation of the universal medicine — 170 Dew is a fruit of dawn — 103; is not generated by sun and moon — 104; can be universal — 162 Theophrastus’s epitaph — 190 Theophrastus errs about homunculi — 195 Tincture: how to obtain it — 170 V. Nature’s vapour — 109 God’s universal and particular Word: their difference — 64; is the form that gave and gives being to all things — 211 Four days signify the four chief colours — 169 Vitriol is not the subject of the Hermetic art — 152

Universal: why it is so called — 13; is one single thing and is found in one single thing — 89 Universal medicine cannot be made from animal, vegetable, or mineral matter — 12; requires a universal subject — 36 Universal natures will not pass away entirely — 231 Urim and Thummim: what they are — 201, 224 W. Water was created through God’s universal Word — 10; deposits an earth when putrefied — 7; must congeal without air or spirit — 28; was originally invisible — 32; is heavier than earth — 161; contains the root of metals and the essence of gold — 141; is a nobler body than earth — 142; waters were not changed in themselves by separation — 72; all things can be resolved into water by the chymical art — 9

The world is divided into higher and lower — 11; will pass away in its accidents, not its substance — 229 Storms occur more in summer than winter — 97 Wind and air are regarded as one in Holy Scripture and by the philosophers — 46 Weather should not be attributed to the Devil and his evil followers — 100; consists of God’s wondrous works — 102 God’s Word is eternal and immutable — 76; everything was created through it — 73 Z. Time and patience belong to the preparation of the universal medicine — 170 END.