Centrum Naturae Concentratum

Subject Index

Links lead to whole works or supporting discussions. The historical reading text supplies stable passage identifiers for closer comparison across formats.

Air

breath and the greater world.

Alchemy

calling and ordinary duties.

Antimony

the testament’s material and sign.

Arabic transmission

historical title-page claim.

Art

agency and intervention.

Astral salt

upper salt in the main work.

Bacchus

tartar and residue in the verse.

Body

the little world.

Books

learning and competing voices.

Calling

qualifications of the seeker.

Central salt

philosophical vitriol.

Centre

agency and dependence.

Charity

present gifts and neighbourly duty.

Circumference

the surrounding field.

Coagulation

natural conditions and fixation.

Creation

cosmogony and threefold division.

Delle Martin

visitor and remembered instruction.

Dew

heavenly nourishment.

Digestion

one food and many materials.

Elements

relations and inconsistent printed signs.

English printing

1696 scope and selected differences.

Experience

seeing hearing and making.

Figures

source forms and explanations.

Fire

material and philosophical activities.

Fixation

a stable condition.

Gold

the separate historical preparation.

Helbig

preface and qualified testimony.

Hellwig

modern attribution context.

Hyle

the common root.

Imagination

fall and centre–circumference agency.

J J F

compiled discourse and extracts.

Knowledge

ordinary things and self-knowledge.

Lead

common and philosophical lead.

Light

disclosure and activity.

Macrocosm

the greater world.

Medicine

historical claims and testimony.

Mercury

diagrammatic decomposition.

Microcosm

the little world.

Motion

differentiation and desire.

Nature

what acts and what receives.

Neptune

local salt correspondence.

Powder and quantities

historical scope and interpretation; supplied note on signs.

Putrefaction

opening and change.

Regeneration

renewed condition and power.

Salt

variable historical uses.

Secrecy

transmission and its limits.

Seed

generative matter.

Siebenfreund Sebastian

narrative and allegations.

Soul

local material and religious uses.

Spirit

breath and subtle agency.

Sulphur

tincture and colour.

Tessa

the main work’s named matter.

Universal

presence and scope.

Vitriol

names and the acrostic.

Water

states solvents and rebirth.