Coelum Terrae

Subject Index

Entries link to stable historical passages and editorial study features. Historical pages refer to the 1650 volume, distinct from the pagination of this modern edition.

Active and Passive Nature

two sanctuaries, agent and patient.

Agency

interpretive essay, instruments and causes.

Agrippa

nothing, influences.

Air

elemental descent, mediation.

Albertus Magnus

the water testimony, its names.

Arnold of Villanova

the stone and water, unctuous moisture.

Art

glossary, Nature supplies the seed.

Authority and Testimony

related passages, study question.

Azoth

glossary.

Balneum Naturae

glossary, natural bath.

Body

glossary, soul and embodiment.

Book as Child

closing image, poem guide.

Capnion

the two natures, Vaughan’s English.

Chaos

glossary, darkness and middle substance.

Coagulation

glossary.

Coction

glossary, the process summary.

Contraries

earth and air, fire and water.

Cooperation

the practitioner’s task, interpretive essay.

Corruption

glossary, the diagnosis.

Creation

the created recipient, creation and negation.

Dionysius

negative theology.

Dissolution

glossary, natural putrefaction.

Dragon

Nature’s voice, the fire-drake.

Earth

glossary, ordinary and celestial earth.

Egg

the example begins, destructive reduction.

Elements

glossary, seed and elements.

English as the Original Language

edition statement, editorial policy.

Errata

the historical notice, scope and treatment.

Eugenius Philalethes

authorial name, 1650 source.

Evidence

encounter with the thing, the demand for demonstration.

Fire

natural fire, heat and cooperation.

First Matter

glossary, one thing and many descriptions.

Fixation

glossary, rising and returning.

Flamel

the fire testimony, the garden.

Generation

glossary, restoring a generative relation.

Getty Copy

source record.

God and Nature

the sustaining bond, cooperation.

Heat

maternal comparison, external agent.

Hermes

action and life, the separation of water.

Hyanthe

glossary, poem guide.

Ideas

glossary, outward forms.

Influences

glossary, reception and corruption.

Listening

the adept and the visitor, ethics of hearing.

Lully

the compounded water, the prohibition.

Magia Adamica

host volume and scope, bibliographic record.

Magnesia

glossary, red and white appearances.

Matrix

glossary, embodiment.

Medicine

glossary, the five gates.

Mercury

glossary, interpreter of particulars.

Middle Nature

glossary, water and extremes.

Nature

glossary, freedom and generation.

Negative Theology

glossary, interpretive essay.

Nothing

the question of origins, the qualified meaning.

Pan and Proteus

universal and particular.

Paracelsus

whiteness, Vaughan’s mixed judgement.

Patient

glossary.

Poetry

poetry in the argument, guide to the poems.

Projection

glossary, the fifth gate.

Putrefaction

glossary, Nature’s quoted lesson.

Quintessence

glossary, the living spirit.

Reduction

glossary, two opposed kinds.

Region of Light

glossary, the meadow of ideas.

Secrecy

the withheld disclosure, secrecy and evidence.

Seed

glossary, Nature’s composition.

Speaking Stone

Latin verse, poem guide.

Spiritual Interpretation

reading method, reading route.

Sulphur

glossary, the fitted union.

TCP Transcription

source and licence, transmission.

Virgin Milk

glossary, maternal imagery.

Waite Reprint

the 1888 comparison, publication context.