Subject Index

Links lead to whole books or supporting discussions. Stable passage identifiers in the reading text provide finer references across the four formats.

Air

life and spirit, elements.

Alchemy

generation, transmutation, separation.

Animals

generation, death.

Arcana

preservation, renewal.

Archaeus

formative signator.

Art

artificial generation, ripening, craft examples.

Astrum

imagination, stellar signatures.

Attribution

Composite authorship; Gantenbein.

Balsam

preservation.

Blood

generation, bodily materials.

Body

three principles, life.

Calcination

preparation, transmutation.

Chaos

elements and division.

Charcoal

craft transformation.

Corruption

putrefaction, loss of powers.

Death

definition and examples, renewal.

Dedication

Complete historical letter; experience and secrecy.

Digestion

bodily analogy, maturation.

Distillation

natural analogy, separation.

Earth

generation, growth, elements.

Elements

separation.

Experience

claims of knowledge, preparation.

Fire

metallic life, operation and testing.

Fixation

tinctures.

Generation

nature and art.

Gold

metallic transmutation.

Growth

increase and ripening.

Heat

putrefaction, growth, preparation.

Homunculus

artificial human.

Imagination

formation and inward stars.

Imbibition

rain and moistening.

Life

natural bodies, loss and alteration.

Marginal Notes

Source presentation; how to read the notes.

Matrix

generation.

Mercury

principle and spirit, preparation.

Metals

generation, life, tinctures, separation.

Moisture

putrefaction, growth.

Mortification

ending a condition.

Mummia

preservation and bodily material.

Nature

generation, transformation.

Preservation

conditions and preparations.

Putrefaction

change and generation, death.

Quintessence

prepared condition.

Resuscitation

renewal.

Salt

body and principles, separation.

Secrecy

Family transmission; the qualified reader.

Seeds

putrefaction, growth.

Separation

definition and examples.

Signatures

marks and interpretation.

Spirit

mercury, life.

Stars

inward relations, signators.

Sulphur

principle and common material, metallic life.

Tincture

properties and claims.

Transmutation

definition and craft examples.

Virtue

activity, changed powers.