Sal Lumen and Spiritus Mundi Philosophici

Salmacis and the perfected conjunction: II.4 §24.

Hermes Trismegistus

Pimander and Emerald Table joined in the author’s undertaking: Dedication §4.

Two levels of the Table’s meaning: I.4 §4; the Table in fourteen lines: Sonnet III.

Iliaste

Author’s marginal definition of the purveyor of generative materials: I.1 §2.

Jason and Medea

Inquiry, metallic transformation and renewal of bodies: II.4 §32.

Furnaces, dragon and fermentation: II.4 §33; II.4 §34; conclusion in verse: Sonnet IX.

Knowledge

First causes and the relation of great and little worlds: II.4 §5.

Instruction, arts and human intelligence: III §3; philosophy as knowledge in effect: III §10.

Life

Levels of animal, vegetable and mineral life: I.1 §3.

Universal replenishment and particular duration: II.4 §16; II.4 §17; limits of prolongation: III §12.

Light

Knowledge against ignorance: Preface §1.

Understanding received from universal light: II.4 §5; daylight of truth in the conclusion: Sonnet IX.

Love

Cosmic Love speaks as the first mover and governor: II.2 §21.

Mutual joining of the world’s parts: I.1 §8.

Magistery

Returned water and cleansed earth: I.6 §2.

Adaptation and universal medicine: II.4 §8.

Matrix and Womb

Common terrestrial womb and its seeds: I.4 §1.

The philosophical moon’s retaining belly: I.5 §4; particular places and accidents: II.1 §7.

Medicine

Universal and particular remedies: II.4 §7.

Penetration and fixation: II.3 §26; relief, extracted efficacy and the corrosiveness objection: III §18.

Mercury

Name of the multiform productive spirit: I.3 §2.

Mercury of Mercuries: II.1 §6; winged bearer and caduceus: II.4 §31.

Microcosm

Generated bodies as little worlds: I.1 §8.

Knowledge of copies through their original: II.4 §5.

Moon

Moisture and maternal generation: I.5 §2; I.5 §3.

Philosophical moon distinguished from ordinary silver: I.5 §4.

Motion and Rest

Natural movement from privation to form: I.1 §1.

Circular celestial motion and ends: II.2 §10; self-moving principle: II.4 §16.

Perfection

Simple natural perfection: I.8 §1.

Tincture, art and a further degree: II.4 §19; regeneration through separation in verse: Sonnet VI.

Philosophy

Happiness, honour and glory of the world: III §10.

Praise and promised benefits: III §14; completed argument in verse: Sonnet IX.

Poetry

Augurel on mineral life: I.1 §4.

Philon’s praise of intellect: III §5; Nature’s witness of salt: II.1 §5; the Table as sonnet: Sonnet III.

Putrefaction

Passage between forms and seed examples: I.5 §2.

Death’s blackness and generation: II.4 §10; the vessel as sepulchre: II.4 §21.

Quintessence

Separable fifth essence: I.3 §1.

Misguided quintessence seeking: II.2 §1; fifth element distinguished from a higher place: III §12.

Radical Moisture

Lunar nourishment: I.5 §3.

Exhaustion by excessive heat: II.1 §4; preservation beyond ordinary food: III §11.

Reader’s Riddle

Six letters and the changes p, s and m: To the reader.

Root

Air, origin and the return of water: I.6 §1; I.6 §2.

Beginning with the root of a species: I.9 §4.

Salt

First palpable body and dissolution: II.2 §4.

Last matter extracted from bodies: II.3 §23; triple spirit in verse: Sonnet I.

Saturn

Devouring, restoration and the serpent biting its tail; distinction from the lead interpretation: II.4 §30.

Secrecy

Figures that cover while displaying: II.4 §27.

Oral transmission and reserved books: II.4 §35; II.4 §36.

Seed

Visible bearers and hidden mineral seed: I.1 §7.

Specific reception of nourishment: I.9 §2; all seeds within the spirit: Sonnet I.

Separation

Distinction and adornment compared with removal of parts: II.3 §24.

Fire, water and their objects: II.3 §25; proper earth and fire retained: II.4 §9; summary in verse: Sonnet VI.

Soul

World soul and its mediating spirit: I.2 §1.

Ideas, seminal reasons and material attraction: I.9 §1; soul and world spirit in verse: Sonnet II.

Spagyry

The Gospel comparison and operations of fire: II.4 §28.

Medicinal contrast with surface treatment: III §18.

Sulphur

Purified constituent of gold: I.3 §3.

External, internal and fixed sulphurs: II.3 §35; colour production: II.3 §36.

Sun

Origin from matter and subsequent paternal nourishment: I.4 §1; I.4 §2.

Philosophical gold: I.4 §3; sun and moon as begetters in verse: Sonnet II.

Tincture

Life, colour and signs in animal, vegetable and mineral bodies: II.4 §18.

Graduation beyond natural gold: II.4 §19; fixation and patience: II.4 §20.

Vessel

Egg and womb as generative examples: I.5 §2.

Earth as vessel of embodiment: II.1 §1; nine-vessel heat trial and the earthen cabasset: II.4 §33.

Vital Heat

Solar vivification and mineral maturation: I.3 §1; I.3 §3.

The acorn’s innate fire awakened: II.1 §8.

Water

Dissolution and the first palpable salt: II.2 §4.

Washing and the removal of earthly dross: II.3 §25; II.3 §33.

World Spirit

Universal nourishment and distinct life levels: I.1 §3.

General source distinguished from metallic matter: II.4 §15; poetic description: Sonnet I.