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Antimony

Gold’s solvent and blackening

solvens; solvens, solvirt, fault, schwartz

In the emblem explanation the butter of antimony is called the solvent of gold; gold is said to undergo putrefaction and become black within it.

From the book

Centrum Naturae Concentratum

Attributed to Ali Puli · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
solvent, dissolved, putrefies, black, solvens and fault.

Meaning

In the emblem explanation the butter of antimony is called the solvent of gold; gold is said to undergo putrefaction and become black within it. The subject of fault is gold, not the whole engraving or the reader. Blackening therefore belongs to the father’s asserted material transformation as well as to his reading of the dark solar circle. These claims explain the historical symbolic relation without demonstrating that a modern preparation of a particular formula will have the same action.

Places to read

  1. The Last Testament of a Father to His Beloved Son · Passage 11German“das solvens des ☉” The butter receives the solvent predicate.
  2. The Last Testament of a Father to His Beloved Son · Passage 11German“darin fault das ☉” Gold is the subject of the putrefaction claim.