World-globe and sevenfold star

Meaning

The father reads both the orb and the sevenfold star as antimony. The star adds a claim of hidden multiplicity: all seven metals are said to lie within the matter, with the black ray corresponding to Saturn or lead and antimony’s visible condition. The world-globe reappears in the closing self-gloss, where the poem’s world is explicitly antimony as metallic first matter. These are linked source interpretations of distinct visible forms, not proof that the material actually contains seven modern elemental metals.