Place and attraction

Magnesia

magnesia

In the seasonal account, congealed unctuous vapour mixes with earth and water when spring returns and becomes a magnesia that attracts like aerial Mercury.

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A New Light of Alchemy

Michael Sendivogius · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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magnesia

Meaning

Lemma.

In the seasonal account, congealed unctuous vapour mixes with earth and water when spring returns and becomes a magnesia that attracts like aerial Mercury. The epilogue also speaks of salt hidden in magnesia’s belly. These contexts associate it with attraction and generative reception, but do not establish that it is ordinary modern magnesia or automatically interchangeable with every occurrence of magnet.

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  1. Treatise IV · Passage 3Latinfit magnesia trahens ad se sibi similem Mercurium aeris.