From the book
A New Light of Alchemy
Michael Sendivogius · Diotimos Editions · 2026
Browse this book’s lexicon →Moon; silver
Luna
Luna can be the heavenly moon, silver, or the author’s specially qualified recipient of gold’s seed.
- English renderings
- moon; silver
Meaning
Lemma.
Luna can be the heavenly moon, silver, or the author’s specially qualified recipient of gold’s seed. Chapter X expressly says our Luna is not common silver. In the metallic generation account it shares Sol’s seed but differs in digestion and the condition of the womb. The parable turns these relations into a lunar tree with white fruit and quicksilver-like leaves.
Places to read
- Treatise X · Passage 2LatinLuna nostra est, (non argentum vulgi).
From the book
A New Light of Alchemy
Michael Sendivogius · Diotimos Editions · 2026
Browse this book’s lexicon →Silver; moon
luna
In the polemic against fixing luna, the term denotes silver, which the author says is already sufficiently fixed in its own nature.
- English renderings
- silver; moon
Meaning
Lemma.
In the polemic against fixing luna, the term denotes silver, which the author says is already sufficiently fixed in its own nature. Elsewhere lunar rays supply special water in Venus’s grove, where the celestial and allegorical register differs. The same Latin word therefore requires local interpretation. The metallic reading in the fixation passage should not be transferred mechanically to every lunar image.
Places to read
- Sulphur · The Three Principles · Passage 14Latin; On Sulphur · Passage 4Latinluna autem in sua natura satis fixa est.