Mercury/Jupiter

IV Persistence of life very different from that on Earth conceivable in isolated habitats or reasonable inference of past conditions suitable for the origin of life prior to the development of conditions so harsh as to make its perseverance at present unlikely but conceivable in isolated habitats Mercury, Jupiter... 

Our solar system consists of the Sun, the planets and their moon satellites, asteroids (small planets), comets, and meteorites. The planets are generally divided into two categories Earth-like (terrestrial) planets—Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars and Giant planets—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Little is known about Pluto, the most remote planet from Earth. 

Portal page to a series of pages Air, Moon, Jupiter, Fire, Mercury, Saturn, Water, Venus, Sun, Earth, Mars. Also an interesting page "A Christian Mandala - explanation of this mandala and its sources by Robert Ellaby"... 

In the region of the terrestrial planets, there may have been several thousand planetesimals of up to several hundred kilometres in diameter. During about ten million years, these united to form the four planets—Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars—which are close to the sun. Far outside the orbit of the planet Mars, the heavier planets were formed, in particular Jupiter and Saturn, the huge masses of which attracted all the hydrogen and helium around them. Apart from their cores, these planets have a similar composition to that of the sun. Between the planets Mars and Jupiter, there is a large zone which should really contain another planet. It... 

The transit method requires that the central star, the planet and the observer are connected by a line of sight. The dark planet passes across the light source and thus diminishes its light intensity to some extent. Observation is only possible when observer, star and planet are in a favourable position, i.e., the planet lies between the star and the observer. In spite of this requirement, the method permits the discovery of planets of about the size of the Earth information is also available on the size, mass and density of the planet as well as on its orbit. Because of its limits of applicability, this method is not often used. In the case of the star OGLE-TR-56, it was possible to detect an extrasolar planet, the orbit of which is very close to its sun only a twentieth of the distance of Mercury away from it. The temperature of the planet was determined to be around 1,900 K its diameter is about 1.3 times larger than that of Jupiter, its density about 500 kg/m3 (Brown, 2003 Konacki, 2003). 

The density estimates in Table 7.1 show a distinction between the structures of the planets, with Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars all having mean densities consistent with a rocky internal structure. The Earth-like nature of their composition, orbital periods and distance from the Sun enable these to be classified as the terrestrial planets. Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus have very low densities and are simple gas giants, perhaps with a very small rocky core. Neptune and Pluto clearly contain more dense materials, perhaps a mixture of gas, rock and ice. 

In one sense, the creation of alchemy represented a step backward. The Egyptians had known seven metallic elements gold, silver, copper, tin, iron, lead, and mercury, which they associated with the seven planets (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, respectively). The Greeks, however, failed to recognize them as distinct elements. According to the Aristotelian theory, the metals were mixtures of the traditional four elements. This idea seemed to... 

Sun, gold, Sunday C Moon, silver, Monday Cf Mars, iron, Tuesday Mercury, mercury, Wednesday A Jupiter, tin, Thursday 5 Venus, copper, Friday L Saturn, lead, Saturday... 

When electrum, alloy of silver and gold, was rejected as not being a distinct substance, tin became attributed to Jupiter, and mercury was permitted to enter the mystic circle and was attributed to the planet Mercury. This classification served as a catalogue and definition of the so-called metals for many centuries, in fact, throughout the middle ages of Europe. 

Now understand well what I shall say, for indeed I will speak nothing wrong. This Mercury without its equal you may find in the Sun, when he is in his great heat, and that he makes many blossoms appear, for the fruits come after blossoms. I can prove it in this manner, and still a hundred other ways, which to this art are very slight. But this hear is the chief, and I therefore mention it to you. I have not abused you indeed, for it is visibly there to be found. And if you would work in Luna, you may as well there find it out in Saturn and in Jupiter, and in Mars which I call Iron in Venus and in Mercury one may find it most securely. But as to me I found it in the Sun and after wrought it. And therefore I made this Book for you, that you may freely understand me. In Luna seek to see or find it from thence I took my first matter. 

Sun Moon Mars Venus Saturn Jupiter Mercury... 

Jupiter and Uranus are outer planets composed mainly of gases. Jupiter s atmosphere contains reddish-brown clouds of ammonia. Uranus has an atmosphere made up mainly of hydrogen and helium with clouds of water vapor. This combination looks greenish to an outside observer. In addition, Mars has an atmosphere that is 95% carbon dioxide, and Venus has a permanent cloud cover of sulfur dioxide that appears pale yellow to an observer. Mercury has no permanent atmosphere. Saturn has 1 km thick dust and ice rings that orbit the planet. The eight planets in our solar system are diverse, each having different chemical compositions within and surrounding the planets. Out Earth is by far the friendliest planet for human existence. 

Thus, there are two kinds of maladies in the metals, the first is called original and incurable, the second arises from the diversity of the sulphur which causes their imperfection and their maladies, namely, the leprosy of Saturn, the jaundice of Venus, the hoarseness of Jupiter, the dropsy of Mercury and the gall of Mars. 

The radical sulphur cleanses, thickens, fixes into a perfect body the radical mercury, while the second sulphur suffocates, absorbs and coagulates it with its own impurities and crudities. One sees a proof of this, in the coagulation of common mercury, made by the vapor of the sulphur of Saturn, distinguished by that of Jupiter. 

The times of the Stone are indicated says d Espagnet, by the Philosophical and Astronomical Water. The first White work, must be finished in the house of the moon the second in the second house of Mercury. The first work in the Red in the second domicile of Venus, and the second or last, in the house of exaltation of Jupiter for, from him our King must receive his scepter and his crown, ornamented with precious rubies. ... 

See how wonderfully this all works out in Hermetic Philosophy. In the confection of the Stone, Saturn stands for the cold, moist principle, inhering in the Mercurial Water, whereas Jupiter is the warm, dry principle or the Sulphur. Throughout the work, we see first one of these principles triumphing, then the other, exactly as in human life for after all, man himself is but a more unfolded example of the Stone. He is the Macrocosm of which the Stone is the Microcosm, and the parallelism between the two is marvellous. That is why the Stone has so great an affinity for man and becomes the panacea for all his ills. Those who desire to unfold this treasure must voluntarily fulfill all conditions to the mastery thereof. 

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