Sophie mercury

This Universal Light, when considered particularly as the main metal-forming agent, is called Azoth, or Sophie Mercury. It is the menstrum, the Universal Solvent, the bond of union, or in less mystic terms, the Cosmic Ether dynamized. 

F. Jollivet-Castelot, Comment On devient Alchimiste, p. 282. The Universal Agent when magnetizing the world, is called Astral Light when it forms the metals, it is named Azoth or Sophie Mercury.. . Eliphas Levi. 

Hermetic Philosophy wishes that the Latten, (name which it has also pleased them to give to their Matter), be composed of a gold and silver, crude, volatile, unripe and full of blackness during the putrefaction, which is called Belly of Saturn, from which Venus was engendered. This is why she is regarded as bom of the philosophic sea. The salt which was produced from that sea, was represented by Cupid, son of Venus and Mercury because then Venus signified Sulphur and Mercury, Quicksilver or Sophie Mercury. 

The first step is to make Sophie Mercury, or the Solvent, from a matter which encloses in itself two qualities, and which is part volatile, and part fixed. That which proves that there must be a dissolution, is that Cosmopolita tells us to seek a matter from which we may be able to make a Water which dissolves gold naturally and without violence. But a matter may be reduced to water only by dissolution, unless one employs the distillation of common chemistry, which is excluded from the Work. 

Sophie mercury was disguised under such names as Luna, queen, female, sister, Isis,...serpent,... 

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FIGURE 56. A depiction of the trki prima (Sophie Mercury, Sulfur, and Salt) from Della Tramutatione Metallica hy Giovanni Battista Nazari (Brescia, 1599). A very similar figure, depicting Austrian physician Franz Anton Mesmer, appeared in an anti-Mesmer pamphlet published in 1784- ... 

FIGURE 83. Birth of Athena from the head of her father Zeus (no mother here) and a chemical conjunctio with her brother Apollo (from Michael Maier s Atalanta Fugiens). The conjunctio, or chemical marriage, weds Sol and Luna or Sophie Sulfur and Sophie Mercury (courtesy of The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University). 

In Figure 92, Emblem 15 represents the dissolution of purified gold to form Sophie Sulfur in the alchemical flask. Placing the flask in a furnace (athanor) unites Sophie Sulfur with Sophie Mercury and the homogeneous mixture (Em-... 

FIGURE 111. The title page of Book Four of Gesner s 1599 treatise The winged pet dragon represents Sophie Mercury the Tree of Life flowers in cucurbits that produce Birds of Hermes signaling success of the Great Work ... 

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