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lioness, 53
liquids, 1–2, 110
see also juices;
mercury
liquors, 23
petrescent, 26
lithograph, 39, 98
lixiviation, 144
Llul, Ramon, 80
love, 80–81
Lucifer, 82, 87
lye, 21, 35, 82
symbol of, 65
maceration, 138
Mackay, Charles, 145
macrocosm, 187
Mad Max, 171
Magnasco, Alessandro, 51–52, 55,
96
magnesia, 32
white, 82
magnet, 82
magnum opus, 169
Maier, Michael, 73, 126, 151, 157–
60, 175
malachite, 32
Malachite Green, 15, 17, 66
male, 54
Manet, 153
manganese, 28
oxide, 32
spar, 32
Manganese Violet, 66, 195
manure, see horse
Marat, Jean-Paul, 111
marble, 28, 82, 99–100
dust, 21, 169
marcasite, 162
Marius, 30, 57, 102
marrow, see stone
Mars, 83, 109
as iron, 65, 185
planet, 108
INDEX 235
symbol, 64–65
tinture of, 56
masculine, 53
massa confusa, 85
mastic, 123
masturbation, 153
materia prima, 68–95, 136, 159, 165
as First Substance, 71
symbol of, 77
see also secunda materia
Mathesius, 162
Matisse, 45
matrass, 127
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20
McLean, Adam, 35–7
measurement, 30
meditation, 36
medusa, 160
melancholic humor, 61, 76, 155
melanteria, 28
Melencolia I, 179
Melusina, 155
menstruum, 83, 163, 166–7
Mercati, Michele, 27
Mercurio vulgi, 56
mercury, 20, 24, 30, 31, 49, 56, 79,
82, 101–3, 109
and water, 102
animated spirit of, 181
as bodily fluid, 162–3
as cold and humid, 62, 81
as mother of the
hermaphrodite, 151
as phlegm, 54
as sulfur, 62–3
as the male principle, 179
calcined, 81
fixed and coagulated, 56, 181
living, 184
of the philosophers, 154
ordinary or “vulgar,” 56
planet, 107
sophic, 24