INDEX.
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Waite, Arthur Edward and Barrett, Francis
Maier, Michael, 58, 87, 160
Man—The concealed subject of every adept, 11;
the mystic vase of election, 14
Manuel, Domenico, 215
Mary of Alexandria, 36
Matter, the first matter of the Magnum Opus, said to be gold, 28;
defined as a fifth element, 39;
one only and self-same thing, 40;
its true nature not disclosed by the adepts, 41;
its informing spirit variously adaptable, 43;
a duplex nature, 53;
contained in silver and gold, 87;
the seed of every metal can be reduced into the first matter, 93;
figured in the book of Rabbi Abraham, 103;
found by Nicholas Flamel, 106;
mercury the true first matter, 118;
the matter of the philosophical stone a viscous water, 119;
said to be Saturn, or lead, 124;
is found everywhere, 136;
may be discovered by studying the best books of the philosophers, 145
Medicine—Properties of a universal medicine attributed to the Stone, 13;
the Stone a medicine for metals and man, 32;
life is prolonged by the stone, 123;
application of the tincture as a medicine for the human body, 148
Mercury—Identified with the supernatural, 11;
obstacles to its discovery, 39;
sophic mercury described by Avicenna, 52;
mercury the water of metals, 129;
a matchless treasure, 197
Morien, 53
Morning Star, 36
New Birth, 11, 12
Norton, Thomas, 130
Obereit, John Hermann, 219
One Thing Needful—The exaltation of the cognising faculty, 15
Orizon Æternitatis, mystical term of Paracelsus, 36
Palingenesis, 92
Philalethes, Eirenæus, 187;
on the Aqua Philosophorum, 22
Picus de Mirandola, 136