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II · Paracelsian Tria Prima
Paracelsus's three chymical principles — Sulfur (combustibility), Mercury (volatility), Salt (fixity), and Black Sulfur.
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Mercury (Quicksilver)
HgArgentum Vivum · Mercurius (Spiritus)
Mercury, or quicksilver (Argentum vivum, Hg, ☿), is the liquid metal and volatile spirit of chymistry, planet of Mercurius and agent of Albedo.
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Salt (Sal)
NaCl / Sal FixumSal Principium · Terra / Corpus
Paracelsian Sal Principium: the fixed bodily principle, glyph 🜔, answering to terra and, in the jar, to common salt.
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Black Sulfur (Sulphur Nigrum)
S8 / Metal Sulfide ResidueSulphur Nigrum / Caput Corvi · Saturnus
Black Sulfur (Sulphur Nigrum) is the Saturnine black sulfur of chymistry, glyph 🜏, proper to the Nigredo.
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Sulfur (Brimstone)
S8Sulphur Philosophorum · Sol (Anima)
Sulfur, or brimstone (Sulphur Philosophorum), is the solar chymical soul of combustibility, signed by the glyph 🜍 (S8).