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230 WHAT PAINTING IS<br />

Cleidophorus Mystagogus, 77<br />

Clouzot, Henri-Georges, 171<br />

cloves, 20<br />

coagulation, 56, 145<br />

coal, 28<br />

Cobalt Blue, 15, 66<br />

cocks, 83, 145–6<br />

coction, 145<br />

coffin, 141<br />

Cohausen, Johann Heinrich, 185<br />

cohobation, 128, 150–1, 183<br />

coins, alchemical tricks with, 197<br />

colophony, 127<br />

colors, see Jung, Carl;<br />

Kandinsky, Wassily;<br />

and under individual colors<br />

condoms, 70<br />

congelation, 122–4, 145<br />

coniunctio, 163, 178–9<br />

Constantine of Pisa, 109<br />

convalescence, 76<br />

convection, 36<br />

copal, 123<br />

Copernicus, 108<br />

copper, 23, 27, 30, 31, 56, 109, 146<br />

as Venus, 65<br />

black, 82<br />

burnt, 82<br />

color of flame, 66<br />

resinate, 19, 170<br />

sulfate, 33, 35, 116<br />

symbols of, 79, 101, 179<br />

copperas, 28<br />

coral, 24, 28<br />

extract of, 65<br />

cornstarch, 22<br />

Corot, Jean-Baptiste Camille, 196<br />

counting, 43<br />

Courbet, Gustave, 37<br />

cream, 57, 140<br />

creation of the world, 72, 77–78, 84<br />

creative process, 121<br />

crocus, 53<br />

Croll, Oswald, 198<br />

Cronos, 64<br />

crow, 141<br />

crucible, 29<br />

symbol of, 182<br />

crystals, 27, 36, 38–39, 82, 105, 140<br />

rock crystal, 56<br />

cuchul, 32<br />

cucurbit, 127<br />

Culling, Louis, 164<br />

Damisch, Hubert, 45, 110, 196<br />

dammar, 123<br />

darkness, 85<br />

death, 141–4, 185<br />

decoction, 145<br />

decrepitation, 144<br />

Dee, John, 44, 46, 57, 78–9, 113, 168<br />

deer, see stag<br />

delimiter, salt as, 105<br />

deliquium, 144<br />

denary, 47<br />

depression, see melancholic humor<br />

dew, 72, 81, 126<br />

see also fog, rain, water<br />

Devil, see Lucifer<br />

diad, see dyad<br />

diaphoretic, 126<br />

diarrhea, 70<br />

digestion, 137–9, 161<br />

dipingere di <strong>to</strong>cco, 52<br />

dissolution, 27<br />

distillation, 54, 125–30, 144–5, 150–<br />

1<br />

of Eve, 161<br />

symbol of, 125<br />

doc<strong>to</strong>r philosophies, 165<br />

Doerner, Max, 171–3<br />

double coiler, see balneum Mariæ<br />

double saline media<strong>to</strong>r, 55<br />

dragon, 24, 49, 77, 185<br />

wingless, 123<br />

dualism, 42–3<br />

Dubuffet, Jean, 37–8, 45<br />

Du Chesne, Joseph, 116

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