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Jacob, vision of, 83
Jesus, 44, 56, 154–7, 184–8
jewelry, 130–2
Jocasta, 159
Josten, Conrad Hermann, 113
juices,
acid, 28
fig, 20, 82
metallescent and
mineralescent, 27
oily, 28
vegetable, 21, 23
see also succus, superfluid
Jung, Carl, 4, 6–7, 73–5, 154–6, 198
theory of colors in alchemy, 60,
63, 66, 178–80
Jungius, Joachim, 112
Jupiter,
as tin, 65
planet, 107
Jurain, Abtala, 108–9
kabbalah, 169
Kabbalah and Criticism, 7
Kandinsky, Wassily, 88–9
Karpenko, Vladimír, 112
kerosene, 26, 127
kerotakis, 132
Kervran, C.Louis, 198
Khunrath, Heinrich, 73, 113, 154,
184, 187
kill in order to create, 143
King, 81–2, 125–6, 151, 166–7, 198
knowledge and ignorance, 54
Korinth, 39
labor, 37, 72–3, 165, 175
as a cycle, 178
see also Great Work
laboratory, 37, 73
Lacan, Jacques, 43
ladder, 83
ladders, 179
lamb, 83
Lampadem vitæ et mortis, 194
Lamp Black, 115, 119
lapides idiomorphoi, 28
lapidificus spiritus, 26
lapis lazuli, 20–1, 32
Larkin, Philip, 10
Last Supper, 37
Laton, 83
lavender blossoms, 150
Lavender Mist, 89–94
laxative, 126
lead, 20, 23, 27, 30, 31, 56, 75, 80, 84,
95
as Saturn, 65
carbonate, 21, 75
oxide, 128, 220 n.6
sulfide, 32
Lead White, 12, 15, 21, 50, 51, 119,
195
and X-Rays, 174
Lead-tin white, 19
Leonardo da Vinci, 37, 85
leprosy, 77
Levi, Primo, 64
Levine, Sherrie, 125, 153
Libavius, Andreas, 102
Library of Congress, 6
Liebermann, Max, 176
light and darkness, 54
lignum nephriticum, 185
lily flowers, 150
limation, 144
lime, 23, 82, 140
plaster, 21
see also calcium oxide
linen, 169
linseed oil, see oil
lion, 53, 178
as the man, in sexual alchemy,
163
green, 168
limbless, 123
winged and wingless, 53
see also Green Lion