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 s<strong>to</strong>ne 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 McCrone Research Labora<strong>to</strong>ries, 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
236 WHAT PAINTING IS symbols of, 65, 79–80, 113, 123 synonyms for, 62 tincture of, 183 merga, 27 metals, 78–9, 82, 84 alloy of, 108–9 see also under individual metals metamorphosis, 121–2 metempsychosis, 132 Meyer, 39 mica, 32 Michelangelo, 99–100 microcosm, 81 triune, 187 milk, 21, 57, 70, 82, 168 Mil<strong>to</strong>n, John, 88 mineral, see water, mineral mineral oil, see oil, mineral mines, 28 monad, 43, 46–50, 80, 187 Mondrian, Piet, 125 Monet, Claude, 9–19, 30, 45, 96–7, 106–7, 115 moon, 53, 63, 82 as Luna, 39, 53, 151, 158 as silver, 65 spittle of, 82 planet, 107 tincture of, 56 moon-tree, 53 Moor, see Ethiops mineral mother, 82, 151, 157–60 Mother Eagle, 163 mould, 68–9, 76 movies, 124 mucus membranes, 163 mud, 69–70, 85 Muir, Pattison, 112 multiples, 41 multiplication, 145 mummies, 24, 149 musk, 149 Mylius, Johann Daniel, 29, 177–8 Mysterium coniunctionis, 156 Mystery of Picasso, The, 171 nail clippings, 149 naphtha, 127 Naples Yellow, 51, 106 National Gallery of Art, 7 Natural and Supernatural Things, On, 187 navel, 149 Neo-Expressionism, 121 Neptune, 185 neurosis, 94–5 New Age, 198–9 New Light of Phosphorus, 185 nickel, 31 nigredo, 63, 178 nitre, 28, 105 nitric acid, 182 symbol of, 222 n.17 nitrogen, 28 Noah, 87 Nolde, Emil, 117–9, 122, 141 numbers, 40–67 abstract and corporeal, 44, 57 even and odd, 47 triangular and square, 53 numerology, 42–3 Ochre, 13, 50, 93, 106, 195 Yellow Ochre, 12 octane, 26 Oedipus, 157–61 complex, 160 oil, 1–2, 20–1, 23, 25–6, 70, 126–8, 173 and water, 24, 37 as sulfur, 53 black, 20 crude, 127 diesel, 26 essential, 127 hazelnut, 123 linseed, 23, 104, 110, 123 mineral, 102
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