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stannic sulfide, 183
star of David, 64
Starkey, George, 185
Stella, Frank, 93
Stellated Regulus of Antimony,
181
stone, 26–8, 61
animal, 83
Eagle, 82
Halcyon, 28
marine, 28
marrow, 27
of Assos, 28
see also fossil;
marble;
philosopher’s stone;
sand;
seed, stone;
water,
stone-forming
stones, lord of the, 83
stratum super stratum, 65
Structures of the Elements, 38–39
studio, 147–67
art historical sense of, 194
furniture of, 149
sublimate
symbol for, 182
sublimation, 79, 130–2, 145
symbol for, 140
substances, 96–116
as hypostases, 45
see also materia prima
succen, 32
succus, 26
succi acres, 28
succi pingues, 28
sugar, 16
sulfates, 32
sulfides, color of flame of, 66
sulfur, 20, 23, 28, 30, 38–9, 56, 82,
87–8, 103–4, 110, 127, 142
and mercury, 53–4
as bodily fluid, 162
INDEX 241
as father of the hermaphrodite,
151
as hot, 62
as mercury, 62–3
as oil, 53
as the female principle, 179
black, 31, 39
liver of, 88
purple, 39
red, 31
symbol of, 65
violet or purple, 39, 132
Western, 149
Summa perfections, 30–4, 187
sun, 53, 63, 106, 168
as gold, 65
as planet, 108
as Sol, 53, 151
planet, 107
heart and shade of, 82
sunlight, 182
sun-tree, 53
superfluid, 25
sweat, 126, 144, 161, 183
symbols, 64
see also under individual
substances
Tachenius, Otto, 83, 85
talc, 32
tallow, 123
tapioca, 70
tartar, 82
symbol of, 65
temperaments, 61
tempera painting, 2–3, 21, 102–3,
120, 123, 169
in El Greco, 172
temperature, 30
ten, 47
terminator, 105
terra fœtida, 70
tetrad, 43, 47, 57–64
tetraktys, 46–8