LEAD AND MERCURY EACH AS PRIME MATTER IN ALCHEMY

Prime Matter is matter-cum-energy. The first substance identified as such was lead. When gently heated it becomes red and redness means soul or energy so that lead was potentially red or soul-like and as such dual natured. Mercury also becomes red and can return to white metal. It was thus dual natu...

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Autor principal: Mahdihassan, S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 1988
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3336634/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22557603
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description Prime Matter is matter-cum-energy. The first substance identified as such was lead. When gently heated it becomes red and redness means soul or energy so that lead was potentially red or soul-like and as such dual natured. Mercury also becomes red and can return to white metal. It was thus dual natured and was the second substance recognized as Prime Matter. First lead alone and then lead and mercury were considered as the source of all metals.
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spelling pubmed-33366342012-04-27 LEAD AND MERCURY EACH AS PRIME MATTER IN ALCHEMY Mahdihassan, S. Anc Sci Life Original Article Prime Matter is matter-cum-energy. The first substance identified as such was lead. When gently heated it becomes red and redness means soul or energy so that lead was potentially red or soul-like and as such dual natured. Mercury also becomes red and can return to white metal. It was thus dual natured and was the second substance recognized as Prime Matter. First lead alone and then lead and mercury were considered as the source of all metals. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 1988 /pmc/articles/PMC3336634/ /pubmed/22557603 Text en Copyright: © Ancient Science of Life http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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LEAD AND MERCURY EACH AS PRIME MATTER IN ALCHEMY
title LEAD AND MERCURY EACH AS PRIME MATTER IN ALCHEMY
title_full LEAD AND MERCURY EACH AS PRIME MATTER IN ALCHEMY
title_fullStr LEAD AND MERCURY EACH AS PRIME MATTER IN ALCHEMY
title_full_unstemmed LEAD AND MERCURY EACH AS PRIME MATTER IN ALCHEMY
title_short LEAD AND MERCURY EACH AS PRIME MATTER IN ALCHEMY
title_sort lead and mercury each as prime matter in alchemy
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3336634/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22557603
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