1 Aurora consurgens II, in Art. aurif., I, p. 212; Dorn, “Congeries Paracelsicae,” Theatr. chem., I (1659), p. 502; Mylius, Phil. ref., p. 245.

2 “Via veritatis,” Mus. herm., p. 200.

3 “Tractatus aureus,” ibid., p. 39.

4 “Aquarium sapientum,” ibid., p. 91.

5 Ibid., p. 90.

6 “There is no fire in all the work save Mercurius” (“Fons chymicae veritatis,” ibid., p. 803).

7 “Metall. metamorph.,” ibid., p. 766.

8 “At the Pole is the heart of Mercurius, which is the true fire, in which is the resting place of his Lord, sailing through this great sea” (“Introit. apert.,” Mus. herm., p. 655). A somewhat obscure symbolism!

9 “Aquarium sap.,” ibid., p. 84.

10 This is a purely psychological explanation having to do with human conceptions and statements and not with the unfathomable Being.

11 Figulus, Rosarium novum olympicum, Pars I, p. 71. This is the “domus ignis idem Enoch.” Cf. “Paracelsus as a Spiritual Phenomenon,” supra, par. 186.

12 “Ignis infernalis secretus . . . mundi miraculum, virtutum superiorum in inferioribus systema” (“Introit. apert.,” p. 654).

13 “Ignis in quo Deus ipse ardet amore divino” (“Gloria mundi,” p. 246).

14 “For it is he who overcomes the fire, and is himself not overcome by the fire, but rests in it as a friend, rejoicing in it” (Geber, “Summa perfectionis,” De alchemia, cap. LXIII, p. 139).