1 This characteristic of Mercurius is stressed in Aurora consurgens II, in Art. aurif., I, pp. 146 and 190: “He makes the nostrils [of the foetus] in the fifth month.”

2 Rosarium, pp. 252, 271.

3 Theatrum chemicum, I (1659), p. 169.

4 16th cent. British Museum, MS. Add. 10302.

5 Ripley, Opera, p. 35.

6 “Tractatus aureus,” Mus. herm., p. 39.

7 Rosarium, p. 282.

8 Basilius Valentinus, “Practica,” Mus. herm., p. 404.

9 “Introit. apert.,” ibid., p. 654.

10 Rosarium, p. 252.

11 Theatr. chem., I (1659), p. 600.

12 P. 183.

13 P. 19.

14 P. 308.

15 “Tractatus aureus,” Mus. herm., p. 39.

16 Mylius, Phil. ref., p. 308: “(Mercurius est) spiritus et anima corporis.” The same in Ventura, Theatr. chem., II (1659), p. 282, and in “Tractatus Micreris,” ibid., V (1660), p. 92.

17 Aegidius de Vadis, ibid., II (1659), p. 106.

18 Philaletha, “Metall. metamorph.,” Mus. herm., p. 766.

19 Abraham Eleazar, Uraltes Chymisches Werck, pp. 29ff. “Phyton is the life of all things,” p. 34.

20 Happelius, “Aphorismi Basiliani,” Theatr. chem., IV (1659), p. 327.

21 Verus Hermes (1620).

22 “Aquarium sap.,” Mus. herm., p. 85.

23 Steeb, Coelum Sephiroticum, p. 33.

24 Ibid., p. 39.

25 Happelius, loc. cit.

26 For instance, Djābir in Berthelot, Chimie au moyen âge, III, p. 169; Rosarium, in Art. aurif., II, p. 339; Hoghelande, Theatr. chem., I (1602), pp. 153, 183.

27 Theatr. chem., I (1659), p. 419. The same in Ripley, “Axiomata,” ibid., II (1659), p. 123.

28 “Tractatus aureus,” Mus. herm., p. 11. Here cited from Valentinus.

29 Steeb, Coelum Sephiroticum, p. 137.

30 Theatr. chem., II (1659), p. 231.

31 Ibid., V (1660), p. 129.

32 Berthelot, Alch. grecs, III, vi, 5.

33 Ibid., III, xxviii, 5.

34 Ibid., IV, vii, 2.

35 Ibid., I, xiii, 3. [Cf. supra, “The Visions of Zosimos,” pars. 97ff.]

36 Berthelot, Moyen âge, III, p 63.