1 Theatr. chem., I (1659), p. 470.

2 Aegidius de Vadis, ibid., II (1659), p. 105.

3 “Aquarium sap.,” Mus. herm., p. 84; Trevisanus, in Theatr. chem., I (1659), p. 695; Mylius, Phil. ref., p. 176.

4 “Aurelia occulta,” Theatr. chem., IV (1659), p. 506.

5 “Brevis manuductio,” Mus. herm., p. 788.

6 Valentinus, “Practica,” ibid., p. 425.

7 Mylius, Phil. ref., p. 18; “Exercitationes in Turbam,” Art. aurif., I, pp. 159, 161.

8 Dorn, in Theatr. chem., I (1659), p. 420.

9 “Aquarium sap.,” Mus. herm., p. 111. [Cf. infra, par. 384. n. 5.]

10 “Summarium philosophicum,” ibid., pp. 172f.

11 Cf. the snake vision of Ignatius Loyola and the polyophthalmia motif discussed in “On the Nature of the Psyche,” pp. 198f.

12 “Tractatus aureus,” Mus. herm., p. 25.

13 “Consilium coniugii,” Ars chemica (1566), p. 59.

14 Rosarium, in Art. aurif., II, p. 208.

15 Khunrath, Hyl. Chaos, p. 218.

16 Theatr. chem., IV (1659), pp. 501ff.

17 I read vi instead of vim.

18 This paradox recalls the Indian asat (non-existing). Cf. Chhāndogya Upanishad, VI, ii, 1 (Sacred Books of the East, II, p. 93).

19 Art. aurif., II, pp. 239, 249.

20 “Introit. apert.,” Mus. herm., p. 653.

21 “Gloria mundi,” ibid., p. 250.

22 Aurora consurgens I, Parable VII.

23 Ruland, Lexicon alchemiae, p. 47.

24 Theatr. chem., I (1659), p. 510.

25 Hyl. Chaos, p. 62.

26 Phil. ref., p. 19.

27 Happelius in Theatr. chem., IV (1659), p. 327.

28 Phil. ref., p. 5.

29 La Vertu et propriété de la quinte essence, p. 15. The “metal of the philosophers” will become like “heaven,” says the “Tractatus Micreris,” Theatr. chem., V (1660), p. 100.

30 Khunrath, Hyl. Chaos, p. 195.

31 Manget, Bibliotheca chemica, I, p. 478b.

32 IV Ezra 13 : 25-53. Cf. Charles, Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, II, pp. 618f.

33 In Aureum vellus (1598), Tract 3: Splendor Solis (1920 facsimile), p. 23, PI. VIII.

34 Ruland, Lexicon alchemiae, p. 47.

35 John Dee in Theatr. chem., II (1659), p. 195; Rosarium, in Art. aurif., II, p. 309.

36 Eleazar, Uraltes Chymisches Werck, p. 51. Adam Kadmon is the Primordial Man; cf. Mysterium Coniunctionis, ch. V.

37 “Paracelsus as a Spiritual Phenomenon,” supra, pars. 165ff., and Psychology and Alchemy, index, s.v.

38 Gayomart also is a kind of vegetation numen like Mercurius, and like him fertilizes his mother, the earth. At the place where his life came to an end the earth turned to gold, and where his limbs disintegrated various metals appeared. Cf. Christensen, Les Types du premier homme et du premier roi dans l’histoire lègendaire des Iraniens, pp. 26, 29.

39 Senex draco in Valentinus, “Practica,” Mus. herm., p. 425. In Verus Hermes (1620), pp. 15, 16, Mercurius is also designated with the Gnostic name “Father-Mother.”

40 “De arte chimica,” Art. aurif., I, p. 581. Regius puellus in “Introit. apert.,” Mus. herm., pp. 678, 655.

41 Art. aurif., I, p. 310. Here it is the stone identical with Mercurius that is so called. The context disallows the reading “anni.” The passage which follows soon after, “nascitur in duobus montibus,” refers to the “Tractatus Aristotelis” (Theatr. chem., V, 1660, pp. 787ff.), where the act of defecation is described. (Cf. supra, “Paracelsus as a Spiritual Phenomenon,” par. 182, n. 61.) Corresponding illustrations for Aurora consurgens may be found in the Codex Rhenoviensis.

42 Ch. XXVIII. Cf. Reitzenstein and Schaeder, Studien zum antiken Synkretismus aus Iran und Griechenland, p. 119.