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 Magnesia of the Philosophers, i. 117; Magnesium and Saturn produce Luna, i. 15; Magnesia and Antimony, i. 8.

Magnet, i. 17; its power over diseases, 17 n.; phenomena of, 132; life of, 136; mortification of, 145; attractive virtues, ii. 59; medical uses of, 216.

Magnum Opus, i. 201 n.

Man the true quintessence, i. 52 n.; created from the Limbus, 66 n.; exemplar and type of all things, ii. 148; conception of, 291.

Mandragora, ii. 334.

Mania, ii. 128.

Manna, i. 137, 193; ii. 74, 130.

Manual Art, ii. 294, 295, 297, 309, 310.

Marble, Sulphur of, i. 266.

Marcasites, lixivium of, transmuted into Venus, i. 28; their generation, 109; 223, 256, 266; separation of elements from, ii. 16, 50; magistery of, 53; medical uses of, 203, 204.

Mars, his properties, i. 7; component elements of, 7 n.; sulphur of, 266; Mercury of, 280.

Martagon, i. 53.

Mastic, ii. 59.

Matrix, i. 233.

Matter of the Philosophers compared to a golden tree, i. 54.

Matter of the Stone, its colours, i. 54; 64; rule of its discovery, 65; Sol and Luna the Matter of the Stone, ib.; ii. 112.

Matter, ultimate, i. 237, 240.

Mechili, ii. 261.

Medicine of Metals, i. 28.

Meligia, i. 227.

Melosiniæ, ii. 254, 258, 271, 273, 346.

Menstruum, i. 301.

Mercurialis, i. 249.

Mercurius the wisest of the Philosophers, i. 66.

Mercury, two genera, i. 5 n.; congelation of, 12; warm nature of, 14; extraction of heat of, ib.; coldness of, ib.; Mercury the body of every precious stone, 17 n.; coagulation of, 53, 54; conversion into Luna, ib.; Mercuiy in metallic counterfeits, 57; fixed oil from, ib.; tincture of a supreme secret, 81 n.; mortification of, 142; precipitate of, ib.; calcination of, 143; dual Mercury, 297; fire of, 301; Mercury of the Philosophers, 119, 250, 298; sulphur of, 107; Mercury of gold, 196; the sperm of Sol and Luna, 65; body, spirit, and soul of, 66; coagulation by lead, 45 n.; Mercurius vivus, 12, 117, 118, 119, 126, 149, 164, 165, 308; corporal Mercury, 187, 320, 321, 323, 326; Mercury transmuted into Luna, 307; into Sol, 307, 308; into a stone, 308; coagulation of, 311; calcination of, 314; preparation with marcasites, ib.; Mercury from Jupiter and Saturn, 320; Mercury of Saturn, 320, 324, 328; Mercury of all metals, 320; Mercury from all bodies, 320, 328; Mercury of the body, 323, 324, 325, 326, 329, 330, 331, 332; Mercury of Jupiter, 326, 333; Mercury of Luna, 328, 329, 333; metals connected with Mercury, 318; Mercury of Sol or Luna, 330; extraction of Mercury of the Moon, 332; water of Mercury, 334; malleable Mercury, 336; fixation of, ib.; Mercury of life, ii. 29, 30, 50, 90; the third arcanum, 38, 43; medical uses of, 230. See also i. 195, i. 36, i. 288, i. 293; ii. 125 n., 336; Mercurial water the first beginning of metals, i. 90.

Meritorium, ii. 277.

Mesne, ii. 99, 156.

Metals, not devoid of life, i. 117 n.; generation of, 125, 248; regeneration of, 126; radical moisture of, 290; transmuted into stones, i. 16.

Microcosmus, consists of four elements, ii. 3 n.; contains all minerals, ib. See also ii. 289, 318.

Migdalio, ii. 129.

Mineral Menstruum, i. 299.

Minerals, method of seeking, i. 15; ultimate matter of, 90; minerals out of arsenic, 315; augmentation of, ib.; antimoniacal minerals, ib.; reduction of the minera, ib.

Minium, i. 143; ii. 124.

Mixture, spiritual mixture and communion of the metals, i. 9.

Monstrous Births, i. 121, 122.

Monstrous growths, i. 173, etc.

Moon, digestion of, i. 315; quintessence of, ii. 26.

Morphea, ii. 53.

Morsus Diaboli, i. 189.

Mucilage, i. 243.

Multiplication, i. 317.

Mumia, i. 131; mumia and man, 131 n.; mumia and balsam, ib.; mumia and sweet Mercury, 169; extraction of mumia, ii. 337.

Muria, i. 160.

Must, magistery of, ii. 56.

Myrrh, i. 272.

Mysterium Magnum, i. 201 n.

Narcissus, i. 130.