On occasion, instead of white we find green by chromatic analogy to the energies of vegetable life.
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Cf. Livre dc h misericorde(CAM. 3:168): "The Opus is wrought: through sever? things.• die spiritual, the corporeal [ 0 and C J and their combination, determined in Air. Water, Fire and Harth.”
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Boehme, Dc signatum, 9, §8; "In eternal nature as in external nature there are seven forms, which the ancient sages indicated by the names of the planets.” [£s sind vornehmlicb sic ben Gcs taken in dcr Natur. beides in dcr ewigen auSeren, dann die auficrcn gchen ai/s dcr cwigen. Die aken Wcisen ha ben den sicben Planeten Nmnen gegeben, nacb den sicben Ges taken der Natur. Trans J
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Corpus Hermedcum, 1.9. hot the sense of the Fluid and of the Fire, which is the substance of this passage, cf. Hippolytus (Philosophumaui, 6. §§7, H: "Rivers have been designated as the moist element of generation, and Fire the impetuous desire for generation." For the higher state, in this text as well as in the Corpus Hermedcum, "a new mail, who is androgynous" rs also mentioned.
