| 词条 | Suns in alchemy |
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In alchemic and Hermetic traditions, suns () are used to symbolize a variety of concepts, much like the sun in astrology. Suns can correspond to gold, citrinitas, generative masculine principles, imagery of "the king", or Apollo, the fiery spirit or sulfur,[1] the divine spark in man,[2] nobility, or incorruptibility. Recurring images of specific solar motifs can be found in the form of a "Dark" or "Black Sun", or a green lion devouring a sun. Sol nigerSol niger (black sun) can refer to the first stage of the alchemical magnum opus, the nigredo (blackening). In a text ascribed to Marsilio Ficino three suns are described: black, white, and red, corresponding to the three most used alchemical color stages. Of the sol niger he writes: {{quote|The body must be dissolved in the subtlest middle air: The body is also dissolved by its own heat and humidity; where the soul, the middle nature holds the principality in the colour of blackness all in the glass: which blackness of Nature the ancient Philosophers called the crows head, or the black sun.|Marsilius Ficinus, "Liber de Arte Chemica"[3]}}The black sun is used to illuminate the dissolution of the body, a blackening of matter, or putrefaction in Splendor Solis,[4] and Johann Daniel Mylius’s Philosophia Reformata.[5] In popular culture{{Main|Alchemy in art and entertainment}}Sol niger imagery can be found in the recent works of musicians including:
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References1. ^Pamela Smith. Merchants and Marvels: Commerce, Science, and Art in Early Modern Europe. Routledge. 2001. p. 41. {{Alchemy}}{{philosophy-stub}}2. ^Titus Burckhardt. Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul. Penguin. 1967. p. 91. 3. ^Marsilius Ficinus, "Liber de Arte Chemica". Theatrum Chemicum, Vol. 2, Geneva, 1702, p. 172–183. Transcribed by Justin von Budjoss. 4. ^[https://web.archive.org/web/20140329215244/http://www.rosicrucianis.org/html/en/library/historical-writings-on-alchemy/splendor-solis/plate-xix-the-fifth-treatise-part-i-1st-chapter.html Splendor Solis]. 1582. Retrieved 2012-10-17. 5. ^Stanislas Klossowski de Rola. The Golden Game: Alchemical Engravings of the Seventeenth Century. 1988. p. 170, 180. 1 : Alchemy |
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