Newsgroups: alt.magick,alt.magick.serious
From: glass@panix.com (Robert Scott Martin)
Subject: Re: Elemental Qualities
Date: 8 Sep 2002 13:25:18 -0400

In article <d1bb921f.0209061515.2977c8be@posting.google.com>, 
[M] wrote:

>Yeah I much prefer the combination of the 4 elements with the 3
>alchemical elements/phases.  Fits nicely into a 4x3=12 system.

Often codified as the zodiac -- four cardinals (sulphurs), four mutables 
(mercuries), fourfold kerubim or fixations (salts).

Fractional distillation. Barbault may be fun in this respect (he was an 
astrologer before he made his run on the Stone), especially since his work 
was not only astrological but implicitly sexualized (what exactly was 
Madame Barbault up to in their long search for the Matter?). Gold of a 
Thousand Mornings.

>Dust?  DUST?!!!

Diamond dust dear. Virgo Astraea is inexorable and sublime (sublimed 
"soot" or graphite in fact) and interacts with light. Expensive!

[note followups: ., we are but passing across your field]