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sulfur, mercury and salt
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synonyms: red king, white queen ???
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Definition:The three base elements of the alchemists, corresponding to the male, female and "substance of physicality" respectively."
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questions of the threefold designation of God, the three primordial elements— sulphur, mercury, and salt— or the meaning of the square and all the various figures of the temple of Solomon.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: 06 (Book Six)
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SUR. What else are all your terms,
Whereon no one of your writers 'grees with other?
Of your elixir, your lac virginis,
Your stone, your med'cine, and your chrysosperm,
Your sal, your sulphur, and your mercury,
Your oil of height, your tree of life, your blood,
Your marchesite, your tutie, your magnesia,
Ben Jonson. The Alchemist (1610)
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