Metal
Gold
A metal and a colour term; the graph may use either kind without duplicating the noun.
5 correspondences · 2 with an ancient or scriptural source · 0 with no source located
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The oldest attribution here is Metal of Sun, first attested 175 CE.
Metal of
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Sun
Traditional- Who says so
- Latin alchemical planetary metals (attested after 1248 through 1533)
- Earliest verified attestation
- 175 CE
- Ancient or scriptural source
- Attested
- Evidence
- The source states it
The complete seven-metal series is explicit in Albertus Magnus. The Agrippa citation is included only where the checked chapter explicitly names the same material; this edge does not claim exclusivity across all authors.
Evidence
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Celsus, The True Doctrine, c. 175–180 CE — Origen, Contra Celsum VI.22
This pair also appears in Celsus's much earlier Mithraic ladder, although four other assignments in that ladder differ from the medieval series.
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Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus, After 1248; probably completed 1261–1262 — Book III, tractate I, chapter 6, pp. 168–169
Albert gives all seven planet–metal names in one passage and attributes the opinion to earlier Hermetic and alchemical writers.
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Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, 1509–1510, revised through 1533 — Book I, chapter 23
Agrippa explicitly includes Gold among the materials placed under Sun.
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Sun
Traditional- Who says so
- Mithraic ladder reported by Celsus (attested c. 175–180 CE)
- Earliest verified attestation
- 175 CE
- Ancient or scriptural source
- Attested
- Evidence
- The source states it
The pairing belongs to the seven-gated ladder exactly as Celsus's report survives in Origen; it is not silently replaced by the later alchemical sequence.
Evidence
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Celsus, The True Doctrine, c. 175–180 CE — Origen, Contra Celsum VI.22
The preserved passage names the gate material and its planet explicitly.
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Jupiter
Traditional- Who says so
- Agrippan occult philosophy (1509–1533)
- Earliest verified attestation
- 1509 CE
- Ancient or scriptural source
- Not yet investigated
- Evidence
- The source states it
Evidence
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Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, 1509–1510, revised through 1533 — Book I, ch. XXVI
Amongst Metals, , Tin, Silver, and Gold, by reason of their temperateness:
What things are under the power of Jupiter, and are called Jovial.
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Saturn
Traditional- Who says so
- Agrippan occult philosophy (1509–1533)
- Earliest verified attestation
- 1509 CE
- Ancient or scriptural source
- Not yet investigated
- Evidence
- The source states it
Evidence
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Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, 1509–1510, revised through 1533 — Book I, ch. XXV
Amongst Metals, , Lead, and Gold, by reason of its weight, and the golden Marcasite.
What things are Saturnine, or under the power of Saturne.
Seal metal of
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King
Canonical- Who says so
- The Goetia's Classified List (compiled mid-17th century; this edition 1904)
- Earliest verified attestation
- 1600 CE
- Ancient or scriptural source
- Not yet investigated
- Evidence
- The source states it
The metal this rank's seal is to be made in, stated in the appendix.
Evidence
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Solomon, Lemegeton, Compiled mid-17th century from older material — Classified List of the 72 Chief Spirits