Metal

Silver

A metal and a colour term; the graph may use either kind without duplicating the noun.

7 correspondences · 2 with an ancient or scriptural source · 0 with no source located

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The oldest attribution here is Metal of Moon, first attested 175 CE.

Metal of

  • Moon

    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

    1. Celsus, The True Doctrine, c. 175–180 CE — Origen, Contra Celsum VI.22

      Ancient primary · repeats · Fragments in Contra Celsum, Ante-Nicene Fathers translation

      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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    2. Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus, After 1248; probably completed 1261–1262 — Book III, tractate I, chapter 6, pp. 168–169

      Esoteric primary · repeats · Book of Minerals, Dorothy Wyckoff translation (in copyright: locator only)

      Albert gives all seven planet–metal names in one passage and attributes the opinion to earlier Hermetic and alchemical writers.

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    3. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, 1509–1510, revised through 1533 — Book I, chapter 24

      Esoteric primary · repeats · English translation, J.F., London 1651

      Agrippa explicitly includes Silver among the materials placed under Moon.

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  • Moon

    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

    1. Celsus, The True Doctrine, c. 175–180 CE — Origen, Contra Celsum VI.22

      Ancient primary · repeats · Fragments in Contra Celsum, Ante-Nicene Fathers translation

      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

    1. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, 1509–1510, revised through 1533 — Book I, ch. XXVI

      Esoteric primary · systematises · London: Gregory Moule, 1651

      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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  • Moon

    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

    1. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, 1509–1510, revised through 1533 — Book I, ch. XXIV

      Esoteric primary · systematises · London: Gregory Moule, 1651

      Amongst Metals, , Silver;

      What things are Lunary, or under the power of the Moon.

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  • Venus

    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

    1. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, 1509–1510, revised through 1533 — Book I, ch. XXVIII

      Esoteric primary · systematises · London: Gregory Moule, 1651

      Amongst Metals, , Silver, and Brass, both yellow, and red;

      What things are under the power of Venus, and are called Venereall.

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Seal metal of

  • Earl

    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. Earls take copper and silver together — 'alike equal' — which the book gives as one instruction. Crowley speculates in the same note that Earls' seals ought to be iron, since otherwise Mars is left out of the seven planetary metals. That is his reasoning and not the book's, and it is not seeded.

    Evidence

    1. Solomon, Lemegeton, Compiled mid-17th century from older material — Classified List of the 72 Chief Spirits

      Esoteric primary · originates · The Goetia: The Lesser Key of Solomon the King

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  • Marquis

    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

    1. Solomon, Lemegeton, Compiled mid-17th century from older material — Classified List of the 72 Chief Spirits

      Esoteric primary · originates · The Goetia: The Lesser Key of Solomon the King

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