Through the Alchemists' Eyes?

topic posted Sun, November 11, 2007 - 9:52 PM by  MacMorrighan
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Hey guys, for anyone who's studied the occult srts and sciences, they will be intimately familiar with a very similar "Table" of Correspondences:

* The Moon = Monday = Silver = White
* Mars = Teusday = Iron = Red
* Mercury = Wednesday = Mercury = Purple or mixed colours
* Jupiter = Thursday = Tin = Blue
* Venus = Friday = Copper = Green
* Saturn = Saturday = Lead = Black
* The Sun = Sunday = Gold = Yellow

Albeit, they are found within The [Greater] Key of Solomon, where do these attributations come from? While some of them are very common-sense; others are not! For example, copper oxide is green and when copper is exposed to fire that flame will burn green; Aphrodite even had a famous Temple on Cypress (from a Greek term for copper) which was famous for its copper mines. But, what about some other associations in this list: Jupiter, Thursday, Tin and the colour Blue? How did an attributation such as this come about in the minds of Alchemists? From whence did it evolve? Though, one wonders if there's something *more* to the attributations between Red, Tuesday, Mars and Iron; and Green, Friday, Venus and Copper?
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MacMorrighan
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