The ‘blood of the green lion’, which also goes under the code name of the ‘philosophers vitriol’, is the universal solvent that swallows the seven metals and gold.
Basil Valentine said that the solid blood of the red lion (the lapis, the sun) comes from the volatile blood of the green lion.
By D. Stolcius von Stolcenberg, Viridarium chymicum, Frankfurt, 1624 (from Alexander Roob’s ‘Hermetic Museum’)
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solvent that swallows the seven metals and gold.
