Alchemy by Dennis William Hauck

Author:Dennis William Hauck
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780744053517
Publisher: DK Publishing

The Melancholic (Earth) Humor

Hippocrates associated Earth with the Melancholic humor of black bile, which probably refers to waste products associated with digestion, such as stool, from which useful energy has been removed, leaving only the dregs or ashes of matter behind. Melancholic people tend to be apathetic, passive, stubborn, and sluggish, though they are practical. Because Earth is the principle of structure and materialization, the Melancholic humor is dominant in the person who focuses on physical reality and tends to exhibit the qualities of perseverance, inflexibility, realism, and pragmatism. In Aristotle’s terms, such people are cool and dry.

The Four Humors: Phlegmatic (Phlegm), Sanguine (Blood), Melancholic (Black Bile), and Choleric (Yellow Bile).

(From Quinta Essentia by L Thurneisser, 1574)

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