Sølv er et metallisk grunnstoff som tilhører edelmetallene. Kjemisk betegnelse: Ag (fra det latinske ordet Argentum, som betyr «hvit og skinnende»)
I naturen finnes sølv som korn, tråder, og klumper. Rent sølv er svært mykt
Den sølvaktige månen ble assosiert med den jomfruelige greske gudinnen Artemis, jaktgudinnen med sølvpilen, og den romerske gudinnen Diana.
Artemis. Maleri av Peter Paul Rubens
Jomfru Maria er også ofte avbildet stående på månen
Mondsichelmadonna fra Meran
Sølv er et metall som trenger mørke for å reagere. På en engelsk webside om sølv heter det:
Today, in the delicate chemistry of silver we may trace its Moon-nature. It is a metal which requires darkness for its reactions. A photographer needs darkness in his studio to work with this metal. Special bottles and pipettes made of dark glass are used for solutions of silver, and its salts are quickly spoilt by exposure to the light of day.
Silver and gold are the two metals which show an intimate connection with light in their chemistry, although in opposite ways. The Sun produces the different colours of day, whereas the Moon shining only by reflected light gives the black, white and grey tones of a moonlit scene. Gold itself produces the different colours, one feels its outgoing radiance, whereas silver receives light images passively, it is precipitated from solution by light. The silver images of photography are only in black white and grey, and for colour film salts other than silver must be used. Astrologers associate the Moon with the faculty of imagination, of fantasy, as for example in imaginative writers or dreamy poets. The same property is seen in the way silver is able to create images. In photography it creates a memory-image of the past, in mirrors it gives an image of what is in present time before it. Today, most mirrors are made by coating glass with silver. When looking at a mirror we never feel we are looking at a sheet of silver. There is a certain receptiveness and passivity here, and similarly when looking at a photograph it never occurs to us that we are really looking at the differential precipitation of colloidal silver. We are not aware at all of the metal but only of the image it provides.
Følgende egenskaper kan karakterisere sølv: reflekterende, billedskapende, mottakende, sensitiv, ren.
There is a resurgence of interest in colloidal silver for combatting colds and viruses, and it could well be that there is no more useful bottle to have available in the family medicine cupboard. To quote Best , “Ongoing research may eventually restore silver to its once-accepted status as probably the most versatile and effective natural agent against bacteria, fungi and, recently, viruses available – with the hugely important bonus that the latter finds it almost impossible to develop any resistance to it.” Also, colloidal silver is being used in skincare creams for its antiseptic properties, being effective on oily skin which is prone to spots and itches. “Colloidal silver is Nature’s antibiotic and has an antimicrobial effect,” a herbalist at the London Fermacia clinic remarked, adding that it purified the skin.
Unus mundus. Flammarion tresnitt. Paris 1888
Innen alkymien kjenner vi til begrepet: Det alkymiske bryllup. Det beskriver målet for den utviklingsvei alkymisten må gå. Men det er en lang vei dit.
Prosessen innebærer et gjentatt alkymisk bryllup, bryllupet mellom vår sol og vår måne, Kongen og Dronningen, gull og sølv, det aktive og passive, det kvinnelige og det mannlige.
Dette må gjentas flere ganger, gjennom forskjellige stadier. Det blir død og gjenoppstandelse om igjen og om igjen. Oppløsning og forening.
Sølvet representerer her det "kvinnelige", Carl Gustav Jungs "anima".
Michael Maiers emblem nummer 30 fra Atalanta fugiens 1617
Yppersteprestinnen etter Rider-Waite
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