Alchemical Symbolism in the VMS

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I haven’t found a text that explains what form sulphur takes after mercury is separated out.  They just say “sulphur”.

This was certainly the wish of many alchemists. At least, this is presented as a next, final process:

"Purified and recombined mercury and sulphur could be converted to gold by heating."

Or:

One of the other prevailing theories behind transmutation was that the “seeds” of the metals, from which they “grew,” are Sulfur and Mercury. These aren’t literal sulfur and mercury — they’re generic terms for the innate quality (for lack of a better word) of metals that could melt and appear like mercury, such as tin and lead, or metals that could burn like sulfur, such as copper and iron. Sulfur and Mercury represented two complimentary principles that had to be united and balanced out in order to produce the Philosopher’s Stone.