Sulfur — soul and heart
combustive principle
Sulfur names the active, combustible, and aromatic principle and is shown as a soul-and-heart focus. The heart placement is an editorial target-organ projection of vitality and heat, not a textual anatomical assertion or a claim about a sulfur-containing medicine.
Point 2 of 3 in Spagyric Plant Arcanum
Cross-tradition overlaps
No overlapping points are registered for this point.
Sources
Paracelsus, Liber Paragranum (primary_canonical)
Book I sets out sulfur, mercury, and salt as principles of natural bodies; see Book I, the sections on the three principles and the preparation of medicines.
Robert Bartlett, Real Alchemy: A Primer of Practical Alchemy (secondary)
Modern practical account of alchemical operations and the spagyric sequence; see the chapters on plant work and the three principles.