AtDTDA 37 1060Silver is alive

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Make a transparency, put some light through it.
It's Lew and Merle, passing it on as Merle and
Webb did so many pages back—page 76, rife with
alchemical allusion. Lots of Quicksilver, when refined
all the way out it becomes Philosophic Mercury.
Pages 76, 77, 78—re-read these pages, it all applies to
to the integroscope.

          Silver and the Moon

          The pure silvery Moon was associated with the chaste 
          Moon goddesses, Artemis, 'the Huntress with the Silver 
          Bow', and Diana, whose images were cast from silver. 
          The silversmiths of Ephesus who made such images 
          are referred to in the New Testament.

          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.

more at:
http://www.skyscript.co.uk/metal.html