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[Alexandr Korol]

One more thing I want to add is that in alchemical illustrations, it’s often shown how the influence of the Sun and Moon together with the third element creates something — but at the same time, the third element seems to be composed of the two. It’s as if there is the Sun, there is the Moon, and the Sun and Moon together form this star. I was looking for confirmation of this, and I found it. And here it’s shown very clearly: on the left we have a red triangle pointing upward — that’s fire; on the right we see a blue triangle pointing downward — that’s the Moon; and when they are combined, they form the star, that is, the third element, which is the star.