Cayce
"Pluto and Vulcan are one and the same." [Cayce (826-8)]
Vulcan-Hephaestus
Vulcan (lat. Vulcanus) in ancient Roman mythology is the god of destructive and cleansing fire. Initially responsible for heavenly fire. [Vulcan-Hephaestus, antique fresco from Pompeii.]
Paracelsus
The office of Vulcan is the separation of the good from the bad. So the Art of Vulcan, which is Alchemy, is like unto death, by which the eternal and the temporal are divided one from another. So also this art might be called the death of things.
-De Morbis Metallicis, Lib. I., Tract III., c. 1.
Vulcan is an astral and not a corporal fabricator.
-De Caduco Matricis, Par. VI.
The artist working in metals and other minerals transforms them into other colours, and in so doing his operation is like that of the heaven itself. For as the artist excocts by means of Vulcan, or the igneous element, so heaven performs the work of coction through the Sun. The Sun, therefore, is the Vulcan of heaven, accomplishing coction in the earth.
-De Icteritiis.
Vulcan is the fabricator and architect of all things, nor is his habitation in heaven only, that is, in the firmament, but equally in all the other elements.
-Lib. Meteorum, c. 4.
Where the three prime principles are wanting, there also the igneous essence is absent. The Igneous Vulcan is nothing else but Sulphur, Sal Nitrum, and Mercury.
-Ibid., c. 5. [Paracelsus]
See Also
Alchemy
Alchemical Marriage
Astrology
Astronomy
Decay
Jupiter
Mars
Mercury
Solar System
Soul
Stages of Soul Development
Uranus
Venus
Will