MYTHO-HERMETIC DICTIONARY A-D

Dom Antoine-Joseph Pernety

in which we find the fabulous allegories of the poet the metaphors, the enigmas and the barbaric terms of the Hermetic philosophers explained.


1787

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Aabam is the same as lead.

Abarthamen. See Saturn. Roland.

Abadir. Pierre whom Rhée substituted for Jupiter whom she had just brought into the world, and whom she presented to Saturn who was to devour him. Priscian.
In the system of the Hermetic Philosophers, it is the fixation of matter, which begins in the reign of Jupiter, after the color black. See Jupiter, Saturn, Rhea, Reign, and Book 3 of Unveiled Egyptian and Greek Fables, chap. 3 and following.

Abastor, Abastor. Name of one of the horses that pulled Pluto's chariot. Some have counted only three, Abaster, Amethea and Nonius;others, with Claudian (lib. I, from raptu Proserpinoe), admitted four, Aethon, Orphne, Nyctius and Abastor. Their names alone declare what was meant by these horses, that is to say, the putrefaction and volatilization of the matter of the Philosophers in the vase, while this matter is black, or has reached the black color, a sign of true dissolution. One of these names means black, the other obscure, the third night, etc. See the Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, Book. 3, c. 6.

Abesamen is the mud or sludge that clings to the axles of the wheels. Johnson.

Ablution in terms of Spagyric Philosophy, does not mean the action of washing something with water or other liquor;but to purify the matter which is in putrefaction, by means of a fire continued without interruption, until the matter, from black, becomes white. Here are the terms of one of them. Ablution is an abstinence or washing away of the blackness, stain, defilement, stench, etc., of matter, by the continuation of the second degree of the fire of Egypt. Anonymus Epist. ad Nortman, filium dilectum. The same says elsewhere that the Philosophers also understand by the waters, the rays and the glow of their fire.
The Ancients hid this ablution under the riddle of the Salamander, which they say fed in the fire; and incombustible flax, which is purified and whitened there,

Abneleitem is alum.

Aboit or abit, it's white lead.

Abramane is a name assumed to form Zoroaster's fiction of the creation of the world, and the manifestation of light. An anonymous Author, who assumes the name of Hermetic Philosopher without actually being so, wrote a dissertation on Abramane and Zoroaster. Its title is: Eloge du Poème lyrique de l'Opéra de Zoroaster. In Paris, at d'Houry fils, 1750. See Amelite.

To water is to digest, to cook the material of the great work. We say to water, because this matter, while volatilizing, rises in a kind of vapors which fall back on the earth remaining at the bottom of the vase. See Laver, Lavemens.

Abric is the sulfur of the Philosophers, not the sulfur of the vulgar, or any other natural mineral or metallic sulphur.See Sulfur.

Absemir, one of the names given by the Philosophers to the matter of Art.

Absyrthe, brother of Medea, whom she cut into pieces, and whose limbs she scattered on the path she took, fleeing with Jason. This fable signifies nothing other than the dissolution of matter in the second operation of the work. See the Fables unveiled, book. 2, c. I.

Abyla, mountain in Africa near the Strait of Gibraltar. It is one of the Pillars of Hercules. Today it is called Lamina. See the Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, Book. 5.Acaid

. It is one of the barbarous names given by the chemists to vinegar.

Acalach, or the Salt, according to the way of expression of the Cultists of the Spagyric Philosophy. Planiscampi.

Acalai,

Acanor, earthen pot with several holes in its bottom and sides, Johnson and Paracelsus.

Acartum, is one of the names of minium. Others call it Azimar.
Acato, or Soot.

Acazdir or Alcani, or Alomba. It is the same as the Jupiter of the Chymists, or tin. Johnson.

Accatum means tinsel, tinsel.

Acedia or Acadia following Planiscampi. Furnace used in Spagyric, so named because it requires very little care to keep the fire going.

Acetum acerrimum, Mercurial Water of the Sages.

Achachi or Water of Light: It is the Mercury of the Philosophers; so named because, by its active virtue, it purifies their brass, and makes it pass from the color black to white, which they call light.

Achamech. Some chemists have given this name to the dross of silver. Johnson.

Acheloys, River of Greece, which the Poets pretended to be son of the Sun and the Earth; ravaged all the land it watered; Hercules bound him.
This Acheloys, according to the Spagyric Philosophers, is the philosophical Mercury whose spirits consume and dissolve all that is put there. The Philosopher, like another Hercules, binds it, that is to say, fixes and coagulates these spirits according to the Art; and by this means tears off a horn, which becomes a cornucopia, that is to say, makes it the philosopher's stone, which, by its multiplication and its projection, enriches and produces the abundance of all kinds of goods. . See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 5.
Acheron, River of Hell, the first that presented itself to the shadows that descended into the Empire of Pluto. It is the first putrefaction of the matter before the entire dissolution. The Poets consequently claimed that the waters of this so-called river were stinking, bitter and of very bad taste. What made say to the Hermetic philosophers, that their mercurial water, in this state, is bitter, smelling the odor of the corpses, and very venomous. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, 1. 3. c. 6.

Acheruse, marsh or lake of Tesprotia, through which passes the river Acheron, which from there will rush into the Underworld. This is where Pluto escaped when he kidnapped Proserpina.See the explanation of this fable in the 4th book of Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled, ch. of Ceres.

Achilles, son of Peleus and Thetis, Hero without whom the Greeks could not have captured the city of Troy. See this fable and its explanation throughout the course of the 6th book of Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled.

Acid, philosophical Gold, sulfur of the Sages, or the magisterium reached the color red.

Steel. The Philosophers have spoken a great deal about their steel, among others the Cosmopolite and the Philalethes. This has given occasion to more than one chemist to look for the philosopher's stone in steel, the metal which is used to make tools;but in vain do they work on this metal as on the others. The steel of the Sages is the mine of their philosophical gold, a spirit pure above all, an infernal and secret fire, very volatile in its kind, and receptacle of superior and inferior virtues, the miracle of the world, which God has sealed of his seal, finally the key of all the philosophical work. It is the purest and most volatile part of matter, of which the Sages do the great work. It has no other name in any language, which does not signify the quintessence of the things of the Universe.
Accompanied. It is the Tuthie.

Acrise father of Danae, mother of Perseus, who cut off the head of Medusa, whose mother appearance turned all living beings into rocks. See this fable and its chemical explanation in the 3rd book of Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled, ch. 14. para. 3.

Accuo. Term of Spagyric Philosophy, which is used to signify red coral.

Acureb, means Glass. Planiscampi.

Acusto means Nitre.

Adabisi or Adebezi. Tortoise of the Spagyric Philosophers.

Adam is a name that the Philosophers gave to their magisterium when it is perfect in red, because their matter being the quintessence of the Universe and the first matter of all the individuals of Nature, it has a perfect relationship with Adam, in which God collected the purest substance of all beings, and that more over Adam, which signifies red, expresses the color and the qualities of the magisterium.

Adamite. A species of white tartar, or foliated earth, which the Hermetic Philosophers have named Adamic Earth, Tartar, Virgin Earth, Adamita, etc.

Adaptation. See Convenience.

Adarige. Name given by some chemists to armoniacal salt. It is also called adrige.

Adarnech, or Adarneth, or Azarnet.It is orpiment, in terms of chemistry.

Adarris. The flower or the salty foam of the water of the sea.

Addition. See Add.

Adebessi. It is the tortoise of the Philosophers, that is to say the bark which contains the true matter of the mercury of the Sages. An Author questioned what was the raw material of the Art, answered: it is the tortoise with the fat of the vine; and a philosophical emblem represents Basil Valentine preparing a tortoise with wine.

Adeg. Sour milk. Johns.

Adech. The Hermetic Philosophers give this name to the part of the man which we commonly call the snout;sometimes they also hear the mind, which forms common ideas of things in order to imitate them in the works of its hands.
Adehem or Alhohonec. Blade of iron, copper or other materials. Johnson.

Ader, or Ado, or Adho. Fresh, new milk from which the cream has been removed. Johnson.

Has. See Pluto.

Adhaec. Spirit that maintains life and movement in the body of animals. The Hermetic Philosophers distinguish in man three parts which constitute his humanity; knowledge, the soul, the spirit and the body. The immortal and spiritual soul which is nourished and maintained by God himself, as being a kind of extension of him, according to what Hermes says in his Asclepius;the spirit which holds as the medium between the soul and the body to unite them together, and which feeds on what is most subtle in nature, and on the quintessence of the elements, by means of the breath; and finally the filthy and earthly body, which feeds on earth and water, as having been composed of them. See the Treatise on Physics in the first volume of Egyptian and Greek Fables unveiled and reduced to the same principle,

Adhebe, same as Adec.

Adho. See Ader.

Adibat. Mercury of the Hermetic Philosophers.

Adirlapis. It's harmonica salt.

Admete, king of Thessaly, whose flocks Apollo, after having been expelled from Heaven, kept.Apollo having been treated well, obtained from the Fates that he should not die, if he found someone who was willing to offer himself to death for him. Alceste his wife and his lover presented herself, and was sacrificed. Hercules descended into the dark abode of Pluto, and having delivered Alceste, he returned her to Admete his friend. See Alceste.

Administer. To give, to provide, to procure.

Eligible This is philosophical land.

teen. See Ader.

Adoniades or Adoniennes. Feasts in honor of Adonis. See his article.

Adonis. The Fable tells us that Adonis was loved by Venus;that he was killed in the hunt by a furious boar, and that Venus being informed of it, hastened to him to succor him; she puts on her way a rosebush with white flowers, in whose thorns, having pricked her foot, blood came out which changed the white color of the flowers to red. The Syrians particularly worshiped Adonis, like the Egyptians Apis; both signified Philosophical Matter, which, loved by Venus, that is to say, by the Philosophical Moon, unites together and lends mutual aid. Isis and Osiris were husband and wife, brother and sister, son and mother; and the two stories are quite similar. A boar kills Adonis, Venus runs there; Typhon kills Osiris, Isis runs there: the latter picks up the scattered limbs of Osiris;Venus hides the wounded Adonis under a lettuce. All this allegorically represents what happens in the Philosophical vessel, as the Adepts know. See the explanation of this fiction in the Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, T. 2.

Worship. Barbaric term of chemistry, which means the weight of four pounds.

Teen or Adot. Rail water. It is done by reddening a piece of iron several times in the fire, and quenching it as many times in pure water.

Sweetening is the same as cooking. It is in this sense that Raymond Lully says that their fire sweetens sour and bitter things. The cooking of the Philosophers is only a pure digestion continued at the same degree of the fire of the Sages.

Adram, or rock salt.

Adraragi. One of the names which the ancient chymists gave to common saffron, and which the Hermetic chymists give to the material of their Art, when it has reached the saffron color by cooking.

Adraste. Nymph to whose care Rhea entrusted the education of her son Jupiter, after having saved him from the voracity of Saturn. See the Fables Egypt. and Greeks, lib. 3, c. 4.Drop

. Name which the Hermetic Philosophers gave to the matter which they employ in the great work. Guy du Mont (Guido de Monte) wrote a treatise entitled Philosophico Adrop, inserted in the sixth volume of the Théâtre Chymique.
Adsamar. This term is found in some Alchymists, to mean urine.

Adulphur. Ash, or sand.

Adama. The stone of the Philosophers reached the red, before it is elixir.

Æaque. V. Eaque - Eacus.

Æea. Isle where Circe stayed. See book 2, chap. I, Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled.

Hello. One of the Harpies. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 2, c. I.

Æson. Jason's father, according to the Fable, was rejuvenated by Medea, after she had him cut into small pieces, and cooked in a cauldron.This fable, according to the Chymists, signifies that the material of the great cover seems to die in the vase by putrefaction, and then revives, and so to speak, rejuvenates becoming powder to white and then to red. This is what can be seen in all the books of the true Philosophers. See the Fables cited in art. previous.

Aesphara. Incineration of animal flesh or body substance. Planiscampi.

Are you. King of Colchos, father of Medea, possessor of the Golden Fleece, which the Argonauts took from him. He was the son of the Sun. See what this fiction means, in the book. 2, c. 1 of Egyptian Fables. and Greeks unveiled.

Aethna.Mountain of Sicily, which always vomits flames or smoke. The Poets have claimed that Jupiter enclosed beneath one of the Giants who wanted to drive the Gods out of heaven; that the earthquakes, which one feels in the surroundings, are caused by the movements that this Giant gives itself, to choose a less awkward situation, and that the flames and the smoke which leave by the top of this mountain, are those of the forge of Vulcan, which this God, smith of the thunderbolts of Jupiter and the weapons of the Heroes, has established below. Some chymists give their fire the name of Æthna, because it acts perpetually, and is not always manifest.

Aethon. One of the horses that dragged Pluto's chariot. V. Abaster.

Æthra or Ethra.Daughter of Pitheus, wife of Aegean, and mother of Theseus. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, l. 6. c. 3.

Affax and Affaris. All kinds of trappings.

Affenique or Affenicum. Johnson says that the chemists give this name to the soul of things.

Affeos or Affros. Word corrupted from the Greek word aphros, scum. The chemists take it in the same sense.

Lease. To assure, to give for certain.

Affirm. It's the white lead.

Inflame. See Ignite.

Afformas. Old chemical term, which means glass.

Affragar.It is minimum according to Rullandus, and verdigris according to Planiscampi.

Affrengi. This is still the minimum.

Afrodin. Name which the Chymists have corrupted from the Greek Aphrodite, and by which they mean Venus, and copper.

Afroton. Frothy. See Affeos.

Afrop. Name that the Spagyric Philosophers give to the material of the great work.

Agalla. Prepared salt, according to Planiscampi.

Agamemnon. Leader of the army of the Greeks who laid siege to Troy. See his genealogy and history, and what they mean chemically, throughout Book 6 of Fables Egypt. and Greeks unveiled.

Agar.Name given to the lime of the Philosophers by the Alchymists, and to the common lime by some former followers of vulgar Chemistry. They also called it Algit, and Algerit..

Agazoph. See Periminal.

Golden Age or Golden Century. Time of the reign of Saturn. See what should be understood by the golden age, in the book. 2, c. 6 of Egyptian Fables. and Greeks unveiled.
Age also means reign, among the Philosophers. See Reign.
Agenor. Father of Cadmus and Europa. See the explanation of the fables invented under their names, book. 3 beds. 14. para. 5 of Fabs. Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled.

Agent. Alchymy recognizes several agents in the operation of the work, two potentially, and two actual, which put into action those who were at first only potential agents. The two actual agents are the celestial fire and the central fire, which prepare matter for the Artist. After the preparation of the stone made by the Artist, these two agents are reduced to one, which is the philosophical fire. The two potential agents are sulfur and the innate fire of matter, which to become actual agents need only be excited by the philosophical fire. There is still another agent about which the Philosophers have almost all kept silence, and even in appearance reject it; it is the elemental fire which they never name, and of which they speak only in riddles,to deceive and give torture to those who want to undertake the great work. After knowledge of the matter, the whole secret lies in the administration and regime of this fire.Agent. The internal agent of the Alchymists is the innate fire of matter, which being externally excited, digests, putrefies, and cooks that matter much better than elemental fire could do. This agent is the greatest secret of the Art; and to obtain it, one must behave like Thetis with Achilles. One of the Modern Writers on this Art (Pontanus) says, that it is mineral, equal, continual, that it does not produce vapors, if it is not excited with too much violence; that it partakes of sulphur, that it is not taken or drawn from matter, that it dissolves and collects, that it calcines,freezes and coagulates everything; that it is acquired by industry and by art, and that it costs little expense, if it costs some.

Lamb, is also one of the names of the material that true chemists use to make the Philosopher's stone. When this matter has passed through the various preparations required to purify it of its heterogeneous parts, it is sometimes given the name of spotless lamb, agnus immaculatus, as can be seen in the book entitled: Enarratio methodica trium Gebri verborum, composed by Philalethe.

Ah. Name given to the milk of the Philosophers, which they call milk of the Virgin, and which the vulgar chymists give to common milk.

Ahusal.It is Philosophical sulphur, and not vulgar sulphur, as most chymists have misinterpreted it, who have also named it Akibot, Alchimit.

Aiar, or Pierre Borique.

Aiarazath. See Alahabar.

Ajax. Greek hero who distinguished himself at the siege of Troy, and who, having raped Cassander in the temple of Minerva, was struck down by this Goddess as punishment for his crime. See his story, book. 6 of Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled. There was at the same seat another Hero of the same name, son of Telamon and Hesione, he disputed with Ulysses to have the arms of Achilles. See the book cited above.
Aibathest or Aibathest. Name which some chemists have given to the matter of purified stone and its heterogeneous parts; and reached white after putrefaction.

Helped. See Pluto.

Eagle. Name that the Hermetic Philosophers gave to their mercury after its sublimation. They called it that, first because of its volatility; secondly, because as the eagle devours the other birds, the mercury of the Sages destroys, devours, and reduces gold itself to its first matter by reincrusting it. Each sublimation, according to Philalethes, is an eagle; and although seven suffices, they can be pushed up to ten. Thus, when they say that it is necessary to put seven eagles to fight the lion, we do not mean, says the same Author, that it is necessary to put seven parts of mercury or volatile against the lion or a part of the fixed, but our mercury sublimated and exalted seven times.The more eagle there is against the lion, says Basile Valentin, the shorter the fight will be. Torment the lion, adds the same Author, until boredom overtakes him and he desires death. Do the same to the eagle until she cries; collect his tears and the blood of the lion, and mingle them together in the philosophical vase. All this means only the dissolution of matter, and its volatilization. The eagle was a bird consecrated to Jupiter, for the reason that the Mercury of the Sages vanishes, and takes the fixed with it, at the time that the Jupiter of the Philosophers, or the color gray, succeeds Saturn, or the color black.The eagle that Jupiter sent to devour the liver of Prometheus, also signifies only the action of the volatile on the fixed or igneous stone, which they called mine of celestial fire. This is why Prometheus was claimed to have stolen fire from heaven; and that, to punish him, Jupiter had him tied to a rock, which designates the fixed stone of the Sages, and that his liver, the hottest part of man, was continually devoured there by an eagle, some have said a vulture, which amounts to the same. This eagle was said, for this reason, daughter of Typhon and Echidna, that is to say of the putrefaction of matter. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 5, ch. 17.
The Spagyrics call Aigle the armoniacal salt, and the sublimed mercury, because of the facility with which they sublimate. But it is neither vulgar mercury nor the armoniacal salt of the druggists that one should hear; it is of those of the Philosophers.
Eagle devouring the lion. Hermetic Expression, which expresses the volatilization of the fixed by the volatile, or of sulfur by the mercury of the Sages.
Extended eagle. Armoniac salt sublimated in vulgar Chemistry, and volatilization of matter in the Hermetic sense.

flying eagle. Mercury of the Philosophers.

Sharp. This is the magisterium in red.

Magnetic. The Sages praised their magnet no less than their steel. But we must not imagine that this magnet is the vulgar magnet. They only ordered him that name because of his natural sympathy with what they call their steel. This is the mine of their gold, and the magnet is the mine of their steel. The center of this magnet contains a hidden salt, a menstruation capable of calcining philosophical gold. This prepared salt forms their mercury, with which they make the white and red magisterium of the Sages. It becomes a mine of celestial fire, which serves as ferment for their stone, to multiply it, to make of it the elixir, the powder of projection, and the universal medicine.And all this is done by a simple operation, without much cost, but in a little long time.

Add. One should not, by this term think that the Philosophers claim that it is necessary to add a new matter to that which is already in the vase, but only that it is necessary to continue to cook. And when they say we take nothing away, nor add anything to the stone, you have to hear them literally; but when they say next, we only take away the superfluous, and we add to it what it lacks, that is to say, we give it the perfection it did not have, by means of the operations of the magisterium.

Air.Is also a name that the Hermetic Chemists give to their subtilized mercury, and sublimated in white flowers, or very firm earth, which they also call the Bird of Hermes, the eagle, etc. Alexander says in the Peat, or Code of Truth, when you have drawn water from the air, air from the fire, and fire from the earth, you will have done all the work. Aristotle the chymist also says: it is necessary to change the air into water, to convert this water into fire, from this fire extract the air; for it is from fixed chemical fire, and from our water that we make air, which we must convert into fire, from which, by continuing the operation, we make earth, and of this earth fire. And so we convert the elements into each other, because by converting the elements we find what we are looking for.

Brass of Hermes. Term of chemistry, which the Hermetic Philosophers use to signify the imperfect body which they must use for the work of the stone. They also give it this name, before it is purified of its heterogeneities, as during the putrefaction and the continuous decoction that it needs to make it incombustible sulfur. They also call it Brass, Orpiment, Green Lion, Arsenic, and various other names which can be seen under the term Matter, and in the articles which concern them.

Black Brass. Matter of the Philosophers during putrefaction, or their brass which must be whitened.

White brass. It is whitened brass, or white stone.

Non-combustible Brass.Magisterium with perfect red, because then he no longer fears the attacks of fire.

Airazat. Some chemists have given this name to Saturn, but it must be understood from that of the Philosophers.

Aitmad. It is the vulgar antimony according to the Chymists, Saturnal or Philosophical antimony, when taken Hermetically. See the book Artephius on this subject.

Aizoi. Johnson gives this name to the houseleek, in his treatise on Lue Hungarica, p. 100.

Akem. Paracelsus used this term to mean cooked butter. Johnson.

Akibrit. See Alkibric.

Akilibat or Alotin. It is turpentine, according to Planiscampi.

Alabari or Airazat. Lead of the Philosophers, which they also called Heart of Saturn.It is properly the matter of the Art, which is drawn from the race of Saturn.

Alacab. Philosophical salt armonia, which vulgar chemists interpret as common salt armonia.

Alacap. See. Eagle of the Philosophers.

Alceani. Hermetic science term. It is the change of the superficial form of metals, like the dealbation of Venus, which is a false dyeing of wool or silver, etc. Planiscampi.

Alafar. It is the Philosophical vase, and not the glass vase which contains the material of the work.

Alafrangi. Action of washing and purifying burnt lead. Planiscampi.

Alafor, or Alkali Salt.

Alahabar or Alooc. Same as Alabari

Alartar. It is the æs-ustum, or burnt copper.
Alasalet. Some chemists have given this name to armoniacal salt.

Alastrob. See Alabari.

alatans. Name that some have given to the litharge. Johnson.

Alaurat. It is the Nitre of the Philosophers, and not the vulgar saltpeter on which so many Chemists have exercised themselves to no avail.

Alazar. Live Sulfur, or Ambrosian. It is reddish, transparent, and closely resembles fixed orpiment. Some chemists little versed in the true sense of the Hermetic Authors, particularly of Geber, have taken this sulfur for that of the Philosophers, which is none other than their matter which has reached the color of this Ambrosian sulfur, by means of Philosophical cooking.

Albait or Alfura. One of the names of white lead.

Albanum. Urine salt.

Albaras. Arsenic. Albestos. Unctuous and bituminous matter, combustible, and of the color of iron. It's found in Arcadia, and Johnson says you can't turn it off when it's on. I would believe that this Author is mistaken, and that he took the opposite meaning from that which was necessary, because the asbestos stone which is of two species, is called Albestes and Albeston. Both are incombustible. The ancients used the scissile, which resembles feather alum, to make a web in which they burned the bodies of the dead, to preserve the ashes. These two kinds of asbestos are found in the mountains of the Pyrenees.

Albar Aeris. Leafy Earth of the Philosophers, or their whitened brass, their Moon, their naked Diana; finally their matter reached the white.

Alberick. Copper stripped and bleached by a few chemical operations. We succeed with arsenic, but the copper remains brittle, and as if regulated. Albetud. The chemists have sometimes given this name to galbanum. Albification. See Blanch. Albimec. It is the orpiment. Albor. Urine. Alborach. Matter of the Philosophers reached whiteness. Alborca. V. Philosophical Mercury. Albos. Crucible. Albotar. Ceruse.

There also grows a plant, if we believe Pomet, which put in water to be retted there like hemp, and then worked in the same way, produces an incombustible canvas.

Albotim, Albotai, Albotra. Same as Albotar, or white lead.

Albusao. It is the sulfur of the Sages; some chemists have given this name to common sulphur.
Alcabrick .V. Alkibric.

Alcady. Vitriol or white attrament, or white salt of the Sages.

Alcafiel. Philosophical Antimony or Saturnian matter proper to the work of the Sages.

Alcalhal. Vinegar in terms of common chemistry; but this vinegar is not that of the Philosophers, which is nothing other than their pontic water, or their dissolving mercury.

Alcaligatam. Chemical composition made with mumie and alkali spirit; if one adds mild mercury to it, it is, says Planiscampi, an admirable remedy for gout, and especially if it proceeds from a remnant of venereal disease.

Alcamor. V. Alahabar.

Alkani. V. Acazdir.

Alcanna or Alcona.A kind of cane or hollow, gnarled shrub that the Arabs used to make pikes in the past. It is used today in medicine, instead of gayac. Johnson.

Alcohol. Sometimes means soured milk, and other times mercury. Johnson. This author should have said that in terms of Hermetic Philosophy, sour milk and mercury of the Sages are one and the same thing.

Alcebris Vivid. It is, in chemistry, living or natural sulfur; but in the Hermetic art it is the igneous stone, the matter which has reached red in the first operation of the Philosophers.
Alcaeus. v. Hercules.

Alceste. Daughter of Pelias and wife of Admete, offered her life to save that of her husband.Hercules descended into the Underworld; after binding Cerberus to it, he brought Alceste back to the abode of the living, and returned her to her husband. See the book. 5, ch. 21, from Egyptian Fables. and Greeks unveiled.

Alchabric. See Alkibric

Alchaest. See Alkaest.

Alcharit or Zaibach. It is mercury, but that of the Philosophers.

Alchazanon. Mud falling from grinding wheels. It makes an excellent putty. Johnson.

Alchieram. Name that some chemists have given to the dead head, which remains at the bottom of the gourd after distillation. Rullandus.

Alchitram.The same as Alchieram. We find this name in some chemists, to signify the oil of juniper, the liquid pitch, and Rullandus gives it to prepared arsenic.

Alchitura. It is liquid pitch.

Alchonor. V. Alahabar.

Alchymy. Almost all Authors vary on the definition of this science, because there are two kinds, one true and the other false. The first is defined, according to Denis Zachaire, as part of natural Philosophy, which teaches how to make metals on earth, by imitating the operations of Nature underground, as closely as possible. Paracelsus says that Alchymy is a science which shows how to transmute the kinds of metals into each other.
But the true definition that one can draw from all that the good Authors say about true Alchymy, is such: Alchymy is a science and the art of making a fermentative powder, which transmutes imperfect metals into gold and which serves as a universal remedy for all natural foods of men, animals and plants. False Alchymy cannot be better defined than the art of making oneself miserable both in terms of fortune and health.
The true consists in perfecting the metals, and maintaining health. The false to destroy both.
The first employs the agents of Nature, and imitates its operations. The second works on erroneous principles, and employs the tyrant and destroyer of Nature as its agent.The first, of a base material and in small quantity, makes a very precious thing. The second, of a very precious material, even gold, makes a very base material, smoke and ashes.
The result of the true is the speedy healing of all diseases that afflict mankind. The result of the fake are those same ailments, which commonly occur to blowers.
Alchymy fell into contempt, since many bad Artists imposed it on people who were too credulous and ignorant, by their deceits. Gold is the object of men's ambition; the dangers to which one is obliged to expose oneself on sea and on land, in order to obtain this precious metal, repel only a few people. A man introduces himself;he knows, he says, the way to grow in your own house the mining of all the treasures, without other risks than that of a part of those which you possess. On his verbiage, of which we do not know the falseness, because we are ignorant of the process of Nature, we allow ourselves to be won over, we sow our gold, and we only gather smoke; we ruin ourselves, we finally end up hating the impostor, and doubting the truth of the existence of Alchymy,
There are few true Alchymist Artists; there are many who work according to the principles of vulgar chemistry. The latter draw countless sophistications from their art; it is he who furnishes all these impostors, who, after having ruined themselves, seek to ruin the others.It is he who should be despised for these reasons, if there were no stronger ones to esteem him, for the great number of his discoveries useful to society. their science; they don't try to cheat other people's money, because, as Morien said to King Calid, he who has everything needs nothing. They share their goods with those who lack them. They do not sell their secret; if they communicate the knowledge of it to some friends, it is still only for those whom they believe worthy to possess it and to use it according to the good pleasure of God. They know Nature and its operations, and use this knowledge to arrive, as S. Paul says, at that of the Creator.Let us read the works of Hermes Trismegistus, their leader, those of Geber, Morien, Saint-Raymond Lully, the Cosmopolite, d'Espagnet, and so many other Alchymist Philosophers. There is not a single one who does not preach the love of God and neighbor unceasingly, who does not declaim against false Alchymists, and who does not loudly publish that the processes of true Chemistry or Alchymy are the same as those Nature employs, although abbreviated by the help of Art; but absolutely different from those in use in vulgar chemistry. So don't flatter yourself that you can achieve it by his means; and may it serve as a touchstone for those who would be liable to be deceived by charlatans and imposters.The type or model of the Alchemical or Hermetic art is none other than Nature itself. Art, more powerful than Nature, by the same means as it marks out for it, releases, in certain cases, more perfectly the natural virtues of the bodies from the prisons in which they were confined; it amplifies their sphere of activity, and brings together the principles which vivify them. The operations of Nature differ only in terms from the operations of Alchymy, of which there are seven; namely: calcination, putrefaction, solution, distillation, sublimation, conjunction, coagulation or fixation. But these terms must be understood philosophically, that is to say in accordance with the process of Nature, which one must know well before wanting to imitate it.The fire which is most useful in alchemical operations is not the vulgar fire of our kitchens, known as elemental fire. It is a celestial fire diffused everywhere, which is the principal cause of the stone, so much vaunted by the Philosophers, of which they say that it is the father. And this fire would not act, however, if it were not excited by a volatile celestial fire, which is drawn by philosophical distillation from a land known to the Philosophers, which they call the mother of their stone. Becher defended and demonstrated the existence of Alchymie, in his Supplement to his Physics. that is to say, in accordance with the process of Nature, which one must know well before wishing to imitate it.The fire which is most useful in alchemical operations is not the vulgar fire of our kitchens, known as elemental fire. It is a celestial fire diffused everywhere, which is the principal cause of the stone, so much vaunted by the Philosophers, of which they say that it is the father. And this fire would not act, however, if it were not excited by a volatile celestial fire, which is drawn by philosophical distillation from a land known to the Philosophers, which they call the mother of their stone. Becher took up the defense and demonstrated the existence of Alchymy, in his Supplement to his Physics. that is to say, in accordance with the process of Nature, which one must know well before wishing to imitate it.The fire which is most useful in alchemical operations is not the vulgar fire of our kitchens, known as elemental fire. It is a celestial fire diffused everywhere, which is the principal cause of the stone, so much vaunted by the Philosophers, of which they say that it is the father. And this fire would not act, however, if it were not excited by a volatile celestial fire, which is drawn by philosophical distillation from a land known to the Philosophers, which they call the mother of their stone. Becher took up the defense and demonstrated the existence of Alchymy, in his Supplement to his Physics. The fire which is most useful in alchemical operations is not the vulgar fire of our kitchens, known as elemental fire.It is a celestial fire diffused everywhere, which is the principal cause of the stone, so much vaunted by the Philosophers, of which they say that it is the father. And this fire would not act, however, if it were not excited by a volatile celestial fire, which is drawn by philosophical distillation from a land known to the Philosophers, which they call the mother of their stone. Becher took up the defense and demonstrated the existence of Alchymy, in his Supplement to his Physics. The fire which is most useful in alchemical operations is not the vulgar fire of our kitchens, known as elemental fire. It is a celestial fire diffused everywhere, which is the principal cause of the stone, so much vaunted by the Philosophers, of which they say that it is the father.And this fire would not act, however, if it were not excited by a volatile celestial fire, which is drawn by philosophical distillation from a land known to the Philosophers, which they call the mother of their stone. Becher took up the defense and demonstrated the existence of Alchymy, in his Supplement to his Physics. of whom they say he is the father. And this fire would not act, however, if it were not excited by a volatile celestial fire, which is drawn by philosophical distillation from a land known to the Philosophers, which they call the mother of their stone. Becher took up the defense and demonstrated the existence of Alchymy, in his Supplement to his Physics. of whom they say he is the father.And this fire would not act, however, if it were not excited by a volatile celestial fire, which is drawn by philosophical distillation from a land known to the Philosophers, which they call the mother of their stone. Becher took up the defense and demonstrated the existence of Alchymy, in his Supplement to his Physics.

Alcimad. See Atimad.

Alcimede, wife of Eson and mother of Jason. See the Egyptian Fables. and Greeks unveiled, book. 2, c. I.

Alcmene, wife of Amphytrion, was deceived by Jupiter, in the form of her husband, and with the help of Mercury, in the figure of Sosia; from it was born Hercules.The Alchymists say that Alcmene represents the metallic water which is married with the gold of the Philosophers, under the name of Amphytrion; Jupiter, which is the symbol of sulphur, join this water by the address of the Chymist, or Sosie; and from this union is born Hercules, or the Philosophical Mercury. See the Egyptian Fables. and Greeks unveiled, book. 5, ch. I and following.

Alcob. It is the æs-ustum. Some interpret it as salt armonia; but it must be understood as the Mercury of the Philosophers.

Alcofol. See. Atimad. We also say AlcoSol.

Alcohol. It's antimony.

Alcohol.Some chemists have given this name to vinegar.

Alcoholism. Action of triturating, crushing, corroding, reducing to powder.

Alcone. Oripeau, brass, in fact of chemistry; but in Hermetic terms, it is the brass of the Philosophers that must be whitened.

Alcohol. Iceati Corneoli. Crystal powder, very subtle and impalpable.

Alcohol is the name which the chemists give to all pure substances, extracted by distillations, or otherwise, from the bodies of animals, vegetables or minerals. This is what others call spirits.
Paracelsus also gives this name to very subtle powders, such as fine flour, when they are unmixed. But this term is hardly applied today by chemists except to the rectified spirit of wine.
Mineral Alcohol. Very penetrating substance, and the subtlest part of the elements, very fixed, and extremely digested by an astral and invisible fire. This substance is found in all mixtures; but Art extracts it from a single one to make it enter into the composition of the philosopher's stone, and of the universal elixir, which serves as medicine for all the diseases of the three kingdoms.

Alcoholism. Reduction of a body into its smallest parts; it is the same thing, according to the Spagyric Philosophers, as philosophical calcination; for they use the one and the other of these terms interchangeably to express the same thing. We must not, however, confuse alcoholization with the calcination of vulgar chymists;for in Hermetic science,
Black Alcophil, Alcophil nigra. It is one of the names that the Alchymists gave to antimony. Also called Alcophit.

Alcore. It's talcum powder.

Alcubrit or Alcubrith. V. Alkibric.

Alcur. Sulfur.

Alebion. Brother of Libys, killed by Hercules. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 5, ch. 12.

Alec. It's the salt.

Alech. Same as vitriol.

Alecharit. Common and not vulgar Mercury, but that of the Philosophers.

Alechil. Name given by some chemists to the tripod on which a vase is placed during chemical operations.

Alecto. One of the Furies, who with her two sisters, Tysiphone and Mégere, daughters of Acheron and Night, according to some, daughters of Jupiter, according to others, were made to torment the shadows in the realm of Pluto. They represent the action of mercurial water, called Dragon, on the fixed part of matter, during putrefaction and volatilization. See Book 3 of Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled, ch. 6.Alectory

. Lapis Alectorius. Kind of shiny stone and almost transparent like crystal, the size of a bean. It is found in the ventricle of old capons and old roosters, if we are to believe Albert.The ancients said that an readership made the man who wore it courageous, very strong, and procured him much wealth. It is for this, they said, that Milon Crotoniate always emerged victorious from combat. They also regarded it as a philtre, and gave it the property of moderating thirst. Johnson.

Alefantes. It is Flossolis.

Alembaci. Burnt or calcined lead.

Alembic. The Hermetic Philosophers sometimes give this name to their mercury, because it is by means of it that they make their pretended distillations, sublimations, etc.

Alembroth. Name which the Spagyric Philosophers have sometimes given to the salt of their mercury, which they also call the salt of the Philosophers, and the key of the Art.
Alembroth is still the name which some Chymists have given to the salt of tartar, which they have also called the Magisterium of Magisters. Johnson. Roll.

Alemzadar. Armonia salt.

Alert. Orchid.

Ales. Any salt composed of a mixture of several other salts.

Aleth. Jupiter of the Philosophers, and Peter of the Chemists.

Aleusanti. See Alosanti.
Alexanthi. Brazen flowers.

Alexir. Any chemical medicine.

Alezaram. Lead wash, or Saturn of the Philosophers cleaned and bleached.

Alfacio. V. Atimad

Alfata or Alfata. It is the same as distillation.

Alfadidam. Slag, iron scum, not that which remains in the furnace, but that which is also called iron straw, which falls near the anvil, when the iron is beaten there with a hammer.

Alfatida. Burnt copper. It also means copper filings.

Alfidus. The same as Ceruse.

Alfol. Armoniac salt, in fact of vulgar chymie; and the eagle of the Philosophers, when it comes to Hermetic science.

Alfur. Common saffron for the Chemists, and saffron for the Sages, or the matter of the Philosophers which, by digestion, has reached the color of saffron.

Alfura or Albait. White lead, or the material of the work that has reached white.

Alfusa. This is the tuthie.

Algali. Nitre. In terms of Hermetic science, it is the first matter of the work.
Algamet. Coal.

Algatia. Stew.

Algeroth. Life mercury powder.

Algibich. See Alkibric.

Alhenot. V. Alahabar.

Alhofol. Antimony.

Alhohonec. See Adehem.

Alhohonoc. See Alahabar.

Aka Same as Vase.

Aliba. One of the columns that Hercules planted on the borders of Mauritania. See the Egyptian Fables. and Greeks unveiled, book. 5, ch. 12.Seaweed

. Any chemical confection.

Stone food. It is fire.

Alinzadir and Alinziadir. It's harmonic salt.

Aliocab. Armonia salt.

Alistites. Armonia salt.

Alex. Prepared common salt.

Alkaest. Liquor which, according to Paracelsus and Van-Helmont, dissolves all visible bodies, and reduces them to their first matter. It differs from what true chemists call their Mercury.This solution is natural, soft, without corrosion; it conserves the seed of bodies, disposes it to generation; whereas the dissolutions of ordinary chymists are made by strong waters, which partake, in their effects, of the elementary fire which destroys and kills, instead of vivifying. This is why the Hermetic Philosophers say: The Chemists destroy, we edify; they burn with fire, we with water; they kill, we resuscitate. They wash with water, we with fire, etc. Paracelsus describes the preparation in his book 2. of Nat. rerum. Martin Rullandus says that Alkaest is prepared mercury, not tartar,as some have believed, deceived by a place in Van-Helmont, where he says speaking of the Alkaest: if you cannot succeed in discovering this secret of fire, learn at least to make the salt of tartar volatile, to make your dissolutions by means of it. Van-Helmont, from Febribus. Michel Toxite also says that the Alkaest is a mercury prepared for diseases of the liver. Several chemists have claimed that the Alkaest did not differ from the great and small circulation of Paracelsus, made with the spirit of common salt; others have believed to have found it in the etymology of the very name Alkali est, as if to say it is alkali salt; but as the alkali salts of ashes, soda, tartar, etc., did not produce the effect of alkaest, it was thought to alkalize the nitre by fixing it.Glauber made his salt from it, to which he gave the name of admirable salt. But neither of them succeeded. An Author, whose name I do not remember, says that it is a very common liquor among the Arabs. Neither Paracelsus nor Van-Helmont explained clearly enough what they meant by this dissolving liquor, so that we can guess it by reading their works. It differs from the dissolvent of the Philosophers, in that the latter units inseparably with what it dissolves, and the other separates from it without diminution. Neither Paracelsus nor Van-Helmont explained clearly enough what they meant by this dissolving liquor, so that we can guess it by reading their works.It differs from the dissolvent of the Philosophers, in that the latter units inseparably with what it dissolves, and the other separates from it without diminution. Neither Paracelsus nor Van-Helmont explained clearly enough what they meant by this dissolving liquor, so that we can guess it by reading their works. It differs from the dissolvent of the Philosophers, in that the latter units inseparably with what it dissolves, and the other separates from it without diminution.

Alkal. Gravelly or sheep-headed ashes.

Alkalac. Fixed salt.

Alkalap. Tin, Jupiter.

Alkalate. Flower of salt, sublimated salt.

Alkalid. V. Allor

Alkalie.Vase of the Philosophers.

Alkant. Mercury of the Sages.

Alkara. Cucurbite.

Alkasor. Stone to red, or sulfur.

Alkaut. Mercury, or quicksilver.

Alkautum. Name which some chemists have given to arsenic; others with burnt copper or æs-ustum. Johnson.

Alkibert. See Alkibric.

Alkibic, Alkibric. Sulfur of the Sages, or the philosophical matter attained to the color of purple in the first preparation. So it is their living sulphur, their gold, their Apollo, their mine of celestial fire, their Prometheus, their Osiris, etc.

Alkin.Gravel ashes, or ashes of the Philosophers, which must not be despised, says Morien, because they contain the diadem of their King, their Bacchus, their Aesculapius, etc.

Alkir. It's smoke and coals.

Alkoel. Johnson says it is a kind of very fine lead, taken from the mines where lapis lazuli is found; some have called this lead Antimony.

Alcoholize. See Alcoholism.

Alkosor. Camphor.

Alky-Lead. See Altey-Plomb.

Allabor, Alcamor, Alchonor, Allarinoch, Alracas. All of these names mean the same as Alahabar.

Hello. Æs-ustum in shots.

Allutel. V. Aludel.

Almacauda. Litharge.

Almagra. Ordinary chemists give this name to the bowl, to copper, to brass; but the Chemical Philosophers understand it only from the matter of their stone. O good King, you must know perfectly before all things, that the red smoke, and the white smoke, and the green lion, and almagra, and the filth of death, and the limpid, and the blood, and the eudica, and the fetid earth, are things in which the whole magisterium consists. Morian. Almagra is the brass which I named above the red earth. Same. That is to say the Philosophical sulphur.

Almakist. Litharge.

Almaragó. Coral.

Almacat. Litharge, or dross of gold.

Almagaz.Lead reduced to litharge in cup.

Almargen and Almargol. Coral.

Almarkasite. See Mercury.

Almartack. Calcined litharge.

Almarzida Litharge of silver.

Almat. Ceruse, or lead rust.

Almatkasite. Bright silver.

Alma or Alma. Philosophical water.

Almechafid. Copper, brass.

Almene. Rock-salt.

Almetai. Iron slag.

Almiba. Tin, Jupiter.

Almisa. It's musk, if we believe Planiscampi.

Almisadir or Almizadir. Verdigris, copper rust.Paracelsus seems to understand it in this sense, when it is written with a Z. instead of an S. But the Philosophers call their armoniacal salt, Almisadir, Almisadit, and sometimes Almisadu.

Almisarub. Philosophical land, which must be cultivated in order to sow the golden grain which must produce a hundredfold, and more. See LEAF EARTH.

Alnec or Allenec. Tin, Jupiter.

Hello. Common salt for Chemistry and salt of metals for the Hermetic sense.

Alocaf. Armonia salt.

Alofil. Strip of linen, used to seal vases. Johnson.

Alomba. V. Alahabar, Acazdir.

Alombari. Burned lead. Planiscampi.

Alooc.See Alahabar.

Hello. Salt in general.

Alosanthi. Flowers of salt.

Aloset. Mercury of the Philosophers.

Alotin. See Akilibat.

Hello. Son of the Sun and Antiope. See the Egyptian Fables. and Greeks, lib. 3, c. 14, para. 6.

Alrachas. See Alahabar.

Alsech. Alum.
Alselat. Burnt copper, aes-ustum.

Alsufir. Red color which occurs in the Magisterium of the Sages at the end of the operations. Calid. chap. 1.Secrets of Alchymy.

Altafor. Camphor.

Altambus. Red stone, or human blood stone; it is the Philosophical elixir.

Altara. Cucurbite.

Altey-Plomb. Salt of Saturn, or soft matter, extracted from Lead, by means of vinegar. Johnson. See Soul of Saturn.

Althanaca. Orchid.

Altimar. Aes-ustum, calcined copper.

Altimion. Lead slag.

Altingat. Verdigris, copper rust.

Altinuraum. Vitriol, attrament.

Height. Assa foetida.

Altofet. Antimony.

Aluach or Aluhec. Jupiter, pewter.

Aludel or Alutel. Vase required for the great work. Geber describes it thus in the 4th part of the book. I of his Sum of Perfection. The Aludel should be made of thick glass equally throughout; any other matter is worth nothing for this effect, unless it is of a substance which has a great affinity with glass, such as that of pebbles. Because glass alone is suitable by its consistency and in unalterable substance to retain the tenuous and subtle spirits of the mixtures, which would evaporate through the pores of other materials. The metals themselves are worth nothing for this, because the affinity they have with the mineral and metallic spirits would make them a union, instead of letting them sublimate.But Geber, like the other Philosophers, does not always hear the glass vase, by the term Aludel; often and most commonly they designate by this name the philosophical vessel, which must not be confused with the vessel in which matter is enclosed. This is why when they say to hermetically seal the Aludel, it means, that it is necessary to fix the mercury of the Sages. See Slime.
The vulgar chymists have interpreted Aludel by furnace, cucurbite; when the Adepts speak of it, seeming to indicate a furnace, it must be understood of their secret furnace, which sometimes takes itself for the matter from which they extract their mercury; at other times, of their animated, lively sulphur, or igneous stone, which maintains and preserves the internal and acting fire of the work. Aludel still takes himself for mercury, even animated.

Aludit. Mercury of the Sages.

Aluech. Jupiter, purified pewter.

Alumboti. Calcined lead.

Alumonodig. Armonia salt.

Alum. Name which the Philosophers have sometimes given to their salt, which is not common alum;but a principle salt of alum, other salts, minerals and metals. Alun Alafuri. Alkali salt.
Alun De Alap. Greek salt. Planisccmpi.Alun Alkali. It is the fixed nitre.
Alun Alkori. Single Nitro.
Marine Alum. Moist spirit of the air, which vivifies all sublunary beings, by the heat which accompanies it. Alun Syrach, Alun Alkokar, Alun Alfurin.
Calcined alum.

Alunibur. Silver, Moon of the Philosophers, their perfect white stone.

Alunsel. Some chemists so call the drops which fall from the capital of the still into the receptacle. Rullandus.

Alusar. Mana.

Alusen. Any sulfur material.

Alusir. Name which some Adepts have given to the stone set in the color red with purple.

Alzafar. Burnt copper.

Alzegi. Attramens.

Alzemafor. Cinnabar.

Alzernad. Magisterium in red.

Alzilat. Weight of three grains. Johnson.

Amalgamate. To make the meeting of the philosophical mercury with the sulfur or the gold of the Sages; not in the manner of the vulgar chemists, by grinding in a mortar or otherwise, a solid matter with a liquid body, but by conducting the fire of the Philosophers, following the prescribed regimen; that is to say, by perfecting the work by continuous cooking or digestion, in an even, sulphurous, surrounded fire which does not burn. See Artephius, on the regime of Fire.

Amalgra or Almagra. Sulfur of the Philosophers, or Red Stone.

Amar. Vinegar of the Sages, and their solvent. Common chemists have sometimes given this name to common vinegar.

Amalthea.Goat which provides the milk with which the Nymphs fed Jupiter. This God transported her to heaven, and made a present to her nurses of one of the horns of this goat, to which he gave the property of procuring for these Nymphs all that they would desire; it took the name of Cornucopia from it. See the chemical explanation, book. 3, c. 4, and elsewhere, Egyptian and Greek Fables. unveiled.

Amazons. Ancient stories are full of the deeds of these female warriors, so named. One counts among the labors of Hercules the victory he had to win over them, in order to be able to take from Hyppolite their Queen, a baldric adorned with diamonds and rubies that Euristheus had asked of Hercules.After he had taken this Queen, he gave her to Theseus who had accompanied him, and carried the harness to Euristheus. The Hermetic Philosophers explain this labor of Hercules in the same sense as his other labors. It is an allegory, they say, of the perfection of the great work of stone, and of the perfect white and red medicine, represented by this baldric, adorned with rubies and diamonds; because there is nothing in the world so precious as this universal medicine. See the Egyptian and Greek Fables. unveiled, book. 5.

Ambrosia. Food of the Gods; it is the mercury of the Hermetic Philosophers, principle of all metals.

Drunk. Magistere parfait to red;because then it is properly the ferment which animates the stone to make its elixir. The chymists also give this name to middle sulfur, because, just as the soul preserves the body by a heat and a radical humidity which prevent the dissolution of the parts, so middle sulfur, like a balm, binds the parts together, retains union and cohesion.

Soul of Saturn. Anima Saturni, or Althea plumbi. term of chemistry. Very suave sweetness of lead, extracted with vinegar, then precipitated with common water. Planisc.

Soul of Vitriol. Vitriolic sulfur which is extracted in the following manner: have glazed terrines, holding about four pints each;put in it three good pints of filtered rainwater, and three handfuls of powdered common vitriol; stir everything well, and let the vitriol dissolve, after having put the vases in the air or in the sun; a rainbow-colored film will form on the surface of the water, which you will skilfully remove with a glass or ivory spoon, and put it in a vase or crucible, which can withstand the fire . After having removed this first, you will agitate the water, and when it is rested, a second film will be formed, which you will remove like the first. You will continue the operation until it no longer forms. This Soul of Vitriol put to a violent fire, becomes red as blood, and does not burn there. When the vases are in the air, they must be protected from rain and dust.This red powder, mixed in small quantities with pickled and liquefied copper, has a surprising effect there, as well as with other metals. Minsych.

Sensitive soul. It is armoniacal salt, according to Manget.

amelite. The Egyptians gave this name to the imaginary wife of Zoroaster, and meant by it only the humidity of the subtle air, extremely rarefied, serving as a vehicle for the celestial fire signified by Zoroaster, which, for lack of this pure and untied, could not manifest itself sensibly. Their indivisible union, which makes the life of all the beings of Nature, has always been the worthy object of the attention and worship of the ancient Naturalist Philosophers, as History teaches us when treating of religions. the most accredited. It is pretended that Abramane or Denis, Prince of Darkness, is opposed to Zoroaster, against whom the former declares an ambitious war, the event of which can only be for the glory of Zoroaster, that is to say that of light, Amend

.We find this term in almost all the Chemical Authors, to mean to perfect. Nature mends itself in kind; nature amends nature: they understand by these terms, that nature always uses in its operations homogeneous things to perfect its works, and that the parts of matter which compose the individuals of a kingdom, are more suitable for perfecting the individuals of this same kingdom, than those which would be taken from another. Thus a metal is not suitable for perfecting a plant, and a plant would be even less so with regard to the mineral. But as nature always tends to the perfection of beings, and as she employs the simplest ways and by degrees, the mineral kingdom having been in some way created the first, could have served as the basis of the vegetable kingdom;and the animal kingdom, as the most perfect, was formed from the other two, feeds and maintains itself on them, without however being able to serve each other as seed; because each kingdom has its own specified and determined. We must therefore take that of the mineral to do the work of the Philosophers, and not those of the other two kingdoms.

Bring. Sea or common salt.

Amentum. Alum.

Amethyst. Name of one of the horses that pulled Pluto's chariot. V. Abaster.

Asbestos. Incombustible stone. See Albestos. The Philosophers gave the name of Asbestos to their stone, because it resists attacks from the most violent fire.

Amisadir.See Almisadir.
Amisader and Amisadir. Philosophical salt armonia.

Amithaon. Son of Cretheus, and uncle of Jason. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. book. 2, c. I.

Ammon. The same as Jupiter, God of the Egyptians. See Book I of Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled, sect. 3, c. 8. Ammon was adored in Libya under the figure of a ram, either because Jupiter, while fleeing with the other Gods in Egypt, to escape the pursuit of the Giants, took the form of this animal; or, as others say, that Jupiter in the figure of a ram caused a fountain to rise to quench the thirst of the army of Bacchus.

Amnis Alkalisatus.Some Spagyric Chemists have thus named the water sources, which in passing and filtering through the calcareous lands, have become impregnated with alkali salts.

Amogabriel. Cinnabar.

Amphio. Son of Jupiter and Antiope. He built the city of Thebes, and the stones arranged themselves to the sound of his lyre; Mercury had been his music teacher. See the Egyptian Fables. and Greeks unveiled, book. 3, c. 14, para. 6.

Amphitrio. Husband of Alcmene, according to the Fable. See what it means according to Explanation of Alchymists in Art. Alcmene

Amycus, King of Bebrycie, son of Neptune and the Nymph Melie, challenged strangers to pucks; Pollux, one of the Argonauts, accepted the challenge, and killed Amycus. Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled, book. I, ch. I.

An. Sulfur of the Philosophers, so named because being at the same time their Apollo, their Sun, he then directs the operations of the stone during the course of the four seasons of the philosophical year, required for the perfection of the work . That's why they also called him the Father of Stone.

Anacab. Armoniac salt of the Sages.

Anachron. See Anathron.

Anathron. Kind of salt which grows on stones, and which differs from saltpetre.When cooked, it becomes a kind of acid alum. If you push the fire, it takes on the shape and transparency of glass, and leaves a foam, which the ancients falsely regarded as glass gall. They called it Faex vitri. Planiscampi. Rulland calls it Sagimen vitri Baurac.

Anaton. Sometimes means scum or glass salt; but ordinarily it is taken for the nitre salt.

Anatosize. Armonia salt.

Anatris. Mercury.

Anatrum. Colored glass of different colors. It is more commonly called Saracen Earth or Smaltum.

Anatum. Eggshell.

Ancée. Son of Neptune and Astipalaia, was one of the Argonauts;he succeeded Typhis in the conduct of the ship Argo. Fabl. Egyptians and Greeks Unveiled, book. 2, c. I.

Anchises. Father of Aeneas, who saved him on his shoulders from the burning of the city of Troy, after the Greeks had taken control of it. Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled, Descent of Aeneas into the Underworld.

Anchor. It's lime,

Ancinar. Borax.

Ancosa. Lacquer.

Andena. Chalybs Orientalis, is a steel brought to us from the Orient. It liquefies in fire, like other metals, and can be cast into moulds. Rulland.

Androgine or Hermaphrodite.Name that the Hermetic Chemists gave to the purified matter of their stone, after the conjunction. It is properly their mercury, which they call male and female, Rebis, and so many other names, which can be seen in the article Matter.
They named it thus, because they say that their matter is sufficient in itself to engender and bring into the world the royal child, more perfect than its parents. That their matter is one; it is their azoth of which they often repeat that azoth and fire are enough for the Artist; that nevertheless it conceives, it engenders, it nourishes, it finally manifests this much-desired Phoenix, without the addition of other foreign matter.It should however be known that their matter is composed of two and even of three, salt, sulfur and mercury; but that everything is none other than the fixed and the volatile, which being joined and reunited in operations, are nothing more than a matter which they then call Androgyne, Rebis, etc.

Andromeda. Daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia, was exposed to a sea monster, and delivered by Perseus who married her. The Fable pretends that all this happened in Ethiopia, because the Philosophers use the allegory of the dragons which fight among themselves, or which are defeated by Heroes, to express the combat of the fixed and the volatile in time that the dissolution of matter makes it black like molten pitch. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq.book. 3, c. 14, para. 3.Andurac

. Red orpiment.

Aneric. Sulfur.

Anerit. Vivid sulfur.

Anfaka. Rennet, fixed matter of the Sages.

Anficarto-Spirit. Spirit of salt.

Anfir-Son. Philosophical Mercury.

Anfuka. coagulated matter. In terms of Hermetic science, it is the fixed and incombustible sulfur of the Philosophers, which fixes mercury, and makes it the proper elixir to fix imperfect metals in gold.

Angels. The Chemical Philosophers sometimes give this name to the volatile matter of their stone. They then say that their body is spiritualized;and that we will never succeed in the great work, if we do not corporify the spirits, and spiritualize the bodies. This operation is philosophical sublimation; and we must know that the fixed never sublimates itself, if it is not aided by the volatile.

Angle. The three-angle thing. Hermetic science term. The Philosophers say that their matter, or the philosopher's mercury, is a thing which has three angles in its substance, four in its virtue, two in its matter, and one in its root. These three angles are salt, sulfur and mercury; the four are the elements; both, the fixed and the volatile; and one is remote matter, or the chaos from which everything was made.

Anyada.Term of Spagyric Philosophy, which means the forces and virtues of the stars, from which, they say, we receive the celestial influences through imagination and fantasy. In the moral sense, these are the graces we receive through the Sacraments. Rulland.

Anadin. Means long life, according to the Chemical Philosophers. Planiscampi.

Aniadum. According to the moral sense of the Hermetic Philosophers, means the graces that the Holy Spirit infuses in us. Or, according to Rulland, he is the very spiritual man, regenerated in us, after the earthly man or the old Adam has been stripped away.

Animal. The Hermetic Philosophers gave this name to their matter, after it had passed through putrefaction.Its natural name is Animal; and when she has this name, she smells good, and there remains neither darkness nor bad smell in her. Morian.
Animal is also one of the names that the Hermetic Philosophers gave to the material prepared from the stone. Take, with the blessing of Jesus Christ, the animal with all its blood. It is called Animal, because it grows in sublimation, and has a sanguine-colored soul, namely the invisible spirit of vitriol. John. by Rupe Scissa.

Animation, in terms of Hermetic science. To give mercury a metallic spirit, which vivifies it, so to speak, and renders it fit to produce philosophical sulphur. Le Philalèthe and Bernard Trévisan talked a lot about this animation.The Trevisan then calls it, Mercury doubles. Some chymists have heard the words of the Philalethes as if he spoke of vulgar mercury, mixed with gold as vulgar; but it must be explained with the mercury and quick gold of the Philosophers.

Animate. Giving philosophical mercury a metallic soul. See Animation.

Ring of the Link Sovereign. Terms of Chemical Philosophy, which signify the different bonds of the four elements which seem to make a chain of which the philosopher's mercury is the product, and like the ring which unites them.
Ring of Gold, covered with silver. It is the white stone, which in its exterior is white, and hides gold, or redness in its interior. Some have said it of the nitre.

Year. The Philosophers have a calculation different from the vulgar calendar, when it comes to counting their years, their months, their weeks and their days. They compare the time it takes to complete the work to the common year, because they divide their operations into four times, like the common year into four seasons. They adopted the same denominations, and they will be found explained in their articles.
Philalethes says that the Sages reduce years to months, months to weeks, and weeks to days; but this reduction is not yet a general rule, according to which one must imagine that the Philosophers work, since the Adept, who made the projection before Helvetius the father, told him that the work could be done in four days. One can consult on this the Vitulus Aureus of the same Helvetius.
Philalethes even points out that this reduction of the year, of medicine of the third order, and even of the philosophical year must be understood. It is in the same sense that Pliny must be explained when he says that the philosophical year is the common month; it was necessary to add philosophical.
Others say that the philosophical year is seven years and nine months.At the end of the first three years the mercury or philosophical vinegar becomes medicine; after five years, the mercury is no longer mercury, it is leafy earth; and seven years expired complete the magisterium and universal medicine, to which time must be added nine months for the elixir or powder of projection.
We can say, in general, that the year of the Philosophers is not determined by the number of days. If the agent or the philosophical fire is well administered according to the rules of the art, the work will be finished sooner. But whatever number of days one employs, the Hermetic year will always be complete, because it will have had its four seasons.The winter which is the beginning of the work, lasts until after the putrefaction: the spring begins when the matter coming out of the putrefaction volatilizes, and passes from the black color to the white; summer lasts since white color changes to orange color to ruby ​​red. So it's autumn, time when the Artist collects the fruits of his labors.
Thus, when the Philosophers say that it takes three years to complete the work, they are right in their sense; but it must not be understood of three vulgar years: it is of the three required operations: the first, to make their sulfur or mine the fire; the second, for the stone or the elixir; the third, for multiplication: and as the multiplication can be repeated up to seven times, some have said that it takes nine years, others twelve. Which should only be understood as the reiteration of each operation; since Morien assures us that the second is a repetition of the first. Philalethes named the first three operations, the medicines of the first, second and third order of Geber. See TIME.

Annora.Chemical term, which generally means quicklime; but more particularly eggshell lime.

Anode. Urine.

Note. Philosopher's Stone.

Anoxadic. Armonia salt.

An-Father or Father Of The Year. It is the Sulfur of the Philosophers, or their Sun, so named from directing the course of the Hermetic year in the second and subsequent operations.

Antaric, Antaris, Antarit, Are three terms that only mean the same thing; that is to say, the mercury of the Sages.

Anthos. Rosemary flower. Rosmarinus. Paracelsus transferred this meaning to the metals, and used this term to signify their quintessence, or the auric elixir.See the Archidoxes, and his treatise Natura rerum

Anthée, son of Neptune and the Earth, a giant of prodigious size. He made his stay in the deserts of Libya, where he forced passers-by to fight against him, and suffocated them. Hercules fought him, and managed to suffocate him in his arms, after lifting him up and knocking him off the ground. See what must be heard Hermetically, book. 5, ch. 15, from Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled.

Anticar. Borax.

Antimony. Name given by the Philosophers to the mercurial sulphurous matter which forms part of the philosophical compound.The whole secret, therefore, of this antimonial vinegar consists in the fact that by its means we know how to draw from the body of magnesia the quicksilver which does not burn. This is antimony and the mercurial sublimate. Artephius.
The chymists are mistaken when they take vulgar antimony for the matter of the sages. The thing to which the Philosophers give the name of antimony is their permanent water, their celestial water, in a word, their mercury; because this cleanses, purifies and washes philosophical gold, as common antimony purifies vulgar gold. Basil Valentine says that antimony prepared spagyrically is an antidote against all venoms. He calls it the Great Arcanum, the Stone of Fire; and advance that it has so many virtues, that no man is capable of discovering them all: and that it is very close to having all the properties of the Philosopher's stone, both for the healing of diseases of the human body. than for metallic transmutation. See his Triumph of Antimony.

Antimum. Spring honey.

Antiope. Daughter of Nyctea, and wife of Lycus, who repudiated her and drove her away to marry Dirce, because he learned that Jupiter, metamorphosed into a Satyr, had enjoyed Antiope. Amphion and Zethus were born from this trade. When they grew up, they avenged their mother by killing Lycus and Dirce. See the Egyptian Fables. and Greeks, lib. 3, c. 14, para. 6.
Antiope, whom some call Hippolite, one of the Amazons whom Theseus fought. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 5, ch. l3 and 22, and lib. 6, c. 3.

Anubis, God of the Egyptians, was the symbol of Mercury. He was adored under the figure of a man with the head of a dog, and a caduceus in his right hand. See what was meant by Anubis, Fables Egypt. and Grecq. dev., lib. I, ch. 8.
Anucar. Borax.

Aphebriock. Philosophical sulfur.

Aphidegi. Ceruse.

Aphrodisia. The Adepts sometimes give this name to their matter, at the time when the stone has come to be what they call Venus, and say that it has then reached the age of Venus, that is to say the color orange.

Aphrodite. See Venus.

Aphronitum. Scum of nitre. There are many relations and connections between the foam of the nitre and the nitre itself, like salt with its foam. The foam of nitre is the same as the flower of stones and walls; it is a light, crumbly, acrid substance. You have to choose the one that draws on the color of purple.The scum of the nitre varies according to the materials and the places where it grows. The aphronitum differs from the flower of the stones of Asia in that it is not burnt; if it were resolved by fire, it would have the same properties and the same virtualities. Rules.

Apis, among the ancient Egyptians, was an ox black all over the body, except for a white spot in the shape of a crescent or approaching it, which the Priests fed in the temple of Vulcan, to which they sacrificed it after a few years , by drowning it, and then gave him the name of Serapis. They were after a great mourning of his death until they had found a similar one to be substituted for him.This ox, according to the explanation of the Spagyric Philosophers, carries by its black and white color, the true character of the matter of their work, and the symbol of Osiris and Isis. Which the Greeks then imitated by the fable of the Minotaur, the oxen of Geryon, the oxen of Jason and the others. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. I, section 3, chap. I.

Apollo, son of Jupiter and Latona, according to Herodotus, son of Dionysius and Isis. But it matters little to whom Apollo was born, if this fable is to be referred to as an allegory of the great work, following the sentiment of the Hermetic Philosophers. For, according to them, the same thing must be understood by Osiris and by Jupiter, by Latona, Isis and Juno. However, it seems better to say that Latona was his nurse and his mother at the same time. We commonly take Apollo for the sun that enlightens us, and the chymists for the sun or the agent part of their work, as they take their moon for the female or the patient part.This is why they explain and apply to the operations of their Art all the things that the Fable has taught us of Apollo, and his sons Orpheus, Hymeneus and Jaleme whom he had from Calliope, Delphus he had from Acachallis, Coronus from Chrisorte, Linus from Terpsichore, Aesculapius from Coronis. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 3, c. 12. Apollo is regarded as the master of the Muses, the inventor of Medicine, as a Diviner, Oracle and Poet, and as a Warrior armed with a bow and arrows, since it was he who killed the serpent Typhon, says Python by anagram .

Apospermatismum Draconis. Mercury from Saturn.

Cast off. To prepare, arrange, put one thing with another.See the following article.

Affix. When the Hermetic Chemists say that it is necessary to begin with the affixing of citrine Mercury to pass from the white color to the red, this way of speaking should not be understood as an addition of mercury to the matter which is in the vase, since they take care to warn that it has in it all that is necessary for its perfection. These terms only mean that it is necessary to continue cooking, so that the citrine color succeeds the white, then the orange, and finally the red, by means of the digestion of the mercury of the Philosophers. See Add.

Aquala. Philosophical arsenic.

Aqualves. Distilled vinegar. The chemists sometimes use this term to signify etching. Johnson.

Aquastre. Name that Paracelsus gave to what we call spirit, both that which we understand by soul, and the purely animal spirit. He calls it that, because it says in the Scripture that the spirit of God was borne on the waters.

Aquilena. It is a name that Paracelsus gave to the plant known as royal comfrey, or larkspur.

Aracab. Eagle of the Philosophers.

Araceum. Lut to seal the vases. Planisc.

Arancon. Brass, or matter of the work in putrefaction.

Araxos. Soot.

Trees. Trees. Paracelsus gave this name to tumors and marks that dull and disfigure the bright, natural color of the skin; and he calls them so only in their beginning, and before they are turned into sores.
Tree is also the name that the Philosophers gave to the matter of the philosopher's stone, because it is vegetative. The great tree of the Philosophers is their mercury, their tincture, their principle, and their root; sometimes it is the work of stone. An anonymous author wrote a treatise on this subject entitled: de l'Arbore solar, de Arbore solari. It is found in the 6th volume of the Chemical Theater. The Cosmopolitan, in his Enigma addressed to the Children of Truth, supposes that he was transported to an Island adorned with all that nature can produce most preciously, among others two trees, one solar and the other lunar. , that is to say, one of which produced gold, and the other silver.Silver tree. Magisterium in white, or matter after putrefaction.
Golden or Solar Tree. It is the stone to the red.Tree Of Sea. It is the coral, and the madrepores.Tree Of Life. Name which the Hermetic Philosophers have sometimes given to their mercury; but more commonly to their elixir, because it is then the medicine of the three kingdoms, or their universal panacea; that he raises the dead, that is to say imperfect metals, that he raises to the perfection of silver, if it is white, and to that of gold, if it is red. They also called it Lifewood.

Arcalts. Paracelsus thus names the foundation of the earth, or the column by which he allegorically assumes it is supported. He also calls it Archates, and Rullandus Archates.

Arcane.(Medicine) Paracelsus says that by this term is meant an incorporeal, immortal substance, far beyond the knowledge of men and their intelligence. But he understands this embodiment only relatively, and by comparison with our bodies; and he adds that the mysteries are of an excellence far above the matter of which our bodies are composed; that they differ like white from black; and that the essential property of these mysteries is to change, alter, restore and preserve our bodies. The arcane is properly the substance which contains all the virtue of the bodies from which it is drawn. The same Paracelsus distinguishes between two spells of arcana; one he calls perpetual, the second for perpetuity.He then subdivides these two into four, which are, the first matter, the mercury of life, the stone of the Philosophers, and the tincture. The properties of the first mystery or of the first matter are to rejuvenate the man who makes use of it, and to give him a new life, like that which happens to plants, which strip themselves of their leaves every year, and are renewed. the year after. The Philosopher's Stone acts on our bodies like fire on the skin of the salamander; it cleanses their stains, purifies and renews them, by consuming all their impurities, by introducing into them new forces, and a balm full of vigor, which strengthens human nature.which are stripped of their leaves every year, and are renewed the year after. The Stone of the Philosophers acts on our bodies like fire on the skin of the salamander; it cleanses their stains, purifies and renews them, by consuming all their impurities, by introducing into them new forces, and a balm full of vigor, which strengthens human nature. which are stripped of their leaves every year, and are renewed the year after. The Stone of the Philosophers acts on our bodies like fire on the skin of the salamander; it cleanses their stains, purifies and renews them, by consuming all their impurities, by introducing into them new forces, and a balm full of vigor, which strengthens human nature.
The mercury of life has much the same effect; by renewing nature it causes the hair, the nails, the skin to fall, and makes others return to their place.
The tincture shows its effects in the manner of Rebis, which transmutes silver and other metals into gold, It acts in the same way on the human body, it tints it, purges it of all that can corrupt it, and gives it a purity and excellence beyond anything imaginable. It strengthens the organs, and so increases the principle of life, that it prolongs its duration far beyond the ordinary limits. Same.
Arcane is also taken for all kinds of dyes, whether metallic, vegetable or animal. Paracelsus used it several times in this sense.
Arcane, in terms of Hermetic science, should be understood as thickened mercurial water, or mercury animated by the meeting of philosophical sulphur.

Archaea of ​​Nature. The Physicists and particularly the Spagyric Philosophers thus call the universal agent, and particular to each individual; what sets all Nature in motion, disposes the germs and seeds of all sublunary beings to produce and multiply their species.

Archemore, son of Lycurgus, was nursed by Hypsiphile, and died quite young from the bite of a serpent. The Nemean games were instituted in his honor. See the Egyptian Fables. and Greeks unveiled, book. 4, c. 8.
Archilate. It is gravity or the weight of three grains.

Arcos. Æs-ustum, burnt copper.

Arecia. Isle where the Argonauts landed on their journey from Colchis, for the conquest of the Golden Fleece. See Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled Book. 2, c. I.

Aremaros. Cinnabar.

arena. Dissolved and putrefying stone matter.

Arenamen, Arenamei. Bowl Armenia or Armenia.

Ares, in terms of Hermetic science, means the bestower of Nature, hidden in the three principles, sulphur, salt and mercury, of which they say everything is composed in the world.They add that this dispenser gives form to individuals, and diversifies their species, so that one does not take on the specific matter of the other. Ares is not however the Archea of ​​Nature or Iliaster whose article see; but after the latter has arranged everything for the genera, Ares succeeds and arranges the forms and species of individuals.

Areton. Brass of the Philosophers.

Arethusa, daughter of Nereus and Doris, companion of Diana, was changed into a fountain of the same name. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 4, c. 3.

Arfard. Philosophical arsenic.

Arfiora. Ceruse.In terms of Hermetic science, it is the Saturn of the Sages, or matter that has come to white, after having passed through putrefaction. This is what the Adepts also call their naked Diana, their Moon, etc.

Money. When the Philosophers say, our Money or our Moon, it is not vulgar money, from which we make utensils, furniture and money, that they are talking about; it is their matter when it has reached perfect whiteness by means of cooking. This term also includes their mercurial water, which they also call Female, Beja, Sperm, etc. Some call it White gold, Crud gold.
Communicating Money. The Philosophers gave this name to the salt which enters into the composition of the philosopher's stone. Jean de Roquetaillade.
Mercury Silver. Elixir au blanc, so named because it is composed of philosophical mercury.
People's Money. Some chemists have given this name to salt. Johns.
Argent-Vif of the Philosophers. It should be noted that quicksilver and quicksilver are not the same thing. Quicksilver is common mercury, and quicksilver is that of the Hermetic Philosophers. They express themselves thus to mark the action and the life of their mercury, which is the seed of metals, whereas the vulgar is a metal already made. They gave it the name quicksilver, because it is volatile, white, clear, cold, moist, runny, and susceptible to coagulation, like the vulgar, of which it is the seed. See Philosophical Mercury.
Quicksilver. This term sometimes signifies, not the mercury of the Sages, but their white magisterium, which is composed of it. The Philosophers have given it this name by equivocation, to distinguish it from common and vulgar silver, which they call dead silver.
Exalted Quicksilver. Moon of the Philosophers, so named because this mercury is purified and pushed to a degree of perfection which it did not have before it reached whiteness.Animated quicksilver. Mercury of the Sages after its union with the igneous stone, the philosophical sulphur. Coagulated or Purified quicksilver. It is the white magisterium.

Argo. Name that the Fable gave to the ship Jason rode when he conquered the Golden Fleece with Hercules, Hylas, Orpheus, Etalide, Amphion, Augias, Calais, Castor, Pollux, Cepheus, Iphide, Eson, Lynceus, Mopse, Meleager, Peleus, Telamon , Zetis and many others. The Alchymists explain this expedition as an allegory of the Philosopher's stone, and particularly because the ship was made from the talking oaks of Dodona.V. Jason, Argonauts, and the treatise of Fables Egypt. and Greeks unveiled, book. 2, c. I.

Argonauts. Heroes who, according to the Fable, will accompany Jason to conquer the Golden Fleece. Whatever moral or physical explanation we wanted to give to this Fables, we could not succeed in making a more just application of it than by regarding it, with the Alchymists, as an allegory of the great work of universal medicine, or Philosophical Stone. All the Chiefs of this expedition lived according to the Fable, in times so distant from each other, that it is not possible to give the slightest likelihood of their meeting.Aloysius.Martianus, besides several others, has made an entire volume under the title of Aureum vellus or Golden Fleece, to chemically explain this expedition. There are few Alchemical Authors who have not spoken of it. And to tell the truth, the etymology of Jason's name, which means the art of healing, would suffice alone to make the explanation of the Hermetic Philosophers plausible. See the Egyptian and Greek Fables, lib. 2, c. I.Argus

(Eyes of). The Hermetic Chemists said that the eyes of argus were carried on the tail-feathers of the Pan, to signify the different colors which occur to the matter of the stone during coction.

Ariadne.Daughter of Minos and Pasiphae, favored Theseus in his enterprise against the Minotaur, and gave him a ball of thread, by means of which he left the labyrinth, after he had defeated this monster. Theseus kidnapped her and married her. Arrived on the island of Naxo, Theseus left Ariadne there, whom Bacchus later married. See the Egyptian Fables. and Greeks unveiled, book. 3, c. I, & book. 5, ch. 14, para. 2.

Aries or Aries. These terms are mysterious in the writings of the Chemical Philosophers; they say that their matter is drawn from the belly of Aries. Some taking these terms literally believed that this material was Ram's dung;but the Philosophers speak of Aries, sign of the Zodiac, and not of animal Aries.
Aridura, or Drought, is one of the names Paracelsus gave to the disease we call Phtysia, and the English Consumption.

Arles Crudum. Small drops of water that fall in the month of June, in the form of dew, similar to that of the month of May. Rules. Others, according to the same Author, call them Hydatis, Stalagnei, Stagen, Straax.

Arop. V. Adrop.

Aroph. Mandrake. Paracelsus says that the Aroph heals kidney stone and gravel.

Water. Cook, digest philosophical matter. This term should only be applied to the time when matter sublimates into vapors and falls back on matter in the form of drops of rain and dew, that is to say, after putrefaction.

Arsag.Arsenic.

Arsaneck. Arsenic sublimated. We also say Arcanec, and Artanech. Johnson.

Arsenic, in terms of Hermetic Chemistry, sometimes takes itself for the mercury of the Sages, sometimes for the matter from which it is drawn, and sometimes for matter in putrefaction. Some having found in the verses of one of the Sybilles, that the name of the material from which the philosopher's mercury is derived, was composed of nine letters, of which four are vowels, the other consonants, that one of the syllables is composed of three letters, the others of two, believed to have found this matter in Arsenicum, more especially as the Philosophers say that their matter is a most dangerous poison;but the material of the stone is the same from which arsenic and the other mixtures were formed, and the mercury of the Sages is not derived from arsenic; since arsenic is sold at apothecaries and druggists,
Philalethes and several other Philosophers have also given the name of Arsenic to their matter in putrefaction, because then it is a very subtle and very violent poison. Sometimes they understand by Arsenic their volatile principle, which performs the office of female. It is their Mercury, their Moon, their Venus, their vegetable Saturnia, their Green Lion, etc. This name of Arsenic comes to it from the fact that it whitens their gold, as common arsenic whitens copper.

Sacerdotal Art was, among the Egyptians, what we now call Hermetic Philosophy.See the Introduction to Book I. of the Egyptian Hieroglyphs. Alkandi quoted by Kirker.
This art consisted in the perfect knowledge of Nature's processes in the production of mixtures, and was only taught by hieroglyphics and mysterious terms, the true explanation of which was given only to those who had been subjected to a very long trial. deem worthy of being initiated into such a great mystery. The Priests were obliged to keep the secret under penalty of death to those who violated it. It only communicated in the Sanctuary. Saint Justin, ques. ad Ortod. Pythagoras consented to undergo circumcision to be initiated into it. S.Clement. Alex. I. 1. Strom.
Arueris. God of Egypt. His mother came into the world pregnant with him. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book I.

Aruncula Grande. It is the material of the Stone of the Sages.

Asabon. Soap. In fact of Hermetic science, it is the azoth of the Philosophers, with which they whiten their brass.

Asabum. Tin, Jupiter of the Sages.

Asagen. Dragon's blood.

Asagi. Vitriol, or red attrament.

Asamar. Green-grey.

Asmon. Armonia salt. See Almisadir.

Ascalaphus, son of the river Acheron and of Orphneus, Nymph of the Underworld, was changed into an owl, for having accused Proserpina of having eaten three grains of pomegranate. Homer said Ascalaphus son of Mars and Astioche. See the explanation of this fiction in the book. 4, c. 3 of Egyptian Fables. and Greeks unveiled.

Asclepius. V. Aesculapius.

Asdenegi. Stone Ematite.

Aseb or Asep. Alum.

Ased. Lion of the Philosophers.

Asenec. Sun or Gold of the Sages.

Asfor. Alum.

Asinat. Arabic name given to antimony. Basil Valentine, in his Triumphal Chariot of this mineral.

Asingar. Green-grey.

Asmaga. Alloy of metals.

Asmarcech. Litharge.

Asum. weight to weigh; such are the pound, the ounce, the gross, &c.

Asope, son of the Ocean and of Thetis, was the father of Aegina, kidnapped by Jupiter transformed into fire. Asopus pursuing Jupiter was transformed into a river by this God. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 3, c. 14, para. 6.

Asoper. Some chemists have so called the soot.

Asrob. Matter of the Philosophers in putrefaction, their Raven's Head, their Saturn.

Assa-Foetida.The Hermetic Philosophers gave this name to their mercury, says Riplée, because it smells like it when it is newly extracted from its mine. This smell, says Raymond Lully, is one of the strongest; but by circulation it is changed into a quintessence of the sweetest odor, and becomes a medicine against leprosy and other diseases.

Assad. Dragon's blood. Planiscampi.
Assation. Action to digest, cook, sublimate, volatilize, fix the material of the work.

Astioche. Mother of Ascalaphe and Ialmenus, whom she gave birth to in the house of Actor. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. book. 4, c. 3. Astioche was also mother of Tlepoleme, whom she had of Hercules.

Star, in terms of chemistry, is the igneous, fixed substance, principle of multiplication, extension and generation of everything. This substance always tends of itself to generation; but it acts only so far as it is excited by the celestial heat, which is everywhere.

Astrum. A term used by the Chemical Philosophers to signify a greater virtue, power, property, acquired by the preparation given to a thing. As sulfur astrum, or astrum sulphuris, means sulfur reduced to oil, the virtues of which far surpass those of sulfur in nature. Astrum salis or salt is salt reduced to water or oil. Astrum mercurii or mercury is sublimated mercury. This name is given to alcohols, to the quintessences of things.

Asub. Arabic term that the Latins express by Alumen, and the French by Alun.

Asubedegi. Johnson explains this term of Paracelsus by Pebble cut to cut other stones, like the diamond to cut glass.

Asugar. Green-grey.

Atac.Nitre, or philosophical saltpetre.

Atalanta, daughter of Schænée, had such great agility in running that she could not be matched; which induced her father to wish to give her in marriage only to the one who would reach her. After several had tried her in vain, Hyppomenes, by the advice of Venus, took three golden apples which he threw after her while following her; while she was amusing herself with picking them up one after the other, Hyppomenes continued to advance, and by this means found the way to reach her. Being tired of hunting one day, she punched a rock, placed near a temple of Aesculapius, and brought out a fountain, from the water of which she quenched her thirst.
Atalanta, say the Spagyric Philosophers, is none other than the volatile matter of the great work which can only be stopped by the fixed matter signified by the golden apples, since there is nothing more fixed than matter. gold radical. When it is said that it caused a fountain to come out of the rock, it is because the philosopher's stone gives water, of which one makes earth, then again water, etc. It is added that Atalanta slept in the temple of his mother with Hyppomenes; it is that one puts in the philosophical vessel the fixed and the volatile, which one does like marriage, of which there is so much talk in the books of the Philosophers. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 2, c.3. There is another Atalanta, daughter of Jasius, who happened to hunt Calydon; she was changed into a lioness.

Atebras. Sublimatory Vessel of the Chymists. Johnson.
Athamas, son of Aeolus, married Nephele, by whom he had Phrixus and Hellen, who gave occasion to the expedition of the Argonauts. See book. 4, c. 9 of Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled.

Athanor. In terms of vulgar chemistry, is a furnace having the form of a square, or a long square, near which is a tower, which communicates to one of the sides by a pipe. They fill this tower with coals, light it, and the heat is communicated to the furnace by the pipe. I will not stop to make a more detailed description of it, because each Chemist has it done as he pleases. He was given the name of Athanor by similarity to the secret furnace of the Philosophers, which keeps its fire continuously and to the same degree. But the latter is not a furnace like that of the Chymists. Their Athanor is their matter animated by a philosophical fire, innate in this matter, but which is numb there, and can only develop by art. See Furnace, Fire.

Atimad, or Alcophil. Antimony. We also say Alcimad, Alfacio.

Atlas, son of Jupiter and Clymene, or of the Nymph Asia, was warned by the Oracle to give himself custody of one of the sons of Jupiter. Perseus having been badly received, presented him with the head of Medusa, who transformed him into the mountain which bears the name of Atlas. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 3 tbsp. 14, para. 3.

Attrament. Vitriol.

Fuse Attrament. Alkali
Atreus, son of Pelops and Hippodamia, father of Agamemnon and Menelaus, was a sworn enemy of his brother Thyestes and pretending to be reconciled with him, he invited him to a meal, where he presented him with two dishes of his children, of whom the Sun was so horrified, that he turned back. This fable means nothing else chemically than the reincrudation of the gold of the Philosophers, which by dissolution returns to its first matter. See the rest of this fable explained in book 3, ch. 14, para. 4 of Egyptian and Greek Fables unveiled.

Has too much. V. Adrop.

Attingat or Atingar. Green-grey.

Attingir. Ground cucurbit. Johnson.

Attemptence of Alphidius.Term of chemical philosophy It is the philosophical mercury, in which one disposes by cooking the balance of the four elements, so that they can no longer overcome each other, and make by their union an incorruptible mixture.

Atureb. Glass.

Averich. Sulfur.

Augeas, son of the Sun and Naupidame. Eurystée ordered Hercules to clean the stable where Augeas kept his oxen, which were in great number. Augeas promised as a reward to Hercules, to give him the tenth part of his cattle. Hercules accepted the offer, and cleaned the stable by passing the river Alpheus through it. Augeas refused to keep his promise and Hercules killed him in revenge. See the Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, Book.5, ch. 8.

Avora. Egg lime.

Aurancum and Auraneum. Paracelsus and several others are called egg shells.

Auraric. Mercury of the Philosophers.

Altar. Some Adepts have given this name to their mercury, and to their matter in the vessel during operations. See an example, Fables Egypt. and Greeks unveiled, book. 3, c. 14, para. 3.Fall

. Time when the Artist reaps the fruits of his labors. He is of a cold and dry complexion. Remember, then, that you must dissolve in winter, cook in spring, coagulate in summer, and gather the fruits in autumn, that is to say, give the tincture.

Auver.Pure water. Paracelsus, in his treatise on the Nature of Things.

Ayborzat. Galbanum.

Aycafort. See Alartar.

Aycophes and Aycupher. Burnt copper.

Loving or Loving. Material by means of which the Philosophers know how to extract their mercurial water, which does not wet the hands, from the rays of the sun and the moon. Know that the solar tree derives its origin from this water, says the Cosmopolitan, that it alone is capable of dissolving it, and that it is extracted from the rays of the sun and the moon by the force of our magnet, that I have above named steel. Philalethe used it in the same sense. See Magnet.

Azaa. Matter of the Stone of the Sages.

Azamo. Indian heat. Terms used by some Alchymists to determine a degree of fire proper to philosophical work. See Fire of the Philosophers.

Azaphora. Burnt copper, or æs-ustum.

Azarnet. V. Adarnech.

Azec. Attrament, vitriol.

Azeci. Philosophical vitriol.

Azedegim. Stone Ematite.

Azeg. Vitriol.

Azegi. Vitriolic attraction.

Azel. Alum.

Azemasor. Cinnabar, sometimes minium; but in the latter case, it is the minium of the Philosophers, or the stone which has reached red.

Azet. See Azoth.

Azimar, according to Rulland, means verdigris or bronze flower, or even aes-ustum; and according to Planiscampi it means minimum.

Azinaban. Term which the Spagyric Philosophers have used to signify the faeces, or the impure which they separate from the pure matter of the Sages.

Azoc. Mercury of the Philosophers. It is not the vulgar raw mercury, drawn simply from its mine, but a mercury extracted from dissolved bodies by quicksilver; which makes a much more mature mercury. Bern. Trevisan, Epistle, to Thomas de Boulogne.
It is with this mercury that the Philosophers wash their brass; it is he who purifies the impure body with the help of fire; and by means of this azoc one perfects the medicine suitable for curing all the diseases of the three kingdoms of Nature. This azoc must be made from the elixir. Ibid.

Azoch. V. Azoth.

Azog. V. Azoth.

Azogen. Dragon's blood.It is the red stone, because it is formed from the mercury of the Philosophers, which they call Dragon.

Azomar and Azimar. Cinnabar, according to some chemists; and the minimum, according to others. Johnson.

Azomses. Mercury of the Philosophers.

Azon. Mercury of the Sages, purified and worked.

Azonec. Sel armoniac, or the philosophical eagle. See Mercury.

Azoth. Name which the Hermetic Philosophers gave more commonly to their mercury. These things are in the mercy of God, and we need only azoth and fire in our work. Basil Valentine. The fire and the azoth wash and clean the brass, that is to say the black earth, and take away its darkness. clan. Bucc. Fire and water, which is azoth, wash the brass and cleanse it of its blackness. Arn. of Vill. It is necessary to make two parts of the coagulated body, one of which will serve as azoth to wash and mondify the other, which is called brass, which must be whitened. Nick. Flame.When the Philosophers say that azoth and fire suffice for the work, that is to say that matter prepared and well purified, or the philosopher's mercury are sufficient for the Artist for the beginning and the perfection of the whole work; but the mercury must be drawn from its mine by an ingenious device. Bernard Trévisan says (the abandoned Word) that everyone sees this mine altered and changed into a white and dry matter, like stone, from which the quicksilver and the philosophical sulfur are extracted by a strong ignition. The Philosophers have given many names to this Azoth; Astral Quintessence Serf-Fugitive, Animated Spirit, Ethelia, Auraric, etc. See Mercury and Matter.from which quicksilver and philosophical sulfur are extracted by strong ignition. The Philosophers have given many names to this Azoth; Astral Quintessence Serf-Fugitive, Animated Spirit, Ethelia, Auraric, etc. See Mercury and Matter. from which quicksilver and philosophical sulfur are extracted by strong ignition. The Philosophers have given many names to this Azoth; Astral Quintessence Serf-Fugitive, Animated Spirit, Ethelia, Auraric, etc. See Mercury and Matter.
Azoth, according to Planiscampi, means means of union, of preservation, or universal medicine.He also points out that the term Azoth must be regarded as the beginning and the end of any body, and that it contains all the cabalistic properties, as it contains the first and the last letter of the three matrix languages, the Aleph and the Thau of the Hebrews, the Alpha and the Omega of the Greeks, the A and the Z of the Latins.
Azoth is also the name which some vulgar chymists have given to a precipitate of common, or vulgar, mercury made (as they say) per se. We find the manner in the Medicinal Chemistry of M. Malouin, T. II. p. 196. This precipitate of mercury has also been named, Azoth of Hestingius, and Horizontal Gold, because its color is of a yellowish red approaching the color of aurora.

Azub. Alum.

Azubo.Hermetic Vase.

Azuc. Red coral.

Azumen. Arabic term used by some chemists to mean weight.

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Baccar. Means a weight, according to Rulland.

Bacchanalia. Festivals instituted in honor of Bacchus. V. Orgies, Dionisiennes.

Bacchae. Priestesses of Bacchus, who ran at night dressed in the skins of panthers, tigers, their hair disheveled, torches and lighted torches in their hands. They danced to the sound of drums, often shouting: Euhoê Bacche. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 3, c. 14, para. 2 and book. 4, c. I.

Bacchus. Son of Jupiter and Semele, daughter of Cadmus. The Fable says that he was born from his mother's ashes, like Aesculapius. She represents him to us winged, having horns, a bull's head, male and female, young and old, bearded, and beardless. He is the same as the Egyptians called Dyonisius. All the stories that are made of him are, in the opinion of the Spagyric Philosophers, only an allegory of the operations of their Art, which they call par excellence the great work. Bacchus is the same, according to them, as Adonis, Apollo, the Sun, Osiris and so many others, as Orpheus testifies in his Hymn to Adonis, where he says that all these different names indicate only the same person.It is sometimes pretended to be winged to designate the moment of its volatilization, having the head of a bull or a goat, because these animals were consecrated to him as to Osiris; male and female, because the matter of the Philosophers, or their Rebis, is androgynous; young and old, because this material seems to rejuvenate in operations, as can be seen in the article Vieillard. See the Egyptian Fables. and Greeks unveiled, book. 3, c. 14, para. 2.

Bagedia. Weight of twelve ounces, or one pound, according to the use of Medicine.

Baiac or Beiac. Ceruse.

Bathe. The Chemical Philosophers say that they prepare a bath for the Sun and the Moon, for the King and the Queen, etc. In the figures of Jewish Abraham, reported by Flamel, there is a King, said this one, having a large cutlass, who has soldiers kill in his presence a number of little children, whose mothers cried at the feet of the pitiless Gendarmes. , and this blood was then afterwards put in a large Vessel, in which the Sun and the Moon of the Sky came to bathe. This fountain is only for the King of the country, whom she knows well, and he her; and is inside this fountain to bathe, two hundred and eighty two days. Trevisan. They sometimes mean by bathing, cooking the material, making it circulate in the egg.

Bathe. Note that calcining, dyeing, washing, bleaching, bathing, etc. do the same thing, and that all these words only mean to cook the material, until it is perfect. Synesius.

Bath. Vinegar of the Sages, with which they wash their brass; it is their solvent, which they call their Mercury.

Diana’s bath. See Philosophical Mercury.

King's bath. Permanent water, or mercury of the Sages, to which they gave the name of Bath of the King, because their gold is washed and bathed by this water which is distilled from it and recohobe incessantly, until the sublimation dried it up.

Sun bath. It is the same as the King's bath, because gold is the King of metals, and this bath or mercury of the Sages monifies philosophical gold.

Bain-Marie, in terms of Hermetic Science, is the furnace of the Sages, the secret furnace, and not that of the vulgar chymists. This name is sometimes given to the philosopher's mercury. What they call Bain also means reduced matter in the form of liquor, as when one wants to project onto a metal, they say that it must be in a bath, that is to say in fusion. .

balitistere. Red earth, or material of the work that has reached the color red by the digestion of philosophical fire.

Balziam. Beans.

Bread barach. It is the nitrate obtained from salt. Johnson.

Barcata. Opening, crevice through which the heat of a stove can escape.

Bardadia. The weight of a pound.

barna. Glass vase.

Barnas, Barnabas, Barnabus. Saltpeter of the Philosophers, or their very sour vinegar. Barurac. Glass.

Based or Besed. Coral.

Basil. The Chemical Philosophers have sometimes given this name to their mercury, because it dissolves everything. Some hear it from stone to white, and others from stone to red; because as the Ancients said that the Basil killed by its very sight those on whom it fixed it, so the powder of projection made of the stone to the white, or to the red, and projected on the mercury or the other metals, kills them , as it were, fixing them, and changing them into silver or gold.

Bassad. Coral.

Basura. Seed.

Batitura-Rami. Copper scales or slag. Batitura of bronze is also taken for the slag of any metal whatsoever. Johns.

Beat, in terms of Hermetic science. Shake the material too strongly, give too violent a fire. When the spirits are too beaten, say the Philosophers, they bear the shock impatiently, they rise and break the vessel, or burn themselves.

Beaten or Beaten. Berger changed into a touchstone by Mercury, for having violated the promise he had made him not to discover the theft of the oxen of Admete, of which Apollo had taken charge. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 3, c. 14, para. I.

Harness. Among the labors of Hercules is the victory he won over the Amazons, from whose queen he removed the baldric adorned with diamonds and rubies. The Alchymists say that by this harness, we must understand the philosopher's stone and the medicine of white and red, signified by the whiteness of diamonds and the red color of rubies.

Baul. Urine.

Nature's universal balm. It is, according to the Spagyric Philosophers, their elixir to white or to red, which cures all the infirmities of the three kingdoms of Nature, and perfects all its individuals.

External Balm of the Elements. quintessence of mercury.

Baurac. The vulgar chemists have interpreted this term, the foam of the glass. But the Hermetic Philosophers understand it from the matter of the philosopher's stone which is not drawn from the faeces of the glass nor from its foam, but from a matter which contains the four elements under two visible things, water and earth; not rain, fountain, sea or any similar water; nor a land such as that on which we walk; but a celestial, living, permanent and dry water, and a virgin, Adamic, vitriolic, leafy earth, which draws itself from the center of the earth, and which nevertheless is found throughout all the inhabited earth. See Raymond Lully and the other Philosophers, in the Curious Chemical Library of Manget. It is the white stone.
Baurac also takes himself for any kind of salty thing.

Bayda. Cucurbite.

Badellerum. Leech.

Badola. Sulfur.

Ram. Sulfur of the Philosophers perfect in red. It took this name from its hot and dry quality, like that of the ram. The Adepts say they get their steel from the womb of the ram, and they also call this steel their magnet. See Aris. But when the Cosmopolitan and Philalethes express themselves thus, they mean to speak of the very matter of the work, from which they make their sulfur.

Belisis, Coral of the Philosophers.

Bellerophon, son of Glauque, after various exploits, fought the Chimera, and got rid of it by means of the help that the gods gave him. See the Egyptian Fables. and Greeks unveiled, book. 3, c. 14, para. 3.

Bellona. Goddess of war, often confused with Minerva and Pallas, whose articles you see.

Bembel or Benibel. Hermetic science term. Philosopher's Mercury, or the Work of the Stone of the Sages. Dict. Herm.

Berlinbruch. A stone found around Speyer, the surprising effects of which are reported in the works of Duchêne, of La Violette, dit Quercetan, in those of Anselme de Boot, and of Crollius.

Besec. Mercury of the Sages.

Besed. Coral.

Venomous Beast of the Elders. The Hermetic Philosophers take these terms sometimes for mercury, and sometimes for the perfect stone. In the first sense, it is because mercury is a universal solvent; and in the second, because the perfect stone to white or red changes the nature of the metals, destroys them, so to speak, to give them a new intrinsic form, by transmuting them into gold or silver.

Butter. Matter of the Sages, which they named butter, because it is viscous, and separates from its water, like butter from whey.

Bhatha. Red earth.

Biarchetunsim. Ceruse.

Doe. The Poets claimed that Hercules had run and killed a Hind, whose feet were of brass and whose horns were of gold. It is a very visible fable, since such an animal has never been seen, and the Spagyric Philosophers claim that it contains the operations of the great work; that under the name of this Biche, we must understand the metallic juice, or the volatile part of the mercury, which the more sulphurous part stops and precipitates in the bottom of the vase, and coagulates it with it, from which are born horns of 'gold; that is to say, the philosopher's stone. See the Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, Book. 2, c. 4.

Many Goods. Philosopher's stone, the acquisition of which carries with it all the goods of this world, wealth and health.

Well has many names. Animated Mercury.

Biladen. Steel.

Bimate. V. Bacchus.

Bitrinati. All-glass vase.

Blacinal. Several metals melted together.

White Spirit. Mercury of the Sages.

White from Black. Magisterium of perfect white, which could only achieve whiteness by passing through the color black, a true indication of perfect putrefaction.

Whiteness. The Philosophers say that when whiteness comes to the matter of the great work, life has conquered death, that their King is risen, that earth and water have become air, that it is the regime of the Moon, that their child is born, and Heaven and Earth are married, because whiteness indicates the marriage or union of fixed and volatile, male and female, etc. The whiteness after putrefaction is a sign that the Artist has operated well. Matter has then acquired a degree of fixity that fire cannot destroy; this is why it is only necessary to continue the fire to perfect the magisterium to the red; and when the Artist sees the perfect whiteness, the Philosophers say that the books must be torn up, because they become useless.

Capillary whiteness. It precedes perfect whiteness in the work of the philosopher's stone. They are species of small white filaments which appear as darkness or the reign of Saturn passes, and as the reign of Jupiter succeeds it.
The Blanching of the Philosophers. It is to cook the material until the perfect white. Whiten the brass and tear your books, lest your hearts be torn with worry. TruthCode.

Bodid. Egg of the Philosophers.

Beef. Animal worshiped in Egypt. See Apis, Serapis. The Fable pretends that Hercules carried off the oxen of Geryon, Mercury those that Apollo kept for Admete. See the explanation of these fictions in the Fables Egypt. and Greeks unveiled, book. I, ch. I et seq., lib. 2, c. 14, para. I and book. 5, ch. 12.

Alright. Quicklime.

Drink. See Tree.

Goldenwood. Solar Tree of the Philosophers.

Parrot Wood. It's aloe.

Paradise Wood. Aloe.

Wood of Life. It is the perfect stone, which has become universal medicine, cures all the infirmities of the human body, and keeps man in good health until the term prescribed by divine Wisdom.

Blade (the). It is, in terms of Hermetic Chemistry, Vulcan or fire, that the Fable represents us in the form of a lame man. Basil Valentin represented him thus in the plate which is at the head of the first of his twelve Keys.

Judaic bowl. Marshmallow.

Bolesis. The same as Belisis.

Boleson. balm.

Bords. Metal filings.

Borax. White Philosopher's Stone.

Boreas, son of Astrea, removed Orithia, from which he had Calais and: Zethe. See the Fables Egypt. and Greeks unveiled, book. 2, c. I.

Borin. Turpentine, or alkalized vinegar.

Boritis. It is the matter of the Sages in putrefaction, or black.

Botrachium. Ache of Sardinia, called by the Botanists Apium risus.

Botum Barbatum. Neck of one curcurbit put on and inserted into the neck of another.

goat. Animal worshiped by the Egyptians. These peoples had consecrated it to Osiris, and the Greeks to Bacchus, as being the symbol of the fertilizing principle of nature, that innate fire which vivifies everything. See the Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, Book. I, sect. 3, c. 5.
The Goat was used by the Egyptians in their hieroglyphic figures to signify the part of the matter of the philosopher's stone, which the Alchymists call their sulphur; this is why the Egyptians had consecrated this animal to Bacchus, who was among them none other than Osiris, to whom they had also given the names of Apollo, Adonis, etc.

Mud. Philosophers have sometimes given this name to their matter; which has misled many chemists who have worked on mud and silt. But Philalethes teaches us that we should apply this name of mud only when the matter is in putrefaction.

bracium. Copper, Venus.

Braricia. Glass.

Brazil. Coals.

Brittany. Brazilianwood.

Briareus, son of Heaven and Earth, the most terrible and formidable of all the Giants. All the names of the Giants mean something that tends towards destruction, such as storm, fury, thunder, rushing winds, etc. You can see M.Peluche's Histoire du Ciel on this, which gives its very long etymologies. See what they mean chemically in Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 3, c. 2, 3 and 4.

Briseis, daughter of Brises, was first called Hippodamia. When the Greeks seized the city of Lyrnese, captive Briseis fell by lot to Achilles. Agamemnon having taken it from him by force, Achilles conceived such annoyance that he sought all means of revenge, and only wanted to take up arms against the Trojans to avenge the death of his friend Patroclus. See the Egyptian Fables. and Greeks unveiled, book. 6. It is with Achilles' anger that Homer begins his Iliad.

Bromius. Nickname of Bacchus. See Bacchus.

fog. Thick vapour, resembling a mist, which rises from matter, and condenses in the air of the Philosophers, whence it falls to water their earth, purify it and fertilize it.

Grind. In terms of chemistry, it is cooking the material, and not pounding it in a mortar, or otherwise.

Burn. Assare, in terms of chemical philosophy, should not be taken to calcine or set on fire but simply cook the material in its vase, and over low heat.

Brumazar. Name that some chysic philosophers have given to their mercury. It is a greasy, unctuous vapour, of which the Author of Clangor Buccinoe speaks in these terms: fermented and cooked bread is in its degree of perfection; in the same way gold when it is purified by fire, is a fixed body, and is no longer susceptible to fermentation, if it is not mixed with Brumazar, that is to say the first matter of metals, in which it resolves itself into this first matter. Let us therefore take this first of which gold is composed, and by means of art we will make of it the philosophical ferment. Beeher.

rockfish. V.Diana.

Office. Any kind of salt.

Burkina. Pitch.

Busiris, King of Egypt, killed and massacred his hosts. Hercules defeated him and killed him. This Busiris, according to the Alchymists, is the incombustible sulfur and impurities which envelop the true matter of the stone, and hold it as in a state of death. The Artist destroys these impurities by fire, and delivers by this means Egypt, which represents the philosophical land.
Others explain this fable differently. Busiris, according to them, is taken for the philosophical mercury, the activity of the spirits of which dissolves, putrefies, and gives, so to speak, death to all the metals with which it is mixed. The Artist in the operations of the philosopher's stone fixes and coagulates these mercurial spirits.

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Cab. Philosophical gold.

Cabalatar and Cabalatur. Salt Nitre of the Sages.

Cabi. Clinker. abeh.

cable. Human excrement.

Firm. Iron scales.

Cabiria. Surname of Ceres. See CERES.

Cachymia. Silver scum or slag.

Cacus. Son of Vulcan according to the Fable, is, according to the explanation of the Alchemists, the common fire. Cacus represented as a terrible monster, half-man, and always vomiting fire, these are the furnaces of ordinary Chemists and Founders, who constantly vomits a fire against nature, which ravages everything presented to it, which destroys it, and changes its whole nature .This Cacus is vanquished by Hercules, the Philosophers' symbol of mercury, who in transmutation corrects what Cacus had spoiled, by removing the herds of Hercules, that is, by rendering ordinary metals lifeless, and by depriving them of that generative quality found in the metallic matter which serves as the basis for all the operations of the great work. Some Alchymists give their sulfur the name of Cacus, and that of Hercules to their salt. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 5, ch. 20.

Cadegi. See MALABATHRON.

Cadima Auri. Litharge of gold.

Caddy. Is one of the names that the Philosophers gave to the material of their stone. Some have also named Cadmie the heterogeneous parts of this material, which must not be included in the work. It is properly the red stone.

Cadmus. Son of Agenor, King of Phenicia, was sent by his father in pursuit of Europe his sister, kidnapped by Jupiter, metamorphosed into a white bull. He built the city of Thebes, married Hermione or Harmonia, daughter of Mars, and were both changed into serpents. See the Egyptian Fables. and Greeks unveiled, book. 1, sect. 4.

Caduceus. The Chemical Philosophers have given their solvent the name Caduceus of Mercury, because they claim that the inventors of the Fable intended to indicate this solvent by the Caduceus. This is why Jewish Abraham puts in his first hieroglyphic figure a Mercury holding his caduceus, and Saturn with his scythe which seems to want to cut off Mercury's legs and wings. See its origin, its properties and its use in the Fables Egypt. and Greeks unveiled, article from Mercure, book. 3, c. 14, § 1. The caduceus was also given to Bacchus.
The caduceus was composed of three parts, the golden rod surmounted by an iron apple, and two snakes, which seem to want to devour each other. One of these serpents represents the volatile part of philosophical matter, the other signifies the fixed part, which fights each other in the vase; the philosophical gold of which the stem is the symbol, puts them in harmony by fixing them one and the other, and by reuniting them in a single body inseparably.

Caffa. Camphor.

Cagastric. That which is not necessary in the body of man, and that which is quasi put there by Nature only as an ornament; such are the hair, the beard, the hair, the breasts, etc., contrary to what is yliastric, like the heart, the noble parts, etc.

Cagastrum.A term that Paracelsus coined to mean the image of something real, or something that only appears to be so. It is the opposite of yliastrum. He says cagastrum is what niter salt is to the first matter of everything, or like the flesh of man to its first matter. Adam's flesh, after sin, became cagastric. There are likewise two kinds of life, one is yliastric or that of the spirit, and the other cagastric or that of the animal part. Paracelsus, from Azoth.

Cahos and Tomb from which the Spirit must come out. The chemical physicists understand by these terms the matter of the stone during the time of putrefaction, when it is black, and the elements then seem confused together.

quail. Matter of the Sages coagulated.

Cain. Name which the Philosophers gave to their matter in putrefaction and having become black, perhaps because of the curse which God pronounced against it, concerning the murder which he had committed against his brother Abel, or because the disorders of his descendants were the cause of the deluge, which destroyed almost all mankind. This deluge is represented by the dissolution of matter, and its effects by putrefaction.

Cal. Philosophical Arsenic or the matter of the Hermetic Chemists, both during dissolution, because then it is a great poison, and when it has reached whiteness. See ARSENIC.

Calais. Son of Boreas, and one of the most famous Argonauts, pursued, with his brother Zethes, the Harpies who desolated the good man Phineus.They were represented with wings and azure hair. Hercules slew them. See the Egyptian Fables. and Greeks unveiled, book. 2, c. 1.

Calambac. Aloe.

Calcadin. Colcotar, or matter of the Philosophers reached red.

Calcadis. Vitriol. Some chemists have given this name to alkali salt.

Calcaton. Arsenic trochus. Johnson.

Calchas. Famous diviner of the army of the Greeks, who, aided by his advice, performed great exploits against the Trojans. He indicated to the first the means of appeasing the wrath of Diana, and predicted that the city of Troye could not be taken until after the ninth year of the siege, on what a dragon had devoured in their presence nine little sparrows and their mother.Calchas died of grief for having found a certain Mopse more skilful than he in the art of guessing. See the Egyptian Fables. and Greeks, lib. 6.

Calcination. Purification and pulverization of the bodies by means of the external fire which separates the parts by separating or evaporating the humidity which binds them, and makes of them a solid body. The Spagyric Philosophers sometimes use the terms calcination, corruption, and putrefaction interchangeably to mean the same thing. They mean however more often by the term of calcination, the operation which follows that of the rubification of the stone. There is yet another calcination proper, and as commonly understood, which is required in the preparation of the matter. It is a purification or mondification of this same matter, which some call rectification, others ablution, others separation, of which see the articles.
The philosophical calcination is done with the humid fire, or pontic water of the Sages, which reduces the bodies to their first principles, without destroying their seminal and germinal virtues; whereas the calcination made by common fire destroys the seeds of bodies, which has given him the name of Tyrant of Nature.
There are two kinds of common calcinations; one that is made over an open fire, such as that of ashes; and that which is made in closed vessels. In the first, the volatile sulfurous parts fly away in part, and thereby deprive the salts of a strength and a virtue which they retain in the second kind of calcination. All the salts taken from the ashes of these crystallize, and it is not the same with the others, which can only be obtained by the evaporation of the humidity brought to dryness.
There are various kinds of calcinations, some called dry, others moist, some corrosive, others not.
Wet calcinations are vaporous or immersive.
The vaporous ones are made by exposing metallic or other bodies to the smoke or to the exhalation of some matter. Immersives are made by putting the body you want to calcine in corrosive liquors, such as etchings or ardent spirits, so that they are submerged therein.
Dry calcinations are properly what is called Cementations, of which see the article.
Also called dry calcination, that which is done by fire, such as that of building lime, soda, salts which are bleached in crucibles, ashes which come from burnt wood or other materials.
In these dry calcinations, we can also distinguish those that are done over an open fire, a closed fire, and a streetlight fire. See. FIRE, LAMP.
Sometimes to calcine matter is to whiten it and purge it of its darkness by Art, philosophical fire, and azoth. The sign of perfect calcination is whiteness.

Calcinatory. The Calcinatory Vessel of the Hermetic Philosophers is none other than the Egg of the Sages.

Calcinatum Majus. All that is softened by the chemical Art, and which does not have this softness of its nature, like soft mercury, the soul of lead, salt and other similar preparations. Planiscampi.

CALCINATUM MINUS. Anything that is naturally sweet.

Calcines. In terms of chemical philosophy. See CALCINATION.

Calcitari. It is the alkali in general.

Calcitea. Tragacanth.

Calcitheos. Litharge, or whitened brass of the Philosophers.

Calcitis. See CALCADIN.

Calcocos. Burnt copper, or Aes ustum.

Calcokeumenos. Aes ustum.

Calcota. Philosophical collotar.

Calcutium. Burnt copper.

Galdar. Tin, or Jupiter.

Calgfur. Arabic term, which some chemists have used to mean clove.

Calid. Arsenic trochus.

Calidity. Fixed material quality of the Philosophers. They gave this name of calidity to their male, or fixed. The first is called calidity and dryness, or sulphur; the last, quicksilver, or frigidity and dampness. Flamel.

Callette. Juniper mushroom. Calix chymicus. Antimony glass. Callecamenon. Burnt copper. Callena. Saltpetre.

Callirhoe. Daughter of the Ocean, and wife of Chrysaor. See his article.

Cahnet. Antimony of the Philosophers.

Calpe. High mountain on the borders of Spain on the African side, towards the Strait of Gibraltar.The Poets claimed that Hercules separated her from another who is opposite in Africa, and named Abyla. These two before this separation were one. These are what they also called the Pillars of Hercules. See the Fabs. , Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled, book 5, chap. 12.

Calticis. See CALCADIN.

Calufal. It is Indian oil. I^Calusa-Cyptas. Crystal.

Cambar. Matter of the Sages reached whiteness.

Cambic-Suc. It's Guttagamba gum.

Cambill. Red Earth of the Philosophers.

Cambyses. King of Persia, having taken over Egypt, killed the ox Apis, mocked the Gods of Egypt as fabulous, and sent his army to destroy the temple of Jupiter Ammon. He returned to his country with immense wealth. See the Egyptian Fables. and Greeks unveiled, book. 1, sect. 2.

Camereth. Mercury of the Philosophers fixed in red, or Sulfur of the Sages.

Cams and Notebooks. Silver, or philosophical matter pushed to white.

Cancinpericon. Manure or horse belly, heated.

Dunce or Cancer. The stone of the Philosophers fixed in red, so named because of its hot and dry complexion, and of its igneous virtue, which caused it to be called Stone of fire, Miner of celestial fire.

Heatwave (Fire). Some Hermetic Philosophers have so called their third fire, or degree of fire, in comparison with the heat of the Canicule, which is the strongest of the whole year. It is not that it is necessary to increase the external fire to the third degree, since they say that it must be equal and continuous during the whole course of the work: this increase must be understood of the internal fire. This equivocation has misled many people.

canopy. One of the gods worshiped in Egypt. It was represented under the figure of an oval vase placed on one of its points; the other opposite bore a man's head; and on the vase were several hieroglyphs. See what is to be understood by Canopus, in book 1, ch.9 of Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled.

Cantacon. Saffron of the Philosophers. Some chemists have interpreted it from common saffron.

Canze, Canna, Garnit. Chemical slime. Johnson.

Cloak. Mineral earth which is one body and composes the metallic stones with the metal, and which is not metal itself. It is this stony matter which causes the operations which it is necessary to carry out to draw the alloy from the metals, in order to separate them from them, and to have them pure. The metals are taken from their wrappers, by means of ironing.

Capricorn. Eat says that some chemists have given this name to lead. He would have said the truth if he had explained it from lead or the Saturn of the Philosophers; and they called it so, because Capricorn designates the winter solstice, as the matter of the work that has come to black, or the Saturn of the Philosophers, designates their winter.

Carb. Vegetable pod.

Karaha. Name given by the Alchymists to one of their philosophical vessels; it is the first: the second is called Aludel, of which see the article.

Cardel. Mustard.

Cardir. Jupiter, or Pétain.

Cardis. March, or iron.

Carena. The twenty-fourth part of a drop.Johnson.

carmiti. The weight of an obol or a mesh. Johnson.

Garumfel. Clove.

Carsulated. See CORSULF.

Casibo. Cypress.

Caset. Antimony.

Caspa. White philosophical matter.

Cassibor and Cassidbott. Coriander.

Cassiopeia. Wife of Cepheus King of Ethiopia, having boasted of being more beautiful than the Nereids, was punished by the obligation where she found herself to expose her daughter Andromeda to be devoured by a sea monster. Perseus killed this Monster, and delivered her. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 3, c. 14, § 3.

Castor and Pollux. Twin brothers, son of Jupiter and Leda, wife of Tyndareus. Jupiter changed into a swan having had intercourse with Leda, she gave birth to two eggs, each of which contained two twins;from one came Pollux and Helena, from the other Castor and Clytemnestra.
Castor and Pollux will accompany Jason on his expedition to Colchos to conquer the Golden Fleece, where Pollux killed Amycus. Castor having been killed by Lynceus, Pollux obtained from Jupiter the power to communicate his immortality to Castor, and they enjoyed it alternately. See the Egyptian Fables. and Greeks, lib. 2, c. 1, book. 3, c. 14, § 4 and book. 6, c. 3.

Cathochites. Gummy and glutinous substance, which is found in the island of Corsica, according to Solinus and Pliny. Johnson says it has the property of attracting flesh and hands, to which it attaches itself strongly, as the magnet attracts iron, amber straws, &c.

Catillia or Cartilia.Weight of nine ounces.

catma. Name given by some chemists to gold filings. Johnson.

catrobil. Common ground among the vulgar chemists, and land of the philosophers among the adepts.

Caucasus. Mountain of Asia, on which the Fable says that Jupiter had Prometheus tied up, and had his liver devoured by an eagle, in punishment for having stolen fire from Heaven. According to the meaning of the Hermetic Chemists, Mount Caucasus is none other than the Philosophical Mount, or the vase of Art and Nature, because to the latter is attached and bound the fire of the Philosophers, that of Spaint and several others call Celestial Fire Mine. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 5, ch. 17.

Cauda Vulpis Rubicurdi. Minimum of lead.

Cecrops.Founder of the Kingdom of Athens, was originally from Egypt, from where he brought the worship of the Gods to Greece. The Fable says he was half man and half serpent. See the Egyptian Fables. and Greeks, lib. 1, sect. 4.

Cedue. The air.

Girdle of Venus, called Ceste. She had, according to the fable, the property not only of making her who wore her lovable, but also of rekindling the fires of an extinct passion; this is why Juno, at odds with Jupiter, borrowed this girdle from Venus, to captivate the benevolence of this God. Mercury, being still a child, added to his other tricks, the theft of this mysterious belt. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq.unveiled, book. 3, c. 14, § 1 and book. 6.
The Hermetic Philosophers explain this belt of the small circle of different colors that forms around matter each time it begins to change color.

Celeno. The Fable admits two of them, one daughter of Atlas, who had commerce with Jupiter; the other was one of the Harpies, daughter of Jupiter and Earth. The Poets, and those who said after them that the seven daughters of Arias formed the seven Pleiades, and that each of them has a relationship with one of the planets, give Celeno to Saturn. Looks like they consulted the Adepts to give this explanation;
it could not in fact be better suited to it, since Celeno comes from a Greek word which means obscurity, blackness, and the Saturn of the Philosophers is none other than the material of the work which has reached blackness while it is in putrefaction. We can see in the Harpy article what it means more. See also the Fabl. Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 2, c. 1.

Celopa or Chelopa. Jalap.

Ash.The followers of Hermetic science often call the matter of the putrefied stone in the aludel ashes, because the external heat acting on the mixture of the vessel, separates from it the humidity which bound the parts of it, and after having dried it, leaves the mixture as a powder, or ashes, and the matter in this state is in putrefaction or corruption; for both terms are taken interchangeably to mean the same thing.
The Hermetic Philosophers say that ashes are not to be despised, and Morien says that it is the King's diadem. We must understand these terms of matter after it has been putrefied; because then it seems like ashes, and from this ashes must come the philosophical sulphur, which is the diadem of the King.

ASH OF TARTAR. Sulfur of the Philosophers perfect in red.

Ceniotenium. Mercury prepared for the pox.

Centaurs (The). Were sons of Ixion and a cloud, except the Centaur Chiron, who was son of Saturn and Philbook. They had the upper part of the body in human shape, and from the waist down, in the shape of a horse. Having been invited to the wedding of Pyrithous, they sought a quarrel there with the Lapiths, and there was a bloody combat between them, in which the latter remained victorious. Hercules came after, and finished destroying them.
The marriage of Pyrithous with Déiadamie is that of the Philosophers, which takes place in the vase with the fixed igneous and the volatile mercurial. Before the perfect union of the two, there is a combat between them, which produces the dissolution and the volatilization indicated by the Lapiths, whose name means to rise with arrogance. See the most extensive explanation in the book. 5, ch. 6 of Egyptian and Greek Fables unveiled.

Center of the world. It is the matter of the stone of the Philosophers, and the stone itself when it is in its perfection. The Philosophers have so named it, because they say that all the properties of the Universe are united there.

EGG CENTER. It's yellow.

Cepini. It's the vinegar.

Creation. Time when matter changes from black to gray and then to white; which is done by the only digestion and cooking continued without addition of anything.

Cerauno-Cryson. Thundering gold.

Cerberus. In the sense of the vulgar chymists, it is the nitre; but the Philosophers mean something quite different by the Cerberus of the Fable. The Poets-Philosophers imagined that a dog with three heads, its gaping mouth, guarded the gate of the Underworld, and that it was chained there by a triple chain. The Alchymists claim that all the fables of the ancient Poets are only riddles, which they used to hide the operations of the philosopher's stone. They therefore say that we must understand by Cerberus this three-headed dog, or the matter of the philosopher's stone composed of salt, sulfur and mercury, enclosed in the triple vase of the Philosophers, which are the three chains which bind Cerberus;or that matter is itself the palace of Pluto, God of the Underworld, and that the triple vessel is the three-headed dog which guards the gate of the palace and prevents entry. This last explanation seems to me more probable; for it is said that Cerberus vomited fire; which is characteristic of stoves. We must not, however, mean by this that the furnaces of the Alchymists vomit fire like those of the ordinary Chymists; for the fire of Spagyric Philosophy is not ordinary fire, but the fire of nature, a fire which warms without burning. And who will know this fire, and the manner of grading it, is well advanced in Hermetic science.If anyone who wants to study this science has Hercules, and knows how to marry him appropriately with Theseus, his inseparable companion, he will soon have the secret of the three kingdoms. This last explanation seems to me more probable; for it is said that Cerberus vomited fire; which is characteristic of stoves. We must not, however, mean by this that the furnaces of the Alchymists vomit fire like those of the ordinary Chymists; for the fire of Spagyric Philosophy is not ordinary fire, but the fire of nature, a fire which warms without burning. And who will know this fire, and the manner of grading it, is well advanced in Hermetic science.If anyone who wants to study this science has Hercules, and knows how to marry him appropriately with Theseus, his inseparable companion, he will soon have the secret of the three kingdoms. This last explanation seems to me more probable; for it is said that Cerberus vomited fire; which is characteristic of stoves. We must not, however, mean by this that the furnaces of the Alchymists vomit fire like those of the ordinary Chymists; for the fire of Spagyric Philosophy is not ordinary fire, but the fire of nature, a fire which warms without burning. And who will know this fire, and the manner of grading it, is well advanced in Hermetic science.If anyone who wants to study this science has Hercules, and knows how to marry him appropriately with Theseus, his inseparable companion, he will soon have the secret of the three kingdoms. We must not, however, mean by this that the furnaces of the Alchymists vomit fire like those of the ordinary Chymists; for the fire of Spagyric Philosophy is not ordinary fire, but the fire of nature, a fire which warms without burning. And who will know this fire, and the manner of grading it, is well advanced in Hermetic science. If anyone who wants to study this science has Hercules, and knows how to marry him appropriately with Theseus, his inseparable companion, he will soon have the secret of the three kingdoms.We must not, however, mean by this that the furnaces of the Alchymists vomit fire like those of the ordinary Chymists; for the fire of Spagyric Philosophy is not ordinary fire, but the fire of nature, a fire which warms without burning. And who will know this fire, and the manner of grading it, is well advanced in Hermetic science. If anyone who wants to study this science has Hercules, and knows how to marry him appropriately with Theseus, his inseparable companion, he will soon have the secret of the three kingdoms.

Circle. In terms of Hermetic science, means circulation of matter in the Egg of the Philosophers. It is in this sense that they call their operation the movement of the heavens, the circular revolutions of the elements, and that they also call the great work the Quadrature of the Physical Circle. Michel Majer wrote a little treatise on this subject, which has the title: De Circulo quadrato Physico, sive de Auro.
They also divide the practice of the philosopher's stone into seven circles or operations; and yet everything consists in dissolving and coagulating. The first circle is the reduction of matter to water. The second is to coagulate this water in fixed earth.The third is the digestion of matter, which takes place very slowly; this is why the Philosophers say that the revolutions of this circle take place in the secret furnace. She cooks the food of the child of the Wise, and converts it into homogeneous parts, as the stomach prepares the food to turn it into the substance of the body. D'Espagnet admits only three circles, by the repetition of which one manages, he says, to reduce water to earth, and to reconcile the enemies, that is to say, the volatile with the fixed, the wet with dry, cold with hot ,

Cerdac. Mercury.

Ceres. Daughter of Saturn and Ops, and sister of Jupiter and Neptune, Pluto and Juno. Ceres was regarded as the mother of Plutus and Proserpina; Pluto kidnapped her and made her Queen of the Underworld. See this fable and its Chemical explanation in Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, Book. 4, c. 2 and 3.

Brain or Deer Heart. term of chemistry. It is the matter of the Philosophers; when it is converted into air, it is called Brain; when it has become fire, it is given the name Stagheart. Some Alchymists say that the deer is then delivered to the dogs, to be devoured;that is to say, it is exposed to the action of fire to be digested and fixed there.

Beefbrain. It is, in terms of chemistry, burnt tartar. Johnson.

Ceruse. (Sc. Herm.) Some chymists have imagined white lead to be the matter of the Philosophers, because it is made of lead, and the Adepts say that their Mercury is the son of Saturn; but, if we rely on Philalethes, they mean by Ceruse the white magisterium; as can be seen in his treatise entitled: Enarratio methodica trium medicinarum Gebri.

Cestius of Venus. See BELT.

Cexim. Vinegar.

Chaia. Matter of the Philosophers arrived at the color white.

Head. Earthen vessel. Johnson.

Chalcos. Copper.

Chalkute. Aes ustum, or burnt copper.

Heat. Action of fire, which produces a more or less lively effect on bodies, depending on whether the igneous parts are in greater or less quantity, and more or less agitated. When this action of fire is moderate, it is properly called heat when it is so violent as to cause the separation of the parts of the bodies on which it acts, it must be called adustion, ignition.
We judge degrees of heat only by the senses, and by its effects. There are several kinds of heat, the natural and the artificial, the internal and the external.
The natural is the effect of the innate fire in all Beings, which was implanted and communicated to matter from creation, when the spirit of God was carried on the waters. This heat gives life to everything, because it is an emanation of the principle of life in essence. As soon as this tiny portion of life abandons a subject, the dissolution of the parts succeeds this abandonment, because it was the bond.
Two contrary causes produce this effect; the cold its enemy when it dominates, and the very action of this fire carried to too violent a degree.
By the first, this natural heat overcomes, abandons the circumference and withdraws to the centre;then the distant parts, deprived of the bond which united them, separate step by step, change their organic conformation; and this heat no longer finding the same matter arranged as it must be to be animated, acts on it differently. She makes an effort in the center; the neighboring parts, too violently agitated, communicate their immoderate movement to those which touch them, these to the others, whence the fermentation is born; this is followed by corruption; Finally, a new generation.
Cold is not always necessary to cause the dissolution of the parts of the mixtures: innate heat increased beyond the degree required for the maintenance of the life of the body which it vivifies, also causes destruction.
The parts worn out by too much movement become detached, disturbed, and open a free passage to this fire, which vanishes, so to speak, and leaves behind it the fatal marks of its action and its absence. This natural heat is properly what we call internal.
There is another natural heat, that of the sun. The internal, of which we have just spoken, seems to be only a potential heat, which would not act, if it were not excited by external natural heat, or by artificial heat.
It is called artificial, because Art manifests it, augments or diminishes it, and directs it as it pleases. Artists give it several names taken from the materials they use, or the operations they perform by means of it. All these names can be found explained in the article.

Chambar. Philosophical magnesia.

Chambelech. Elixir.

Champs Elysees. Place of rest, where the Poets pretended that Mercury led the souls of Heroes and the just after their death. See what we must understand by the Champs Elysées, in the explanation of the Descent of Aeneas into the Underworld, at the end of the Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled.

Candle. Coloquint.

Changing natures. See. NATURE.

Each. Niter of the Philosophers.

Chaos. Means confusion and mixture. It was, according to the Ancients, the matter of the Universe before it had received a determined form. The Philosophers have given by similarity the name of Chaos to the matter of the work in putrefaction, because then the elements or principles of the stone are there so in confusion, that one cannot distinguish them. This chaos develops by volatilization; this abyss of water reveals little by little the earth as the humidity sublimates at the top of the vase.This is why the Hermetic Chemists thought they could compare their work, or what happens there during operations, to the development of the Universe during creation.

Marquee. Some chemists have so called lye and soap water. Johnson.

CAPITAL OF STILL. The Philosophers gave this name to the material of the work that had reached black.

Coal. Almost all the Philosophers say that their fire is not a coal fire; and they tell the truth, because they do not regard the fire in our kitchens, or chemical laboratories, as their fire. When it comes to the regime of fire, it should be understood as the regime of philosophical fire, and not of coal fire. Philalethe and several others, like Denis Zachaire, speak of coal fire as a fire necessary for the work. The latter said, among other things, that his parents, seeing the quantity of small coals he had stocked up on, told him that he would be accused of making counterfeit money. Philalethes says that he who undertakes the work should not be of the number of the poor, because of the expense of mud and coals which must be used.He even reduces the quantity needed for the whole work to one hundred measures for the whole three years. See on this his work which is entitled: Enarratio methodica trium medicinarum Gebri. One should not, however, take all his words literally, for d'Espagnet, whom Philalethes has followed step by step, says that there are very few expenses left for him who has the materials prepared and suitable for the work. Coal is needed, but only for a time, which is that of the test. says that there remains very little expense for him who has the materials prepared and suitable for the work. Coal is needed, but only for a time, which is that of the test. says that there remains very little expense for him who has the materials prepared and suitable for the work.Coal is needed, but only for a time, which is that of the test.

SKY COALS. These are the stars.

HUMAN COALS. Human excrement.

Chariot of Phaëton. It is one of the names that the Chemical Philosophers have given to the great work. Phaëton is the symbol of the bad Artists, who having everything necessary to make the stone, ignore the philosophical fire, cannot manage it, and burn matter, represented by the Earth to which this son of the Sun put the fire for not being able to drive his father's cart.

Charon. Son of Erebus and Night, according to Hesiod, was the Boatman of the Underworld; he passed the souls separated from the bodies by the three rivers, the Acheron, the Styx and the Cocytus. The Hermetic Chemists regard Charon as the symbol of the gray color which is only a passage from black to white; and the three rivers are the putrefactions which occur in the three operations of the work, which Geber has called Medicine of the first, second and third order. In each, the matter must dissolve and putrefy, and reach the color black, which succeeds the gray, which is Charon; that is why he is said to be the son of Erebus and Night.During this gray color matter evaporates, the spirit separates from the body, and the philosophical brass whitens: this is the passage of souls by the three rivers to reach the Champs Elysées, represented by whiteness. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 3, c. 6.

Charter of the Philosophers. It is the Emerald Table of Hermes, so named because it is the first known writing on the philosopher's stone. Some have taken these terms in the sense of prison, and have understood the furnace and the egg of the Philosophers.

Cat. This animal was a hieroglyphic symbol among the Egyptians, who worshiped it under the name of Aelurus.It represented the Philosophical Moon or Mercury, because the Cat seems to feel the effects of lunar influences. We notice indeed vicissitudes of greatness in the apple of the eyes of this animal. It conforms to the changing phases of the Moon. It increases when this planet is in its crescent; it decreases when the Moon is in its decline.

Lime. In terms of chemistry, it is said of all forms of bodies reduced to impalpable powders, either by the action of fire or by strong waters. Some claim that the name Lime should only be given to the powders of metallic bodies or minerals; and that those of others must be called ashes. We say Lime of Moon or silver, Lime of Saturn or lead, etc.

LIME OF PILGRIMS. It's tartar.

LIME-VIVE is also a term of Hermetic Science, which the Sages used to signify matter, to white.

Masterpiece of Art. It is the Stone of the Philosophers, the perfect elixir to red. Some Chemists have given it this name with good reason, since it is the most excellent thing that man could have imagined for his well-being.

Cheissi or Cheiri. Paracelsus takes it for mercury when he speaks of minerals, and for flowers when it comes to plants. So when he says of the Cheizi or Cheiri flower drawn from money, we must understand the philosophical elixir to white. Some others take it for antimony, others for drinking gold. Johnson.

Chillopa. Jalap.

Hollow oak. Furnace of the Sages.The Fable speaks of a hollow oak against which Cadmus pierced the dragon that had devoured his companions. The spear used by Cadmus is fire, the serpent signifies mercury. The hollow oak being the secret furnace of the Sages, we see why the Ancients had consecrated it to Rhea, wife of Saturn.

Chesep. The air we breathe; it is also that of the Philosophers. If you do not draw water from the air, earth from water, and fire from the earth, you will not succeed in the work, say Avicenna and Aristotle.

Horse. The Hermetic Chemists have often taken this animal as the symbol of the volatile parts of their matter, because of its lightness when running. This is why they formerly imagined horses to drag the chariot of the Sun and the Gods. Laomedon refused Hercules the horses he had promised him as a reward for having delivered Hesionne. Hercules fed Dio-mede to his own horses. See the Egyptian Fables. and Unveiled Greeks, 1.5, c. 11 and 14.

Hair. It is the philosophical Rebis.

Amalthea goat. See AMALTHEA. The Goat was worshiped in Egypt like the Goat, see the article.

Chibur or Chibut. Sulfur of the Sages when it reached the color red.

Dog.This animal was in great veneration among the Egyptians, under the name of Anubis. It was with them the symbol of the Mercury of the Sages; also the Ancients had consecrated it to this winged God. Several have given the name of Dog to the matter of the great work. One calls it the Dog of Armenia, the other says that the Wolf and the Dog are found in this matter; that they have the same origin, and nevertheless that the Wolf comes from the East, and the Dog from the West. Rafis. One represents the fixed and the other the volatile of matter.

HOG OF ARMENIA is one of the names given by the Hermetic Philosophers to their sulphur, or to the male sperm of their stone.

Corascene female dog. Is one of the names given by the Chemical Philosophers to their mercury, or feminine sperm of their stone.

Chimera (the). Daughter of Typhon and Echidna, was a monster with the head and chest of a lion, the belly and hindquarters of a goat, and the tail of a dragon. Bellerophon was sent to fight the Chimera, and remained victorious with the help of the horse Pegasus, and the weapons which the gods had given him. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 3, c. 14, § 3.

Chiron. The Centaur, son of Saturn and Phillyra. Chiron became the ruler of Aesculapius, Jason, Achilles, etc. Having injured himself inadvertently, with one of the arrows of Hercules his disciple, the wound worsened to the point that he died, after having obtained this grace from Jupiter. See the Egyptian and Greek Fables unveiled, in the articles of the above-named Gods and Heroes.

Mineral Chisir. Sulfur principle of metals.

Chisti Pabulum. Urine of a child.

Chop China. It is Kina.

Vile thing. When the Philosophers said that their matter is vile, despised, thrown in the streets and on the dunghills, they bet sincerely, parabolically, and allegorically.We really throw it away, because we don't know its price; but when they call it a vile thing, it is because only the vile and contemptible things are commonly thrown away, and their putrefying matter is like anything that is putrefied, which is thrown on the manure because of of its stench, and which is regarded not only as useless, but as harmful. It must therefore not be imagined that the matter of the Sages, although so common in its principle that everyone can have it, is found entirely prepared in mercury. We give to the truth this care to Nature, but we must help her, by providing her with what is required,
Those who take vulgar mercury for this vile thing are therefore very much mistaken. Paracelsus says about this matter, that the stone that a woman throws at her cow is often better than the cow itself.

THING (the) that has black feet, a white body and a red head. It is, in terms of Hermetic Science, the work of stone; because matter first becomes black in putrefaction, then white in regeneration, finally red in fixation. The Philosophers only speak of these three colors, because they are the main ones, and the others last very little.

SINGLE THING. Matter of the Philosophers after the conjunction of mind and body, or animated mercury of the Sages. This material is truly unique in its kind, although very common, and no one can do without it; but it acquires this quality of unique even better after its putrefaction. It contains everything, although it does not properly resemble anything that exists in the world. She is water, she is earth, she is fire, she is air, and does not resemble any of these elements. As it contains the properties and virtues of the higher and lower things of the Universe, it is rightly given the names of all the individuals, without it being in any way specified to any one of them in particular.This diversity of names has deceived and misled many people who seek the stone every day; but it has only one name properly known to everyone, men as well as women, old people as well as children, scholars as well as ignorant people; because, as Morien says, it is for the rich as for the poor, for the miser as for the prodigal, for the old and the young, for those who are standing as for those who are seated; and, as Basile Valentin says, that it contains all things, because it is all things. for the wager as for the prodigal, for the old and the young, for those who stand as for those who sit; and, as Basile Valentin says, that it contains all things, because it is all things.for the wager as for the prodigal, for the old and the young, for those who stand as for those who sit; and, as Basile Valentin says, that it contains all things, because it is all things. Chryseis. Daughter of Chryses, priest of Apollo, fell by lot to Agamemnon, Chief of the army of the Greeks who were going to lay siege to the city of Troy. Chryses asked for it from Agamemnon, who refused it. This sorry father addressed himself to Apollo; and this God, to avenge his priest, stirred up a terrible plague in the camp of the Greeks. Calchas consulted, replied that Chryseis must be returned to her father, and that the plague would cease. Agamemnon made up his mind to it, albeit in spite of himself, and the plague ceased.
It is necessary to distinguish the matter of the Sages before putrefaction and after putrefaction. In the first case, it is as I described it when I said it was for everyone; in the second, it is properly the matter of the Sages; she is their mercury, and the mine of their metals; and it is of her that they say that their mercury contains all that the Philosophers seek. It is their Azoth that suffices with the fire.

Chronos. See SATURN.

Chrysaor. Son of Neptune and Medusa, according to some; and according to others, born of the only blood that flowed from the wound made to Medusa by Perseus. Chrysaor was the father of Geryon. See this fiction explained in Fables Egypt.and Grecq. unveiled, book. 3, c. 14, § 3.

See what this fiction means in book 6 of Fables Egypt. and Greeks unveiled.

Chryses. See the previous article.

Chrysocalcos. tinsel.

Chrysor. Vulcan of the Phoenicians. See VULCAN.

Chybur. Sulfur. Paracelsus says (Lib. de Nat. rerum) that there is no better remedy than Chybur, for diseases of the lungs, when it is prepared and sublimated three times with mineral limes.

Chyle. Matter of the Philosophers in putrefaction.

Quote. Nutrition of the dry matter of the Philosophers with its own milk, given moderately. Rippled.If this milk is given in too great abundance, the child will become dropsical, and the earth will be submerged by the flood. It must therefore be administered little by little and with proportion.

Cibur and Chibut. See CHYBUR.

Cicebrum. It is the water of the Philosophers.

Cidmia. Litharge.

Sky. This term has different meanings among the Hermetic Philosophers. He generally takes himself for the vase of the Sages, in which Saturn, Jupiter and all the other gods make their stay.

CIEL VEGETABLE, It is their mercurial water, their celestial quintessence drawn from philosophical wine. Christopher Parisian.

SKY OF THE PHILOSOPHERS. Also takes itself for the quintessence or more refined material of the elements. Such is the philosopher's stone and the perfect elixir to red. Paracelsus wrote a work which bears the title: Coelum Philosophorum. He treats there of all the metals under the names of the planets, and he says there in the article of Saturn, that if the Alchemists knew what it contains, they would work only on this matter.

SKY. The Hermetic Philosophers also gave this name to the celestial fire which animates the elemental bodies. The bodies are stronger or weaker, according as they contain more or less of this fire; and their long duration depends on the strong union of the celestial spirit with the radical humidity. This union is what the Philosophers call Heaven and Earth reunited and conjoined, Brother and Sister, Gabritius and Beja, Bridegroom and Bride embracing very closely; because the volatile spirit is useless, if it is not made fixed in whose nature it must pass.

Cimmerians (Shadows). These are the mists that rise in the philosophical vessel during putrefaction.

Cinnabar.Metallic matter, from which common mercury is obtained.
The ancients also give this name to dragon's blood. Pliny, book. 33, ch. 7, of his Natural History, calls it Indian Cinnabar, to distinguish it from the metallic; and adds that blood is formed from dragons fighting against elephants, whose enormous weight overwhelms them, when the elephant falls on them dying.
We also find the name of Cinnabar in several Authors, to say Minium.
Many chemists have mistakenly taken the vulgar and natural Cinnabar for the matter of the work of the Philosophers; only common mercury, or vulgar quicksilver, can be obtained from it. The Cinnabar of the Sages is their sublimed, purified, red-fixed mercury, which they call sulphur.It is then this red servant of which Trevisan speaks.

Cinyras. Is accused by the Poets of having committed incest with his own daughter Myrrha, and of this incest, they say, was born Adonis. See what this fiction means in Fables Egypt. and Greeks unveiled, book. 4, c. 4.

Circe. The enchantress, daughter of the Sun and the Nymph Perseis; she was sister of Summers, King of Colchos. Jason and Medea retired to her, after they had seized the Golden Fleece. See the Egyptian Fables. and Greeks unveiled, book. 2, c. 1.

Traffic.Is a term of Hermetic Science, which, besides the chemical meaning, also means the reiteration of the operations of the great work for the multiplication of the quantity and qualities of the stone.

wax. Matter of the Sages pushed to white.

Scissors. It is the fire of the Philosophers, as well as the lance, the sword, etc.

Cist or Kist. Measure of liquids, containing two pints or four pounds. Johnson.

Clanchedest. Steel.

Clarity. Egg white.

Clarity. In terms of Hermetic Science, signifies the whiteness which succeeds the blackness of matter in putrefaction.

Key. Term of Hermetic Science, which means both the knowledge of the material specific to the work, and the way of working it. It is also taken for the marks of the work well or badly carried out. In this last sense, the first key is the blackness which must appear at the latest after the fortieth or forty-second day, failing which color the Artist must believe that he has not operated well, and he must then start over. . Basile Valentin, a Benedictine monk, wrote a book on the philosopher's stone, entitled the Twelve Keys. Georges Riplée, Englishman, wrote one on the same subject, which has the title, The Twelve Gates.

Clibanically. According to the proportion of the stove.Flamel says, according to Calid, if your fire is not clibanically measured; that is to say, with weight and measure of matters, which are only the sulfur and the mercury of the Philosophers.

Nail. To fix the volatile matter, by the digestion which one makes of it when it is mixed with the fixed matter.
Clytemnestra. Daughter of Jupiter and Leda, and wife of Agamemnon, whom she put to death after her return from the Trojan War, to enjoy her lover Egysthe more comfortably. Orestes, son of Agamemnon, avenged the death of his father, and slew his mother with Egysthe in the temple of Apollo. See the Egyptian Fables. and Greeks unveiled, book. 3, c. 14, § 4.

Coagulation.Term of Physics and Chemistry. It is the bond of the composition of the mixed, which makes the mutual touching of the parts. Coagulation is only the rudiment of fixation. There are two kinds of coagulations, like two kinds of solutions. One is made by cold, the other by heat, and each is further subdivided into two; one is permanent, the other is not. The first is called fixation, and the other simply coagulation. Metals are an example of this, salts of this.
Philosophical coagulation is the inseparable union of the fixed and the volatile in a mass so fixed that it does not fear the attacks of the most violent fire, and communicates its fixity to the metals which it transmutes.

Coagulated. rennet.

Coagulate. In terms of Hermetic Chemistry, means giving consistency to liquid things, not by making them a compact body, or whose parts would be linked like those of milk become cheese, but by drying them of their superfluous humidity, and by reducing the liquid into powder , and then stone.
The Chemical Philosophers also call to coagulate, to cook the matter until the perfection of the white or the red.

Cobals. See SATYRS.

Cobastoli. Ash.

Cocilio. Weight of eleven ounces. Johnson.

Cocyte. One of the rivers or swamps of Hell. See PLUTO, HELL.

Coelus. See SKY.

Heart.Some chemists gave this name to fire, others to gold when they spoke of metals. Johnson.

Cohob. Sand.

Cohobation. Digestion and circulation of matter in the vase, during which the volatile part rises to the top of the vase, and falling down it mixes, penetrates and cohobes itself with the fixed part which is at the bottom. Such is philosophical cohobation; term employed only by similarity, and by comparison with cohobation taken in the sense of the vulgar chymists.

Cohober. Is also a term of Hermetic Science, which is said in the same sense of the Chemists, but however without the addition of new matter, and without the help of the Artist.

Cohoph.Paracelsus often uses this term, instead of cohober, cohobation.

Cohos. All parts of the body enclosed under the skin. Some chemists have used it by allusion to the term chaos, and to show the contrast of the order and arrangement of the parts of the human body, with the confusion of chaos.

Anger. The Hermetic Philosophers say that one must be careful not to push Vulcan too much, for fear of irritating Mercury, whose anger is very much to be feared for the Artist, because finding himself in too much of a hurry, he would break down the doors of his prison, and would flee without hope of catching him; that is to say, the fire must not be pushed too far, so that the mercury, or volatile spirits of matter, do not break the vase;which would infallibly happen without this attention: or if the vase were strong enough to resist,
Some Adepts have given the name of anger to the madeira which has reached the orange color.

Glue. This term is found in some chemists, to mean bull's gall. Johnson.

GOLD GLUE. Borax or Chrysocolla of the Ancients. Glue d'or, in the Hermetic sense, means the matter of the Philosophers in putrefaction after the mixture of mercury and the gold of the Sages. This meeting has taken on the name of Marriage.

Dove. D'Espagnet and Philalethe used the allegory of the Dove to designate the volatile part of the matter of the work of the Sages. The first borrowed from Virgil (Eneid. lib. 6.) what he says of that of Venus, for the time of the generation of the son of the Sun or philosophical reign of Venus. The second said that the doves of Diana are the only ones capable of softening the ferocity of the dragon; it is for the time of volatilization, where the parts of the matter are in a great movement, which ceases as the white color, or the Hermetic Diana is perfected. The Prompters must be very careful about this, if they do not want to waste their money making crazy mixtures of vulgar silver with other materials to reach the magisterium of the Philosophers.

Pillars of Hercules. These are two mountains located at the Strait of Gibraltar; one is called Calpé, on the side of Spain; the one opposite in Africa was called Abyla. See these two articles.

Combustion. Old word found in the works of some chemists to signify the excessively violent action of fire on matter.

comerisson. Is one of the names of the Stone of the Sages who have reached whiteness.

Cometz. Half a drop.

Comidi and Comisdi. gum arabic.

Commixion. Some Philosophers have substituted this term for those of conjunction, marriage, union. The commixtion takes place during putrefaction, because the fixed and the volatile mingle then, never to separate.

Fellow. Philosophical Mercury animated by its sulphur, and driven to white.

Compar. The Adepts understand by this term the fixed and the volatile, mercury and the gold of the Sages, which act successively in the work; mercury or the female first takes dominion, until the end of putrefaction; when the material begins to dry out and whiten, the gold takes over. They then work together to perfect the work.

Complexion. Time when matter is in perfect dissolution; which is indicated by a very black color. The term complexion means the same as putrefaction, submersion, mixture.

Compound. The compound of the Philosophers is what they also call their compost, their making.Therefore this blackness of color teaches that in this beginning the matter or the compound begins to rot, and to dissolve into a powder finer than the atoms of the sun, which then change into permanent water. Flamel.

Composition. Mixture of the material principles of the work. This term means the same thing as mixture, assembly of several things, but of the same nature, that is to say the union of the mercury and the sulfur of the Philosophers, which, although two different things, nevertheless come from the same root, like the leaves and flowers of a plant.

Compost. In terms of chemical philosophy, means matter from stone to black; because then the four elements are as if united.

Design. Marriage, union which is made of the volatile and the fixed matter of the Philosophers while it is in putrefaction. The Hermetic Chemists say that the conception of the son of the Sun and their young King is made in that time. This term was used in comparison to the birth of man and animals.

Palace Caretaker. (Sc. Herm.) Several chemists have interpreted this term of the Artist; but Bernard, Comte de la Marche Trévisanne, known by the name of the good Trévisan, understood it of the mercury or philosophical water, which administers to the secret furnace the required heat, because this secret furnace and the philosophical vase are none other than this water. , as can be seen in the articles Vase, Fourneau secret.

Conder. Male Frankincense, Frankincense.

Confection. Mixture of several things, that is to say mercury and philosophical sulphur.The Egg of the Philosophers, says Flamel, is a glass matrass, which you see painted in the form of a writing desk, and which is full of the making of Art, that is to say, of the foam of the red sea, and the blowing of the mercurial wind.

Jam. Elixir of the Philosophers. Let it be made jam composed of a kind of stone, and let it be made a medicine to heal, purge and transmute all bodies into true Moon. Flamel.

Freezing. In terms of Hermetic Science, means the same as coagulation.It is properly a hardening of a soft thing, by the drying out of humidity and the fixing of the volatile. It is in this sense that Hermes said that the force of matter will be perfect, if the water is reduced to earth; because the whole magisterium consists in reducing matter to water by solution, and to make it return to earth by coagulation. Freezing, dyeing and fixing are only the same operation continued in the same vessel.

Freeze. Means to make marriage, to reunite the volatile with the fixed, to join natures, to make peace between enemies; which is done first by solution, and then by coagulation.

Conjunction. Reunion of repugnant and contrary natures in perfect unity.This conjunction converts them so much into each other that it makes them an indissoluble marriage even in the greatest violence of the fire. The Philosophers still define this conjunction, an assembly and a reunion of the separated qualities, or an adequacy of the principles. Rippled.
There are three kinds of conjunction. The first is called double. It is between the agent and the patient, the male and the female, the form and the matter, the mercury and the sulphur, the subtle and the thick.
The second is called triple, because it unites three things, the body, the soul and the spirit. So make sure to reduce the trinity to unity.
The third is called quadruple, because it unites the four elements in a single visible one, but which contains the three others. Remember, says Riplée, that the male has five buckets required for fertility, and the female fifteen. Know then that our Sun must have three parts of its water, and our Moon nine.
CONJUNCTION also signifies the union of the fixed and the volatile, of the brother and the sister, of the Sun and the Moon. It is done during the darkness that comes to matter during putrefaction. The Philosophers also call it Conception, Union of the Elements, Commixtion.
CONJUNCTION OF THE SOUL WITH THE BODY. Hermetic expression, which means the moment when the material reaches white.At the hour of whiteness, or of the conjunction of the soul with the body (says Philalethes) great miracles will be seen; that is, every color imaginable.
TETRAPTIVE CONJUNCTION. Intimate blend of the principles of the Compound of the Sages.

Login. See COMPOSITION, MIXING.

Contrition. In terms of Chemical Philosophy, means reducing to powder, but only by desiccating the moisture of the matter by the regime of fire, and not that it has to be ground in a mortar or otherwise.

Suitability or Adaptation. Is when the projection is done on a molten metal, or reduced to flowing or mercurial form;then it is said that this metal has property, or similarity in nature, with the elixir made of the mercury of the Sages. The Philosophers also recommend to choose to make the work a material which has some agreement with the metal, because of a tree one does not make an ox, nor of an ox a metal.

Converting elements. (Sc. Hermét.) Those who literally take the terms of the Hermetic Philosophers, have imagined that their elements were indeed four distinct and separate things, which had to be extracted from a matter, and which had then to be converted into each other; that is to say, for example, to make oil from water, and earth from fire, or from fire to make air, and air to make water, and make land.By the operations of vulgar chemistry four things are extracted from each mixture, a spirit, a phlegmatic water, an oil, and an earth called caput mortuum, or dead head. Others have called these four things a salt, a sulphur, a mercury, and a damned or useless earth. Those who have imagined themselves to reach the magisterium of the Philosophers by these operations of vulgar chemistry, have given the name of air to oil, which others have called sulphur, that of fire to the spirit, that of water. to phlegmatic water, and finally that of earth, some to salt, others to damned earth. But the elements of the Philosophers are quite different; their operations are those of Nature and not of vulgar Chemistry;their fire is contained in their earth and is not separated from it, and their air is contained in their water. They therefore have only two visible elements, which must be converted; that is to say, their water changes their earth into its liquid nature of water, and then all the compound which had become water, must become earth; by becoming water, everything becomes volatile, and being reduced to earth, everything becomes fixed. So when they speak of the cold and the humid, we must understand their water, and the hot and the dry are their land.

Convert items. Hermetic Chemistry Terms. Dissolve and coagulate;to make the body-mind, and the mind-body, the fixed volatile, and the fixed volatile: all this means only the same thing. Nature, aided by Art, does it in the same vessel of the Philosophers by the same continuous operation. When the matter is well purified and sealed in the egg, it is only a question of conducting the fire.

Copher. Bitumen or Asphalt.

Copulation. Mixture of the fixed and the volatile, which the Adepts call male and female.

Roost. Animal that the ancients had consecrated to Minerva and Mercury. The Hermetic chymists have compared their fire to the Rooster, because of its vigor, activity and ardor, and have accordingly given the name of Rooster to their perfect sulfur to red.

Red coral.Is one of the names that the Philosophers gave to their stone when it is fixed at red, which is the degree of its perfection. It is doubtless for this reason that the Ancients pretended that the coral was formed like Chrysaor, from the blood spilled from the wound which Perseus made to Medusa; since the Hermetic Philosophers also took Chrysaor and the coral as symbols of their perfect sulphur.

Corbatum. Copper.

Crow. In terms of Hermetic Science, means dark matter in the time of putrefaction. So they also call it the Raven's Head, which is leprous, which must be whitened, by washing it seven times in the waters of the Jordan, like Nahaman. These are imbibitions, sublimations, cohobations, etc.of matter, which are made of themselves in the vase by the sole regime of fire.

Corbins. Work of the Stone of the Philosophers. Dict. Herm.

Cordumeni. Cardamom.

Horn of Amalthea. The Hermetic Philosophers say that this fable must be explained from the philosopher's stone, because besides the goods of the. fortune, it gives all the goods capable of satisfying the desires of man in this world. See the Fables. Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 3. ch. 4.

DEER HORN. Spout of the capital of stills, according to some chemists.

Corocrum. Ferment from the stone.

Coronis. The Fable names two of them, one counted among the Hyades, the other mother of Aesculapius; the latter perished by the hand of Apollo, and was changed into a crow. See the Egyptian Fables. and Greeks unveiled, book. 3, c. 12, § 2.

Body. The Philosophers call body what they also call metals. That's why they often talk about perfect bodies and imperfect bodies. One will never succeed in making a good multiplication, if one does not reduce the perfect bodies to their first matter, that is to say, to mercury;because as soon as they are perfect, nothing more can be done with them, as long as they remain in this state of perfection.
BODY is also taken by the chymists for philosophical salt, or their leafy earth which is impregnated with sulfur and mercury like a soul and a spirit. You will never succeed, they say, unless you spiritualize the body and embodie the spirit; that is, if you don't make the fixed volatile, and the volatile fixed. They also call body their magnesia, their ferment, their tincture; and they therefore say that the body does not penetrate bodies without the help of its spirit.
IMPERFECT BODY. It is the arsenic of the Philosophers, their Moon, their female.From the beginning of the work, the perfect body must be calcined by marrying it with the imperfect body. Phil. One must also purify this body by removing all its superfluous, burning and combustible sulphur, and manifest what it has within. The sign of its perfect sublimation or purification is a white, celestial color, dazzling like that of the finest well burnished silver, and in its breaks, the luster of the most polished marble or steel. Then this prostituted woman is restored to her state of intact virginity, and can be given in marriage to the terrestrial Sun, although she is his mother and his sister. Philal.
DISSOLVABLE BODY. It is the very mining of the dissolving mercury of the Sages.It is the terrestrial body that this mercury must wash and purify. Which has led the Philosophers to say that mercury impregnates its own mother, that it causes her to die, that it purifies her, finally resurrects her with itself, because it unites with her so intimately, that he never parted with it. This body is fixed, and mercury is volatile. He must undergo the torture of fire and water, die and be reborn by water and spirit, to finally reach eternal rest. Philalethes says that the color of this body is brown, a little reddish and dull; that it must be dissolved and exalted; he must then suffer death, rise again, and ascend to heaven, there to be glorified. To put it bluntly,it is the red-perfect sulphur, which must be dissolved by the mercury, from which it was formed; and he himself forms the Androgyne or Rebis of the Philosophers after his union with Mercury.
WHITE BODY. Earth leaf of the Philosophers, or magisterium in white.
IMPROPERLY SAYED BODY. Magisterium or Mercury of the Sages, when it is not yet fully fixed.
NEAREST BODY. The Philosophers have thus called their magisterium to the white, because it is in a state which comes closest to perfect fixity, which is their magisterium to the red.
FOUL BODY. It is the mercury before its preparation; sometimes in the time of its putrefaction in the philosopher's egg, and then it is also called Dead body.
CONFUSED BODY. See FOUL BODY.
MIXED BODY. Matter to black.
CLEAN AND PURE BODY. Matter to white.
OWN BODY OF ART. It is the red stone, or the gold of the Philosophers.
RED BODY. V. PROPER BODY.
DEAD BODY. Black matter during putrefaction, also called Death, Night, Darkness, Sepulchre, Tomb, etc.

Correctum. Distilled vinegar.

Corrosive. The Philosophers reject from the work any strong water, or other corrosive solvent. Those, then, are very much mistaken, who torment the metals, gold, silver, mercury, with etchings to make of them the philosophical solvent, or to extract from them the sulfur and the auric tincture.The mercury of the Sages must dissolve the gold (of the Philosophers) without corrosion, as hot water dissolves ice.

Corrosion. Action of salt and mercurial, volatile and very rarefied sulfur of certain bodies, which by their penetration and sulfurity burn and disunite the parts of the bodies with which they are mixed. We notice this action in etching, which proves this definition when we alter its activity by the precipitation of this mercurial sulphur. It then loses all its igneity and its corrosive virtue. This precipitation takes place by the fixation of this volatile sulphur, this fixation by condensation, this condensation by intrinsic refrigeration, and this refrigeration by the addition of leaching salts.
We must conclude from this that the more one rarefies a fiery spirit, such as, for example, that of wine, the more one has a violent corrosive, or an increasingly corrosive sulfur or mercurial salt, according as it is more rectified. by repeated distillations.

Corsuflé or Carsuflé. Sulfur of the Philosophers fixed to red.

Cortex Maris. Mercury of the Sages.

Coruscus. The Pilosel.

Corybantes. Priests of Cybele, mother of the Gods. They solemnized the feasts of this Goddess to the sound of drums, and danced to the sound of flutes, trumpets, making a great noise with their weapons.It was by this means that they prevented Saturn from hearing the cries of little Jupiter, whom Rhée had entrusted to their care. See what is to be understood by the Corybantes, Fables Egypt. and Greeks unveiled, book. 3, ch. 4.

cos. Island that Hercules ravaged, according to the Fable; because Eurypilus, King of the island, had not received him well. The Spagyric Philosophers regard the island of Cos as the symbol of their matter put into the vase to be digested there. If you put too much mercury, which is nothing other than Hercules, the vessel will break, all the matter will spread or dissipate; and it is the ravage that Hercules made in the island of Cos.It is therefore necessary to take great care not to pour the mercury too abundantly on the matter contained in the vase, it would be flooded with it. If you put too little, it will catch fire, the vase will break, and all will be lost. It should be watered often and little by little. It is this lack of precaution which causes many Alchemists to fail,

Cosmai. Saffron tincture or water.

Cosmec and Cosmet. Antimony of Philosophers and Vulgar Chemists.

Cosmetic. Name that is generally given to all the remedies made to correct the defects of the skin, and to maintain beauty, or to procure it.This term was made of Cosmet, Antimony, because the ancients used this mineral a great deal for the use we have just mentioned. Holy Scripture speaks of it in more than one place.

cosumes. See COSMEC.

Cotonorium. Liquor.

Color. The colors of things, and particularly of flowers, have their principle in the mercurial sulfur and salt of the colored bodies. A very convincing proof is that as these volatile parts evaporate, the color fades away, at least its brilliance and vivacity, and gives way to another less lively color, composed of a more earthly and less subtle. It is certain, moreover, that one does not find colors whose subject is not oily, oleaginous and very combustible.
COLOR.The Hermetic Philosophers regard the colors which arise in matter during the operation of the great work, as the keys of this Art, and the certain indications of the truth and goodness of matter, and of the good regime of fire. They count three principal ones which follow one another, but whose succession is interrupted by a few other passing colors and of short duration. The first main one is the black color, which must be seen on the forty-second day at the latest. It disappears little by little, and gives way to the white. This is followed by citrine, which they call their gold. Finally, the color red shows itself, and it is the flower of their gold, their royal crown, etc. The passing colors are green, which marks the animation and vegetation of matter;the gray, or the reign of Jupiter, which immediately follows the black, or the reign of Saturn; the colors of the peacock's tail. The Tyrian color, or color of purple, indicates the perfection of the stone.
If the red color appears before the black, it is a sign that the fire has been pushed too far, and that the work will not succeed. Then you have to start over.
The black is an index of putrefaction and complete dissolution of matter. It must always precede white and red.
The half note marks the well-advanced fixation of the material; and the red its perfect fixation.
All these colors must reappear in the operation of multiplication;but their duration is all the shorter, the more often the operations are repeated to perfect and multiply the quantity and the qualities of the stone.
When matter is like molten black pitch, they call it Black blacker than black itself, their Lead, their Saturn, their Raven, etc. And they say that it is then necessary to cut off the head of the Raven with the sword or the sword, that is to say with fire, continuing until the Raven turns white.
These different colors, which the matter takes on cooking, have caused the Philosophers to call this matter by almost all the names of the individuals of Nature. Its smell and its properties have made it give some others;and they admit in their Works, that they never named this matter by its vulgar proper name, at least when they spoke of it to designate it. You can see some of these names in the article Matter of the Philosophers.

Snake. Serpent or reptile honored by the Pagans as representing Aesculapius. See AESCULAPIUS. The Poets pretended that the Gorgons and the Furies had snakes entwined in their hair. See MEDUSA. Saturn was represented with a grass snake devouring its tail in its hand. See SATURN.
The Hermetic Philosophers gave the name Serpent and Couleuvre to the matter of their Art. See the Figures of Jewish Abraham, in Flamel.

To cut with scissors or any other instrument means to cook, to digest the material without opening or moving the vase. Thus cutting off the Raven's head means continuing the cooking and digestion of the material of the work which has reached the color black, to make it pass to gray, and from there to white. The scissors, the sword, the spear, are philosophical fire.

Celestial Crown, Corona Coelica. In terms of Alchymy, means Spirit of Wine. But when Raymond Lully and the other Philosophers speak of the spirit of wine, of white wine, of red wine, they should not be taken literally; they understand by these terms the red mercury and the white mercury which they employ in the great work.
ROYAL CROWN.It is the perfect red stone, and fit to make the throwing stone.
VICTORIOUS CROWN. It is the same as Crown Royal. Some Philosophers, however, have given this name to matter when it begins to emerge from putrefaction, or from the color black; because they say that then death is vanquished, and their King triumphs over the horrors of the tomb, and over the empire of darkness.

Lid vase. It is black blacker than black itself, or matter perfectly dissolved and in complete putrefaction.

Moon spit. It is the matter of philosophizing's stone before its preparation. The Sages also give this name to their prepared mercury.
Several chemists have given the name Crachat de la Lune, or Sputum Lunœ, or flos cœli, and have worked with it, as on the true material of the great work; and it is true that this flos cœli is quite capable of misleading. It is quite difficult to decide its nature. It is a kind of frozen water, odorless and tasteless, resembling a strawberry with green skin, which comes out of the ground during the night, or first after the cessation of a great storm. In the greatest heat, this material retains a very great coldness when kept in the shade. Its aqueous matter is very volatile, and evaporates at the slightest heat through an extremely thin skin that contains it. It does not dissolve in vinegar or water, nor in the spirit of wine;but if the brand-new flos cœli is enclosed in a well-sealed and sealed vessel, it dissolves there of its own accord into extremely stinking water, smelling like human excrement, very corrupt, which manifests an abundance of volatile sulphur. At the beginning of the dissolution, the water in which this matter resolves appears of a celestial blue color, then violet, then red, purple, and clearing up after that, it becomes the color of dawn, and finally amber the color of gold. The film floats for a very long time in this water; and there precipitates at the bottom of the matrass, from the beginning of the solution, a kind of white powder like starch. But for that you must have picked the flos cœli before sunrise, and have cleaned it exactly, piece by piece,from all the dirt and other foreign matter that may have attached to it. Several people have assured me that flos cœli is an excellent remedy for curing a number of illnesses. Care must be taken not to touch or pick the flos cœli with any metal, but only with wood or glass.

White chalk. Matter of Art reached white.
BLACK CHALK. Matter during putrefaction.

Crete (Island of) in which Jupiter was raised. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, 1. 3, c. 4.

Cretheus. Son of Aeolus, father of Eson and Amythaon. See the book. 2, c. 1, from Egyptian Fables. and Greeks unveiled.

Screen. The Philosophers gave this name to their magnet or imperfect body, which they also called Argent-vive d'Occident, and quite often Mercury of the Philosophers, coagulated and not fixed; it is the same matter which they have named Babylonian Dragon, Green Lion, Very Sour Vinegar, Water of the Sea, Secret Fire, Vegetable Saturnia, Triumphant Grass which grows on the mountains; but properly their Moon, Sister and Wife of the Sun, its Shadow, Eve, Beya, Daughter of Saturn, and Venus; finally their Female.

Screen.It is to cook matter, and to purify it by philosophical sublimation.

Crocodile. The Hermetic Chymists, in imitation of the Egyptians, put the crocodile in their hieroglyphs, as a symbol of the material of their work; because he lives on earth and in water, and their matter is also water and earth alternately.

Crocomma. Mark of oil.

Crocus. A young man who, having fallen madly in love with the Nymph Smilax, was changed into a plant which we call saffron. The Hermetic Chemists have sometimes called Crocus, or saffron, their orange-red fixed matter.

Cross. The crosses, in vulgar chemistry, are characters which indicate the crucible, the vinegar, and the distilled vinegar. But in fact of Hermetic Science, the cross is, as among the Egyptians, the symbol of the four elements. And as the philosopher's stone is, they say, composed of the purest substance of the gross elements, that is to say, of the very substance of the principle elements, they said: in cruce salus, salvation is in the cross; by similarity of the salvation of our souls redeemed by the blood of Jesus Christ attached to the tree of the cross. Some of them even pushed the boldness further, and did not hesitate to use the terms of the New Testament to form their allegories and their enigmas.Jean de Roquetaillade, known as Jean de Rupe Scissa, and Arnaud de Villeneuve say in their works on the composition of the stone of the Philosophers:; the Son of Man must be lifted up on the cross before being glorified; to designate the volatilization of the fixed and igneous part of matter. Jean de Dee, English, made in his treatise on the Work of the Sages, a very extensive comparison of the philosopher's stone, with the mystery of our Redemption. His treatise is entitled: Monas Hieroglyphica. with the mystery of our redemption. His treatise is entitled: Monas Hieroglyphica. with the mystery of our redemption. His treatise is entitled: Monas Hieroglyphica.

Crybtit. Sulfur. See KYBRIC.

Cryptography. Art of writing in non-apparent, or unknown, or disfigured characters, which is commonly called writing in numbers. This manner of writing is in use particularly among the Ambassadors of the Princes, so that if their letters were intercepted, one could not decipher what they contain. Everyone can form a cryptography as they wish. Cardan, Tritheme, Schot, Kircher. Porta and several others have written treatises on this Art.
The Hermetic Philosophers, always careful to hide the secret of their Art, have sometimes used this means in the works they have written on the manner of proceeding in the operations of the great work. It was they who invented the characters which are still in use today in chemistry books, to signify both the drugs and the operations required for their preparations. We find these chemical characters, with their explanation, in almost all the modern works which treat of vulgar chemistry; I believe it is useless to report them here, especially since they are rarely found in the Hermetic treatises that remain to us. But as we sometimes see other characters, and ways of writing and expressing ourselves that are not ordinary,

First example.

Antimony.
M Asphalt or bitumen.
N Orpiment.
O Salt armonia.
P Gold.
Q Red orpiment.
Y Roman Vitriol.
Z Sulphur.
[ Alum.
A Feather Alum.
B Nitro salt.
.°. Mercury.
R Mercury.

Second example.

The operations of the work expressed by the twelve signs.

The Calcination.
Mr Freezing.
No Fixing.
O Dissolution.
D Digestion.
Q Distillation.
Y Sublimation.
Z Separation.
[ Inceration.
A Fermentation.
B Multiplication.
.°. Projection.

Others, having regard to the influences of the signs and planets on the limbs and parts of the human body, have substituted the names of these limbs for the names of the signs by which they signify the operations, or the things of which we have just spoken. They even formed various alphabets from it.
When it came to expressing arithmetic numbers they made use of planets and signs.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
or
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
9. 10. 11. 12.
or
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
8. 9. 10. 100. 200.
Some have used chemical characters instead of the letters of the alphabet, as we find explained in Planiscampi's Chemical Bouquet.

There are also numbers instead of letters, thus,
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
aeioulmnr
or
9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1 .aeioulmnr Or with the whole alphabet mixed with
numbers
, as follows :
lbcd 2.fg 3.k. 6. 7.
abcdefghiklm
8. 4. pq 9. st 5. xyz
nopqrstuxyz
Otherwise by changing the letters, and substituting them for each other;
taking, for example, the n for the a, thus:
abcdefghilm
nopqrstuxyz
We take in the previous example the a for the n, the b for the o, and so on. And by converting the n for the a, the a for the b, etc.
We see some who have taken the characters of the planets to indicate the seven days of the week, by the names that suit them, and have also applied them to the seven operations of the Hermetic art; namely, to dissolution, putrefaction, calcination, distillation, coagulation, sublimation, and fixation. They also gave the twelve consonants b, c, d, f, g, l, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, to the twelve months of the year, to the twelve signs, and to the twelve regimes of art. And q, x, z, k, to the four elements, to the four seasons, to the four cardinal winds, to the four humors of the human body; they have reserved the h to express the universal spirit of the world because it is an aspirated letter, and this spirit of the world is found in the air more particularly.
Some wrote backwards after the manner of the Hebrews,
Take the matter that you know; make it the mercury according to the art, and of this mercury you will make the work.
Zenerp al ereitam euq suov zevas; setiaf-ne el erucrem noies tra'l, te ed ec erucrem suov zeref ervuœ'l.
Those who wanted to better hide the thing, added a useless letter at the beginning, in the middle, and at the end of each word. Example:
The azoth of the Philosophers is their mercury.
Ml'azothi adoesp uphiloqsophesa lesati plerur imeracuret.
These examples should suffice to show the various ways of writing in a hidden manner;but they also used symbolic figures and hieroglyphs on which no certain rule can be given, because each philosopher has imagined them according to his fancy, as can be seen in the Figures of Senior, of Abraham Juif, of Flamel, Majer, Basile Valentin, and so many others.

Cube. Earth or red sulfur of the Sages.

Cucurbite. Secret Furnace of the Philosophers; sometimes the vase which contains the matter of the secret furnace, in which the matter of the Hermetic art is cooked and digested.

Bake. It is to let the unique matter act in its unique vase, by the philosophical fire, without ever touching it, up to the point known to the Sages;
that is to say, to the perfection of each operation, or arrangement, to explain himself like Morier.

Copper and Brass, or Leton. Dark matter, which must be bleached.
Turmeric. Turmeric.

Curets. Peoples of the island of Candia, which used to be called the island of Crete. The Curetes have often been confused with the Corybantes and the Dactyls; they have also been called Ideans, because of the famous Mount Ida which is found on this Island. As the Ancients understood by the Curetés the same thing as by the Corybantes, see the article of the latter.

Cyan. Nymph of Sicily, was changed into the fountain of that name by Pluto, because she had placed some obstacles in the removal of Proserpina.See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 4, c. 3.

Cyaneas. Two islands otherwise called Symplegades, which are at the entrance of Pont-Euxin. The Argonauts passed between these two reefs, which collided one against the other, so says the Fable. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 2, c. 1.

Cybele. Mother of Gods and Men. Hesiod makes her daughter of Heaven and Earth, and wife of Saturn. This Goddess had many names; she was called Ops, Proserpina, Ceres, Isis, Rhea.She was represented with a crown on her head, formed of several towers, and a key in her hand, seated in a chariot drawn by four lions. See Isis, Ceres, Rhea, in the Fables Egypt. and Greeks unveiled, book. 1, ch. 4; book. 4, c. 2 and 3; book. 3, ch.4.

Cycima. Litharge.

Cyclops. Giants born of Heaven and Earth, according to Hesiod; of Neptune and Amphitrite, following Euripides. The Poets have represented them to us as ministers of Vulcan for the service of his forge. They only had one round eye in the middle of their forehead.
Apollo, to avenge himself for what they had forged the thunderbolts with which Jupiter struck Aesculapius, killed them with arrows, which caused Jupiter to banish him from Heaven. See the Egyptian Fables. and Greeks in the chapters of Vulcan and Apollo.

Cydar. Tin, or Jupiter.

Swan. Bird whose plumage is dazzlingly white. It was dedicated to Venus and Apollo. The Hermetic Philosophers have very often taken it for the symbol of their matter having reached white.

Cygnus. The Fable mentions several characters of this name, one brother or close relative of Phaëton, the other son of Neptune, both changed into swans. Which means the same as to the hermetic sense;since, as son of Neptune, he came out of the mercurial water, or philosophical sea, which being the principle of the Apollo of the Sages, father of Phaëton, the latter's brother cannot fail to be also very close parent of the first. They are both said to have changed into swans, because both in the first operation and in the second, the matter must pass from black to the color white. In the first operation the metamorphosis of the son of Neptune takes place, and in the second that of the brother of Phaëton.
There is still a third Cygnus, son of Mars. Hercules killed this one, and took his son Hylas in the time of the expedition for the conquest of the Golden Fleece. Killing or fixing the volatile are the same thing in the sense of the Philosophers.Thus to change the son of Neptune into a swan, or to kill Cygnus, are one and the same thing, because the color white only manifests itself when matter becomes fixed in the first operation. In the second, the fixed which had been volatilized by dissolution and putrefaction, is fixed a second time by reaching whiteness. Hercules took Hylas with him in the conquest of the Golden Fleece; this Hylas is the philosophical child, whom Hercules takes care of until the perfection of the work, which is properly the conquest of the Golden Fleece.

Cyllene. Mountain of Arcadia on which Maïa gave birth to Mercury, from where he was named Cyllenian. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, 1. 3, c. 4, § 1.

Cynabar.Cinnabar.

Cynocephalus. Kind of monkey with the head of a dog. The Egyptians greatly revered this monster, because the Priests made them understand that it was Osiris; while these same Priests looked upon Osiris only as the symbol of that part of matter of the great work which they called the Male, the Sulfur, the Sun, etc. But they did so only to hide from the vulgar the mysteries of this so-called Osiris, which were entrusted to them on pain of death. This is what induced Democritus Abderitan to be received among the number of these Priests, to learn the secrets of true Chemistry, hidden under the hieroglyphic figures of the Egyptians. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 1, seot.3, c. 7.D_

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Dabat. It's the oak mistletoe.

Dabestis. Tortoise.

dactyls. Peoples who inhabited Mount Ida. They are said to have shown the first to put fire to use for the necessities and conveniences of life, and it was to them to whom the education of Jupiter was entrusted. They were also called Curetes, and Corybantes. See the Jupiter chapter in Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled.

Daeneck. See DUENEZ.

Daib. Philosophical gold. Danae. The Fable says that Jupiter, wanting to enjoy Danaë enclosed in a tower, entered it in the form of a golden rain.

Daimorgon. Most of the Ancients gave this name to what they called the Genius of the Earth, what this same name signifies; but the Hermetic Philosophers heard it from the fire that animates Nature; and in the particular, that innate and vivifying spirit of the land of the Sages, which acts throughout the course of the operations of the great work. Some have named him Demorgon. Raymond Lully wrote a treatise on the operations of stone, which he entitled: Demorgon. This treaty is in the form of a dialogue, and Demorgon is one of the interlocutors.

Damatau. Eraser of the Philosophers.

According to the Spagyric Philosophers, this fable of the operations of the Philosopher's Stone must be explained. The tower where Danaë was enclosed, is the athanor or philosophical furnace made in the form of a tower, in which one puts the egg, and in this egg the mercury, represented by Danaë, with which one makes the junction, or, as they say, the marriage of sulfur represented by Jupiter. See the Egyptian Fables. and Greeks, lib. 3, c. 14, § 3.

Danaides. Daughters of Danaus, fifty in number, married to the fifty sons of Egypt. Danaus having learned from the Oracle that one of his sons-in-law would kill him, he urged his daughters to each kill her husband on the first night of their wedding.Hypermnestre was the only one who spared his own named Lynceus, who indeed killed Danaus afterwards, and seized his States. The fable says that as punishment for their maricides, the Danaides were condemned by the gods to pour water into a pierced vase until it was full. See the explanation of all this in the Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled.

Danati. Weight of six grains.

Danaus. See DANAIDS.

Danic or Danich. Arabic term used by some Physicians and Chemists to signify a half-dragma; Fernel for six grains only, Agrigola and others for eight.

Dancing. Sand.

Daphneus. Nickname of Apollo. See APOLLO.

Daphne.Daughter of the river Peneus, fleeing to escape the pursuit of Apollo, had recourse to her father, who changed her into a laurel. See the Egyptian Fables. and Greeks unveiled, book. 3, c. 12.

Darau. Eraser of the Philosophers.

Dardania. First name of the city of Troye, given to it by its founder.

Dardanus. Son of Jupiter and Electra, having put his brother Jasius to death, fled to Samothrace, and from there to Phrygia, where he built the city of Dardania. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 6, c. 1, and following.

Datel or Tatel. Stramonium, or Furious Nightshade.

Daveridon.Aspic oil.

David. Weight of six barley grains.

Daura. Some have used this Arabic term to mean hellebore, others gold leaf. Rulland and Planiscampi.

Deab. Ordinary gold among chemists, and philosophical gold when it comes to Hermetic science.

Dealbation. Hermetic science term. Bake the material until it has lost its blackness, and has become white as snow. It is otherwise called lotion or enema; and it is in this sense that the Philosophers say, wash the brass until you have stripped it of all its darkness.

Debessis. Tortoise.

December. Magisterium in black, or time of the putrefaction of matter, so named because the Philosophers give the name of Winter to this operation, and because the month of December is the beginning of the season when Nature seems idle, torpid and asleep. When they say December E, that term means white magisterium, because the snow falls in the month of December, and that white matter is like snow;the Adepts have even sometimes called it by this name.

Disappointment, Disappointment. Old words which one finds rather often in Bernard Trévisan and in Flamel, to signify the deception of the Souffleurs, of the Charlatans.

Disappointers. Deceivers, deceivers. This term is Gallic, and is often found in the Authors I cited in the previous article.

Decoction. In terms of Hermetic Chemistry, means the action of digesting, circulating the matter in the vessel, without adding any foreign thing. See. BAKE.

Uncook. Means to reduce a cooked thing from the degree of cooking given to it;but in terms of Hermetic Chemistry, some Philosophers have used it to signify the digestion, the cooking of the matter of the Sages. See COOK.

Decomposition. Separation of the parts of a mixture to discover its principles; it is properly the analysis. But in fact of Hermetic Philosophy, it means nothing other than the reduction of the body of the gold of the Sages to its first matter, which is done by dissolution by means of the mercury of the Philosophers.

maze. The most learned Artist of Greece, skilful Architect, ingenious Sculptor, was son of Hymetion, grandson of Eupolemus.Daedalus made the famous labyrinth of Crete, in which he was enclosed with his son Icarus, and from which they escaped by means of the wings which they made for themselves. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 3, c. 14, § 5.

Deeb. Red stone.

Failure. Deliquium, in terms of chemistry, is a resolution in liquors of a dry and coagulated body. Bodies that partake of salt are the only ones that fail.
There are three kinds of failures. One called cold descension, which is done by exposing in a cellar, or another damp and cool place, a coagulated or calcined body, on a marble, a stone or glass table, or in a Hippocratic heater.This body there resolves itself into liquors, and falls into the receptacle placed below.
The second is vaporous failure; it is done in the open air, which is called sub dio.
The third is what Rulland calls Deliquium embapticum, failure by immersion. It is done in two ways: the first, by putting the body which one wants to dissolve in water, in a vase through the pores of which the water in which it is immersed cannot pass, either in a bladder, or in a vase of wax, so that the bath water can penetrate and seep out.
If the liquor in which these sorts of vases are immersed is hot, this is called water-bath failure. When the failure occurs in cold water, it retains the name of deliquium or failure.
The second way is also done by immersion, but the body put only in a cloth bag, or immersed naked in some liquor to let it resolve there; as one does with gums, coagulated juices, sugar, &c. In this last case particularly, it is necessary to choose for its operation liquors by means of which one makes the failure, which can be easily separated from the dissolved body, in case one wants to have it such; because the dissolving liquor and the dissolved body sometimes have contrary qualities.

Degegi. Hen, or heat of the brooding hen, that is to say, the natural heat to the thing. Thus when the Philosophers recommend giving the regime of the fire of the work the degree of heat of a brooding hen;it is not to make an artificial fire to the degree of this heat of a hen, but to let nature act with the innate fire and implanted in matter, natural fire for the mineral, as that of the hen is. for the animal.

Degrees of fire. See. INSPIRATION.

Dehab, Deheb and Deheheb. Gold of the Philosophers.

Dehene. Blood.

Dehenes. Attrament.

Dehenez. Vitriol novel. It was also called Decenec.

Dehim, Dehin and Dem. Human blood.

Dejanira. Daughter of Oeneus, King of Stars, was pursued in marriage by the river Achelous: Hercules having also fallen in love, fought to have her against Achelous, and having defeated him, he seized Deianira.While he was taking her away, he found on his way a wide and deep river which he had to cross: unable to do so, he entrusted Dejanira to the Centaur Nessus to cross her to the other side. Nessus did so, and having carried her to the other side, he wanted to do violence to her. Hercules, having noticed this, shot an arrow at Nessus, who died. To avenge himself on Hercules, the Centaur undressed his bloody robe, gave it to Dejanira, begging her to give it to Hercules, and to engage him to dress it. Hercules, to please Deianira, received it, dressed in it, was surprised with a fury that resembled rage, built a pyre and burned himself there, from where he was transported to Heaven, and placed in the rank of the Gods.This fable explained by the Alchymists, is the symbol of the last operation of the great work, that is to say, of the perfection of the stone. Dejanira signifies metallic nature, the Centaur, purified matter become foliated earth, or white, and Hercules philosophical mercury. When matter has reached white, and has passed through all the colors, it has only red, or the color of blood to take, which is that of its perfection. When it is in its state of whiteness, if we intoxicate it with mercurial water, and increase the degree of fire, like that of the heat wave, Hercules then, or mercury, Deidamy

. Daughter of Lycomede, where Achilles hid disguised as a woman, so as not to go to the siege of Troy.Achilles fell in love with Deidamia, won her good graces, and had Pyrrhus. See what this fiction means in Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 6.

Deiphobia. Daughter of Glauque, otherwise known as Sibyl of Cumae. It was she whom the Fable supposes to have led Aeneas on his descent into the Underworld. See at the end of the 6th book. Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled.

Delegi-Azfur. Mirabolans.

Unbind the body. In terms of Hermetic Science, it is to draw mercury from its mine, where it is retained as if by bonds formed by the heterogeneous parts with which it is mixed.It is also said of the putrefaction of matter after its dissolution. V.OPEN.

Flood. The Philosophers understand by this term the distillation of their matter, which, after having risen in the form of vapors to the top of the vessel, falls back to the earth like a rain which floods it entirely.

req. Human blood.

Demogorgon. See DAIMORGON.

Denequat. Borax.

Denoquor. Borax.

Densir. Sand.

Serpent's Teeth. The Fable says that Cadmus sowed in the field of Mars the teeth of the Dragon which had devoured his companions. Philalethes recommends the Artist to learn about these teeth and the companions of Cadmus.Some explain this action of Cadmus from the first preparation of the matter of the Sages, and Flamel applies it to the second, that is, to what happens in the vessel after putrefaction. The one who washes, or rather these hand-washers that must be continued with the other half, these are, says Flamel, the teeth of this Serpent that the wise Operator will sow in the same earth, from which will be born Soldiers who will will kill themselves. These are therefore the imbibitions of mercury.

Denudation. Putrefaction of matter, and its dissolution. From there, says Flamel, came so many allegories about the dead, the sepulchres, the tombs. Others have named it calcination, denudation, separation, trituration, assation.
PHILOSOPHICAL DENUDATION.The Hermetic Chemists used this term to mean the purification of their matter; it is in this sense that they said: oh! how happy is he who has been able to see Diana quite naked; that is to say, their matter purified of all heterogeneities: or their matter in the reign of the Moon, that is to say, to perfect white. Flame.

Dionysius. See Bacchus.

To file. In terms of chemistry, signifies a liquor imprinted with a few heterogeneous parts, which separate from it and rush to the bottom of the vessel in which the liquor is enclosed. We say this liquor deposits, to say that what we had mixed there precipitates in the form of sediment. Mineral waters deposit; poorly cooked syrups deposit sugar, etc.

Strip. Purify matter, separate the pure from the impure. The old Dragon must be made to drink excessively by the magic number of three times seven. He will then strip off the old scales which cover him, and he will leave this leprosy which infects him, as Nahaman washed himself seven times in the waters of the Jordan. From Spaint.

Derault. Urine.

Derquet. See VARNISH.

Derses. The Alchymists understand by this term the terrestrial vapors which form the sap, from which are born all the vegetables. Rulland.

Descent. To distil by descension is properly the filtration of liquors; but in terms of Hermetic science, it is the circulation of matter.

Deseni.Mirabolans.

Dry out. To cook the material, to fix it by circulation, until the perfection of sulfur and stone.

Desiccation. Coagulation at fixation of mercury humidity. Below. To put below what is above, and above what is below, is to spiritualize the bodies and embodied the spirits; that is, in terms of Hermetic Chemistry, fixing the volatile, and volatilizing the fixed. This is also called Element Conversion. See. CONVERT.
The Philosophers also say that what is below is similar to what is above, to signify that the volatile part of matter is of the same nature as the fixed one; that in the beginning everything came from a single and unique matter;and that everything, that is to say the volatile and the fixed, will return to one, and will become but one body.

Destruction. In terms of Hermetic science, means the radical dissolution of the bodies in the philosopher's mercury; or the reduction of metals to their first matter, which is the mercury of the Sages.
DESTRUCTION also means darkness, the putrefaction of matter.

Detonation. Kind of noise or hissing which is made when the volatile parts of some mixtures come out with impetuosity, or are fixed by the aid of a lively fire. This hissing happens, according to the Philosophers, at the moment of the projection on the mercury.

Due. Matter due, required and true. Trevisan says that he worked for forty years on various matters, which he names, and that he could not succeed, because he did not operate on the due matter.

Deveriden. nard or lavender oil.

Diaceltatesson. Specific for fevers, invented by Paracelsus.

Tiara. Red color that occurs in the material of the stone, at the end of each arrangement or operation.
Do not despise the ashes, for our King's diadem is hidden there. Morian.

Diamond. Stone reached white.

Diamascian. Copper flowers.

Spagyric diameter. Balance or temperament of the elements in the stone.

Diana. Daughter of Jupiter and Latona, and sister of Apollo, was born on the island of Delos, and although twin sister of Apollo, she served as Midwife to Latona so that she brought her brother into the world. She enjoyed hunting very much, where she was accompanied by several Nymphs. One day when she was bathing with them, Actaeon having seen her naked in the bath, this Goddess, to punish him for the temerity with which he had approached her, changed him into a stag. Then his dogs, who misunderstood him, threw themselves on him and devoured him. Diana finally fell in love with the Shepherd Endymion, and often went to visit him, in spite of the plan she had formed to always preserve her virginity. She was represented with a bow and a quiver full of arrows;sometimes with a lighted torch,
The ancients gave it three names in particular; in heaven they called her Lucine, in earth Diana, and Proserpine in the underworld.
Diana is properly the material in white, a color that appears in the work before the red called Apollo. So it's Diane naked. When the Philosophers give it the name of Moon, they mean their mercurial water. D'Espagnet says that the sign of Diana is the only one capable of softening the ferocity of the philosophical Dragon. Philalethes calls this ensign of Diana, or the color white, the Doves of Diana. See a fuller explanation in Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 3, c. 13.

Diapensia.Plant known under the names of Pied-de-lion and Aïkimilla.

Diatessadelton. Precipitated from mercury.

dicalgi. Tin,

dictated. The air where Jupiter was born. It is the philosophical vessel.

Gods. Many Authors have supposed that the Gods of Paganism had been men whom their good deeds, and the services they had rendered to humanity, had caused to be deified; but when we go back to the origin of the first known Gods of Paganism, we see clearly, when we are not blinded by prejudice, that they originated among the Egyptians. Herodotus assures us of this in more than one place in his History. Philo de Biblos, translator of Sanhoniaton, seems to imply that these gods, for the most part, had been men such as Osiris, Isis, Horus; but when we examine him closely, we soon see that he thought like Hermes in his Asclepius, that is to say, that these gods had not been men, but were made by men.Idolatry gave birth to all its gods from the so-called marriage of Earth and Heaven, and then from Vulcan and Mercury; which made the Alchymists say that the whole Fable is only an allegory of the operations of the philosopher's stone, because Mercury and Fire, represented by Vulcan, are the principles of everything, one active and the other passive. . The Egyptians meant nothing else by Isis and Osiris, as can be seen in their places, and it is from the Egyptians that the other Nations derived their worship; only the names have changed. The main ones, twelve in number, were six Gods and six Goddesses; namely, Jupiter, Neptune, Mars, Mercury, Vulcan and Apollo, Juno, Vesta, Ceres, Venus, Diana and Minerva.The history of each taken apart, and relatively even to one another, is invented only to hide from the vulgar the mysteries of true Chemistry, as well as the labors of Hercules, the conquest of the Golden Fleece, the garden of the Hesperides, the siege of Troy, the voyages of Osiris, of Dionysius or Bacchus, the history of Cad-mus, that of Theseus, of Amphytrion, in a word, all that Orpheus, Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, Virgil and the others have left us on the Gods, the demigods Gods and Heroes, Ovid's Metamorphoses even well understood, lead to the same goal. We can judge of this by the writings of the Spagyric Philosophers, who very often used these fables to obscure their writings, as the Ancients had done. See my Treatise on Fables Egypt. and Greeks unveiled.the conquest of the Golden Fleece, the garden of the Hesperides, the siege of Troy, the voyages of Osiris, of Dionysius or Bacchus, the story of Cad-mus, that of Theseus, of Amphytrion, in a word, all that Orpheus, Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, Virgil and the others have left us on the Gods, the demi-gods and the Heroes, even Ovid's Metamorphoses well understood, lead to the same goal. We can judge of this by the writings of the Spagyric Philosophers, who very often used these fables to obscure their writings, as the Ancients had done. See my Treatise on Fables Egypt. and Greeks unveiled.the conquest of the Golden Fleece, the garden of the Hesperides, the siege of Troy, the voyages of Osiris, of Dionysius or Bacchus, the story of Cad-mus, that of Theseus, of Amphytrion, in a word, all that Orpheus, Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, Virgil and the others have left us on the gods, the demi-gods and the heroes, Ovid's Metamorphoses even properly understood, lead to the same goal. We can judge of this by the writings of the Spagyric Philosophers, who very often used these fables to obscure their writings, as the Ancients had done. See my Treatise on Fables Egypt. and Greeks unveiled. Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, Virgil and the others have left us with the gods, the demi-gods and the heroes, Ovid's Metamorphoses, even properly understood, lead to the same goal.We can judge of this by the writings of the Spagyric Philosophers, who very often used these fables to obscure their writings, as the Ancients had done. See my Treatise on Fables Egypt. and Greeks unveiled. Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, Virgil and the others have left us with the gods, the demi-gods and the heroes, Ovid's Metamorphoses, even properly understood, lead to the same goal. We can judge of this by the writings of the Spagyric Philosophers, who very often used these fables to obscure their writings, as the Ancients had done. See my Treatise on Fables Egypt. and Greeks unveiled.

Digestion. Action by which one puts a liquid body with a fluid to make the mixture in whole or in parts, to extract the tincture from it, to dispose them to the dissolution, to putrefaction, to make them circulate, and by this means to volatilize the fixed, and to fix the volatile, by means of a suitable heat. Almost all the operations of the great work are reduced to digestion, which the Philosophers have called by various names, according to what they have noticed which takes place in the vase during the whole course of the work. So when they use the terms distillation, sublimation, imbibitions, ceration, inspiration, descension, cooking, solution, coagulation, etc.they understand nothing but one and the same operation, or repeated digestion in medicines of the first, second, and third order.

Dikalegi. Philosophical pewter.

Dimension. Adepts say that their stone has the three dimensions of other bodies; namely, height, width and depth. See the explanation in their articles.

Diomede. King of Thrace, according to the fable, was so cruel that he had foreigners who came to his house devoured by his horses. Hercules was there, seized it, and had it eaten by his own horses. The Hermetic Philosophers say that Diomedes represents the philosophical mercury, whose corrosive spirits, signified by the horses, dissolve and put to death, as it were, the metals with which this mercury is amalgamated; and that Hercules, who is the symbol of the fixing and coagulating sulphur, gives the philosophical mercury to his spirits to devour in the philosophical egg. Fabric. But it seems to me that Hercules would rather be the symbol of the Artist who works on this philosophical mercury.According to this last meaning, we can explain the guests and strangers who go to see Diomede, by this troop of bad Alchymists who work on mercury, represented by Diomede, and whom he causes to be devoured by his horses, that is to say, by his volatile spirits which they seek to fix, and which are ruined in pursuit of this purpose, and find themselves devoured. It is not the same with a true Philosopher represented by Hercules; he tames the mercury and gives it to his own horses to devour, and brings out of it a new King, or the stone of projection, which is the true gold, and which instead of tyrannizing its guests, receives them so well, that he makes them kings like himself. and find themselves devoured.It is not the same with a true Philosopher represented by Hercules; he tames the mercury and gives it to his own horses to devour, and brings out of it a new King, or the stone of projection, which is the true gold, and which instead of tyrannizing its guests, receives them so well, that he makes them kings like himself. and find themselves devoured. It is not the same with a true Philosopher represented by Hercules; he tames the mercury and gives it to his own horses to devour, and brings out of it a new King, or the stone of projection, which is the true gold, and which instead of tyrannizing its guests, receives them so well, that he makes them kings like himself.
There was another Diomedes, son of Tydeus and Deiphilus, who was one of the most famous of the heroes who found himself in the army of the Greeks at the so-called siege of Troy. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 5, ch. 11 and book. 6.

Dionysiacs. Festivals celebrated in honor of Bacchus. See the 4th book of Fables unveiled.

Dionysius or Dionysus. See Bacchus.

Directed. Wife of Lycus, exercised great cruelties towards Antiope, first wife of this Lycus, who repudiated her and drove her out for Dirce.Antiope's children, Zethes and Amphion, avenged the insults made to their mother, by tying Dirce to the tail of an untamed bull, which tore her to pieces. The gods, out of pity, changed it into a fountain. See the Fables unveiled, book. 3, c. 14, §6.

Arrangement. Philosophical compound, called by Morien disposition, by Trevisan weight or proportion, and by other compositions. It is the mixture of the three principles combined philosophically. Philalethes in his Vade mecum, says that it is necessary to take a part of the red or white body, which makes the function of male; two or three parts of arsenic, which does the office of the female;and four or more parts, up to twelve, of the water of the Sea of ​​the Sages. That the whole being well mixed, we will put it in the vase, which having been well sealed, we will put it in the athanor, and we will give it the required diet.

Disk of the Sun. The Hermetic Chemists have sometimes given this name to their mercury mixed with philosophical gold.

Remover. The Hermetic Philosophers give to their mercury the name of universal solvent, which Van-Helmont and Paracelsus gave to their alkaest. The Anonymous, known as Pantaleon, says that alkaest can be drawn, and is drawn from the same ore as the mercury of the Sages, but by different manipulations, and that they differ in that alkaest does not never mixes with the bodies it dissolves;whereas the mercury is so intimately mixed with it that it can no longer be separated from it by any artifice. This last Author is singularly esteemed by the Alchymists; his works, four in number, can be found in the second volume of Manget's Library of Curious Chemistry.

Dissolution. The Chemical Philosophers do not understand by this term the simple reduction of a hard body into liquid; but the reduction of a body to its first matter; that is to say, in its elemental principles, and not elementary; for they never pretended to reduce gold, for example, to air, water, earth and fire, but to mercury, composed of these four elements, although it partakes more of water and earth than of the two others, like all the mineral kingdom.
They distinguish several dissolutions in the operation of the philosopher's stone; one imperfect, and the other perfect; the first is that which precedes putrefaction; because the actual dissolution only takes place when the matter is in perfect black. Their whole work, they say, consists in dissolution and coagulation reiterated more than once.

Dissolve. To reduce a solid body to liquid matter. This operation is also called decomposition; and in proper terms of Hermetic science, reduction of bodies to their first matter; that is to say, the gold and silver of the Philosophers in their mercury, from which they had been formed.To dissolve and to coagulate two or three times are all the operations of the art of the Sages, or Priests of Egypt.

Distillation (the). Is the fifth degree to achieve the transmutation of natural things. Many chymists include under the term distillation, ascent, cohobation, ablution, fixation and imbibition. This operation steals all the waters and oils. By means of it, water is drawn from liquors and oil from fatty substances.
Distillation fixes many things when it is repeated after cohobation of the liquors on the faeces. All aqueous minerals are fixed by this means. It changes the nature and properties of things, from bitter it makes them gifted, and from gifted bitter; however, this does not always happen.
DISTILLATION. In terms of chemical philosophy, it is only said by similarity with the distillation of the vulgar chymists. The volatile of their matter carries and causes the fixed thing to rise with it, the latter in its turn makes the volatile thing descend; and this circulation, which takes place in the hermetically sealed vessel, is properly philosophical distillation, to which they also give the names of conversion of the elements, circulation, cohobation, ascension, descension, sublimation, etc. which are one and the same operation in the same vessel, without it being stirred in any way, since the joining and mixing of the gold was made with the prepared mercury.
DISTILLATION OF SAGES. It is nothing other than the circulation of matter called Rebis.

Distill upwards. It is to cause the vapors of the materials to rise to the capital which covers the curcurbite, by means of the fire administered under the still. To distill downwards is to set fire above matter; it heats it, rarefies the vapours, which finding less resistance at the bottom, move there and fall into the vases placed below. This operation is called Unnatural Distillation. Géber, in his Traite des Fourneaux, gives the figure of a still for distilling while descending; but when it is a question of Hermetic science, the terms of distilling upwards or downwards should only be understood as the circulation of materials in the sealed vessel.

Ditalem. Jupiter of the Philosophers. Divide.See COOKING MATTER.

Division. When the Philosophers say to divide, to divide into two or more parts, they should not be understood of a division or separation made with the hand, but of that which is made in the vase, by the aid of fire. It is putrefaction.
Doal. Hermetic gold.

Dolet. Red vitriol, gold colcotar. Rulland. Or rather the red stone, which is the colcotar of the Philosophers.

Heavenly gift. Hermetic science term. It is the matter of the magisterium, which Morien calls the gift of God, the secret of the secrets of the Almighty, which he revealed to his holy Prophets, whose souls he placed in his Paradise. Maintenance of King Calid.

Give a low heat. That is to say, to administer, to make a soft and slow fire. To give drink is the same thing as to digest, to make matter circulate in the vessel, so that after having risen in vapors, it falls back on the earth which is at the bottom of the vessel, to water it. V. INSPIRE.

Doripe. Nymph who had commerce with Anyé, son of Staphyle. Three children came from it, Œno, Spermo and Elaïs. See the Egyptian Fables. and Greeks unveiled, book. 3, c. 14, § 2.

Dual. (Mercury) It is the Rebis, or the mercury of the Sages, animated by the gold of the Philosophers.

Sweetness of Saturn. It is white lead, according to some;and the salt of Saturn, following others.

Dovertallum, or Divertalium, or Divertallum. Generations of the mixtures by the combination of the parts of the elements.

Draconites. Stone which the Ancients said was formed in the heads of dragons, from which it could only be obtained by cutting off their heads while they were caught sleeping. It is, according to Rulland and Albert, white in color; it drives out all venom, and heals all bites of poisonous beasts. Some claim that stones of this kind are found in the heads of serpents, vipers, and other reptiles, and that they have the same virtue as the Draconites.

Dragon.The Chemical Philosophers fairly commonly indicate the materials of the great work by two dragons fighting each other, or by serpents, one winged, the other wingless, to signify the fixity of one, and the volatility of the other. .
The Egyptians painted these snakes turned in a circle, biting their tails, to signify, says Flamel, that they came from the same thing, that it is sufficient unto itself, and that it is perfected by circulation. , indicated by the circle. It is these dragons that the Poets pretended to be the guardians of the garden of the Hesperides and of the Golden Fleece; Jason, according to the Fable, poured on these dragons the juice prepared by Medea. These are the serpents sent by Juno to the cradle of Hercules, which this Hero, still a child, tore.This cradle signifies the cradle of the work or its beginning. They are those two serpents of the caduceus of Mercury, with which he did such surprising things, and by means of which he changed his figure whenever he wanted. Flamel says he was determined to paint the two materials of the work under the figure of two dragons, by the great stench they exhale, and because they are a very violent poison; but he adds that the Artist does not smell this stench, because it is contained in the vase.
THREE FACED DRAGON. It is the same mercury when it is animated, because it then contains the three chemical principles, salt, sulfur and mercury.
THE DRAGON IS DEAD. Expressions that signify the putrefaction of matter, when it has reached black, very black.
THE DRAGON. Guardian of the garden of the Hesperides, represents the earth, this formless and indigestible mass which hides within it the seed of gold, which must bear fruit through the operations of Alchymy represented by the garden of the Hesperides. It is this dragon represented so often in the symbolic figures of Spagyric Philosophy, which can only die with its brother and sister, that is to say, if it is not mixed up in the philosophical vessel with sulfur, its brother, and the innate radical humor, or mercurial water, which is its sister, which by its volatility makes it volatile, sublimes it, makes it change its nature, putrefies it, and then becomes nothing more than a body with him.When he no longer exists in the form of earth or dragon, then the door to the garden of the Hesperides is opened,
WING DRAGON. It is their mercury, or feminine sperm; the volatile of their matter, which fights against the fixed, and which must finally become fixed like it.
WINGLESS DRAGON. It is male sperm, sulphur, or fixed.
DRAGON DEVOURING ITS TAIL. It is the matter of the stone when it circulates in the philosophical vessel. The Sages use this term in many different circumstances from the operations of the magisterium. When it is prepared before the junction with the fixed, they call it Flying Dragon. Igneous dragon, whose blood must be incorporated with the juice of vegetal Saturnia.Dragon who constantly watches over the golden fleece, or the door to the garden of the Hesperides; because the philosopher's mercury being very volatile, is very difficult to put to sleep, that is to say to fix; and one can only do this with the help of the juice of the herbs that Medea pointed out to Jason.
DEVOURING DRAGON. When after having been mixed with gold, it dissolves it, and reduces it to its first matter.
SOFTENED DRAGON. Sweet mercury. Rulland.
The two Dragons of Flamel are the Fixed and the Volatile.
THE IGNIOUS DRAGON. Whose blood is incorporated with vegetable Saturnia, it is the sulfur of the Philosophers which units with mercury.
FLYING DRAGON.See DRAGON WING.
DRAGON’S BLOOD. It is, among the vulgar chemists, the tincture of antimony.
DRAGON simply said. It's mercury.

Driff. Van-Helmont gave this name to sand and virgin earth.

Duamir. Rullandus says that it is a species of serpent which goes into the making of theriac.

Dudaim. Mandrake.

Duelech. Species of tartar which forms in the human body and petrifies there in some in spongy stone particularly in the kidneys and in the bladder, and in others in the chest; that is why we have seen them spitting stones.

Duenech. Name given by some Hermetic Chemists to their black material, which they still call Brass which must be bleached. It is also called Green Duenech or Antimony.

Duenege. It's vitriol.

Duenez or Daeneck. Iron filings.

Dunequer. Borax.

Duzama. Stone work.

Dyamassien or Diamascien. Brazen flower.