MYTHO-HERMETIC DICTIONARY E-L

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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Eacus or Eaque. One of the Judges of the Underworld, son of Jupiter and Aegina, daughter of the river Asope, obtained from his father the repopulation of his country devoid of subjects, who had died of the plague, by changing ants into men. See the explanation of this fiction in the Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, book. 3, c. 14, § 5.

Water. The chemical philosophers often use this term, not to mean common water, but their mercury. They usually add a few adjectives, such as:
ANTIMONIAL-SATURNIAL-MERCURIAL WATER. Because antimony partakes much of lead, called Saturn by the chymists, and they say their Mercury is a grandson of Saturn.
ARSENIC WATER. Green Lion of the Philosophers.See ARSENIC.
HOLY WATER. Because they say that the secret to making this mercury is a gift from Heaven, and it is the one that Jacob wished for Joseph in the blessing he gave him. Enchyridion Physicoe.
CELESTIAL WATER. Aqua Coelestis. It is rectified brandy, not ordinary brandy, but their mercurial quintessence.
CELESTIAL and ELEMENTARY WATER. Because mercury is, according to the Philosophers, the son of the Sun and the Moon, and the coagulated quintessence of the elements.
CORRODENT WATER. It's vinegar and any corrosive liquor.
WATER OF ALREGI. It is lime water.
WATER OF LOVE.Name that Béguin, in his Chemistry, gave to water extracted from human blood,
BLEACH WATER. Because it is their azoth, with which they say to whiten the brass, and to remove its obscurity.
CELESTE GRACE WATER. Because the science that teaches how to extract this mercury from its mines is a gift from God and a heavenly favor.
WATER OF CHASTITY. Compound water used by those who want to maintain continence more easily. The recipe can be found in Adrien Mynsicht's book, p. 286.
WATER OF FIRE or IGNITE.Because this mercury contains the fire of nature, when it is animated, and it then has all that is necessary to be cooked, digested, and to then communicate to gold a multiplicative virtue that this metal does not have. would not by itself.
SALT SEA WATER. See URINE.
LILY WATER. Aqua Lilii.
ELSABON WATER. It is common salt reduced to water by the humidity of the air.
MEGI WATER. See RED WATER.
SEA WATER or SALE WATER OF SAGES. See CHEMICAL MERCURY. Some chymists taking these terms literally, have believed that the matter from which the sages draw their mercury was the water of the sea properly so called;but they must have learned that the Philosophers express themselves in their Books only by similarity and by enigmas.
MERCURY WATER. He is the very mercury of the Philosophers.
NITER WATER. The chemists understand by these terms, sometimes the spirit of nitre, sometimes alkali salt, and sometimes etching.
CLOUD WATER. See MERCURY.
RAINWATER. Aqua Pluvialis. It is the common gifted water.
HEALTH WATER. Is water distilled from human blood, celandine flowers, virgin honey, and several aromatics. Paracelsus calls this water Balm over all other balm; and highly recommends it in medicine.
EAU DES LADIES OR FARD.Is a water that softens the skin, whitens it, and gives a fresh complexion. See Mynsicht, p. 189.
WATER OF THE TWO BROTHERS EXTRACTED FROM THE SISTER. It is the philosophical armoniacal salt.
WATER OF WATERS. Because it is indeed a principle water which contains the substance of the four elements.
SEGI WATER. See RED WATER.
WATER OF THE EQUINOXES. It is properly the dew of spring and that of autumn, whose properties are admirable for the cure of many diseases, when they are worked by a skilful hand in Spagyrics. The Philosophers gave this name to their mercury to deceive the ignorant;some of them having taken these expressions literally, believed that it was the matter from which it was necessary to extract the mercury of the Sages, and lost their pains and their money.
WATER FROM WINE FACES. It is scaled oil by default.
WATER OF MICROCOSMS. It is the spirit of nitre. Dict. Herm.
WATER OF THE PHILOSOPHERS. See MERCURY OF THE PHILOSOPHERS. Some chemists have mistakenly believed that it was distilled vinegar, others the brandy of wine, or rectified spirit of wine, on what Raymond Lully says their quintessence is drawn from wine, and that he sometimes calls it Wine;
but they would have seen their error, if they had paid attention that Raymond Lully himself says that he should not be taken literally, and that when he says that the Philosophers draw their mercury from wine, he is not speaking only by similarity; and that this mercury or philosophical water is extracted from the red sea of ​​the Philosophers. See the Testament of Raymond Lully, and his treatise on the Quintessence.
EAU-DE-VIE. It is the very mercury of the Philosophers, their quintessence, and not the distilled water of wine. Sometimes they give this name to waters composed of the spirit of wine and several drugs suitable for curing various diseases.
PHILOSOPHERS' EAU-DE-VIE.Some, deceived by the expressions of Jean de Rupe Scissa, and of Raymond Lully, who speak of their mercury as if it were extracted from wine, have mistakenly believed that philosophically mercury was its quintessence, or a salt of tartar; but they should have taken care that the Ancients perhaps did not know the spirit of wine, which is made by distillations which were unknown to them, and which have however since been invented only on misunderstanding and widespread recipes here and there in their writings.
EAU-DE-VIE DES SAGES. It is also said of their perfect elixir, and in the state it must be to serve as medicine either for the human body or for imperfect metals.
DISTILLED WATER.The Hermetic Philosophers often understand by these terms, sometimes simple water distilled from any material whatsoever, sometimes etchings and waters of dissolution. Under the simple distilled waters, they understand certain specific secrets for dissolving bodies without corrosion; they have more fire and less acrimony than the etchings; such are the waters or spirits of honey, deer's horn, animals, even plants, such as distilled vinegar, rectified spirit of wine. Etchings are usually composed of corrosive minerals, and never dissolve radically. They are a kind of files which reduce bodies to powder, but not to their first matter.
GOLDEN WATER. When the mercury is perfect at red. SINGLE WATER.
PURE WATER. Because of its property to dissolve gold and silver without corrosion.
BRAIN WATER. Aqua Cerebri. In terms of chemistry, it is oil of tartar by failure.
WATER FROM THE SKY. Aqua Coelestina. It is their very mercury. Sometimes they understand by this word the spirit of wine well rectified, because it is of such a light nature and so easy to sublimate itself, that it seems to partake of that of Heaven. Rulland.
WATER OF THE WORLD. It is the mercury in the operation of medicine of the first order, or the first preparation for the magisterium, as well as the following waters:
ARDENT WATER.
WATER OF ART.
FOUNTAIN WATER.
BLOOD WATER.
HIGH WATER.
EXALTATED WATER.
MONDIFYING WATER.


When the Philosophers gave the name of Water to this mercury in the time of the second preparation or the medicine of the second order, they called it:
AZOTHIC WATER.
TALC WATER.
WATER OF LIFE.
METALLIC EAU-DE-VIE.
URINE WATER.
STARWATER.
LEAF WATER.
HEAVY WATER.
WEIGHTY WATER.
WATER OF THE STYX.
In the operations of medicine of the third order, they named it,
EAU DES NUEES.
DIVINE WATER.
GOLDEN WATER.
SULFUROUS WATER.
POISONOUS WATER.
PHLEGETON WATER. Alchemical preparation of tartar. Planiscampi.
THICKENED WATER.Mercury of the Philosophers, in its state of conjunction of the spirit with the body, or such as it is when the Sages say that mercury contains all that the Philosophers seek. When the spirit and the body are reunited, and they compose this mercury, they are no longer distinguished by different names, and they are given only one and only name of Mercury, because it is then properly the animated mercury, or mercury of the Sages .
FETID WATER. AquaFoetida. It is the philosophical mercury.
ETCHING. Aqua fortis.The Hermetic Philosophers do not understand by these terms the common etching, nor the aqua regia of the ordinary Chymists, but their mercury, which dissolves all bodies with a natural solution, without corrosion, and without destroying the germinal seed. metals and other sublunar bodies; because they claim that this mercury is the principle of these same bodies.
ETCHING OR SEPARATION. When the Hermetic Chemists say in their writings that such and such a body must be dissolved in etching, they mean their very sour vinegar, their pontic water, their mercury, and not the etchings composed by ordinary Chemistry. ; because the Sages demand a radical dissolution of bodies, and not an imperfect dissolution, such as that of the etchings or aqua regia which are commonly used.
HOLSOBON WATER. It is the salt water extracted from bread.
MARINE WATER. In terms of Hermetic science, means their mercury; because it's taken from what they call their Red Sea.
MINERAL WATER. Because it is drawn from the mineral kingdom, and it is metallic.
MONDIFIED WATER OF THE EARTH. Because mercury is the purest part of it. But this name is particularly given to it when the material is perfect white.
PALESTINE WATER. It is the bronze flower, or verdigris.
PERMANENT WATER. Name that the Hermetic Philosophers gave to their mercury.
PHILOSOPHICAL WATER. It is, according to some, sublimated vinegar;
according to others, the circulating spirit of wine, finally their permanent and mercurial water, which does not wet the hands.
PONTIC WATER is still one of the names of the mercury of the Sages, which they called thus because of its ponticity, which caused it to be called very sour Vinegar.
STINKY WATER. Because it does indeed smell rotten like asafoetida.
PURIFIED WATER.
WATER THAT WHITENS THE INDIAN STONE. Magisterium in white.
RADICAL WATER OF METALS. Because it is its root and principle.
RED WATER. It is the water of vitriol or of their sulphur, which they also call Aqua magi, Aqua segi.
RED WATER, SAFFRONATED WATER, DEAD WATER. Sulfur Water of the Philosophers.
SALMATINE WATER. It is sea water.
SATURNIAN WATER. Aqua Saturniana. It is that which contains the nature of the first three principles, such as those of hot baths, mineral waters, which are naturally medicinal. Some mean by Saturnian Water, that which filters through the pores of the earth, and from which the transparent precious stones are made. Rulland.
DRY WATER, which does not wet the hands. In this respect it is necessary to take care that those among the Sages who give this name to their mercury, follow the dry way in the operation of the magisterium; because those who follow the wet way, like Paracelsus, Basil Valentine, etc.call their mercury virgin's milk, because it is a whitish liquor which wets the hands; while the other is a flowing mercury, of the nature of common mercury.
SECOND WATER. Because mercury is a kind of etching, but soft, and which dissolves metals without corrosion.
VEGETABLE WATER. It is brandy, or rectified spirit of wine.
POISONOUS WATER. Moon of the Sages.
POISONOUS WATER. Because it seems to kill metals with its venom, by destroying their external configuration and reducing them to their first matter; which they said by similarity to the venoms which kill the human body, after whose death they reduce it to its first principles, which is ashes.

Ebdanic.The Mars, or Iron.

Ebel. Sage seed following some; and juniper berries, if we are to believe Rullandus.

Ebisemet. Randeric.

Ebisemeth. Matter of the Hermetic Chemists in the time of its putrefaction.

Scale. Material of the work in black, very black, or in perfect putrefaction.

Echeneis. Small fish in the shape of a large slug, which, if we believe Pliny the Naturalist, has the virtue of suddenly stopping the largest ships sailing at full sail, as soon as it attaches itself to them. This Author says that Marc-Antony at the battle of Actium, and Caligula unfortunately experienced the effects. Books. 9, ch. 25 and book. 32, ch.1.
Some Hermetic Philosophers have given the name of Echeneis to their fixed matter, because it fixes that which is volatile, by reuniting with it, to make no more than an inseparable body. See the Parable or Enigma of the Cosmopolitan.

Echidna. Wife of Typhon, and mother of the dragon Python, who is none other than the anagram of Typhon; she also engendered the dragon that guarded the garden of the Hesperides, the one that defended the entrance to the forest of Mars, where the Golden Fleece hung. Typhon and Echidna only sired dragons or serpents; which made the Hermetic Philosophers believe that all the fables that are reported on the account of each other are only allegories of the operations of the philosopher's stone.Echidna, according to them, denotes the cold and humid substance which they employ, and which they name the Moon, the Sister, the Woman, the Female, Beia, etc.; and Typhon is the other part of their matter which they call their Sun, the Male, the Fire, Gabritius, Kibrik, etc. but in the time of the putrefaction of the ingredients or philosophical principles of the work. See the Egyptian Fables. and Greeks unveiled.
ECIDNA is also a name for the female viper.

Echis. It is the male viper.

Eclipse of the Sun and the Moon. The Chemical Philosophers say that the Sun and the Moon are eclipsed, when their matter is in complete dissolution, and resembles molten pitch;because they call their matter Sun and Moon, and in the state of putrefaction, which is a state of darkness, their matter has lost its luster.

Bark of the Sea. It is the antimonial Saturnian vinegar Artephius, the very sour vinegar of the Philosophers, or their mercury.
BLACKBARK. It is rotting sea crust.
Foam of the Red Sea. Matter of the Philosophers prepared for the work, or mine of their mercury. Flamel is the first who gave this name to this mine.
SCUM OF THE TWO DRAGONS. It's black matter. Some chemists have given this name to antimony butter.
GLASS SCUM. Lightning salt, or salt which floats on the glass during its fusion.

Edes. Gold of the Sages.

Edetz. Vulgar gold hermetically prepared.

Edic and Edich. The Mars, or Iron.

Edit. Philosophical steel, and fine steel.

Sweeten. Wash a salty material, until all the salt is removed. This term, vulgarly taken, also means to soften the acridness and the corrosive property of salts, spirits or other matters. Raymond Lully used this term more than once to signify the cooking or digestion of the mercury of the Philosophers until it was fixed.

Effervescence. Term of Physics, which signifies the action of two mixtures which, on penetrating each other, produce heat, as happens in almost all mixtures of acids and alkalis, and most mineral solutions. Homeberg.

outpouring.First Purification of the Stone of the Sages, or Medicine of the First Order.

Effydes or Effids. Ceruse.

Aegean. Son of Pandion, King of Athens, father of Theseus whom he had from Ethra. To fulfill the conditions of a treaty that the Athenians had made with Minos, King of Candia, Aegean sent there every year seven young people who were there to fight the Minotaur shut up in the labyrinth; the lot fell on Theseus in the fourth year. He left with black sails, as usual; and in case he returned victorious, Theseus was to substitute white sails for black ones when his vessel reached Attica. Theseus forgot to make this change of veils, which he had agreed upon with his father;the latter having seen from afar the black sails of Theseus' vessel, believed that he had perished like the others in the battle of the Minotaur; despair seized him, and he threw himself from the top of the rock where he was, into the sea. See the explanation of this fiction in the Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, book. 5, ch. 22, and book. 6, c. 3.

Egeon or Briareus. Giant of enormous size, son of Heaven and Earth. The Poets claimed that he had a hundred arms and fifty bellies; that he fought against the gods, and routed them; which compelled them to make peace with Jupiter against whom they had conspired. Homer, Iliad, book. 1.
The gods gave it the name of Briareus, and men that of Egeon. See BRIAREE, GEANS.

Egialee. Brother of Medea, otherwise called Absyrthe, see the article.

Egilops. Fetu.

Aegina. Daughter of Asope and mother of Eaque. V. EAQUE.

Aegisthus. Son of Thyestes and Polo-peie his daughter, killed his uncle Atreus, fell in love with Clytemnestra, and killed Agamemnon her husband. Orestes, son of the latter, avenged his death by that of Aegisthus and Clytemnestra. See what these alleged crimes mean, in the Fabs. Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 3, c. 14, § 4.

Rule.One of the Hesperides, daughters of Hesper. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 2, c. 2.

Elais. See DORIPE.

Elanula. Alum of the Philosophers.

Elaquir. Rosacea, or green vitriol.

Eieagnon. Shrub called Agnus Castus.

Electra. The Philosophers have thus called one of their subjects; Paracelsus calls her immeur Electra. It is the same Artephius calls the middle substance between the mine and the metal. Elis is neither quite perfect nor quite imperfect. She was on her way to perfection; but Nature having found obstacles in its operations, has left it imperfect;this is why the Philosophers say that we must begin where Nature ended. This Electra is of the race of Saturn, hence some have called her Venus, which was caught by Vulcan in adultery with Mars. Others have named it Diane, because it has a wood dedicated to it. It was in this forest that the Golden Fleece hung. It is called Electra, because it is composed of two substances; and immature Electra, because it must come to maturity through the operations of the Artist. This Electra is properly the Moon of the Philosophers, which they sometimes call Water, sometimes Earth, Plant, Tree, Dragon, Green Lion, Shadow of the Sun, etc.
ELECTRA is also one of the names that the Hermetic Philosophers gave to their magisterium who reached the White Color.
ELECTRA. Mixture of the seven metals melted together to make a single compound. Theophr. It is of a similar composition that the bell of Virgil was made in the time of King Artus, by the sound of which history relates that he cast down from the top of a bridge into the river, all those who passed over it. this bridge, guilty of adultery, male or female. Roll. Paracelsus reports that he saw a Spaniard having a similar bell, on which there were various characters engraved, and that at the sound of this bell the Spaniard caused specters to appear and disappear, and other prodigies, at his will. .
ELECTRA.Daughter of Atlas, one of the Pleyades. See ATLAS.
There was a Nymph of this name, daughter of the Ocean and of Thetis; she who was daughter of Atlas, became mother of Dardanus, by the intercourse she had with Jupiter. See the book. 6 of Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled.

Electrum Succinum. It is, according to Planiscampi, a kind of artificial amber, or metallic matter composed of four parts of the finest gold, and a fifth of the best cut silver.The vases that are formed from it, says the same Author, manifest the venom or poison that one would have poured into it, mixed with any liquor whatsoever: this material then makes a noise as if the vase were cracking and bursting, and forms a kind of very visible bow.

Elei or Eleixir. Hermetic medicine, drinking gold.

Elect. Philosophical Elixir reached white.

Element. We argued for a long time about the number and the qualities of the elements. The Peripatetics admitted four of them, fire, air, earth and water, to which they attributed dry or wet qualities. They were, according to them, simple bodies, and nevertheless principles of all compound beings, according to the diversity of their mixture.
The chemists take this term in four different senses. 1°. In the sense of Aristotle, for a simple body, principle constituting with the sky all the mass of the world. 2°. For the principle of the Mixts, existing in potency or in act in all the sublunary bodies. 3°. According to its physical or mathematical existence. Physically, as they produce bodies, nourish them, preserve them, or destroy them. They consider them mathematically, as serving mechanical purposes, such as burning wood, impulses, navigation, movement. 4°. They often take it for the very essence and substance of individuals, and for their form; as the element of Venus is the substance of copper, that is to say, the principles;just as we say the Elements of a Science,
There is no simple element; earth, for example, is a compound of
earth, water, air and fire. It is the same with the other three; and each one is given the name of the one who rules there. The excess there causes alteration, and the due proportion of the mixture causes rest there. They all act on each other; and if it is directly, they alter. Fire acts on water by means of air, on earth by means of water; if he acts there immediately, he burns it. Air is food for fire, water is food for earth, and all act in concert for the formation and composition of mixtures. See the Treatise on General Physics, in the first part of Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled.

Eempted. Gold or Sun of the Sages.

Spagyric elephant. Etching.

Erna. lead mine.

Elesmatis. Burned lead.

Eleusis. King of a city of the same name in Attica, very graciously welcomed Ceres while she was looking for her daughter Proserpina, whom Pluto had taken from her. Ceres, out of gratitude, facilitated the labor of Ione, wife of Eleusis, and undertook to feed Triptolemus, whom Ione gave birth to. During the day she gave him ambrosia, and during the night she hid him under the lit fire. Having been discovered, Ceres retired and instructed Triptolemen in agriculture, which she ordered him to teach to men.It is in this City that the famous festivals of Ceres, called Eleusian Mysteries, were instituted. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 4, c. 2.

Elidrion. It's mercury.

Elidrium. Putty.

Elios or the Sun. One of the eight great gods of Egypt, according to Herodotus. See APOLLO.

Elixir. (Sc. Herm.) The elixir is nothing else, according to the good Trevisan, than the reduction of the body into mercurial water, and from this water one extracts the elixir, that is to say an animated spirit. The term Elixir comes etymologically from E and lixis, that is to say, water; because in the work everything is done with this water.
The Elixir is the second part, or the second operation of the work of the Sages, as the Rebis is the first, and the Tincture the third. From which we must conclude that the azoc is not required for the elixir, since it is drawn from the elixir itself.There are three kinds of elixirs in the magisterium. The first is what the Ancients called the Elixir of bodies. It is the one that is done by the first rotation, which is pushed to black. The second is made by seven imbibitions, until white and red. The third, called Spirit Elixir, is made by fermentation. The latter is also called Elixir of fire. It is with him that multiplication takes place.
WHITE PERFECT ELIXIR. Terms which the Hermetic Chemists use to express the state of their matter cooked, digested and calcined to whiteness. When it is joined to its ferment and has reached this degree of perfection, it converts into silver all the imperfect metals on which it is projected.It is then also medicine for plants and minerals; it is suitable for making precious stones, pearls. It is the true Talc oil so much vaunted by the Ancients. Some Philosophers have claimed that it was also medicine for the human body, but particularly for women; because being less igneous than when it is perfect in red, it is more temperate, and more proper to diseases of the female sex.
PERFECT RED ELIXIR. Work of the stone pushed to its perfection.The Philosophers gave it the name of Elixir, an Arabic term which means ferment, because in the transmutation of imperfect metals there is a fermentation caused by the powder of projection, which serves there as left in the dough, and causes there this change undergoes which of lead, mercury, copper, &c. makes a real gold, and even more perfect than the gold of the mines.
This Elixir is also medicine for the human body; Raymond Lully goes to great lengths on the properties of this panacea, and says that he was drawn from the gates of death by its help. Hermes calls it the Force of all strength, and the Alchymists Potable gold, see the article.
COMPLETE ELIXIR.Body tincture extracted from perfect metallic bodies, by means of true dissolution, and natural and perfect freezing. Others define it as a compound of the clearest and purest kinds of things, whence results an antidote or medicine which purges and cures animals of all their diseases.
This Elixir is made up of three things; namely: lunar stone, solar, and mercury. In the lunar is the white sulphur; in the solar, red sulphur; and the mercurial contains both.

Elkalei. Marsh, pond, Sea of ​​the Sages.

Ending. Earthworms.

Eloanx. Orchid.

Eloma. Orchid.

Elopitinum. Vitriol.

Elos Maris. Burned lead.

Elpis. Silver slag.

Elposilingi. Foam or scale of iron.

Elqualit. Green vitriol.

Eisabon. See HELSEBON.

Eitz. Brazen flowers.

Elurus or the Cat God. God of the Egyptians. See CAT.

Elysees (the Champs). Place of retreat and delights that the souls of the just would live after death, while those of the midwayers would undergo in Tartarus the torments and tortures to which Minos, Aeaque and Rhadamante condemned them. The Greek and Latin Poets have tried to give us the most flattering, attractive, and amiable idea of ​​​​the Champs Elysees.The description they give of it is about the same as that of the island of Nisa, where they say Bacchus was fed, and this very much agrees with the description that the Philosophers give of the island of the Sages. Hermetic. Virgil, among others, made a very circumstantial detail of it in his account of Aeneas' descent into the Underworld. You can see the explanation I gave at the end of the 6th book of Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled.

Elzaron. It is the salt of the Sages which they call their body, their gum. Take the clear body, caught on the small mountains, which is not made by putrefaction, but by movement alone. Grind this body with the EIzaron gum and the two smokes.Because EIzaron gum is the body that grabs the mind. Marie, Epit. in Aros.

Eizimar. Brazen flowers.

Emma. Blood.

Emblegi. Mirabolans.

Emblem. The Hermetic Philosophers explained themselves more often by emblems and riddles than in continuous speeches within everyone's reach. D'Espagnet even claims that it is easier to penetrate their thoughts and reveal their feelings in their emblems than in their writings. Michel Majer wrote an entire treatise on Hermetic Emblems, which has the title: Athalanta fugiens. This same work is known under the title: Secretissimorum Naturœ secretorum scrutinium. D'Espagnet says that the secrets of the Adepts are seen there almost as clearly represented as in a mirror. It is up to the amateurs of this Science to decide whether this testimony is deserved.

Embryo. The Chemical Philosophers also give this name to their mercury before it is extracted from its mine, and to their sulfur when it is not yet manifested. Michel Majer in his Chemical Emblems represents them in the form of a child placed at the navel of a man who has his arms outstretched, and whose fingers and hair are burning and exhaling thick smoke, with these terms below: the wind carried it in its belly. In another emblem, a woman having a globe instead of a chest, on which two breasts rise, suckles a child, whom she supports with her right hand, with these words: the Earth is her nurse, the Sun is her father, and the moon her mother.
All these expressions must be taken literally, and are not enigmatic.But when they speak of their sulphur, they only do so by allegory. It is he whom the Fable represents to us under the veil of the birth of Bacchus, of Aesculapius, of Achilles; and how to do it, by the account of the education that Chiron the Centaur gave them. Apollo and Diana, twin brothers, children of Jupiter and Latona, are this embryo that has become a child, then of manhood; and when the Fable adds that Diana served as a midwife to bring Apollo to light, it is because the red sulfur must never appear before the white: the latter is called the reign of the Moon, and the other that of the Moon. Sun. Thus the Fable is very easily explained according to the interpretations of the Chemical Philosophers,

Emerald of the Philosophers.Name they gave to the flos cœli, and some to the dew of the months of May and September. They regard the latter as the male, because it is more cooked and digested by the heat of summer; and the other they call it female, because it is colder, cruder, and participates more in winter.
Some chymists taking these words literally, have believed dew to be the matter from which the Hermetic Philosophers derive their mercury, because they often say in their books that mercury is male and female; and have consequently imagined that the union of the dew of May with that of September formed the marriage so recommended by true chemists.But they should have taken care that the matter of their mercury must be mineral, because from an ox only an ox is born, from a man a man, and that one would be seriously mistaken if from a tree or from a plant we wanted to make a metal.

Paste. Freeze, fix the volatile matter of the work of the Sages.

Encarit. Quicklime; but it is that of the Philosophers, and not the lime with which one builds.

Enceladus. Giant that has often been confused with Typhoon. He was struck down by Jupiter in the fight of the Giants against the Gods. See GIANTS.

Ink. Material of the work in the time of its perfect dissolution, so named from the extreme darkness that occurs to it in this state of putrefaction.

Endeid or endeis. Mother of Pelée, father of Achille. See. PELEE.

Aeneas. Son of Venus and Anchises, was one of the main Heroes who defended the City of Troy against the Greeks, who only took possession of it after ten years of siege. Aeneas took refuge in Italy, and during his journey he made his descent into the Underworld, accompanied by the Sibyl, who served as his guide.See at the end of the 6th book of Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled.

Enestrum. It is, says Planiscampi, the perpetual firmament with quadruple elements, or the prophetic spirit, which by signs precede, certainly presages the future.

Child. The Hermetic Chemists quite often give this name to their sulphur, and sometimes to their mercury. The four children of Nature are the four elements, which she uses to form all sublunary beings. The Alchymists say that two of these elements are male and two female, two heavy and two light. The chemical philosophers find this child formed by Nature, and their whole secret consists in drawing it from its womb or mine; they then nourish him with a milk which is proper to him, the same which Thetis gave to Achilles, and they form their sulfur with it.This child is, according to them, nobler and more perfect than his father and mother, although he is the son of the Sun and the Moon, and the Earth was his first nurse.

Hell. The Hermetic Philosophers call by this name the useless and, so to speak, eternal work of the false alchemists, who are continually in the midst of lighted furnaces, and who never see God, although they ceaselessly desire him; that is to say, who do not reach the perfection of the great work, which would give them all that can satisfy the human heart in this life. Sometimes they call their decaying matter Hell, because black is the image of darkness, and Hell is a place of darkness and horror.

Ignite.An old word found in the works of Flamel and Trevisan, to mean to give too much fire, to increase its degree beyond measure. We also see the term Afflamber, in the same sense.

Childbearing and Marriage. It is the time when the volatile and the fixed of the material of the work dissolve together, and come together to no longer be separated. Of these two there is consequently formed a third, which is said to be begotten, because the Philosophers give the name of male to the fixed, and that of female to the volatile.

Beget. See the previous article.

Enigma. Allegorical speech, which, under an envelope of ambiguous and equivocal words, contains a true meaning.The ancient Philosophers taught their natural and chemical Philosophy under emblems, hieroglyphic figures and riddles, so that the vulgar and even the learned, who would not be initiated into their mysteries, would understand nothing of it. Modern alchemists follow the ancients in this.

Enna. Meadows where Proserpina picked narcissus when Pluto kidnapped her. V. PROSERPINE.

enemy. One of the names that the Philosophers gave to their matter to white; but in general they have called the fixed and the volatile Enemies, because they seem to fight each other perpetually, at least until one of the two has absolutely conquered the other, and has rendered it of its own nature. .When the fixed has fixed the volatile after having itself been volatilized, the Adepts say that they have made peace between the enemies, because then they become so united that they are inseparable.

Entali. Feather alum.

Incoming. Who penetrates, who has ingested. The Philosophers say that their projection powder is perfect, when by cooking it has become entering, melting and tingent; because then it has all the properties required for transmutation.

Urge. In fact of Hermetic science, this term does not mean jealousy of the good of others, and desire to take it away from him, but an excessive discretion with regard to the secret of the stone, that is to say, to its material and the processes that must be followed to make it.

Envious. Term much used in the works of Hermetic science.It is a reproach which the Philosophers make to each other on the enigmatic style, the sophistications and the allegories which they have spread in their books to deceive the ignorant. This term should be understood in the sense that we say: a man is jealous of his secret, he keeps it hidden. It is to be remarked that those who make such reproaches to other Philosophers very often deserve this name more justly, and in the very places where they appear to speak with the greatest ingenuity; it is then that we must be most wary of their speeches. For all their recipes are commonly what is called seed for fools; it is in the darkest and most enigmatic places that the truth is hidden.

Enur. Vapor of the earth which serves as seed and food for the stones.

Eous. One of the horses of the Sun.

Epaphus. Son of Jupiter and Io, had dispute with Phaëton on the truth of his race; the latter stung, wanted to prove to him that he was truly the son of the Sun, and for this purpose asked his father with great insistence to let him drive his chariot for one day only. H obtained it; but unfortunately for him, he led him so badly that he would have burned the whole earth, if Jupiter had not thrown him into the river Eridanus. See what this fiction means in Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 3, c. 12 and following.

Scatter.Several Chemists have given this name to the air. Johnson.

Sword. It is the fire of the Philosophers, as well as the spear, the scimitar, the axe, etc.

Hawk. Carnivorous bird of prey with a hot and fiery nature. The Egyptians had consequently consecrated it to Osiris, and the Hermetic Philosophers employed it in their hieroglyphics, to signify their fixed solar matter, which they also called Mine of celestial fire.

Ephesus or Bath. Second operation of the stone, in which the moist fire dissolves the dry fire.

Ephialtes and Otus. Two giant brothers, sons of Neptune; they made war on the gods. See GEANS.

Ephodebuts. Some Chymists have given this name to their perfect stone to red, because of the purple color of the garment which once bore this name. The Fable says that Apollo took a similar one, when he sang on his lyre the victory that Jupiter won over the Giants.

Epipolapsis. philosophical sublimation.

Eposilingi. Clinker.

Eposilingua. Ironfoam.

Mary. Mercury or mercurial and volatile water of the Philosophers, which they also called Sister, Woman, Beja, etc.
WIFE ENRICHED BY THE VIRTUES OF HER HUSBAND. (Sc. Herm.) Expressions which Solomon used in the Code of Truth, to signify stone to white.Solomon adds, that power, honor, glory, strength and kingship were given to him; that her head is adorned with a radiant crown of seven stars, and that it is written on her clothes: I am the only daughter of the Sages, entirely unknown to fools.
Mary. Action by which the fixed and the volatile matter of the Philosophers unite inseparably. These nuptials take place at the time of dissolution, and the union is completed at the time of fixation.
Husband. This is philosophical gold.

Equivocal. The Hermetic Chemists have applied themselves to confusing the meaning of their words, by choosing terms which are capable of various meanings, not to deceive and mislead, since they warn the Reader, but to make their thoughts more enter.

Erebus. God born of Chaos and Darkness, married Night, and had various children. See HELL.

Erichtonius. Son of Dardanus, King of Troy. See Book 6, Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled.

Eridanus. River of Italy in which Phaëton was precipitated, for having badly driven the chariot of the Sun his father. See PHAETON.

Erymanthus. Mountain of Arcadia on which Hercules took a furious boar, which he carried alive to Eurystheus. See the explanation of this fable in the article EURYSTHEE.

Erypile. One of the Greek Heroes who laid siege to Troy, had for his.part of the spoils of this City a coffer in which was a statue of Bacchus by the hand of Vulcan, which Jupiter had given to Dardanus. Erypilus having opened this chest and cast his eyes on this statue, became furious. In one of those moments of interval which fury left him, he went to consult the Oracle of Delphi, who answered him that he must stop in a place where he would find people ready to offer a barbarous sacrifice, to deposit there the coffer, and establish his domicile there. Erpile re-embarked, let himself go with the winds, and landed on the coast of Patras, where having landed at the time that a young boy and a young girl were about to be sacrificed at Diana Triclaria, he presented himself with his heart; the sacrifice was interrupted,and they opened the chest, persuaded that there was some Divinity inside. They recognized Bacchus, and instituted an annual feast in his honor, and named him Bacchus Esymnete. Erypilus recovered from his fury, and fixed his abode in that country. See the Egyptian Fables. and Greeks, lib. 3, c. 14, § 2 and book. 6.

Eryx. Was defeated by Hercules. See Book 5 of Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled.

Es or AEs, or Brass. See BODY or LAND OF PHILOSOPHERS. Brass.

Aesculapius. Son of Apollo and the Nymph Coronis, daughter of King Phlegyas, was taken by Mercury from his mother's womb after she had been killed by Diana, and consumed on the stake where she had been placed. He was nurtured by Trine, and raised by the Centaur Chiron, who taught him Medicine in
a perfection so great, that by means of it the Fable says that it resuscitated Hyppolite devoured by his own horses. Aesculapius, according to some, had for wife Epione, and for children Machon and Podalire, Jason and Hygiée. He was represented with a staff in his hand, with serpents surrounding him, and he was always honored by the Pagans as the God of Medicine. This is why the Alchymists claim that all its fabulous history is only an allegory of the operations and matter of universal Medicine. His birth alone would suffice to prove it; for it is said that he was raised from the ashes of his mother by Mercury, and that Coronis's father was called Phlegye, from the Greek Phlegein, in French Brûler.
Besides, the Fable says that Jupiter dealt with Latona, from whom were born Diana and Apollo, and with Apollo Aesculapius; because whiteness always precedes red, after which comes Coronis or black, from which then comes Aesculapius or that golden and universal medicine whose effects are so surprising both on human bodies and on metals. See a more extensive explanation of this fiction in the 3rd book, chap. 12, § 2 of the Unveiled Egyptian and Greek Fables.

Esebon or Alsabon. Common salt.

Eson. Son of Cretheus, and brother of Pelias who dethroned him. Eson having become old and decrepit, was rejuvenated by Medea whom Jason had brought with him on his return from the conquest of the Golden Fleece.See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 2, c. 1.

Mind. The Hermetic Philosophers do not understand by these terms an immaterial substance, but an extremely tenuous, subtle, penetrating substance, diffused in all the mixtures, and specified in each of them according to its nature, its qualities, and the kingdom of Nature. to which he belongs. They also recognize a physical, igneous universal spirit, diffused throughout the Universe, which it vivifies by its action continued without interruption: they give it the name of Archea of ​​Nature, and regard it as the indeterminate principle of all people. See the General Principles of Physics in the Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled.
Sometimes the Hermetic Chemists also call their mercury Spirit, because of its volatility.They still give this name to their material which has reached white. But commonly they attach an epithet to this term Spirit, as can be seen in the following articles.
FUGITIVE SPIRIT. Name which the Hermetic Philosophers gave to their mercury, although it is a metallic body; but they call spirit all that is not hard, compact, solid; and body all that forms a coagulated and fixed mass, the parts of which are difficult to separate. All that is liquid and volatile is spirit when it parts of the common mercury. Everything that is compact and fixed is body. Such are the perfect metals, and the fixed of the imperfect, the fixed salts of the three kingdoms.The soul is the medium or the link which binds the fixed with the volatile.
The Chymists also called their mercury:
SPIRIT OF MERCURY.
SPIRIT CRUD, SPIRIT OF THE COOKED BODY signifies the same thing as Dissolving Mercury of the Philosophers.
SPIRIT OF LIFE. Because it vivifies the metals which are as if dead as soon as they have lost, on leaving the mine, that spirit which vivified them there, and gave them a multiplicative virtue.
SPIRIT OF PHILOSOPHERS. Because the Sages alone have the secret of making him spirit by delivering him from the prison or body in which Nature had enclosed him.
UNIVERSAL SPIRIT.It is properly the nitre diffused in the air, impregnated with the virtue of the stars, and which, animated by the fire of Nature, makes its action felt in all sublunary beings. It is their nourishment, it gives them life, and maintains them in this state as long as its action is not impeded by the defect of the organs, or by the disunion of the parts which compose them.
VEGETABLE SPIRIT. In terms of chemistry,
STINKY SPIRIT. Hermetic science term, which means the same as philosophical sulfur. It is also black matter and decaying mercury.
SUBLIME SPIRIT. Mercury of the Sages extracted from its mine and purified.
SPIRIT OF GOLD, OR GOLD IN SPIRIT. Mercury of the Hermetic Philosophers.
SPIRIT OF HONEY. Glazer says that he reduces all metals to vitriol, that is to say, to mercury; but the thing is false.

Essatta. Art of extracting essences from mixtures.

Essatum essential. Virtues, properties essential to particular mixtures of each kingdom of Nature.
ESSATUM VINUM. Spirit of rectified wine, by means of which tinctures, odors and essences of bodies are extracted.

Essence. Matter of the Philosophers arrived at the color white. The Adepts have also given it the name of White Essence. See QUINTES-SENCE.

Essensify. Cooking, digesting the material of the work to make it the essence of the Hermetic Chymists.

Estibium.Antimony.

Ostrich stomach. The Chemical Philosophers give this name to their solvent, or philosophical mercury; and ordinary chemists interpret it from common etching.

Tin. White metal, to which the chymists have given the name of Jupiter, son of Saturn. In terms of Hermetic Philosophy, it is the gray color, which in the operations of the work, immediately succeeds the black color called Saturn, or Brass that must be whitened, Livid lead, etc.
CALCINED TIN. It is the stone which has reached whiteness, that the Philosophers. also called Tin Lime, Full Moon, Naked Diana, etc. Common tin has a property not observed in other metals.it is to increase in weight when it is calcined, instead of the other metals diminishing. One would say that he absorbed the igneous parts of the coals, or that his lime is a magnet of the universal spirit which corporifies with him.
ETAIN DES PHILOSOPHES, or their white Lead. It is their mercury stripped of its blackness, before it has reached perfect whiteness.
Summer. Madeira in white or fire regime of the third degree. His complexion is igneous. This third degree fixes mercury, and its heat is similar to that of the sun in the sign of Leo. It must be continued until red. When this red is absolutely digested, it is so fixed that it no longer fears fire.Our Dragon, says Philalethes, is then decorated with all the celestial and terrestrial virtues. Also remember that each of these heats must be twice the other. It is in this diet that the fruits appear, and that he ascends to Heaven on a chariot of fire;
for then the redness will appear, which will be permanent in all the revolutions made by five firings after the true whiteness.

Etheb. Term of Hermetic Science, which means perfect; so when the Philosophers say that their powder converts so many parts of lead, tin, &c. in etheb, it must be understood in gold or in silver, that they regard as perfect metals.

Ethel. Is one of the names that the Philosophers gave to their vase or egg of the Sages.When the body is reduced to impalpable powder, it must be sublimated in ethel, before mixing it with our bronze; and what would prevent the tincture and Pingres, will remain at the bottom of the ethel. AurigaChemicus.

Ethelia. Is, according to the Spagyric Philosophers, that hidden and metallic soul, or that sulfur of nature concentrated in imperfect metals, which their mercurial water extracts and separates from the earthly impurities which envelop it, ETHELIA is also one of the names they gave to
their matter in putrefaction which forms what they call their Saturn, their imperfect metals, their filthy body, their brass which must be bleached.

Stars of the philosophers. They commonly give this name to the colors which arise in the vase during the operations of the great work. But they usually take the terms Planets and Stars to signify their metals; or the terrestrial planets, that is to say the vulgar metals.
STAR AT SUNSET. Armonia salt.
EARTH STAR. Talc.

Evan. Nickname of Bacchus.

Evaporation. Separation of spirits or spiritual matter from bodies, by the action of air or fire. The Mercury of the Sages has two original spots, says d'Espagnet; the first is an impure, sulphurous earth which is separated from it by the humid bath; the second is a superfluous moisture which has nestled between leather and flesh, and which renders it dry by the bath of the soft and benign fire dropsical; it must be evaporated from Nature.

Eudica. Matter of the great work of the Chemical Philosophers. 0 good King! said Morien, you must know perfectly before all things, that the red smoke, and the white smoke, and the orange smoke, and the lion.green, and Almagra, and the filth of the dead, and the limpid, and the blood, and the Eudica, and the foul earth, are things in which the whole magisterium consists. Morien explains in the following what Eudica is. Eudica, he says, is the most secret thing of all those I have just named. It is otherwise called Moszhacumia, which means faeces or filth from glass. However, it should not be imagined that Morien means by these terms, the heterogeneous excrement or superfluities which are found in the crucibles of the Verreries: it is the basis of all beings, and consequently of glass.
EUDICA.(Sc. Herm.) Mercurial water of the Philosophers, made to defend the body from the earth of combustion, which made it give by Morien the name of gall or feces of glass, because the feces of glass mixed with the metals in fusion, prevent them from being burned. It is this Eudica which accustoms matter to the attacks of fire. It is this red servant who must be married to his fragrant mother; this Pyrrhus, son of Achilles, with red hair, black eyes, and white feet. This Knight armed to fight the Dragon, and to snatch from him the intact virgin Beja, or white; Per-seus who, presenting the head of Medusa, defends Andromeda, daughter of Cassiope and Cepheus King of Ethiopia, against the Morning Monster, unties her from the chains that held her, and takes her as his wife.
EUDICA. Some believe that this term must be understood from matter to white; others, with the Philalethes, explain it from matter in putrefaction.

Eve. Magisterium of the Sages, when he attained whiteness.

Euphemus. One of the Argonauts, and their Pilot. It was to him that Triton gave a clod of earth, the meaning of which is explained in the book. 2, c. 1 of Egyptian Fables. and Greeks unveiled.

Euphrates. Is one of the names given by the Hermetic Chemists to the material of the great work that has reached the color white.

Europe. Sister of Cadmus, and daughter of Agenor, was abducted by Jupiter changed into a White Bull.He had Minos and Rhadamanthus. See the explanation of this fiction, book. 3, c. 14, § 5.

Eurydice. See the ORPHEUS article. Fabri says that this fable unveils what the Philosophers have always tried to hide, that is to say the matter of their stone, and the place where one must look for this matter. Here is how he explains himself in his book entitled: Hercules Piochymicus. Beneath this fable, he says, is hidden the most excellent and the most admirable secret of Chemistry; for it reveals to us what the Philosophers have shrouded in the dark veil of enigma. It shows us what is, and in what place we find this Erymanthian Boar, which is the true Mercury of the Philosophers;

Eurystheus. King of Mycenae, having obtained the power to command Hercules, he forced him to go and kill a furious boar which was ravaging the whole mountain of Erymanth; Hercules was there, seized it and carried it alive to Eurystheus. This fable, according to the explanation of the Alchymists or Spagyric Philosophers, is the symbol of the great work. Mount Erymanthus means the philosophical vessel, which they quite commonly call Mountain. The Boar is the philosophical mercury, whose corrosive spirits destroy everything they are given to dissolve. Hercules is the Artist who works this mercury, binds it by fixing it;and after having animated it with its sulphur, makes it the philosopher's stone, and the universal medicine represented by Eurystheus. Eurythus. King of Oechalia, had a virgin daughter whom he refused to give in marriage to Hercules. He ravaged the whole of Oechalia, killed Eurythus, and married his daughter. Eurythus, according to the Alchymists, signifies the mineral spirit and the heterogeneous parts which blacken and corrupt the chemical matter which contains this virgin earth of which lole is the symbol. Hercules or the philosophical mercury seeks to unite with this virgin land, but Eurythus opposes it by its heterogeneous parts.
for from the flower of Venus and vulgar mercury, prepared as it should, we get that unctuous vapor of which the Philosophers set so much store. We see this by the term Erymanthoeus, which signifies nothing but flower of Venus; because Erycine was a nickname of Venus, and Anthos in Greek, means Flower in French. I leave it to the learned Reader in Spagyric Philosophy to judge whether Fabri was a Philosopher, or whether he gives one away, as these gentlemen are wont to do. We find this fable and the other labors of Hercules explained in the 5th book of Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled.

The philosophical mercury putrefies Eurythus, kills him, so to speak, and by this means obtains lole by force, units with her, and by sublimating her, raises her to the top of the vase, which the Alchymists call Heaven, and in makes a leafy earth, from which must be born this admirable son who makes the joy of the Universe,

Exaltation. See SUBLIMATION.
WATER EXALTATION. It is the setting of the mercury of the Sages in stone; because then the mercurial water is exalted in perfection, as Hermes says in the Emerald Table.
EXALTATION. The Hermetic Philosophers count exaltation among the seven operations of the great work; it is philosophical sublimation taken in the sense of sublimation or perfection.
EXALT. In terms of Hermetic Science, to sublimate, to perfect. When the Philosophers say that their matter is exalted, it must be understood either that it is subtilized by sublimation, or that it has already acquired the degree of perfection it must have to be an elixir to white or to red.
EXALT. perfect; which is done not by the operations of vulgar chemistry, but by simple digestion with the aid of philosophical fire. When the work is perfect, they give their powder the name of Exalted Stone.

Excrement from the juice of the Bacchus plan. It's tartar.

Extraction. In terms of Hermetic Chemistry, does not mean, as in ordinary Chemistry, an expression of the juice of some plant, or some animal, etc. but a continuation of the regime of philosophical fire, by means of which one color succeeds another. It is in this sense that they say, that it is necessary to extract the redness from the whiteness, because the whiteness must always precede the redness of matter;this is why the Fable says that Diana, sister of Apollo, served as a midwife to her mother, to help her bring Phoebus into the world, who is the same as Apollo or the Sun, and whom the Chemical Philosophers call Naked Diana, Moon , White Gold, their perfect white matter; and that they name Sun, Apollo or their Gold, the perfect red matter.

Extract the sap of the vegetable Saturnia. It is to draw mercury from its mine.
EXTRACT THE ELEMENS. Continue fire regime for operations. If you do not know how to extract water from air, earth from water, and fire from earth, you will not succeed in the work, says Aristotle the Chymist. That is to say, it is necessary to continue the operations of the magisterium so that you succeed in seeing the regime of the colors in their order; first the black, which is a proof of the dissolution of matter in water; then the white, which is the leafy earth of the Philosophers; finally the color red, which is the fire of the Sages or the mine of their fire, that is to say, their lively and animated sulphur. Ezeph.

Extremes. The extremes of the work are the principle elements of everything, and the gold, perfection of the work. Neither the elements nor the gold should be taken for the material of the work, but a material which participates in the principle elements, or fertile material for the metallic mixtures. Just as to make bread, one takes neither baked bread, nor water and earth which are the principles of wheat; but the very flour of wheat.

Stone ends. Philalethes calls them dimensions, and says that mercury is one and the complete elixir the other. The media are the imperfect philosophical bodies or metals. The two extremities in the work are the excessive rawness of the material before it is prepared, and its perfect fixation;ie, mercury crud and spray powder.

Eyeb. Gold.

Sun of the Philosophers.

Ezimar. Brazen flowers.

F

Faba. A third of a scruple.

Faba agrestis. Lupins.

Fabiola. Broad bean flowers.

Fables. We have tormented our minds a lot to find systems by means of which we could explain the ancient Fables that Homer, Hesiod and several others have transmitted to us. Mythologists have looked at them as lessons in morals, others as explanations of physics; some see in it only traits of the most refined politics, some others think they find in it the entire history of the times which they nevertheless call fabulous; and, in spite of all the torture which all these Learned have given to their minds, they have not been able to succeed in explaining them in such a way as to satisfy sensible and less difficult people. To succeed, all you had to do was go back to the source of the Fables, track their birth and progress;one would have seen that the Greek Fables were only an imitation of those of the Egyptians. The oldest Authors have even taken care to warn us that Museum, Orpheus, etc. had drawn them from Egypt, and had transported them into Greece.
The place of their birth once found, it was only a question of discovering the father of so many children; one would have seen that it was Hermes Trismegistus, that great man, that famous man whose memory will be eternally venerated.Then examining what object he could have in mind in inventing them, it would have been found that he had collected a certain number of men chosen by his hand as capable of being instructed in the sciences he wanted to teach them, and of keeping the secret . on this Sacerdotal art, which he therefore proposed to teach them by riddles, parables, allegories and fables which he invented for this purpose. Almost all the ancient Authors spoke of this secret which was recommended to the Priests under penalty of life to whoever would reveal it. We know, moreover, that they passed it on under the veil of fables and hieroglyphs. Was more needed to fix ideas on the subject of the fables?I believe I have proved, I would even say demonstrated that fables had no other, in my treatise on Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled and Reduced to the Same Principle. It is therefore in the material and the processes of this Sacerdotal or Hermetic art that it was necessary to seek and draw the explanations of these fables, and not in history, morality or politics. I have done so in the Treatise which I have just quoted, and in the various articles of Mythology inserted in this Dictionary, where, to shorten, I generally content myself with referring to the Treaty above. Was more needed to fix ideas on the subject of the fables?I believe I have proved, I would even say demonstrated that fables had no other, in my treatise on Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled and Reduced to the Same Principle. It is therefore in the material and the processes of this Sacerdotal or Hermetic art that it was necessary to seek and draw the explanations of these fables, and not in history, morality or politics. I have done so in the Treatise which I have just quoted, and in the various articles of Mythology inserted in this Dictionary, where, to shorten, I generally content myself with referring to the Treaty above. Was more needed to fix ideas on the subject of the fables?I believe I have proved, I would even say demonstrated that fables had no other, in my treatise on Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled and Reduced to the Same Principle. It is therefore in the material and the processes of this Sacerdotal or Hermetic art that it was necessary to seek and draw the explanations of these fables, and not in history, morality or politics. I have done so in the Treatise which I have just quoted, and in the various articles of Mythology inserted in this Dictionary, where, to abbreviate, I usually content myself with referring to the Treaty above. in my treatise on Egyptian and Greek Fables unveiled and reduced to the same principle.It is therefore in the material and the processes of this Sacerdotal or Hermetic art that it was necessary to seek and draw the explanations of these fables, and not in history, morality or politics. I have done so in the Treatise which I have just quoted, and in the various articles of Mythology inserted in this Dictionary, where, to shorten, I generally content myself with referring to the Treaty above. in my treatise on Egyptian and Greek Fables unveiled and reduced to the same principle. It is therefore in the material and the processes of this Sacerdotal or Hermetic art that it was necessary to seek and draw the explanations of these fables, and not in history, morality or politics.I have done so in the Treatise which I have just quoted, and in the various articles of Mythology inserted in this Dictionary, where, to shorten, I generally content myself with referring to the Treaty above.

Facade of Malaqua. Cashews.

Facinum. Brazen.

Faction. Action of doing, way of doing something. Faction of our divine work. Zachaire.

Fada. Material of the work that has reached whiteness.

Hunger of the Philosophers. Burning desire to learn all about the Hermetic art, and the knowledge that can be acquired through it.

Making Hermes.Name that some chemical philosophers have given to the mercury of the Sages, both because of its volatility, and because of the different colors it takes in the course of the operations of the great work.

Falcanos. Arsenic.

Falex. Iron.

Fasdir or Sasdir. Tin, Jupiter.

Faufel. Areca and Catechu.

Faulex. Steel.

Fauna. Also called Satyrs, Sylvains. They lived in woods and forests. See what they mean in BACCHUS' article.

Favonius. Wind that blows from the place in the sky where the sun sets at the time of the equinoxes.The Ancients called it the Wind of Generation and Production, the Zephyr or Gate of Life, because it most commonly blows in the spring, when Nature seems to renew itself and take on new life. The Hermetic Philosophers gave the name of Favonius to the matter of the work which had reached white, which indicates the philosophical spring; because the black color which precedes it announces the death of the subject, and the coldness of matter which then seems inactive, as Nature seems to be there during winter.

Fake of Saturn. Who cut off the wings and the legs of Mercury. Expressions of the Philosophers, by which they mean the fixed part of the matter of the work which fixes the volatility of the mercury of the Sages.Nicolas Flamel has preserved for us a symbolic figure of Jewish Abraham, where Saturn is represented as the figure of a decrepit old man, his mouth gaping and a scythe in his hand, pursuing Mercury.

Feblech. Iron or Steel of the Philosophers.

Febus. Virgin child.

Faces. Term of Spagyric science, taken from the Latin foes. It signifies dirt, dregs, impurities, silt, filth, excrement, and the coarsest, impure and foreign parts which precipitate to the bottom of vessels, and which are otherwise called residence, particularly when it comes to liquors. when they purify themselves, like wine.

Nitre faeces. Saltpetre.

Fecla. Burgundy.

Fedum or Fedum. Saffron.

Felda. Silver, Moon of the Philosophers.

Fel Vitri. Foam of glass.

Fel Draconis. Mercury of tin.

Women. The Hermetic Chemists have commonly given the name Woman or Female to their Moon, or Mercury of the Philosophers; sometimes also to their volatile matter in all the states in which it finds itself during the course of the operations of the magisterium. This is what made them personify her to compose the ancient Greek and Egyptian fables, in which she was given the names of Cybele, Ceres, Isis, Latona, Coronis, Europe, Leda, etc. When they called her White Woman, they had in view the circumstance in which this matter became white.
WOMEN OF PHILOSOPHERS. It is mercury; and the man, or the male, is the sulphur.

Female. The Chemical Philosophers say that their mercury is male and female, or androgynous;but when they speak in particular of female, they mean their mercury, and by male sulfur.
WHITE FEMALE. It's mercury to white.

Iron of the Philosophers. Magisterium arrived at the red color of iron rust, because then its color approaches that of the Crocus Martis. This circumstance of the work is called the Reign of Mars. See REIGN.

Ferment. In terms of Alchymy, is a fixed matter, which, mixed with mercury, ferments it and gives it its own nature, like leaven done to dough.
FERMENT. (Sc. Herm.) There are several kinds of ferments; some are simple, others compound.The simple are those which are homogeneous and without mixtures, such as the elements and the souls extracted from their bodies. Compounds are those which have been mixed with others, such as bodies reduced in nature to sulphur, and joined with their oil, there are also sulphurous ferments of imperfect bodies; they are called middle ferments. But if we do not know how to reduce the perfect metals to their first matter, that is to say, to their mercury, we will try in vain to reach the end of the work, because we cannot make neither simple ferment nor compound ferment, in which consists the secret of the elixir.
It should be further observed that there are two kinds of prime matter: one is near, the other distant. Next is quicksilver, far is water;for quicksilver was first water, then earth, then water, and finally dry water. The reduction of perfect bodies into mercury, or into their first matter, is only a resolution of a perfect, fixed, white, red and congealed matter.
Ferments must be very well prepared before using them for fermentation. This preparation consists in having them pass through all the principal regimes of the magisterium; that is to say, they must first resemble powder calcined by means of liquefaction, then become dissolved powder, then frozen powder, and finally sublimated and exalted powder.
The whole secret is to mortify and harden; because without that we could not fix it. The silver ash is left in the white work, and the gold ash in the red work. The gold and silver of the Philosophers is their water, and this water is the leaven of the body; these bodies are their earth; the ferment of this divine water is an ash, because it is the ferment of the ferment.
It is therefore necessary to join the silver with the silver, and the gold with the gold, that is to say, the water with the ashes, or the ferment with the ferment. All this refers to medicine of the second order, which consists in joining the wet with the dry, first after their preparation.The wet is the liquid spirit purged of all impurity, and the dry is the pure, charred body.
When the magisterium has reached a certain degree of perfection, a ferment must be added to it, which is gold, so that it changes all matter into its own nature, and determines the magisterium to the metallic nature, which before this mixture was indeterminate. After this mixture has fermented, the whole stone is so fixed that it becomes ferment, and principle of fixity for all the metals on which it will be projected. When you want to stick to the white, you have to take the Moon as left, and be careful not to be mistaken.
Some give the name of ferment to mercury, when they are made imbibitions for the multiplication of the stone. The perfect philosopher's stone is strictly speaking only a ferment which mixes and insinuates itself into all the parts of the imperfect metals on which it is projected in very small quantities, in proportion to the degree of perfection given to it by the repeated operations on the same material. It separates from it all that is impure and heterogeneous, and appropriating all that is of its nature, makes it gold if the ferment is gold, silver if the ferment is silver. It is therefore inappropriate to say that the Alchemists seek to make gold; the first intention of true Philosophers is to find a remedy for the evils which afflict human nature;the second is to find a ferment, which, mixed with the imperfect metals, can manifest what they contain of gold, which before the projection was enclosed in these metals, and confused with heterogeneous and terrestrial parts variously combined between them, so that the difference of the combinations made the diversity of the metals, the principle of which is the same, but the cooking and digestion different. This ferment only completes and perfects this cooking in a short time, that Nature could only have done in the duration of several centuries; and which it would never even have done in imperfect metals, for lack of an agent active enough to separate from them the impure which is constantly mixed there by the defect of the matter in which they are contained.

Fermentation. In terms of Physics, is a natural separation of sulphurous matter from saline in a body, or when by the junction of these two matters a mixture is naturally composed.
FERMENTATION. Action of the air on the mixtures, which by becoming rarefied therein, alters their form, disunites the parts without producing in them a complete dissolution like putrefaction. Fermentation stands midway between liquefaction and putrefaction. All three are effects of scarcity; but putrefaction introduces aqueous parts into the pores of the mixtures, fermentation the aerial parts, and liquefaction the igneous parts. There are three kinds of fermentations; that which is done by swelling, swelling, tumefaction, boiling, and inflammation or internal heating of the joint; the second is proper fermentation; and the third is the acetification or sourness supervening on the mixture.The first is seen in all the swellings which arise in the soft parts of animals, when they have taken venom, or that they have received some somewhat violent blow, or that it is occasioned and caused by some illness; such are pimples before they are purulent, buboes, pustules of smallpox, venereal diseases, &c. We then say that the blood ferments, and we should rather say that there is boiling in the blood. Beaker. This boiling or swelling is also remarked in meats which are called windy, or flattering, such as peas and other similar vegetables; when they are cooked, they are seen to swell as the air which is enclosed in them becomes rarefied. We also see this boiling or swelling in mixtures of mineral matters;when, for example, oil of tartar is poured on alum. The same thing happens, if after having dried the lime of metals made with strong water, one throws a little of this lime in oil of tartar. Glauber. Fermentation, properly so called, is the rarefaction of a dense body, by the interposition of air in its pores. Too great cold, too great heat, and the prevention of the free access of air or of its action, are obstacles to fermentation. It must therefore be done in an open vessel, or one in which there is enough space for the air to become scarce. At the beginning of fermentation the movement of the vessel is contrary to it; in the end he helps, provided he is not too violent.
People who close the hay before it is quite dry have, unfortunately for them, a disastrous proof of this boiling or heating; horse manure also heats up by itself. This boiling, which is also called effervescence, is like a preparation for fermentation and putrefaction. Riplée distinguishes four kinds of fire: natural, unnatural, fire against nature, and elemental fire. Raymond Lully only divides it into three: natural fire, the unnatural, and fire against nature; but all say that the fire which they call philosophical is not the vulgar fire; and that the whole secret of the art consists in the knowledge of the material of the work and in the regime of fire.
When the fermentation takes place in an open vessel, the fermented body has much less force than when it is carried out in a closed or stoppered vessel, which is noticed in the wines which are called crazy. Leaven ferments the dough.
Acetification or sourness is the beginning of fermentation, as it is a kind when it is complete; and this sourness has scarcity for its cause. The elevation and evaporation of the subtle and sulphurous parts of the liquors is the cause of the sourness; and if the fermentation takes place in a closed vessel, it will be much longer; for this reason the sourness will be stronger, and will only succeed the fermentation when the coarse parts have enveloped and condensed the subtle parts.The most violent wines are the best for making vinegar.
FERMENTATION. (Sc. Herm.) Philalethes defines Hermetic fermentation, in medicine of the second order, the incorporation of the one who animates, the restoration of flavor, the inspiration of smell, and the supplement of beings. And all this means only the reduction of power in action of the body which gives the tincture and of that which receives it.
If you don't know how to give fire to fire, mercury to mercury, you will never succeed; in this consists all the perfection of the magisterium and medicine of the second order.It should also be known that all the terms below relate to this medicine: to inspire, to vivify, to sow, to put, to mix, to join, to infuse, to incorporate, to marry, to give, to marry, to ferment , to kill, to mortify, to freeze, to fix and to dye .
Fermentation is one of the operations that the Philosophers have kept most secret, and have spoken of it only in very obscure riddles and parables, so as not to discover its secret, which if we ignore it, we labor in vain. Hermes in the 7th book of his Treatises, speaks of it more clearly than any other philosopher, when he says that the ferments are composed of their own paste; he then adds that the ferments whiten the compound, prevent it from being burned, retard the flux of the tincture, consolidate the bodies, and increase their union.Those who look for the ferment in minerals are in error.
What the Philosophers properly call fermentation is the operation of the elixir. It is not enough, to perfect the great work, to push the magisterium to the red. The practice of stone, says d'Espagnet, is completed by two operations; one consists in creating the sulphur, or magisterium, the other in making the elixir, and the latter is done by fermentation. In vain would one attempt the projection, if the stone is not fermented. The red magisterium is a very subtle, extremely hot and dry sulfur or earth; it hides in its interior a very abundant fire of nature, which has the virtue of opening and penetrating the bodies of metals, and of making them similar to itself;what made him give the name of father and male seed. But from this sulfur a second must be created, which can then be multiplied ad infinitum. This sulfur multiplies from the same matter of which it was made, by adding to it a small part of the first, and fermenting the whole with the red or white ferment, according to the intention of the Artist. The fermentation is done thus, according to Philalethes: take a part of this igneous sulfur and three parts of very pure gold, melt the sun in a new crucible, and when it is liquefied, throw your sulfur into it, taking good care that no coal falls into it. When they have melted together, throw the whole thing into an earthen vase, or into another crucible, and you will have a very red and crumbly mass.Take one part of this mass in fine powder, which you will mix with two parts of philosophical mercury. Mix everything well, and having put it in the egg, repeat the first operation, with the same speed; you can repeat this fermentation, if you want.

Ferment. Philosophers very often recommend fermenting matter; but they don't always hear the same thing. Sometimes they speak of fermentation for the making of the elixir, and sometimes of the continuation of the diet to pass from one color to another; it is in this last sense that they must be understood, when they say that the first composition must be thickened, tinted and fermented. It is the same as sowing gold in leafy white earth.Philalethes explains it thus in his treatise De vera Confectione Lapidis Philosophici. Sow your gold, he says after Hermes, in leafy white earth. Sow, that is to say, join, ferment your gold, that is to say, the soul and the tingent virtue, in leafy earth, that is to say,

Close. To coagulate, reconstitute, fix a liquid or volatile matter.

Feru. Jupiter, or Tin.

Fire. In terms of Physics, matter of light. It is the actual fire. Ordinary fire, such as that of our stoves and fireplaces, is a liquid composed of light and oil matter, wood, coal, or other combustible and flammable materials.
The fire of the sun is but the mere matter of light diffused through the air, without the admixture of any oily matter of wood, or the like, impelled by the sun. This matter being united by a fiery glass, and pushed in sufficient quantity against any body whatever, penetrates it, passes through it, and separates its parts in much the same way as we see ordinary fire act. These two fires do not act by the same means. The fire of the sun acts by itself, it is pushed by this star alone, it acts equally in the void as in the open air. Our ordinary fire acts only according to the laws of the equilibrium of liquors. The air heavier than the flame pushes it, according to these laws, otherwise it would be motionless, and perhaps without action;for it cannot subsist nor act in a place devoid of air. The effects of these two fires are therefore somewhat different. A metal molten with a fiery glass, and coagulated afterwards, has the pores and interstices tighter than the same metal which would have been fused by our ordinary fire, because the parts of it which have engaged and which have penetrated into the interstices of this metal , are coarser and have left more open passages. From this also comes that the ordinary solvents of metals act less on those metals fused by the fire of the sun, than on those which have been fused by common fire.has the pores and interstices tighter than the same metal which would have been fused by our ordinary fire, because the parts of it which have engaged and penetrated into the interstices of this metal, are coarser and left passages more open. From this also comes that the ordinary solvents of metals act less on those metals fused by the fire of the sun, than on those which have been fused by common fire. has the pores and interstices tighter than the same metal which would have been fused by our ordinary fire, because the parts of it which have engaged and penetrated into the interstices of this metal, are coarser and left passages more open.From this also comes that the ordinary solvents of metals act less on those metals fused by the fire of the sun, than on those which have been fused by common fire.
FIRE. In terms of chemistry, it is also said of everything that performs the function of elemental fire. They reduce it, however, to several kinds, which are:
The natural fire innate in matter, of which each individual has a portion, which acts more or less, according as it is excited by the solar fire, or the fire of ashes, which consists in putting ashes in a vase, where one puts the vessel which contains the matters on which one makes operations, and one maintains the vulgar fire below, which heats the ashes, and the ashes the vessel with the matter contained. The ash fire has an average heat between the sand fire and the water bath.
Sand fire is nothing but sand substituted for ashes. Its heat holds the medium between the sand fire and the next.
The fire of filings, which one puts instead of sand, when one wants to have a livelier heat. This fire comes very close to that which is called open fire or free fire, that is to say, which acts immediately on the vessel which contains the matter on which one operates; such is the fire of fusion, which is of two kinds:
the fire of coals and that of flames. Both are used for fusions, cementations, proofs, calcinations, lampposts. That of flames is called lively fire; it serves particularly for the lamppost.
Some also use tanners' cloths to have a soft and even fire.
The Hermetic Philosophers also have their fire, to which they give properties completely opposite to the elemental fire of which we have just spoken.

Pontanus says that he does not derive himself from the matter of stone; that he is ingenious, and that he worked for three years on real matter, without being able to succeed, because he was ignorant of the philosophical fire, of which he was instructed by reading the book Artephius (Clavis major). Christophe Parisien, in his treatise on Arbore Solari, draws a parallel between vulgar fire and philosophical fire, in which he marks all the differences.
Bernard, Comte de la Marche Trévisanne, known as the good Trévisan, says in his treatise on the abandoned Word: make a fire not of coals, nor of dung, but vaporizing, digesting, continual, non-violent, subtle, surrounded, surrounding , airy, closed, incombustible, altering.
Pontanus says that this same fire is metallic and that it partakes of sulphur.
We must distinguish among the Sages two kinds of fire, the innate fire of matter, and the external and exciting fire. They also give the name of fire to their mercury or celestial water; and when they speak of the latter, they say like Van-Helmont: the vulgar chemists burn and calcine with fire, and we with water. It is this fire in power which does not burn the hands, and which manifests its power when it is excited from outside.
This fire is what they called natural, because it is in matter; and against nature, because it is water that makes gold a spirit, which ordinary fire cannot do.The Philosophers also call fires against nature all vulgar etchings, in opposition to their water which vivifies everything, whereas etchings destroy nature.
The fire of the Sages graduates like that of the vulgar chymists, but in a very different way. The first degree is that of the sun in winter; this is why they say that the work must begin at the end of winter; the second is that of Aries or spring; the third is that of June; and the fourth that of August. They gave various names to these degrees of fire: Persian fire, Egyptian fire, Indian fire, etc. They even seem to openly contradict each other. When one says, it is necessary to increase the fire with each mutation of colors (Arn. de Villeneuve); the other says, you always need a fire of the same degree. But one must know that one speaks of the external fire, and the other of the internal fire.
Each kingdom of Nature has its analogous fire, which must be used in philosophical operations. When they use the term Popansis, they mean the coction which ripens matter by natural heat; Epsesis or Elixation is by their mercury and damp heat; Optesis or Assation is the coction which is done by dry heat. Gaston le Doux.
OR AZOTIC FIRE REMOVAL. It is the one that surrounds the whole ship.
MATERIAL FIRE. It is that of ashes.
VEGETABLE FIRE. It's tartar.
INFERNAL FIRE. It is a moderately hot place.
AZOTIC FIRE. See SUPPRESSION FIRE.
SECRET FIRE. It is that of the mercury of the Sages.
WET FIRE.It's nitrogen.
FIRE SIMPLY SAID. It is sulphur. SACRED FIRE. The Chaldeans worshiped Fire, and the city of Ur took its name from there: they perpetually maintained a fire there. The Persians were even more superstitious on this subject than the Chaldeans; they had temples which they called Pyreia, intended solely to preserve the Sacred Fire. The Greeks, Romans, Gauls also had a great veneration for Fire. His cult still exists today in the Indies and in several countries of America. Some Authors have claimed that it was only because of the sun, whose vivifying heat animated all Nature. The best known names under which the Fire was worshiped are Vulcan and Vesta.
FIRE AND WATER. It is sulfur and mercury.
CENTRAL LIGHT. It is the sulfur of matter.
After having reported some of the fires on which the Philosophers bet to accommodate themselves to the way of thinking and acting of the vulgar chymists, it is good to warn that we must not be deceived by their apparent ingenuity on this point. article, and although Basil Valentine tells us that the fire of the Philosophers is the vulgar fire, we must however understand it only from the fire common to everyone, that is to say, from the fire of Nature which is spread in all individuals, and which gives them life. It is easy to be convinced of this when we follow the Philosophers step by step, and read them carefully; two examples will suffice for this.D'Espagnet says, speaking of the extraction of mercury from the Sages: Many have sought our mercury in vitriol and salt, some in the matter of glass, because it has a radical temper so stubbornly attached and adherent to the ashes, that it yields only to the greatest violence of the fire; but our mercury manifests itself by the gentle fire of Nature, which, in truth, acts much more slowly. He even adds: flee fractricide, flee the tyrant of the world, from whom he has everything to fear throughout the course of the work. Philalethes explains himself thus, in his work which has for title: Enarratione methodica trium Gebri medi-cinarum, seu de vera Lapidis philosophici confectione.After having bet on the different regimes that we must observe during the four philosophical seasons, we clearly see by what we have just said, that although there is only one operation for the making of our stone, namely, a single decoction with natural fire,
It is well to remark that there is an exciting external fire, that is to say, that matter must be kept in a degree of continual heat; but that this fire must be, as the Trevisan says, only a cold guard; and the Author of the Great Rosary recommends an exterior fire of such moderate heat that it should not exceed the interior heat of matter.
Let us therefore make a fire administered in proportion to that of Nature, a subtle, airy, enclosed, surrounded, persevering, constant, evaporating, digesting, humid, penetrating, altering fire, capable of mixing materials and excluding cold. .
FIREWORKS. It is the dissolving mercury of the Philosophers.
CORRODING FIRE. Mercury dissolving the Sages.
FIRE AGAINST NATURE.
WET FIRE. See FIREWORKS.
FIRE. Very often chemists give this name to oils, and to strong, ardent and burning liquors. The Venus Fire is the oil extracted from the sulfur of copper. It is also called Being or Essence of Venus.
FIRE. (Sc. Herm.) Mercury of the Sages.It must also be understood from matter to black. Strange fire. Coalfire. Manure fire. Unnatural fire, Fire of putrefaction. All these expressions are allegorical, and Philalethes says that they mean nothing else than the matter of the Philosophers pushed to black.
FIRE SAINT ANTOINE. Some chemists have still used these terms to express natural heat. Johnson.
FOREIGN FIRE. Mercury of the Sages after the meeting of body and mind.
INNER FIRE. See
FOREIGN FIRE. WET FIRE. Also includes heat from manure and steam bath. He sometimes takes himself for the Bain Marie.
FIRE OF PUTREFACTION. V. WET FIRE.
MANURE OR MANURE FIRE. It's when you bury the vase where the matter is in hot horse manure. This heat is of great use for the digestion of matters, and their putrefaction.
DIGERANT FIRE. Endowed heat, either dry or humid, to which we expose the matter we want to digest, whether enclosed in a closed vessel or not.
COAL FIRE. It is when the matter is placed alone, or in a vase, on lighted coals.
FLAMES FIRE. Most violent heat of all, especially if excited with bellows. It is when we expose the bare matter, or in a vase, to the heat of the flame. It is used for calcinations, fusions of hard and compact materials. It is the most used for the street lamp.
WHEEL LIGHT.It is when the vase is buried in charcoal, so that it is surrounded above, below and on the sides. It is lighted little by little below, and it is maintained when the coals are all aflame, adding new ones as the others are consumed, if the operation requires it.
FREEFIRE. Is the one whose heat immediately strikes the matter or the vessel that contains this matter. This is how it differs from baths.
PREVENTED OR ENVIRONMENTAL FIRE. Is that which makes itself felt by matter, or by the vase which contains it, only by means of another vase in which this one is contained. Baths of sand, ashes, etc. are Center Lights, or prevented.
FIRE OF NATURE. Root or main ingredient of the philosophical compound.Riplée calls him Father of the third period. It is properly the ripe and digested sulfur of the gold of the Sages.
FIRE OF THE EARTH. It is sulfur or phlogiston.
FIRE AGAINST NATURE. It is one of the material principles of the compound of the Philosophers. It is by the reunion of this fire with that of nature, that there results a third called unnatural fire.
UNNATURAL FIRE. Result of the meeting of the fire of nature and the fire against nature of the Philosophers. This unnatural fire is the cause of putrefaction, of the death of the compound, and of the true and perfect philosophical solution.These fires are therefore not, as the Philosophers rightly assert, a fire of coals, ashes, sand or lamp, and they are properly this fire of nature, etc. which they call their secret Fire, their philosophical Fire. It is of these fires that we must understand all that Artephius, Pontanus, Riplée and all the other Philosophers have said about them; and when Pontanus says that it is drawn from elsewhere than matter, it must be understood from the fire of a mineral and sulphurous nature which is found in the essential principle, of which the weight of matter is not increased.
LAMP FIRE. Water or mercury of the Philosophers, and not the fire of an ordinary lamp, as some have concluded from the words of Artephius, when he says: We have properly three fires, without which Art cannot be perfect. . The first is the Lamp Fire, which is a continual, moist, vaporous, airy fire, and there is artifice in finding it. It is explained shortly afterwards in these terms: the second is the fire of ashes... or, to put it better, this fire is this very endowed heat, which comes from the temperate vapor of the lamp. Philalethes says it even more clearly in his treatise which has the title: Manuductio ad rubinum coelestem. Our water, he says, is not vulgar mercury, it is living water, clear, brilliant, white as snow, warm, humid, airy, vaporous and digestible.It is this heat of the lamp which being gently administered, and being tempered, will surround the matter and cook it, until, by scorching, it produces the fire of ashes. It is in these fires that the vase is hermetically sealed. This water is our vessel, and in it is our secret furnace, the heat of which must be moderated and administered in geometric proportion for the work to succeed.
ASH FIRE. Second fire required, according to Artephius, for the perfection of the magisterium. But it should not be understood from the Fire of Ashes of wood or other matter, such as is the Fire of Ashes of the Chymists. The Hermetic Philosophers hear it from the soft, tempered vapor of the Lamp Fire, of which see the article.
EXTERNAL FIRE. The fire of the Philosophers, which they call external, does not mean external fire, but fire foreign to that of the matter of the magisterium. It is of this external Fire that they speak, when they say that one must give fire to fire, and mercury to mercury.Which Majer has represented in his Emblems, by a man holding a lighted torch which he brings to a lighted fire in a forge, and by a Mer-cury God who is about to join another Mercury.
This fire is called by some Fire occasioned, Ignis occasionatus. This fire also serves as food for the philosophical Child.
ALGIR FIRE. In terms of Alchymy, is the hottest fire one can have.
ELEMENTAL FIRE. Is sometimes taken by chemists for sulphur. Rulland.
FIRE WITHOUT LIGHT. It is the sulfur of the Philosophers.
HUNTING FIRE. It is in Chemistry, a fire continued until matter no longer distills anything.
STREETLIGHT. See LAMP.
FIRE OF GENERATION. It is the Philosophical fire.
CELESTIAL FIRE. It is the Mercury of the Philosophers, when it comes to Hermetic Science. In Physics, it is solar fire.
HEAVENLY FIRE ENCLOSED IN WATER. It is the philosophical mercury.
DRAGON FIRE. See CELESTIAL FIRE. It is called Dragon, because it devours all that is corrupt.
FIRE OF MATTER. Did they call their Quick Gold, their Secret Fire, their Agent, etc.?
LION FIRE. It is the element of Fire, called Aether.
Four degrees of heat are ordinarily distinguished in fire. The first is that of bath, manure, or digestion. It's the sweetest, and what we call lukewarm. He knows himself by tact, and by its effects. It is necessary for the tact, that the hand can support the effect of the fire without a lively sensation; it should only make a soft and light impression. The vaporous Fire of the Philosophers is of this kind; they compare it to the heat which the eggs experience when the hen broods them, or to that which one feels when one applies the hand to the skin of a healthy man.
The second degree is that of the ash bath; it is more lively than that of the tepid water bath, or of the vaporous bath;
but it must nevertheless be so moderate, that by making itself felt more keenly,
The third is a heat that one should not be able to bear without burning oneself, such as that of a bath of sand or iron filings.
The fourth is a heat as violent as it can be given; it is that of the burning coals and of the flame, which separates, separates the parts of the mixtures, and reduces them to ashes or fusion. Such is the lamplight.
All these degrees, however, each still have their degrees of intensity, and when we compare them with respect to the bodies on which the heat acts, what we would regard as the fourth degree with respect to a plant, would only be the first. with respect to metals.When we also say that the first degree is that of the water bath, it is still necessary to pay attention that the water heats up by different degrees: the first is when it begins to cool; the second, when it smokes and is noticeably felt; the third, when it alters the organs; and the fourth when it begins to boil, which is its greatest degree of heat, which, according to observations, no longer increases during boiling. These degrees are even easier to observe in oil than in water.
PHILOSOPHICAL FIRE. The properties of this fire are such: it is with it that the Sages wash their matter, which they say only by similarity, because this fire purifies their mercury.
He does everything and destroys everything. It freezes the stone mixture. It corrects the coldness of earth and water, and gives them a better complexion. It washes away impurities from water, and removes superfluous moisture from matter. He alone changes the nature and color of water and earth. It vivifies and illuminates the body, when it mingles with it. This fire putrefies, and then sprouts new and different things. It closes the pores of mercury, gives it weight, and fixes it. Its acute and penetrating virtue is so active that nothing equals it when it comes to purifying the body. He brings all the compost to maturity, he steals it and redefines it.It removes all the venom and bad smell from the matter. It changes the quality of the stone and increases its quantity. Finally, he is like a judge who discerns and separates the good from the bad. It should be noted, according to Philalethes, that all that we have just said of fire concerns medicine of the first order.
We can see what was meant by the Egyptians and the Greeks by this God and this Goddess, in the Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled.

Bean. Is the name which some chemists have given to the third part of the weight of a scruple.

Fida. Gold of the Philosophers.

Fiddah. Silver of the Hermetic Chemists.

Fider. Ceruse.

Fideum. Saffron.

fidex. Ceruse.

Fidhe. Moon of the Philosophers.

Fido. Quicksilver of the Sages.

Dragon's gall. Mercury of tin.
GLASS gall. Glass foam, or salt which separates and floats the glass while it is molten.

Fient or Horse Fient. Material of the work in black, or in putrefaction.

Daughter of Plato.Name given by some Chemical Philosophers to the Mercury of the Sages.
DAUGHTER OF HIPPOCRATES. It is the perfect white stone. Dict. Herm.
DAUGHTER OF THE BIG SECRET. It is the philosopher's stone that so many people seek, and so few find, because of the great secrecy that the Chemical Philosophers have kept about the various operations necessary to achieve it.

Filletin. They are blades of iron. Rulland.

Son of the Sun and the Moon. It is the mercury of the Sages. His father is the Sun, and his mother is the Moon. Hermes.
GOSSAMER.It is the same mercury, so called because it is extracted from a vitriolic and Adamic virgin earth, which has not yet produced anything. When the Hermetic Philosophers speak of the earth, we must not imagine that they mean the earth on which we walk, although they say that it is often trodden under foot.
SON OF PHILOSOPHERS. They are the children of Science, those who have attained it by reading the books or by the verbal instructions of the Adepts.
SON OF VENUS. It's tinsel, or brass.
SON OF SATURN. Mercury of the Philosophers.
SON OF A DAY. It is the projection powder. Some have given this same name to the egg of birds, when it is fresh.

Filter of the Philosophers.It is their mercury.
NATURE FILTER. It's looks.

Arsenical filum. Arsenic sublimated.

Firefox. Oil in general.

Firmament. Some chemists have given this name to the stone called Lapis lazuli, because of its blue color, dotted with small brilliants which form like stars on it.
FIRMAMENT. In terms of Hermetic science, it is the top of the vessel.

Firsir or Firsit. Heat or chemical fire.

Fixation. Action or operation by which one makes fixed a volatile thing of its nature. The principle of fixation is fixed salt, and digestion at a suitable fire. The Hermetic Chemists say that the perfection of fixation can only be obtained by the operations and processes of the stone of the Philosophers, that their matter alone is capable of it, and that it has reached this degree when by cooking it is flare up to ruby red color. This operation is done by a philosophical fire of the third degree.

To stare. In terms of Hermetic science, it is to cook the material after it has turned black by putrefaction, until perfect whiteness, and finally until the redness of ruby. It is then so fixed that it resists the action of the most violent fire. To fix is ​​properly to change a volatile salt into a fixed salt, and in such a way that it neither evaporates nor sublimates itself. The volatile never fixes itself, just as the fixed does not volatilize itself; but he who dominates over the other changes the weaker into his own nature.

Fixing. Means the same as fixation.

Flame. Liquid composed of light matter and oil of combustible matter. It is much lighter than the air around us.This air, which presses it unevenly, makes it vacillate in the direction it gives it, pushes it to the side where it finds less resistance, and usually gives it a direction which takes it away from the earth. The small parts of the flame are so minute, that they are able to pass through the most solid bodies by insinuating themselves into their interstices, when it is pushed violently against these bodies by the air, the pressing of which is more or less violent, according as this air is more or less condensed by the cold, by the wind, or by an artificial breath, such as that of bellows, torches, &c. The violent passage of the flame through the bodies which are penetrated by it, disturbs and disunites the parts of these bodies.This disunion produces in some an almost complete decomposition of their parts, as happens to all bodies which are reduced to ashes; in others, it produces only a simple fusion, as in metals and in bodies which vitrify, the small parts of which unite and again become a solid body as soon as the violence of the flame begins to cease.
FLAME is also a term of Hermetic science, which must be understood as humidity decooked by heat, made unctuous and airy by the continuation of the fire. It appears like a light, sometimes clearer, sometimes more colored or darker, according to the more or less pure or impure of which it is composed. It is the source of the colors so much vaunted by the Chemical Philosophers. Diction. Hermetic.

Arrows (the) of Apollo and those of Hercules are nothing but the fire of the Philosophers, following Flamel in the explanations of his Hieroglyphic Figures.

Flowers. The Hermetic Philosophers give this name to spirits enclosed in matter. They very expressly recommend always giving a low fire, because these spirits are so lively that they would break the vase, however strong it was, or burn themselves.
They also express by this name of Flowers, the different colors that occur in the material during the operations of the work. Thus the Flower of the Sun is the reddish citrine color, which precedes the ruby ​​redness. The lily is the color white, which appears before the citrine.
FLOWER OF THE SALT OF THE PHILOSOPHERS.It is the perfection of stone.
CRY OF GOLD. It is sometimes the mercury of the Philosophers, and sometimes the color citrine.
FLOWER OF WISDOM. It's their perfect elixir to white,
PEACH BLOSSOM. It is the philosophical mercury.
SATURNIAN FLOWER. See PEACH BLOSSOM.
AIR FLOWER. In terms of chemistry, it is dew.
WATER FLOWER. It is the flower of salt.
EARTH FLOWER. It is the dew and the flower of salt.
FLOWER OF THE SKY, Flos Coeli. It is a kind of manna, which one finds picked up on the grass in the month of May particularly;it differs from manna, in that the latter is gifted, and is collected on the leaves of trees in the form of grains; the Flos Coeli, on the contrary, is found on grass and has almost no flavor. A liqueur from Flos Coeli, whose properties are admirable, is obtained by chemical art. Some Chemists have imagined that it was the material used by the Hermetic Philosophers for the great work, but it is misplaced.
FLOWER OF THE WALLS. Saltpetre.
Simply said FLOWER, or BRASS FLOWER. It is the material of the work on the end of putrefaction, in the time that it begins to whiten.
CHEIRI FLOWER. Essence of gold.
FLOWER OF THE SUN.Sparkling whiteness, brighter than that of the snow even when the sun shines its rays on it: it is that of the material of the Hermetic work which has reached white.
FLOWER OF SAPIENCE. Perfect red elixir.
FLOWER OF GOLD. Fixed body of the magisterium; which is not to be understood of any flowers or tinctures extracted from common gold, but from philosophical gold, that is to say, from the fixed part of the compound of the magisterium, by means of which one fixes the other volatile part, by the only cooking governed with caution and the required diet. The citrine color that follows the white one is also called Fleur d'Or.

River. The ancient Hermetic Philosophers who invented the Fables very often took rivers and streams as the allegorical sign of their mercury or mercurial water; and by personifying these rivers, they made them fathers of several Nymphs, whose names they also used according to what they wanted to designate as volatile in the matter of the great work. Such are the river Achelous, the river Asopus, the Scamander, the Xanthe, etc. One can see the Hermetic explanation of these fictions, in the Egyptian and Greek Fables unveiled.

Flos rosinae metallicae. Sulfur flower.
FLOS SALIS or FLOS MARIS. White or whale sperm.
FLOS SECTAE CROAE or CROCAE. Some chemists have thus called the flower of saffron, the extract of the flower of celandine. Others have given this name to the nutmeg flower.

FIox. It is the flame.

Foedula. Any kind of foam.

Fenix. See PHENIX.

Folier. To cook, to digest the matter of the great work to succeed in making it the leafy earth of the Philosophers, in which it is necessary to sow the grain of gold.

Fondant. Which aids in the merging of the things with which it is mixed. In terms of Hermetic science, fondant wants to ire which is very easy to melt.One of the signs of the perfection of the philosophical elixir and the powder of projection, is that they melt like wax when presented to the fire; and that they melt and liquefy in all sorts of liquors.

Basis of Art. Some give this name to the mercury prepared by the Philosophers, others to matter which has reached whiteness.

Melts. In terms of Hermetic science, it is to purify and cook matter until it is reduced to thick, pitch-black water. Sometimes the Philosophers use this term instead of dissolving, reducing to water, subtilizing, volatilizing.

Fountain. In terms of chemical philosophy, commonly means the matter from which mercury is extracted in the form of a milky and weighty water, which the alchymists call virginal milk.This mercury is for those who follow the wet way for the work of the magisterium, as did Paracelsus, Basil Valentine, Egidius of Vadis and a few others. Sometimes they also give the name of Fontaine to their mercury, as do those who follow the dry way, such as Géber, Bernard Trevisan, d'Espagnet, the Cosmopolite, the Philalethe, etc.
TORRENT FOUNTAIN. It's the same thing.
FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH. The Alchymists claim that when the Ancients speak of this famous fountain and that of Hipocrene, we must understand it of the perfect elixir of the magisterium of the Hermetic Philosophers, because they say that this elixir is a vital balm, and a universal remedy which preserves in health, and even makes, so to speak, rejuvenate those who use it, by renewing their forces, and by preserving them far beyond the common limits of human life. Artephius, who passes among the Alchymists for an Adept, says with great composure at the beginning of his book which is entitled Clavis major, that he composed it at the age of a thousand years, and that seeing himself of his end, he was good enough to leave this pledge of his love to the children of Wisdom.
FLAMEL FOUNTAIN.It is the vessel that contains the material of the work. It is also mercury.
METAL FOUNTAIN. Quicksilver of the Sages.
TREVISAN FOUNTAIN. Mercury of the Philosophers.
FOUNTAIN OF THE PHILOSOPHERS. Sometimes they understand by these terms the matter from which they derive their mercury; but more usually mercury itself.

Strength. Is also a term of Hermetic science, which must be understood both of the acting property of the Philosophers' mercury, and of the spirits it contains. When they therefore say that all his strength is converted into earth, that is to say that he has really become fixed white earth unfailingly. To take the force of superior and inferior things is to extract the mercury, and then put it, well purified, in digestion to make it circulate, and finally to fix it in the ground at the bottom of the vase.
FORCE OF ALL FORCE. They understand by this expression, the perfect elixir to the red, or their powder of projection, which succeeds in overcoming all the diseases of the three kingdoms, however obstinate they may be.
forest. When the Hermetic Philosophers say that their matter is found in the forests, one must not take things literally, and seek this matter in the woods; it is there in truth, but as it is everywhere, and not rather in the woods than elsewhere, they understand by the term forest, the terrestrial matter in which their true next matter is as it were confused, and from which it must be drawn as from a chaos and a confusion where it is so well hidden from the eyes of the vulgar, that only the Philosophers perceive it there, although an infinite number of people make use of it quite commonly, that it is sold publicly and at a very low price, and even that it costs nothing, being everywhere. It is this earthly and superfluous matter from which it must be freed,which all philosophers, both ancient and modern, understand by their forests, dark, shady, dark places, their caves, etc. It is also on this principle that they say: fac manifestum quod est occultum. Uncover what is hidden.
NEMEAN FOREST. The Poets have claimed that Hercules killed there a Lion of enormous size, which ravaged everything there. The Spagyric Philosophers claim that this forest is the symbol of the matter of the philosopher's stone, and that the Lion which was killed there by Hercules, is the fixed salt which this matter contains. This metallic salt, which they also call Green Lion, has so much power that it converts everything into its own nature, and devours all metals.Hercules, who is mercury, coagulates it, and thereby seems to kill it; he even takes on his skin, that is to say, he takes on the form that he never leaves.

Form of man. Sulfur of the Philosophers perfect in red. It was given this name because man, as male, gives human form to the seed which produces the child in the womb of the mother, like the philosophical sulfur with regard to the female or mercury. of the Sages, and that the philosopher's stone is called Microcosm, as well as man.
WOMAN SHAPE. White stone. Sometimes this term means dry or mercurial water, the Moon of the Philosophers.

Lightning (the) of Jupiter.Forged by the Cyclopes under the direction of Vulcan, is the fire of the Philosophers, which, by its resolving property, first dissolves the imperfect bodies in the work; and by its fixative virtue,

Gnawing ants. It is a disease also called Formica repens; it is known more particularly under the name of Herpes.

Furnace. (Herm Science.) Philosophical Furnace, or Secret Furnace, which they called Triple Vessel, Athanor, Sieve, Manure, Water Bath, Sepulcher, Urinal, Green Lion, Prison; and Flamel, the House and the Habit of the chicken. It should be noted that the secret furnace of the Philosophers is not the external furnace that Trevisan calls Cold Keep, but the material that preserves the fire of the Philosophers.

Furnace. The Chemical Philosophers also have their furnace, of which they keep a great secret. D'Espagnet, who passes for the truth among them, describes it thus. “Those who are experienced in the operations of the magisterium, have called Fourneau or Four the third vase which contains the very and preserves all the work, and they have affected to hide it very secretly. They named him Athanor, because he kept up an immortal and inextinguishable fire; for he administers in the operations a continual fire, although sometimes unequal, according to the quantity of the material and the size of the furnace.
It must be made of baked bricks, or clay, or clay well crushed and sieved, mixed with horse dung and hair, so that the force of the heat does not cause it to crack: the walls will have three or four fingers thick, to be able to better retain the heat, and resist its violence.
Its shape shall be round, its interior height two feet or thereabouts; we will adapt in the middle a plate of iron or copper, pierced with a number of holes, supported by four or five iron pins, embedded in the walls of the furnace. The diameter of this plate will be almost an inch less than the interior diameter of the stove, so that the heat can be communicated more easily, both through the holes and through the space which remains empty between the plate and the walls.Below the plate will be made a small door to administer the fire, and above another to examine the degrees of the fire with the hand. Vis-à-vis this last one will practice a small window closed with glass, in order to be able through there to see the colors which occur to the matter during the operations. The top of the stove should be domed, and the cap must be removable, to be able to put the vases containing the matter on the tripod of the arcana, which will be placed precisely in the middle of the plate. When the vases have thus been placed, the cap is placed on the stove, and the joints are joined so that everything forms but one body. Care must also be taken to close the little windows well, to prevent the heat from escaping.
Philalethes gives a somewhat similar description.
Although the Chemical Philosophers have not commonly disclosed the construction of the furnace of which we have just spoken, yet it is not what they call their Secret Furnace; they often mean by that the fire of Nature, which acts in the mines for the composition of metals; and more often their celestial water or their mercury, this is why Philalethes (Fons Chemicœ Philosophicœ) says: furnace, only a fire, and all that is only one thing, namely our water.
If Hermetic Chemistry is true, those who seek the philosopher's stone through the vases of vulgar Chemistry, are therefore very wrong to have so many different furnaces built, according to the different operations they want to carry out. One for the sublimations, another for the calcinations, a third for the fusion, a fourth for the lamppost, another for the digestions, several finally for the various distillations. All the chemical philosophers all agree in saying that only one is needed which is used for all these different operations which are all done in the same vessel without changing its place. Which made the Cosmopolitan, known under the name of Sendivogius, say: If Hermes, the father of the Philosophers, resuscitated today, with the subtle Géber, the profound Raymond Lully,
LAZY STOVE. Is said, in terms of chemistry, of a furnace made in such a way, that with little fire and little work, it heats up and communicates its heat to several others. He is also called Henry the Lazy. Eat.

To hit. In terms of Hermetic Chemistry, means leading the regime of fire. To strike the spirits too much is to give too great a fire.
STRIKING THE GLAIVE. Bake the material. We say in the same sense, to strike with the sword, the saber, the hammer.

Brothers.The Chemical Philosophers give this name to the metals, and call the Crippled Brothers all the imperfect metals, whose impurities contracted in the mine, which serves them as a matrix, must be purified by the perfect elixir to the white, if the transmutation is to be done. in silver; or by the elixir to red, if one wishes to give them the perfection of gold. See Basil Valentine's Azoth.
BROTHERS (both). Some chemists have given this name to the planets which are equally distant from the sun; thus Saturn and the Moon were called the two brothers, Jupiter and Mercury, Mars and Venus. Others gave them this name because of the affinity they have together, like gold and silver, Venus and Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, and Mercury is the father.See Rulland.
BROTHER. Magisterium in red. Aristeas, in the Code of Truth, says to the King:
Give us brother and sister, or Gabricius or Beja; for what true generation cannot be made without them, nor can any tree be multiplied... the brother leads his sister, not the husband, his wife; and when they have become one, they will beget a son more perfect than themselves.

Fridanus. Mercury dissolving the Sages.

wheat.Is a name that the Hermetic Philosophers give by allegory to their mercury, because just as, according to the word of J.-C., the grain of wheat produces nothing, if it does not rot in the ground, the mercury of the Sages will never give the aurific sulfur, if it is not putrefied in the vase and reached the black very black, true sign of putrefaction and complete dissolution.
Fruit. Magistère au rouge, so named because it is the fruit of the Artist's work.
DOUBLE TEAD FRUIT. It is the perfect white and red stone, which both issue from the same root, that is to say, the mercury of the Philosophers.
SOLAR AND LUNAR FRUIT. Same as double teat fruit;or the white sulfur and the red sulfur produced by the solar and lunar trees, of which Cosmopolite speaks in his Enigma to the Children of Science.

Fuligo metallorum. Arsenic.

Fulmen hoc loco. Cup silver flowers. Planiscampi.

Fulmination. In terms of the metal art, means graduated purification of metals. This name has been given because the metals become brilliant and from time to time shed a kind of light like lightning while they are being purified; and that a reddish film is formed on top of it, which, when it disappears, reveals at intervals little dazzling gleams. Rulland.

Smoke of the Philosophers. Name which some Hermetic Chemists have given to the vapors which rise from the earth, and fall back there, to make everything germinate and bear fruit in Nature. They mean, however, more especially the vapor which rises from matter enclosed in the philosophical vase, and falls back on matter, because it finds no outlet.It is the one that Hermes wanted to talk about in his Emerald Tablet, when he says: The wind, that is to say the air, carried it in its belly. This is also explained by the mercury of the Sages.
SMOKE or IGNITE SMOKE. Matter in putrefaction. It is also said of the dissolvent of the Philosophers.
VERY STRONG SMOKE. It is sulphur.
AQUEOUS SMOKE or simply SMOKE.
ARABIC SMOKE. Moderately hot place. Dict. Hermetic.
WHITE SMOKE. (Sc.Herm.). It is with good reason, says Riplée, that the Philosophers gave this name to their Mercury; for on distilling it, it first appears like a white smoke, which rises before the red dye. Drop.Phil.
RED SMOKE. Name that the Hermetic Philosophers gave to their matter when it is purified and has taken on the color red. Morien says that red smoke is red orpiment; but that must be understood of the orpiment of the Philosophers, as when he adds that the white smoke is quicksilver, and the orange smoke, the orange sulphur.
To tell the truth, red smoke is gold or stone to red; the white smoke is the white stone, or the Moon, or the philosophical mercury.
An Author says that red smoke means the same thing as green Lion's blood.

Smoke the earth. It is to cook the compost, to use Flamel's terms, until the matter is in putrefaction.

Horse manure. Matter to black.

Fumigation.Chemical operation by which metals are made friable by exposing them to the vapor of molten lead or mercury.

Fumigate. To expose a body to the smoke of another, to make him experience the impressions.

Furfy. Red color that occurs in the material of the work by the sole continuation of firing.

Furies. Infernal goddesses, daughters of Acheron and Night. They were also called Erynnes, Eumenides, and Dires. They were three, Mégere, Tisiphone and Alecto. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 3, c. 6.

Fuse. The quality that certain bodies have of melting in the heat. This term is hardly said of metals.This quality comes to them from mercury; for those which abound more in mercury, have more fusibility; those which have the least have more hardness and resist the action of fire more. Many chemists, deceived by common experience, have attributed this fusibility to sulphur, on the ground that the sulfur added to red iron puts it in fusion; but they should have taken care that the carbon or the sulfur which one adds, only accelerates the fusion because they absorb the acid spirits and salts. Beaker.

fuse. which is likely to merge. The more the metals abound in mercury, the more they are fusible.In some, such as iron and copper, this mercury is so encumbered with terrestrial, acid and heterogeneous parts, that they are very difficult to put in fusion, without addition of some fluxes, such as antimony, borax or other salts. Glass is also fusible, salts, pebbles and all vitrifiable materials. We make the salt of tartar fusible and penetrating, by mixing it well with spirit of wine in about equal quantity. Then we set it on fire. After the spirit of wine is consumed, the operation is repeated up to three or four times, and then this salt becomes so penetrating, that put on an iron plate reddened in the fire, it melts like wax, and pierces it, leaving after it a white trace, which approaches very much the color of silver.The Hermetic Chemists say that their elixir must be fusible like wax, and penetrating to the intimate parts of the imperfect metals on which it is projected.

Merge. Liquefaction of solid bodies by the action of fire. The more the metals abound in unctuous humidity, the easier it is to melt. Iron is susceptible of fusion only at a very high fire, or mixed with antimony. See FUSE.

Fyada. White Smoke of the Philosophers.

G

Gabertine. Fixed part of the material of the great work; the bird is called Beja.

Gabricius. Sulfur of the Philosophers.

Gabrielus. Same as Gabertin.

Gala. Milk.

Gamathei. Stones on which figures have been engraved to make Talismans.

Gannana-Peride. It's Kinakina.

Ganymede. Son of Tros, King of Troy, was taken up to heaven by Jupiter, who had taken the form of an eagle for this. The Hermetic Philosophers explain this fable as an allegory of their great work. Ganymede is the fixed part of their matter, put in the philosophical work with the volatile part, called Eagle, which lifts to the sky, that is to say at the top of the vase, the fixed part, and finally both fall back to the bottom, to fix itself there in solid matter, which they call philosopher's stone. When it is said that Ganymede, after being taken up to heaven, became the Cupbearer of Jupiter; it is to express this rain formed by the volatilized matter, which while falling, waters the gray matter called Jupiter, which is at the bottom of the vase.

Gas. Term used by Van-Helmont to express the spirituous and volatile substance which evaporates from bodies. His Translator calls him a wild spirit.
To better conceive what he means, here is the example he brings of this gas. If you burn sixty-two pounds of coal, hardly more than a pound of ashes will remain. So, he says, the surplus will only be spirit. This spirit or gas cannot be held in vessels, nor be reduced to a visible body, unless its seminal virtue is first extinguished. The bodies contain it and often leave everything in this spirit... It is a corporeally coagulated spirit, which is excited by an acquisition of ferment, as we see in bread, wine, mead, etc. or by some foreign addition, as by salt armonia with aquafortis; or by some alternative disposition, as one sees with apples which cook in the fire... It is he who makes the wines violent when he is held by force in barrels.It is he who gives strength to gunpowder. This gas manifests itself in hot oil where wine or water is thrown in small quantities, or on molten lead. Van-Helmont thereby claims that this gas differs from air. See his Principles of Physics, part. I, ch. XVI.

Gatrinum. Keystone ashes. Gazar. Galbanum. Gazard. Laurel.

Giants. Children of Heaven and Earth. They made war on the gods, and wanted to dethrone Jupiter, who struck them all down. I have explained what is to be understood by these Giants in the Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, book. 3, c. 3 and 4. The Philosophers have in fact had no other intention in inventing the fable of the Giants, than to express the dissolution of the matter of the great work, and the combat which then takes place between the volatile part which dissolves, and the fixed which is dissolved in water, but which finally wins the victory by fixing its enemy, which was a mercurial water. The etymology alone of the names given to the most famous of these Giants suffices to confirm this idea. Briareus derives from Beri, subversa;Othus from Onit-toth, tempestatum vices; Ephialtes of Evi or Ephi, nubes, and of Althah, ca-ligo, or nubes caliginis, or nubes horrida; Enceladus of Enceled, ions temporaneus, torrents, the ravage of waters; Porphyrion of Phour, frangere, frustulatim difringere; Mimas by Maim, heavy rains; Rhoecus de Rouach, the wind. Mr. Peluche, by supplying me with these etymologies in his Histoire du Ciel, tom. 1, p. 107 and 108 certainly did not imagine approaching so close to the goal without knowing it; for the dissolution of matter, its volatilization and its fall as rain are manifestly declared there. 107 and 108 certainly did not imagine approaching so close to the goal without knowing it;for the dissolution of matter, its volatilization and its fall as rain are manifestly declared there. 107 and 108 certainly did not imagine approaching so close to the goal without knowing it; for the dissolution of matter, its volatilization and its fall as rain are manifestly declared there.

Gelapo. Jalap.

Wolf jelly. Name which some chemists have given to the congealed tincture of antimony, because they call this mineral wolf.

Gelsemin. Jasmine.

Geluta, Gelute. Are names that Paracelsus gave to a plant known as Carline.

Gemma tartarea. Stones that are generated in the body of men.

Generation. Is also a term of the great Art. The Hermetic Philosophers compare it to the generation of man. The first part of this Art is mating, the second conception or generation, the third pregnancy, the fourth childbirth, the fifth food. If there is therefore no coupling, there will be no generation, especially since the order of operations of the magisterium resembles the production of man. Mor. Generation, in the great work, is done when matter is in complete dissolution, which they call putrefaction, or black very black.

Common genes. It is, in chemistry, sea salt; some give this name to nitre, others to vitriol;but it must be understood as the universal salt diffused in all sublunary individuals, because it is the basis of all bodies, and as their first principle.

Gentarum. Succin, amber gold.

Gepsin. Plastic.

germ. Mercury of the Philosophers, principle and seed of all metals, without actually being metal itself, but only potentially.

Gersa. It's the white lead.

Geryon. Son of Chrysaor, was a giant with three heads or three bodies. He had in his possession the finest oxen in the world; Eurystheus ordered Hercules to take them from Geryon, and bring them to him; Hercules obeyed, killed Geryon, and took away his oxen. See the explanation of this fiction in the Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 5, ch. 12.

Gesor. Galbanum.

Gi. Earth.

Gialappa. Jalap.

Gibar. Any Metallic Medicine.

Gibum. Cheese.

Gich. Plastic.

Gilla vergrillus. Salt of vitriol, or calcantum.

Gir.Quicklime.

Girgies. White pebbles.

Girmer. Tartar.

Gisentere. Name given by some chymists to earthworms, as if to say intestines of the earth.


Gissim. Eraser.

Git. Quicklime.

Gitenon. Flour glue.

Mary's ice cream. Ice cream Marias. Talc and arabic stone.

Ice lasted. Crystal.

Sword. The Philosophers gave this name to their fire, like that of saber, sword, scimitar, axe, spear, hammer, etc.
NUDE RESPLENDING GLAIVE. It is matter that has reached whiteness.

Glessum. Amber, short.

Glisomargo. Land of Crete.

Gluten. It's bull's gall. It also means the sinovia of Paracelsus, which is similar to egg white. Planiscampi.

Glutinis Tenacitas. Mineral resin.

Gobeira. Dust.

Sun Gum. Material of the work reached the white.
GUM OF GOLD. It is sulfur that is part of the matter of the great work.
WISE GUM. Term of Hermetic Science. It is mercury in putrefaction. Sometimes they hear it, like Morien, from perfect sulfur to white, which they call Gomme blanche; and from perfect sulfur to red, which they call Gum rouge.
WHITE GUM. Material of the stone, when the magisterium is perfect white.
RED GUM. Magisterium in red, or the Sulfur of the Philosophers.
PERU GUM, GAMANDRA GUM, JENU GUM. Gum gum.

Gophrith. Magisterium in red.

Gorgonians. Daughters of Phorcis, named Euryale, Sthenyon and Medusa.They had the property of petrifying anyone they saw. See what they mean in the Fables Egypt. and Greeks unveiled, book. 3, c. 14, § 3.

Gotne. Cotton.

Gotne, Msegiar. Cotton.

chasm. In terms of Hermetic Science sometimes means the perfect mercury of the Sages, because it is a universal solvent, in which the metals in particular seem to be engulfed, never to reappear what they were before. Sometimes the Philosophers mean by abyss the very black black matter.

Fat. Matter of the Black Philosophers, so named because it resembles black oil.

Grandmother.Nickname given to Cybele, or the Earth, because she was considered the mother and the principle of all that exists.

Great Work. Is one of the names that the Chemical Philosophers have given to their Art, because of the difficulty of learning it, of succeeding in it, and of the two great objects they have in mind, one of making a universal remedy for diseases of the three kingdoms of Nature; and the other, more particular, of transmuting imperfect metals into gold, purer even than that of the mines.

Granulate. Reduce molten metal to shot.

Granus. Porphyry stone for grinding the ingredients of chemical compounds.
Grassa. Borax.

grassy. Terrine or bowl of earth. Dict.Herm.

Grees. Name of the Gorgons. See GORGONES.

Grenade. Red stone.

Griffin. The Hermetic Philosophers gave this name to their matter, because the Ancients pretended that the Griffin was an animal which had the head and chest of an Eagle, and the rest of the body like a Lion. That is why they say that they must be made to fight until they become one, that is to say, that the Lion and the Eagle must be put together, and the volatile with the fixed, and circulate them together until all remain in a fixed body. This is the fabulous animal of Pliny and the other Naturalists, who took the idea of ​​it from the Hermetic Chymists, who said that it watched over the treasures, and that it was consecrated to the Sun.


Grill. Bake.

Guinina. Magisterium in white.

Guma. Mercury of the Philosophers, or their Moon.
GUMA PARADISE. Orchid.
GUMA GUMI. Ferment of the Sages.

Gumicula. Valerian.

gummi. Eraser of the Philosophers.

Gutta Gamandra, Gutta Gamba, Gutta Gauma, Gutta Genu. Gum gum.

H

Dark dress. Black color that occurs in the material of the work during putrefaction.

Cockpit of the chicken. Hermetic Vase. See FURNACE.

Habras. A plant known as Staphisagria, or lice grass.

Chopped. Fire of the Philosophers. To strike with the ax is to cook matter.

hacumia. Same as Eudica, following Morien.

Hadid. Iron, steel of the Philosophers.

Hoe. White stone.

Hagar. Armenian Stone.

Hager. Stone from Armenia.

Hager aliendi. Peter Judaica.

Hager archtamach. Eagle Stone.

Hager alzarnad.Mercure des Sages digested and cooked in poppy red.

Hal. Term borrowed from Arabic, which several chemists have used to signify salt.

Halcal. Vinegar.

Halcyonium. Scum of denial.

breath. This word sometimes means smoke. Johnson. And sometimes horse manure, which the chymists call horse belly. But in terms of Hermetic Science, it means the matter of the work in putrefaction.

Haleron. Eagle of the Philosophers.

Haliacmon. River of Macedonia, which has the property of turning sheep that are not white when they drink its water. Pliny, book. 31, ch.2. It is therefore said in a manner of speaking in Hermetic art, that the philosophical Dragon and the Raven must be made to drink in the river Haliacmon, to say that the brass must be whitened, or made to pass from black to white. the material of the work. We also write Aliacmon.

Halimar. Copper. Lobby. Glue.

Hammon. One of the greatest gods of Egypt, also called Jupiter. He was represented with a ram's head. See the explanation of the fiction of which he was the subject, in the Egyptian and Greek Fables unveiled, book. 1.

Handal or Handel. Coloquint.

Hara. Juniper.

Hannala. wild street.

Harmat.Juniper bays.

harmal. Wild rue seed.

Harmoniac. (Salt) (Sc. Herm.) Some Philosophers have given the name Harmonic Salt to their matter, not that the salt which commonly bears this name, whether natural or artificial, should be regarded as the matter of the Philosophers; but because this matter is a kind of salt composed by
harmonic combinations, as Raymond Lully and Riplée say. We also write Armoniac.

Harmony or Hermony. Daughter of Mars and Venus, married Cadmus, son of Agenor. Cadmus had by her, among other children, Semele, mother of Bacchus. See the explanation of this fable in Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled. See also the Cadmus article.

Harpocrates. Figure or statue of a man holding two fingers over his closed mouth, and hiding with the other hand what modesty does not allow showing. This statue was in all the Egyptian temples, which called it the God of Silence. It was placed like this in all the temples to remind the priests that they had to keep silent about the secrets hidden under their hieroglyphic figures. These secrets, as Michel Majer explained very well in his Arcana Arcanissima, were none other than that of true Chemistry, which is so much praised under the name of the Great Work, or the Philosopher's Stone. We can see the successful applications of Egyptian fables to the operations of this Art, in the books of Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled, book.1, ch. 7.

Harpies. Child monsters of Neptune and Earth. They had the head of a woman, with a pale and pale face, the body of a vulture, wings of iron, claws on the feet and hands, and a belly enormous in size. They were called Ocypeté, Aello, Celaeno. They removed the food from the table of Phineus, and infected those they left there. Zethes and Calais, sons of Boreas, delivered them and chased them to the Plotes Islands. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 2, c. 1.

Hasacium. Armonia salt.

Height. (Science Herm.) Allegorical and mysterious dimension of the Stone of the Sages.If we are to believe Philalethes, the height is nothing other than what the matter of the Philosophers presents to our eyes in the time of its preparation. For example, the body or matter of our Art, he says in his treatise De vera confectione Lapidis Philosophici, is black in its first disposition, which is made by putrefaction; that darkness which strikes our eyes and which we call cold and moist, is what manifests itself to our sight; and this layout is what we call height of our body.

Hebe. Goddess of youth, daughter of Jupiter and Juno, according to Homer;
or of Juno alone, without having known a man, but for having eaten a lot of lettuce at a feast to which Apollo had invited her.Hebe was made Echansonne of Jupiter, and then given in marriage to Hercules after his apotheosis.
Hébé properly means Hermetic medicine, given in marriage to Hercules, that is to say, placed in the hands of the Artist after his perfection, so that he may use it for the health of the human body, the healing of ailments which afflict him, and his rejuvenation for which Hebe was invoked.

Hebrit. Red Sulfur of the Philosophers.

Hecate. Goddess of the Underworld, daughter of Jupiter and Ceres, according to Orpheus; of Jupiter and Asteria, according to others. Hecate presided over work and dreams. She is the same as Diana, who was called the Moon in Heaven, Diana on Earth, and Hecate in the Underworld. See Diana.

Hector. Son of Priam, was one of the greatest heroes among those who defended the city of Troy against the Greeks.
The destiny of this city was attached to the life of Hector. Jupiter took him under his protection, and supported him for a long time against the pursuits of Juno who wanted to put him to death; but at last he abandoned him to his destiny, and Achilles took his life.
Hector was the symbol of the fixed part of the Hermetic work, and Achilles that of the mercurial igneous water. This is why it has been claimed that Apollo, Diana, Venus and Mars had sided with Hector; and Juno, Thetis, the river Scamander, Mercury and Minerva that of Achilles.It was not possible to succeed in seizing the city of Troye, that is to say in perfecting the work, if one did not dissolve, and if one did not putrefy the part fixed by Mercurial Skin, which was to kill Hector. See the more developed explanation of this fiction, in the 6th book of Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled.

Hecuba. Daughter of Dymas, and wife of Priam, King of Troy, having seen her daughter Polixene immolated on the tomb of Achilles, and her son Polydor massacred by the treason of Polymestor, she conceived such vexation that her eyes were gouged out. at Polymestor; and while she was running away from the pursuits of the Greeks who had taken possession of the city of Troy, she was changed into a female dog.See the 6th book of Fables Egypt. and Grecq.

Hedeltabateni. Turpentine. Planiscampi.

Hel. Vinegar. Johnson and Planiscampi.

Helcalibat. Turpentine.

Hèle or Helle. Mistletoe of oak.

Helenbria. White Hellebore with red flowers.

Helen. Pilla of Jupiter and Leda, sister of Castor, Pollux and Clytemnestra, was the most beautiful woman in the world. Menelaus married her; and Paris, son of Priam, having adjudged the golden apple to Venus as to the most beautiful of the Goddesses, Venus placed Helen in his hands as a reward for having passed judgment in her favour.Paris kidnapped Helen, and took her to the court of Priam. Menelaus, to avenge himself, put in his interests all the Princes of Greece, and led against Priam a formidable army which laid siege to Troy. After ten years the Greeks captured this city, and Menelaus brought Helen back with him. After the death of Menelaus the Lacedaemonians drove her out of their city: she retired to Rhodes to Polixo, who to avenge, says Herodotus, the death of her husband Tiépoleme killed at the siege of Troy, sent two chambermaids into the bath where Helen was , who hung her from a tree. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 6.

Heliades. Daughters of the Sun and of Clymene, and sisters of Phaëton.See phaeton.

Helicon. Mountain of Greece, located near that of Parnassus, both consecrated to Apollo and the Muses. See muses.
A river was formerly seen in Macedonia which bore the name of Helicon. The fable says that the women of Thrace tore Orpheus to pieces on its shore, and were all drowned in the waters of that river. See Orpheus.

Heliconiades. Nickname of the Muses.

Heliotropium. Melissa of Theophrastus. Paracelsus.

Hello. Daughter of Athamas and Nephele, fled to Phrygia with her brother Phrixus, to escape the mistreatment of her stepmother. They both rode on a sheep with a golden fleece, and thus wanted to cross the sea; but Helle, frightened by the waves, fell into the water and drowned. See the Egyptian Fables. and Greeks unveiled, book. 2, c. 1.

Helminthica. Any deworming medication.

Heinesed. Coral. Helsaton. Decrepit salt.

Helsebon and Helsebon. Prepared common salt. Also called Eisabon.

Helunhai. The so-called ring of Solomon.

Hoematites (Peter).Or bloodstone, or Feret d'Espagne, is a heavy stone, part of iron, from the mines from which it is drawn. There are several species. The one called Feret is hard, reddish-brown in color, but becoming red as blood as it is powdered. It is arranged in pointed needles. The most esteemed is clean, heavy, hard, with blackish lines on the outside, and like cinnabar on the inside. Sanguine comes to us commonly from England, it is not in needles; it is cut with a knife to make pencils, called red pencils. We must choose it red-brown, heavy, compact, plain, and soft to the touch.
Black Hematite is found in Egypt, Persia, and Germany. When infused, it tints the water in saffron color. Rulland says that there are also green ones.
Serapion, Pliny, Dioscorides, talk a lot about Hematite, and praise it highly.

Hemiobolon. The twelveth part of a drama.

Hemiolium. Some use this word to mean half an ounce; the others, with Blancart, for the weight of twelve gros, or an ounce and a half.

Hemipagia. Migraine. Henry Red. Colcotar.

Henry the sloth. Athanor.

Whitegrass. Which grows on small mountains; these expressions, in terms of high art, mean nothing else than matter cooked and perfected to white. We find these terms only in the Dialogue of Marie and Aros, where Marie calls her White, Clear, Honored Grass. Some have explained it from the mercury of the Sages, others from the mine from which it is extracted; but the circumstance in which Mary uses it designates the matter to the white, because the Philosophers sometimes give the name of small mountains to their furnace and their vase.
philosophize's herb. Saturnian Herb and Medicinal Herb. Terms of the high art, which mean the same thing, that is to say, the mercury of the Sages; sometimes the mine from which this mercury is drawn. The Chymists give it this generic name of grass, because of its vegetative quality.
triumphant grass (Se. Herm.). Mineral matter forming part of the compound of the Philosophers. This is the one they call their Female, their Screen, see the article.

Vegetable herb. White stone.

Saturnian grass, or Vegetable Saturnia. Matter from which the Hermetic Philosophers know how to extract their mercury.

Hercules. Most often takes himself for the industrious artist, and scholar in the chemical art; which engages most of the Authors who have dealt with it, to compare the preparation of the material to the labors of Hercules, because of the difficulty that one finds in succeeding there.
Hercules is also the name that the Alchymists give to their metallic, dissolving, digesting, sublimating, putrefying and coagulating spirits. They regard the labors of Hercules as the symbol of the great work, or of the operations of the philosopher's stone. One can see on this subject the Treatise of Pierre-Jean Fabre, Doctor of Montpellier, which has for title: Hercules Piochymicus, printed in Toulouse in 1634. There he explains the labors of Hercules, by the relationship they have with the operations of Alchymy , with so much likelihood, that one can assure him, that almost the whole of the Fable is but a tissue of enigmatic symbols of the great work; those who are in the know will easily apply it. Anthée, for example, that formidable Giant, son of the Earth,whom Hercules could not defeat as long as he touched the Earth his mother; but which was suffocated as soon as it was raised into the air, represents the coarse metallic earth, and which can only become fit for the tinting of metals, after having been sublimated by mercury or the sublimating metallic spirits represented by Hercules. This earth, after having been sublimated, must die or be smothered in the air, that is to say, must change in figure, form and nature, must be changed into aqueous vapor; and then fall back to be putrefied, and then rise from its ashes like the phoenix. All the books of the Philosophers say so, among others Clangor Buccinoe, p.482. He who knows how to convert our earth into water, this water into air, this air into fire, this fire into earth, will possess the magisterium of Hermes, which is none other than the Philosopher's Stone. But most commonly Hercules is the symbol of the artist who uses philosophical mercury to do all that is attributed to him. See the Egyptian Fables. and Greeks unveiled, book. 5°, where all the labors of Hercules are explained.

Hermaphrodite. Son of Mercury and Venus, was walking in a solitary place, where there was a fountain. The Nymph Salmacis who bathed there, was taken with the beauty of the young man who had prepared to bathe there too. She begged him with great insistence, and not being able to induce him to second her amorous desires, she ran to him to kiss him, and at the same time begged the Gods to grant her only their two bodies. was one; what was given to him. Hermaphrodite obtained then that all those who would bathe in this fountain, whether male or female, would participate in one and the other sex.The matter of Hermetic art is derived from Mercury and Venus, and itself bears the name of Mercury of the Philosophers: more than one Adept have given it the name of Venus, and it is in fact of both that it is composed. It should be noted that this son of Mercury and Venus only became Hermaphrodite after his union with the Nymph Salmacis, and matter also takes the name of Rebis and Hermaphrodite only after the junction of sulfur and mercury. of the Sages in their fountain, which is, says Trevisan, the fountain where the King and Queen bathe, as did Salmacis and Hermaphrodite.The property that this fountain then acquired of making all those who bathed in it participate of both sexes, is precisely the property of the mercurial water of the Philosophers, which is taken for the female, and which is no more than a body. bodies that one bathes there, because they dissolve there radically, and then attach themselves to it in such a way that they can never be separated. It is for this reason that some Philosophers have given the name of Hermaphrodite to their matter fixed in white.

Hermes. Nicknamed Trismegistus, or thrice great, is regarded as the father of Alchymy, which from him took the name of Hermetic Art. He was an Egyptian, and the most learned man known to date. See his story and the fables that have been invented about him in the first book of Unveiled Egyptian and Greek Fables.
Hermès is also the name that some chemists have given to the nitre. Blancart.
Fragrant Hermes. It is the kermes, according to Raymond Lully.
Hermes is still one of the names, and the proper name of the Mercury of the Philosophers, because it is in fact the mercury of the bodies and particularly that of all the individuals of the mineral kingdom.

Hermetic. term of chemistry. Hermetic science recognizes Hermes as its propagator, and some regard him as the first who excelled in it; which gave him his name. The great art, the Hermetic Philosophy, the great work, the work of the philosopher's stone, the magisterium of the Sages, are all synonymous expressions of the Hermetic science. Hermetic Physics depends on this science, which makes all sublunary beings consist of three principles, salt, sulfur and mercury, and relates all diseases to the want of equilibrium in the action of these three principles; this is why it proposes as its object the search for a remedy, which maintains this balance in the body, or which restores these three principles,when one of them comes to dominate with too much violence over the others. The second object of this art is to compose what they call white or red elixir, which they also call projection powder, or Philosopher's stone: they claim with this elixir to change imperfect metals into silver with the elixir in white, or in gold with the elixir in red. Those who have devoted themselves to this research have always been regarded as madmen, although they call themselves the true Sages and the true Philosophers, to whom only Nature is known. They claim that the Ancient Philosophers, Democritus, Plato, Socrates, Pythagoras, etc. were all initiated into the secrets of this science, that the hieroglyphs of the Egyptians and all the fables that make up Mythology,were only invented to teach this science. See on this the Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled.

Hermetic. (Seal). See seal.

Hermetics (Medicine). It reduces all causes of disease to salt, sulfur and mercury; and heals them with remedies worked hermetically, and extracted from the three kingdoms. Blancart.

Hermetically. This term is only said of the manner of sealing chemical or other vases; which is done by stopping them in such a way that they do not let escape any of the volatile parts of the bodies which they contain. To achieve this, the top of the neck of the vessel is reddened, and the edges are brought together until they are glued together. Sometimes we put a glass stopper in it, when the vase is of this material, and having put crushed glass on the joints, we melt it under an enameller's lamp. It is also said to seal with the seal of the Philosophers, of the Sages; but when it is said of the operations of the great work, it must not be understood of the vase which contains matter;but of the secret seal with which they seal matter themselves; it is the fixation of the volatile.

Hermione or Harmony. Daughter of Mars and Venus, and wife of Cadmus. These last two were changed into serpents or dragons. See Cadmus.

Hermione. Daughter of Menelaus and Helen, was first betrothed to Orestes, son of Agamemnon; Pyrrhus married her on his return from Troy. But Orestes, no doubt with Hermione's consent, had Pyrrhus massacred in the Temple of Apollo. V. orestes.

Hermogenes. Name that Basil Valentine gave to the Mercury of the Philosophers, as principle, and father of the Stone of the Sages. This learned man composed the symbol of his tenth Key of the Hermetic work, of a triangle which contains two concentric circles; at the right angle is the chemical figure of the Sun, at the left angle that of the Moon, at the bottom angle that of Mercury. On each figure and in the middle of the circle are Hebrew words that I don't hear. Above the side which forms the top of the triangle is written: I was born from Hermogenes; along the left side: Hyperion chose me, and along the right side: without Jamsuph I am bound to perish.

Hernec. Ornament of the Philosophers.

Hesitate.Daughter of Laomedon, King of Troy, according to the Fable, was exposed to be devoured by a sea monster, which Hercules killed. The Philosophers or Adepts say that Hesion is that virgin earth which contains their mercurial waters, and which is hidden in earthly matter. Apollo and Neptune ardently desire its sacrifice, that is to say, that the innate humidity and warmth of each thing, desire their reunion with this virgin earth, to produce something pure, and to give freedom to this igneous matter and this humid radical, which are imprisoned in the gross matters of the earth. Fabric. The sea monster is a superfluous humidity, which seems to drown, and as if to want to devour Hésionne. See the Fables unveiled, book. 5, ch. 14.

Hesnic. The weight of a quarteron,

Hesperides. Fabulous girls, whom the Poets pretended to have a garden, in which grew golden apples. This garden, according to the explanation of the Spagyric Philosophers, is the symbol of Alchymy, by the operations of which one makes germinate, grow, flower and bear fruit this solar tree, whose fruit surpasses common gold in beauty and goodness, since it converts other metals into its own nature; what ordinary gold cannot do. The Dragon guarding the garden of the Hesperides is the symbol of the difficulties that must be overcome to achieve the perfection of the Philosopher's stone, and at the same time that of the putrefaction of mercury.
The Hesperides were three sisters, daughters of Hesperus, brother of Atlas. They were called Eglé, Arethuse and Hesperethuse. Those who are curious to see a more detailed application of it, can consult my treatise on Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 2, c. 2.

Hesperis. Species of clove or violier, so named, because its flowers are much more fragrant in the evening than during the rest of the day. Blanchard.

Heterogeneous. which is not of the same nature. The matter of the Philosophers is mixed with many heterogeneous parts which must be separated from it in order to have the Mercury of the Philosophers pure and spotless.

Hexagium.Weight of four scruples, according to some, and a dram and a half, according to others. Blanchard.

Hidros. Sweatshirt.

Hydrotics (Medicines). Gold sudorific.

Hidus. Green-grey.

Hieroglyphs. Mysterious characters invented by Hermes Trismegistus, and used by the Egyptians particularly to teach the priestly art. See this article. Of the four kinds of hieroglyphs in use among the Egyptians, the second was the only one used when it was a question of speaking of the mysteries of Nature, and of those of Sacerdotal or Hermetic art. Abenephi. Almost all the Alchemists imitated the Egyptians?.They were only explained by symbols, allegories, metaphors, fables and riddles.

Hierophants. Famous priests in Athens, responsible for teaching sacred things, and the mysteries to those who wanted to be initiated. They took care of the Temples. See the Egyptian Fables. and Greeks unveiled, book. 4.

Hilla. Jejunnon casing.

Hillus or Hilus. Son of Hercules and Deianira, married Joy, and subsequently killed Eurystheus, to avenge his father for the evils that this King had caused him. See Hercules.

Himen or Hymen. Name that Raymond Lully gave to the unique vase that the Philosophers use to make the magisterium of the Sages.

Hin. Assa foetida.

Hippocentaurs. Monsters half-man and half-horse, which the Poets pretended to have once dwelt near Mount Pelion. These monsters are of the nature of the others of the Fable, that is to say imagined as a symbol of the dissolution of the matter of the Hermetic work. Which is quite clearly stated by the etymological meaning of the place of their alleged habitation; for Pelos means black, hence Pelion. We know that the color black is the mark and the sign of putrefaction and perfect dissolution of matter. See centaurs.

Hippocrene. Fountain located near Mount Helicon in Boeotia, and dedicated to the Muses.The Poets pretended that the horse Pegasus made it spring by striking the ground with his foot. See the explanation of this fable in Fables Egypt. and Greeks unveiled, book. 3, c. 14, § 3.

Hippodamia. Daughter of Œnomaus, married Pelops, after the latter had, by stratagem, defeated Œnomaus in the chariot race. It was the condition that this King of Elis imposed on those who asked for his daughter in marriage. V. œnomaus.

Hippodamia or Deidamia. Daughter of the King of Argos, married Pirithous. He invited the Centaurs to his wedding; they stirred up trouble there;
Hercules and Theseus, friends of Pirithous, took his side, attacked the Centaurs, killed a great number of them, and put the others to flight. See the Fables unveiled, book. 5, ch. 22.
The nuptials of the work take place during the putrefaction of matter signified by the Centaurs. Hercules or the Artist, in concert with Theseus, or the mercury of the Philosophers, complete the dissolution, designated by the death of the Centaurs, and procure the volatilization indicated by those who flee. Pirithous is the fixed matter, Hippodamia is the volatile.

Hippolyte. Son of Thésée and Hippolyte, Queen of the Amazons, had such a great passion for hunting that he was only occupied with it.Phaedra his mother-in-law fell in love with him, and not being able to make him consent to her desires, she avenged herself by accusing him to Theseus of having wanted to attack her honor. Too credulous Theseus chased Hippolyte his son from his presence. The latter, fleeing his father's wrath, had mounted a chariot to get away from him; as he passed on the shore of the sea, Neptune aroused a sea monster, which, having presented itself to the horses of Hippolytus, frightened them, made them take the bit between their teeth, and compelled them to drag the chariot through the rocks, where it crashed; Hippolyte fell, and perished there. Aesculapius revived him. Hippolyte's passion for hunting, is the disposition of matter to be volatilized;this volatilization marks a kind of estrangement and aversion for the union with the earth which remains at the bottom of the vase, indicated by Phèdre married with the mercury represented by Theseus. As it is the mercury itself which is the cause of the volatization, it has been claimed that Theseus had driven his son out of his presence. H is indeed his son, since he is made of mercury itself. After its volatilization, it falls back into the sea of ​​the Philosophers, where the rock or stone of the Sages is formed, and dies there, that is to say, it becomes fixed there; for to die and to settle are two equal terms in Hermetic science, as to volatilize means to give life. See in the book. 3, c.12, § 2 of the Fables unveiled, what is to be understood by the resurrection of Hippolytus,
hippolyte or antiope. Queen of the Amazons, married Theseus after her defeat. See the book. 5, ch. 13 of Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled.

Hippomenes. Son of Macarée, lined up to marry Atalante. He overcame her in a run by means of three golden apples which he successively threw behind him, and which Atalanta amused himself by picking up. See the Fables unveiled, book. 2, c. 3.

Hippuris. It is the horsetail, the tail of the horse, in Latin Equisetum.

Hirundinaria. Tames venom, Asclepias.

Hismat.Silver slag.

Hispanach. Spinach.

Winter. The sages have sometimes given this name to their mercury; but they commonly use it in an allegorical sense, to signify the beginning of the work, or the time which precedes putrefaction. This is why they commonly say, that it is necessary to begin with winter, and to end it with autumn; because just as nature seems dead in winter and produces nothing yet, so the mercury of the Sages disposes only to generation, which cannot be done without corruption, and corruption only arises through putrefaction. The fire regime is then of the first degree. The mercury dissolves his body. And the Philosophers say that this degree of fire must be like the heat of a brooding hen;others to heat stomach, to the heat of manure; others, finally, at a heat similar to that of the sun in the month of March or in the sign of Donkeys. That is why they said to begin the work in the sign of Aries, while the Moon is in that of Taurus. And all this signifies nothing other than the philosophically moderate warmth at the beginning of the work.
It is in this time of philosophical winter that the mercury mortifies itself, that the earth conceives and changes its nature.

Holce. Dragma.

Holsebon. Decrepit common salt.

Homer. Greek poet, perhaps the oldest, composed various works; we still have among others his Iliad, his Odyssey and some Hymns.He is called the Prince of Poets, as much because of the sublimity of his Poetry, as because he seems to be the source from which others have drawn;
this is why Pliny called it the Fountain of Beautiful Spirits. Homer had traveled to Egypt, and there learned the mysteries of the Sacerdotal Art. D imagined the fiction of the war and the siege of Troy to treat this Art allegorically; what he did in his Iliad. He also made his Odyssey, or the Errors of Ulysses, to represent the errors into which the Hermetic Philosophers fall before arriving at the knowledge of the true secret of this Art.We clearly see the false and erroneous procedures (to use the very words of the Philosophers) of those who, not yet being initiated into these mysteries, fall almost at every step they take. Ulysses is the true portrait of these chemists who, having once adopted a system and a recipe, work it according to their prejudices, though Nature offers herself to them as Calypso, and they then abandon her in the manner that Odysseus did. They learn as Odysseus learned from Tyresias; but always undecided, they carry out a thousand operations on different recipes, just as Ulysses landed in different countries without settling in any one.
Riplée, Trevisan, Zachaire imitated Homer;they have detailed the errors into which they fell before succeeding, and then gave metaphorically and allegorically the true way of proceeding with the operations of the great work. It would only be necessary to give a commented edition of Homer, made by a Hermetic Philosopher, to prove to the public the truth of what I advance. The few explanations I have given of the Illiad in Book 6 of Unveiled Egyptian and Greek Fables suffice to give a clear idea of ​​the rest. The Mythologists will torture themselves eternally without succeeding in explaining Homer in a satisfactory manner, if they suppose of this Poet other ideas than these.

Male.Most Philosophers have compared the making of the magisterium to the generation of man, and have therefore personified the two parts or ingredients of the work, the fixed and the volatile. They called the fixed male, and gave him names of men; and the female volatile, and indicated it by women's names. It is in this way that the ancient Egyptians and Greeks, initiated into the mysteries of the Sacerdotal or Hermetic Art, invented the fables.
Male. Simply said, means the fixed.
Raised man. Refers to the matter of the Philosophers digested, dissolved and in putrefaction.
Man armed with helmet. Means mercury digested and attained black color. It is a denomination drawn by comparison from the figure of the God Mercury, represented with a helmet on his head, holding his caduceus, around which two twisted serpents seem to fight.
Red man. It is the Sulfur of the Philosophers, or the red magisterium.

Homogeneous. Which is of the same nature, which is composed of parts absolutely similar to each other, and which can, being brought together, unite intimately. Such are the parts of water, which mixed with water, can no longer be distinguished from it. Such is pure gold mixed with other pure gold. A metal cannot mingle, as we say, per minima, or intimately with a vegetable; but only with some parts of this vegetable when they are metallic in their nature. It is found in several plants, and in different trees when they grow on mines. It is even claimed that the Chinese know how to extract common mercury flowing from wild purslane. Experience has shown that ferruginous parts are found in oak.The ash of horned poppy mixes with the molten metals.

Horeum. Honey taken from the hive during the summer.

Horizon. Name which some chemists have given to the mercury of gold; and the Mercury-Hermetic Philosophers of the Sages, because it is the principle and basis of philosophical gold.

Horizontis. Drinking gold.

Horus or Orus. Son of Osiris and Isis, made war on Typhon, and slew him with the help of Isis. Horus died however, but his mother resurrected him, and made him immortal. Horus succeeded his mother, who had herself succeeded Osiris her husband; but Horus was the last of the gods who reigned in Egypt. See what these fictions mean in Fables Egypt. And; Grecq. unveiled, book.1, ch. 5.

Hucci or Hune. It is tin, or Jupiter.

Oil. Although simply said, is not a material which one must use for the making of the work; they have given this name to matter even when it has taken on an oily color and viscosity, during putrefaction in the philosophical egg. Tabula Scientiae majoris. By oil, the Philosophers often designate the secret fire of the Sages.
Holy oil. Non-combustible oil. It is their sulfur. They sometimes give this name to their perfect white or red stone, because it flows and melts in the fire like butter or congealed oil.
Oil from nature. It is the first salt which serves as the basis for all the others. It is called Oil, because it is unctuous, melting and penetrating;
Oil of Nature, because it is the basis of all individuals of the three kingdoms, and it is also its material preserver and restorer. It is the best, the most noble, the most fixed, and at the same time the most volatile before its preparation. When Art wants to use it, it must, from fixed, make it volatile, and then from volatile, fixed; to resolve and coagulate it is the whole work.
essential oil. It is the volatile sulfur of the philosophical metals;
that is to say, their soul, or the male, the sun, the gold of the Sages.
Saturn oil. (Se. Herm.) Matter of the Black Philosophers, so named, because they call their matter in putrefaction Lead.
Sulfur oil. (Se. Herm.) Dark matter.
Talc oil. The ancients spoke a great deal about this oil, to which they attributed so many virtues that almost all the chemists put all their knowledge to work to compose it; they have calcined, purified, sublimated, etc., this matter, and have never been able to extract this precious oil from it. It is that the Ancients spoke of it only by allegory, and that under this name they understood the oil of the Hermetic Philosophers, in other words their elixir of perfect whiteness, whereas the modern chymists took the terms of the Ancients. literally, and lost their troubles, because talc is not the material from which this oil must be extracted.
Market oil. (Se. Herm.) Sulfur of the Philosophers perfect to red.
Non-combustible oil. C5c. Herm.) Magisterium to red; it is called incombustible, because of its fixity.
Red-oil. See March oil.
Living oil. Magisterium in white.
Vegetable oil. Oil from the tartar of the Philosophers, and not from the vulgar tartar.
Heraclian oil. Oil extracted from gayac wood, or bouis. It is good against epilepsy and toothache.

sniffing. Action by which one puts in the vase the matter of the stone of the Sages, to make it putrefy there. Some chemists have compared this action to the burial of Jesus Christ, because the vase is sealed after having put the matter in it, as the tomb of our Savior is sealed; and that matter only dissolves or putrefies in it, only to resuscitate. Many of the Chemical Philosophers have found so much resemblance in life, passion, etc. of Jesus Christ, with the operations of the great work of the Sages, that they had no difficulty in using the very terms of the Gospel to express allegorically their whole process; because, they say, God has instituted the great work for the salvation of our bodies, as he sent his Son for the salvation of our souls.They add,

sniffing. In terms of Science Hermetic properly means the putrefaction of matter; and sometimes its fixation, because the fixation of the volatile is a kind of death, and what was water during the dissolution becomes earth by being fixed.

Wetting. (Se. Herm.) To give the stone its humidity, when it is perfect, and we want to multiply it. V. imbibition, multiplication.

Moisten. Cook, digest. See. imbibition.

moods. Paracelsus did not want people to say of a man that he is sanguine, or melancholy, or pituitous; because every man is sanguine, melancholy and phlegmatic altogether;but he wanted the bile to be called sulfur red, the phlegm white sulfur impregnated with salts, and the melancholy mercury.

Humid igneous. Mercury of the Sages animated by its sulphur. Sometimes the Philosophers understand by this term the material of the black work.
wet RADICAL OF nature.
Gold viscous moisture. It is the Mercury of the Philosophers, which is the basis of all individuals of the three kingdoms of Nature; but which is more particularly the seed and basis of the metals, when philosophically prepared to do the Hermetic work.

Humidity. Said simply, means mercury, the universal solvent of the Philosophers.
Stone moisture. It is also mercury, which is dry water, which does not wet the hands, and which only sticks to what is of its nature. Those who claim that there are two ways, the dry and the wet, to do the magisterium, call the permanent water of the Sages in the form of milky water, called virgin's milk, viscous humidity, the stone's humidity. Those who only admit the dry way call it simply dry water. But these two paths are a decoy; both follow the same under two different names; they have regard, in these denominations, only to the different forms under which their mercury shows itself in the course of operations.
To restore to the stone its humidity is to make the imbibitions;that is to say, to continue the regime of the philosophical fire, which causes this humidity to sublimate at the top of the vase, whence the imbibitions take place by themselves, when this same humidity falls back on the earth which has remained at the top of the vase. down.
Viscous moisture. See stone moisture.
Aqueous moisture. Mercury after the putrefaction of matter.
Burning humidity. Mercury of the Sages, so named because it has more action and force on gold itself than elemental fire. This is why the Philosophers say, we burn with water, and the Chemists with fire.
PERMANENT humidity. V. PERMANENT water.

Hune, on Hunt, or Hucci. Tin, Jupiter.

Husace. Armonia salt.

Huvo. Jupiter of the Chemists.

Huh.

Hyacinth. Son of Amicle, was killed by Apollo, who loved him very much. This God, while playing puck, inadvertently caused it to fall on the head of Hyacinthe, who perished as a result. The Poets have pretended that Apollo changed it into the flower of Hyacinthe, and that one still sees on this flower these two letters A, I, which composes the lamentable exclamation which this God made after this accident. See what this fable means in the Apollo article.

Hyades. Daughters of Atlas and Ethra, were, according to some, the nurses of Bacchus. Six are named, Eu-dore, Ambrosie, Prodice, Coronis, Phileto and Poliso: others add Thionne.These pretended daughters of Atlas are none other than the mercurial vapors which rise to the top of the vase, and fall in rain on the fixed matter signified by Bacchus. The name of Hyades alone, which means rainy, sufficiently expresses the thing.

Hyarit. Silver, Moon of the Philosophers.

Hydatia. See arles crudum.

Hydatodes Vinum. Water soaked wine.

Hydros. Dropsy.

Hydrargirosis. Mercurial anointing.

Hydra. Many-headed serpent that Hercules slew in the Lema Swamp.The Spagyric Philosophers say that the Hydra represents the metallic seed, which if one digests, and if one cooks in the philosophical vase, alters and changes in such a way that it undergoes a kind of death, and seems acquiring at each instant a new kind of life by the different degrees of perfection which it assumes, just as the Hydra took on ten new heads when Hercules cut off one; which is very clearly the symbol of the multiplication of the stone. For as many times as the stone is annealed and dissolved with new mercury, it acquires tenfold virtue, and has ten times as much transmuting force as it had before this new decoction. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 5, ch. 4.
hydra.The Sages have compared their elixir to the Hydra, because the stone renews itself and increases in quantity and quality each time the operation is repeated on the same elixir, and in each operation putrefaction occurs; which is a kind of death; they say that the artist then cut off the head of the Hydra, and that he reborn ten of them in its place; because with each reiteration of the work on the same stone, its virtue increases by ten degrees by progression, that is to say, if after the first operation the elixir was perfect enough for one of its parts of it could transmute ten of an imperfect metal into gold after the second operation, and one part will transmute a hundred, etc.
Hydra. Material of the magisterium before the dealbation. “Our Lion, says Philalethes, being put in our sea, becomes our Hydra: it eats its head and its tail. And its head and tail are its spirit and soul. This soul and this spirit came out of the mud, in which are two contrary things, water and fire. One vivifies the other, and this one kills that one. We must dip them in our Hydra, and then seven times in our sea, until everything is absolutely dry, that is to say, until white. »

Hydroloeum. Mixture of water and oil.

Hydria. God of Water among the Egyptians. See canopic.

Hydropege. Fountain water.

Hygieia.Daughter of Aesculapius, Goddess of Health. See Aesculapius.

Hylas. Son of Theodamas, was extremely loved by Hercules, who killed Theodamas to kidnap his son. Hercules, on his way to conquer the Golden Fleece, landed with the other Argonauts in a land where Hylas disappeared having been to fetch water. It was claimed that the Nymphs had abducted him. Hercules ran through the woods seeking and calling his dear Hylas; but unnecessarily. See. the explanation of this fable in the book. 5, ch. 12 of Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled.
Hyle. Term taken from the Greek, meaning forest, chaos, confusion. It is also the name that most alchemists give to the matter of the philosopher's stone.
Hyle. (Se. Herm.) Some say that it is necessary to understand by this term the matter from which the Philosophers draw their mercury; others, that it signifies the same matter to black, and Philalethes says that the name of Hyle is given to matter which has reached white. See his Treatise De vera confectione lapidis Phi-losophi, or Enarratio methodica trium medicinarum Gebri, p. 38.
Hyle. Prime matter, radical substance, radical moist, last food, prolific seed, are almost identical expressions of the same thing in each kingdom. Breton.

Hylec. See hyle.

Hylus. Son of Hercules. See hillus.

Hymen. See Himen.

Hypecoon. Wild cumin: others claim that this term must be understood as a species of horned poppy. Blanchard.

Hyperion. Father of the Sun, according to the Fable, signifies the philosophical Mercury, father of gold; for nothing is more subtle than mercury. And Théja, considered as the mother of the Sun, must be understood as sulphur. Olaus Borrichius.

Hypermnestre. One of the daughters of Danaus, was the only one of the fifty who did not follow her father's orders, which consisted of each killing her husband on the first night of their marriage. Hypermnestre spared his own named Lincée, who subsequently slew Danaus. See Danaus.

Hypootica. soporific drugs.

Hypochoeris. Spiky brass.

Hypoclaptic. (Vase) Kind of funnel to separate the essential oils from the waters or spirits with which these oils pass into the container during distillation.

Hypoglossis or Batrachion. Rainet, frog tumor, and the remedy that cures this disease, as well as the roughness of the larynx.

Hypoglottids. (pills).These are preserved, pills that are allowed to melt on the tongue to soothe the cough.

Hypopheon. See hypecoon.

Hypophores. Fistulous ulcers.

Hypopyon. Purulent eye.

Hyposphagma. Bruised eye.

Hypostasis. Material of the work to white.

Hypsiphile. Daughter of Thoas, King of Lemnos, saved her father's life, against the resolution that the women of this island had taken to kill all the men who lived there. She fled the island after Jason met her, and left her pregnant. She had two children by him, Thoas and Euneus. Licurgus, King of Thrace, received Hypsiphile at his home, and made her nurse to his son Archemore. Being one day in a wood with her nurses, some Greeks, extremely thirsty, begged her to give them some help: she did so, and led them to a fountain which was not far from there. Her zeal was so great that, to go faster, she left little Archemore alone on the grass.She amused herself by telling her story to the Greeks in a few words, and returned to where she had left the young Prince. During that time a serpent had taken his life, and he had just expired. The Greeks, afflicted by this fatal adventure, killed the serpent, gave this child a superb funeral, and instituted Games in his honor, which were to be celebrated thereafter every three or every five years. These are the so-called Nemean Games. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 4, c. 8 and book. 2, c. 1.

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Ja. Daughter of Atlas, and sister of Maia, mother of Mercury. See maia.

Jabora. Mandrake.

lacchos. One of the names of Bacchus. See what it means in the book. 3, c. 14, § 2 and book. 4, c. 2 of Egyptian and Greek Fables unveiled.

Janus. With two faces, means according to the Alchymists, the matter of the philosopher's stone, which they call Rebis, as made and composed of two things. They make this Janus reign with Saturn, because this matter, put in the vessel, first takes on the black color attributed to Saturn. See a more extensive explanation of Janus and his attributes in the book. 3, c. 3 et seq.Egyptian Fables. and Greeks unveiled.

Iapetus. Son of Heaven and Earth, had of the Nymph Asia, Hesper, Atlas, Epimetheus and Prometheus. See atlas.

Garden. The Garden of the Philosophers is the vase that contains the material of the great work. The colors are the flowers of this Garden, which the fire of Nature, aided by artificial fire, gives birth to and blossoms. The Dragon of the Hesperides watches over the gate of the Garden of the Sages, of which he guards the entrance. D'Espagnet thus gives the description of this Garden.
When we have found the way to open the door of the Garden of the Philosophers, we find at the entrance a fountain of very clear water which comes out of seven springs, and which waters the whole of it. It is necessary to make the Dragon drink there by the magic number of three times seven, until he is so intoxicated with it, that he strips his clothes. But we will never get to the end of it if Venus brings light, and Diane horned are not favorable and favorable to us. One must look in this Garden for three kinds of flowers, which must necessarily be found there in order to succeed.Close to the threshold of the door can be seen spring violets, which, watered by small streams, formed by bleedings made in the golden river, cause these violets to take on a brilliant color of dark sapphire. The sun will guide you. You will not separate these flowers from their roots, until you compose your stone of them, because they give more juice and tincture, when they are freshly picked: then you will pick them with a subtle hand and ingenious: what you will do very easily , if your bad destiny does not oppose it; when you have picked one, the root will soon produce others, golden like the first. You will then find beautiful lilies, of a dazzling white, and finally the everlasting mooring of a beautiful color of purple.All that we have just related according to d'Espagnet, must be understood of the second operation, which almost all the Philosophers call the first, because they suppose that we have the mercury ready prepared. This preparation, however, is the most difficult, since they called it the labors of Hercules. But few of them have spoken of it, because their whole secret lies almost in this operation; the second, which is the formation of lunific and solific sulphur, is called a work of women and a play of children.
The fountain found at the entrance to the Garden is the Mercury of the Sages, which issues from the seven sources, because it is the principle of the seven metals, and is formed by the seven planets, although the Sun alone be called his father, and the Moon alone his mother.The Dragon that is made to drink there, is the putrefaction that comes to matter, which they called Dragon, because of its black color and its stench. This Dragon leaves its clothes, when the gray color succeeds the black. You will not succeed if Venus and Diana are not favorable to you, that is to say, if, by the regime of fire, you do not manage to whiten the matter which it calls in this state of whiteness, the reign of the Moon, followed by that of Venus, then that of Mars, finally that of the Sun. You will not separate these flowers from their roots, etc.; that is to say, nothing must be taken out of the vase; then you will pick them with a subtle and ingenious hand; not that it is then necessary to remove anything from the egg, nor even to open it;but to make the colors succeed one another, by means of the regime of fire. By this means we shall first have the violets of the color of dark sapphire, then the lily, and finally the amaranth, or the color of purple, which is the index of the perfection of the auric sulphur.

Jason. Son of Jupiter and Electra, daughter of Atlas, married Cybelle, by whom he had a son named Corybas. Ceres, by whom he was very much loved, gave him Plutus; and Jasion was at last placed among the gods. See the Egyptian Fables. and Greeks unveiled, book. 4, c. 2 and 3.

Jaso. Daughter of Aesculapius and Epione, whom some call Lampotia, had for brothers Machaon and Podalyre, and for sisters Hygiéa, Eglée and Panacéa. Jaso was regarded as Goddess of Medicine, so her name means healing, as that of Panacea means Universal Medicine. See the Egyptian Fables. and Greeks unveiled, book. 3, c. 12, § 2.

Jason.According to the Fable, was son of Eson and Polymede, daughter of Autolicus. He had Cretheus for grandfather, Aeolus for bi-sayeul, who was the son of Jupiter. Aeson had a brother called Pelias, under whose tutelage he placed Jason; but his mother placed him in the hands of Chiron to learn medicine there. Having become grown up and well educated, he asked Pelias again for the Kingdom that his father Eson had left him when he died. Pelias only wanted to consent to this restitution, on the condition that Jason would first go and conquer the Golden Fleece. Which Jason did, after associating himself with fifty brave companions, almost all descended from the Gods like him.Having therefore prepared everything he thought necessary for this expedition, Pallas advised him of the construction and shape of the ship, whose mast was made of an oak taken from the forest of Dodona. He landed first at Lemnos to make himself a propitious Vulcan, then at Marsias, at Cius, in Iberia, at Bebrycia and towards the Syrtes of Libya, where, unable to pass, he and his companions carried the ship Argo on their shoulders for twelve days, and put him back to sea; and having conquered all the obstacles which opposed their design, they finally arrived at Colchos, where, by the art of Medea, they managed to remove the Golden Fleece. and put him back to sea;and having conquered all the obstacles which opposed their design, they finally arrived at Colchos, where, by the art of Medea, they managed to remove the Golden Fleece. and put him back to sea; and having conquered all the obstacles which opposed their design, they finally arrived at Colchos, where, by the art of Medea, they managed to remove the Golden Fleece.
However little one wants to pay attention to this fabulous story, and whether one is instructed in the mysteries of the Chemical Art, however little one has even read the books of the Authors who treat of it, the it will easily be recognized that this so -called story is only an allegory of the great work, as we shall see by the following explanation.
Jason derives its etymology from the Greek, and does not mean anything other than the Art of healing. Jason was never a Doctor or a Surgeon, since he never actually existed; but the Fable says he was instructed by Chiron, the same who also instructed Hercules and Achilles. Chiron therefore taught him manual experience, Medea the theory necessary for the perfection of the work. Jupiter one of his ancestors;and Medea, wife of Jason, was granddaughter of the Sun and the Ocean, and daughter of Aetes, whose sisters were Circe the Enchantress, and Pasiphae who begat the Minotaur. Medea's mother was Idie, also Enchantress, by which we can judge that this relationship could not be better suited than to Jason, who was to be a great Physician, and a great Scrutineer of natural things. He chooses fifty traveling companions, all from the Gods. We can see the names of them in the story of the Fable. The Argo ship was built from the oaks of Dodona, which gave oracles. This large and large mass was carried by fifty men in the deserts of Libya for twelve days; Orpheus its Pilot governed it only by his music and his song;finally this ship perished of old age, buried Jason under its debris, and was placed in the rank of the stars. What do all these places where the ship landed mean? Why first in Lemnos, to make himself a favorable Vulcan? Why did Euripyle give earth as a present to Jason? Euripyle was the son of Neptune, water is made from earth, and that from this earth we must make water; it was also from this land that Medea augured well for the expedition. It is also not without reason that Phineus was delivered from the Harpies by Calais and Zetes, both sons of Aeolus; since Basil Valentine says in his sixth Key, that two winds must blow, one the east wind, which he calls Vulturnus, and the other the south wind, or Notus.After these two winds have ceased, the Harpies will be put to flight, that is to say, the volatile parts will become fixed. and the other the south wind, or Notus. After these two winds have ceased, the Harpies will be put to flight, that is to say, the volatile parts will become fixed. and the other the south wind, or Notus. After these two winds have ceased, the Harpies will be put to flight, that is to say, the volatile parts will become fixed.
They also found on their way the two Cyan rocks, whose reef must be avoided by means of a dove; what does this dove mean other than perfect white matter? Which infallibly marks that the work tends to its perfection, and has almost no more pitfalls to fear.
Those who want a more detailed chemical explanation will find ample satisfaction in chapter 1 of book 2 of Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled.

Jassa. Trinity Grass.

Egg yolk. (Se. Herm.) Many chemists have worked on egg yolks as on the matter of the Sages, although almost all openly say that it is not so. Their egg yolk is their magisterium to red.

Iberis. Species of watercress, or cardamine, or lepidium, called sisymbrium by Dioscorides.

Ibiga. Chamsepytis.

Ibis. Aquatic bird found only in Egypt. It resembles the stork, and there are two kinds, one black and the other white. They feed on snakes, caterpillars, grasshoppers.The Egyptians used the figure of this bird in their hieroglyphs, in the first place to signify a part of the material of the great work; because the Ibis being a great destroyer of snakes, it became the symbol of this volatile part which dissolves and volatilizes the fixed, quite often designated by snakes. Sometimes the white ibis indicated matter in white, and the black ibis matter in putrefaction.

Icarus. Son of Daedalus, wanted to escape from the island of Crete, where Minos kept him locked up with Daedalus his father. He made wings for himself and for his son. They took their flight; but Icarus, not having followed the wise advice of his father, who had recommended him to always fly low, rose too high;the heat of the sun melted the wax of which these wings were formed, and Icarus fell into the sea, where he was drowned. Daedalus and Icarus are the symbol of the fixed part of the magisterium, which vanishes. Daedalus represents the first sulphur, from which is born the second, which after being sublimated at the top of the vase, falls back into the Sea of ​​the Philosophers. The labyrinth where they were enclosed is the symbol of matter in putrefaction, as can be seen explained in the article Minotaur.

Ichneumon. Four-legged animal, tall like a cat, but longer. Its hair is hard like that of the wolf, whitish or yellowish; its muzzle is black and resembles that of a pig; his ears are small, round;its teeth and tongue approach those of a cat; his legs are black; its tail is long and thick at the top end. This animal is found on the banks of the Nile in Egypt; it is amphibious, and known by the names of Egyptian Rat or Indian Rat. It fed on small rats, snakes, lizards, snails, frogs; it gnaws the belly of crocodiles while they sleep, to eat their liver and intestines, and also breaks their eggs. This animal was formerly in great veneration among the Egyptians, who used it in their hieroglyphics in the same sense as the Ibis.

Ida. Two mountains bear this name, one in Phrygia, the other in the island of Crete.It was on Mount Ida that Jupiter rested while the gods fought among themselves, some for the Greeks against the Trojans, others for the Trojans against the Greeks. See the book. 3, c. 4 and the book. 6 of the Fables, unveiled.
Ida was also one of the Nymphs who fed Jupiter. It is from there that he bore the name of Idœus. See Jupiter.

Idoea. Victorialis, or Allium Alpinum.

Idyia. Daughter of the Ocean and wife of Aetes, was mother of Absyrthe and Medea. See Medea.

Jessemin. Jasmine, small shrub.

Throw of Stars. See nostoch.

Children's Game. The Philosophers gave this name to the work of stone, after the preparation of mercury, because Nature does almost everything, and care only needs to be taken to maintain the fire, nevertheless according to certain rules. See work.
Games. Sorts of spectacles which Religion had consecrated, and which were given in Greece in the most remote times, and which originated in fabulous times. Also they are supposed for the most part instituted by Gods or Heroes of that time, descended from the Gods of Paganism. The main ones were:
isthmian games. Instituted by Sisyphus, son of the god Aeolus, in honor of Melicerte. Others say that it was Theseus, and not Sisyphus, who instituted them. The most common feeling among Mythologists is that Theseus only renewed them. See the book. 4, c. 9 of Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled.
Nemean games. Instituted, according to some, by Hercules, after he had delivered the forest of Nemea from that Lion so famous in the Fable; according to others, by Adrastus and those who accompanied him in the expedition to Thebes. They were instituted in honor of Archemore, son of Lycurgus. See ch. 8 of the book. 4 of Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled.
Olympic Games. The most famous and perhaps the oldest in Greece were instituted by Hercules. Pausanias says that some attributed its institution to Jupiter himself, after he had won the victory over the Titans; that Apollo disputed there and gained the price of the race on Mercury, and that of the fist fight on Mars. See the book. 4, c. 6 of Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled.
Pythian or Pythian games. Instituted in honor of Apollo, it is unclear by whom, but nevertheless in memory of the defeat of the serpent Python by this God. See ch. 7 of the book. 4 of the Fables unveiled.
There were an infinity of other Games; but those of which I have just spoken are known from the highest antiquity. The Hermetic Philosophers claim that these Games and many others of which we do not mention, were instituted in view of the great work, and of what happens in the operations of this Art. See the Unveiled Fables cited above.

Youth. Magisterium of the Philosophers perfect in red.

Iffides. Ceruse.

Igneous. Who is fire, who shares of fire. Basil Valentine calls igneous or fire stone the stone that results from the operations that he brings back in his Triumphal Chariot of Antimony. The Hermetic Philosophers often give this epithet to their fixed matter, their sulphur.

Ignis Leonia. Brimstone Fire of the Sages.

Ignis Pruinus Adeptus. Quintessence of vitriol rectified with tartar. Planiscampi.

Iliastre. Chaos, or the three principles, sulphur, salt and mercury of the Chemical Philosophers, united in the mine from which they extract them. They also gave this name to their matter in putrefaction, because these three principles then seem to be confused.

Illech or IIech. V. chaos, hyle.
Illech crud. Mixed compound of the three principles, sulphur, salt and mercury, of which all sublunary and material being has been made.

Illeias. First matter of everything.

Illeidos. Elemental air that sustains the life of everything. Also called Illeidus.
Illiaster, Illiastes, Illiadum. See iliastre OR eclegma. looks.

Ilus. Son of Tros, King of the Trojans, and father of Laomedon, gave the name of Ilion to the city of Troy. See the Egyptian Fables. and Greeks unveiled, book. 6.

Soak.To cook, to digest the matter of the Hermetic work, to make it sublimate in vapors, so that it falls down in species of rain which waters and soaks the philosophical ground remained at the bottom of the vase.

Imbibition. In terms of Hermetic Philosophy, is the same as distillation, and often also the same as sublimation and cohobation. It takes place when the material enclosed in the egg sublimates and rises in the form of vapors to the top of the vase, where, finding no way out, it is forced to fall back on itself, until fixed, it no longer circulates.
philosophical imbibitions. This name has been given to the manner of moistening the matter of the Philosophers, after it has become white sulfur or red sulfur, to multiply it in quantity and quality. These imbibitions are done drop by drop until the material is no longer thirsty. When we want to multiply white sulfur, we do the same as with red.
There is yet another imbibition for the perfection of the elixir. After having made an amalgam with three parts of red earth or red ferment for the solific stone, the double of water and air taken together, and that this matter, by means of digestion, has reached the perfect and diaphanous red, we take it at will, we put it in a crucible over a very gentle fire, and we soak it drop by drop with its red oil, until everything melts and flows without smoke. D'Espagnet says that there is no need to fear that the mercury will evaporate, because the earth, which is very fixed, drinks it up greedily. It is then that the elixir has all the perfection of which it is susceptible.
The Philosophers also call Imbibition the vapors which rise to the top of the vase while matter circulates, because these vapors fall drop by drop onto the earth which remains at the bottom of the philosophical vessel or egg. Care must be taken not to mistake the imbibitions, and not to make them with the white for the red, or with the red for the white.

Imblegi. Mirabolans.

Immersion. Action by which one . puts a metal in a solvent, so that it is reduced to lime. It is also said of any body put in a liquid, or mixed with some dry powder, Either to remove from this body a harmful acrimony, or to soften its too hard bark, or finally to corrode its superfluity. Blanchard.

Filth of the Dead.(Sc. Herm.) Matter of the Black Philosophers.

Impartial. The Chymists call their mercury the only impartible known to the Sages. Diction. Herm.

Taxation. When the matter decays in the egg, and has turned black, it has thickened to the consistency of runny black pitch; then it is like dough, or like mud: which led to the name of this operation Impastation.
Impatiens (Grass). A species of balsam which grows a stem as high as a foot and a half, tender, smooth, shiny, green, empty, branching. Its leaves are arranged alternately, similar to those of the mercurial, but a little larger, serrated;
the flowers are yellow, marked with red dots, like those of balsam: they are attached to pedicles which come out of the armpits of the leaves. They are followed by long, small, gnarled fruits, greenish white striped with green lines. When they are ripe, and when touched, they scatter their seeds with impetuosity; they get entangled in the fingers, and dirty them. It is from there that it was given the names of Impatient Grass, and Noli me tangere. M. Tournefort called it Balsaminea lutea.

Impregnation.There will be no impregnation if there is no conjunction, says Morien, that is to say, if we do not marry the male and the female, or what which is the same thing, fixed and volatile, they will not be able to act one on the other, and produce a third body which will participate in both. This impregnation takes place during the time that the volatile and the fixed are in complete dissolution, because then they penetrate each other per minima, and merge, so to speak, one into the other, so that after having circulated, they become inseparable.
We also say impregnation in chemistry, to signify the communication of the properties of a mixture made to another in whatever way it is made. For example, when tartar is given the emetic virtue of antimony; what makes it call Tartre Stibié.
Fire. The Hermetic Philosophers call Incendia the degree of too lively and too violent a fire given to matter. Then it burns itself, and can no longer be used for anything. Flee the tyrant of the world, the fratricide who causes fires. From Spaint. That is to say, it is necessary to conduct the exterior fire with great caution; he calls it Fratricide, because it extinguishes the inner fire of matter; and Tyrant of the world, because he destroys everything in Nature. Impatience causes many Artists to fail; the contrary virtue is necessary to the Philosopher. Everyone recommends it, and says the haste comes from the devil.

Inceration.Action by which one puts mercury little by little on the material that has become sulphur, either to multiply it, or to make the elixir perfect.
Inceration makes the philosopher's stone fusible, melting like wax, sharp, penetrating. It is done by soaking wet things on the pulverized material; by repeating this imbibition several times, which is done drop by drop, and which must be dried as many times. This humidity is none other than the same mercury used in the composition of the stone: with red mercury, if the stone has been pushed to red; and with white mercury, if it has only been cooked white.
The Philosophers have given the name of Inceration to several operations;but the inceration properly so called is, according to Philalethes, that which is done in the multiplication in quantity, when gold is mixed with the elixir to render it melting like wax, and to determine it more particularly to the metallic. This mixture is almost absolutely necessary; because Riplée assures us that without it many Artists have lost their projection powder, because they first projected it onto imperfect metals.

Incest. (Se. Herm.) The Philosophers say that the great work is done by the incest of brother and sister. The disciples of Pythagoras say (Epistle of Aristeas, at the end of the Peat of the Philosophers) to the King of the coasts of the sea: Your subjects do not beget, because you conjoin the males with the males;and the King said, What is proper to join? Aristeas answered: Bring me Gabertin your son and his sister Beya; it is of substantial matter of Gabertin; and by their marriage, we will be out of sadness, and not otherwise. And immediately that Beya had accompanied her husband and brother Gabertin, and that he had slept with her, he died, and lost his vivid color. D'Espagnet, speaking of what precedes this operation, says that Beya was able without crime, and without infringing on her virginity,
The Adepts also say that in this union of male and female, there is the incest of father and daughter, mother and her;because in this operation the bodies return to their first matter, composed of the elements and principles of Nature, which seem to be confused there.

Incineration. Action by which a body is reduced to ashes. Do not despise the ash, said Morien, for it is the King's diadem. The ashes of the Philosophers are their leafy earth, into which they throw the aurific seed, which must produce a hundredfold fruit more beautiful than was the one who provided the seed.

Incombustible (Sulphur). The Hermetic Chemists give the name of Incombustible to their sulphurs, because they are so fixed that their fire can no longer make them feel its tyrannical and destructive attacks.

To incorporate. See inspires.

Incubus.Some Philosophers gave this name to their Moon, which they also called Woman of the Sun. Ruian-dus. The Ancients also gave the name of Incubi to Fauns and Satyrs.

Incuda. See gabertin, incest.

Infinity. Sulfur of the Philosophers, so called, because it can be multiplied ad infinitum.

Influence. The Adepts explain all mineral and vegetable productions by the influences of the stars, particularly the Sun and the Moon. These influences are carried through the air by the action of fire; the air, which is like the mediator between fire and water, communicates them to this last element, the latter to the earth, which serves as their matrix.The pores of the earth give these influences the freedom to penetrate to the central fire, which repels them, and by sublimating them sends them back through other pores to the surface, where the cold condenses them into stone, gravel, pebbles, etc. if they didn't find a metallic sulfur that hooked them on the way. Those which push up to the surface, and which find there vegetable seeds capable of developing, they fertilize them, open them, and by their natural magnet attract similar parts from the air, which joining those which are already in the earth, accumulate little by little, and by the action of the elementary fire and the reaction of the central fire make a kind of circulation which produces everything in the two mineral and vegetable kingdoms. See d'Espagnet, Enchyrid.Physicoe restored.

Ingres. Penetrating property. The Chemical Philosophers say that their stone is incoming, tingent and penetrating, or that it has ingress; that is to say, although it is a body, it penetrates bodies down to their smallest parts. This is why it is spirit and body, or spiritualized body, because to succeed in the magisterium, it is necessary to spiritualize the bodies and embodied the spirits, or, what is the same thing, to volatilize the fixed and fix the volatile. All this is done in one operation after the joining or marriage of the male and the female. Flamel's Winged Dragon takes the Wingless Dragon with it, and Flamel in turn brings the Winged Dragon down.Michel Majer represented this operation in his Emblems by a bird's nest, from which flies away a small, that another remained in the nest retains. The fixed would never volatilize on its own, and the volatile would not fix itself.
The philosophical sulfur gives the ingredient to the stone; it is his fire, said d'Espagnet. It draws its tincture and its fixity from ferment, and its fusibility from mercury, which is the medium by means of which the union of the tinctures of sulfur and ferment is made. Sulfur is a child of Hermetic art, ferment is a child of Nature. This is why the Philosophers say that their matter is not found in the shops of Druggists, nor in the others; and as Marie says, one is bought and the other is made; because it speaks of the making of the elixir, and not of that of the sulfur which it supposes to be made. Ingres refers to the powder's penetrating ability for transmutation.

Intrusion. Action by which materials mingle in such a way that they can no longer be separated. Putrefaction operates this mixture in the time that the dissolution is perfect, and that the matter is black. The authors of the Trévoux Dictionary and the Encyclopedia did not know what intrusion is when they confused it with ingrès.

Ingestion. Action by which the volatile and the fixed matter of the Sages mingle intimately, after having fought together for a long time. The female, says d'Espagnet, first takes the upper hand from the male, and dominates him in such a way as to change him in his own nature; she does not leave him until she has become pregnant. Then the male regains strength, and gains the upper hand in turn.He dominates her and makes her like himself. It is Beya of Aristeas, who kills her brother and husband Gabertin, and this same Gabertin who resurrects in his son, more beautiful and more perfect than he was before. The female is the volatile, and the male is the fixed. The Hermetic Dictionary and the other Lexicographers according to him, ill-advisedly say that ingrossation is the same thing as the conversion of the low and coarse elements into those which are high and light; for, although the ingrossation takes place in the time that the fixed is volatilized, the conversion of the elements is still something else.It is, according to Aristotle the Chymist and all the Philosophers, the conversion of earth into water, of water into air, of air into fire, and of everything into earth, according to what is said: You are earth. , and you will return, to the earth. And Hermes in the Emerald Tablet: Her power will be perfect, if she is reduced to earth. water into air, air into fire, and all into earth, as it is said: You are earth, and you will return, to earth. And Hermes in the Emerald Tablet: Her power will be perfect, if she is reduced to earth. water into air, air into fire, and all into earth, as it is said: You are earth, and you will return, to earth. And Hermes in the Emerald Tablet: Her power will be perfect, if she is reduced to earth.

Office.(Sc. Herm.) It's about the same as Humation, see the article. Some, however, hear it from the time of putrefaction; because then, according to d'Espagnet, the spirit is as it were dead and buried in the earth. This is what the Philosophers call Head of the Raven, Rule of Saturn, Babylonian Dragon, etc. that is to say matter in putrefaction, or black very black. They named it Burial, because the putrefied matter smells of dead bodies, the black represents mourning, and the dark stay of the tomb where the bodies rot, and the matter is closed in a sealed vessel.

Ino. Daughter of Cadmus and Hermione or Harmony, married Athamas after he repudiated Nephele.She had very bad manners for the children of Nephele, which caused Athamas to enter into such a violent rage, that he tore from between the arms of Ino one of his children, and put him to death by breaking him against a stone. . Ino, seized with fear, fled with her son Mélicerte, and rushed into the sea with him. Neptune received them, and placed Ino among the sea goddesses, under the name of Leucothoe, and Melicerte among the gods, after having named her Palemon. See the book. 4, c. 9 of Fables Egypt., and Grecq. unveiled.

Tasteless. Magisterium in white.

Inspired. To join the soul to its body, or to whiten matter, which is done with a single matter in a single vessel,

Inspiration.Operation which follows that of the dissolution of bodies, and which however is in effect only the same, since the body does not dissolve or become spiritualized, nor does the spirit become corporified. the inspiration is done by a fire of the second degree. It will be noticed on this subject, that when the Philosophers speak of the degrees of their fire which it is necessary to administer to their matter, they do not mean that it is necessary to increase or to decrease the fire as the vulgar Chemists do in their furnaces, in the means of registers, or bellows, or of a greater quantity of coals; but that it is necessary to increase the secret fire or matter, by a digestion;as matter becomes more fixed, its fire S® increases by degrees, and these degrees are measured by the colors it assumes.

Interlude. Third matter which is added to two others in chemical or mechanical operations, either to unite them, or to separate them, or finally to put them into action. The differing salts never join together so well as by an earthy interlude. Same. of the Acad. of 1702, page 48.
The Philosophers give the name of interlude to their mercury, and also call it potion or potion of love, bond and means proper to join the tinctures inseparably.
Intubum and Intubus. Endive, a kind of chicory.

Yo. Daughter of the Inaque River. Jupiter in J having fallen in love, changed her into a cow, to deceive Juno's jealousy. This too far-sighted Goddess had enlightened Jupiter's steps so well that she discovered his paces and asked him for this cow. After she got it, she put it in the care of Argus, who had a hundred eyes. Jupiter ordered Mercury to get rid of Argus. Mercury carried out his commission; but Juno, irritated, sent gadflies against Io, which stung her relentlessly. To get rid of it, Io threw herself into the sea, which she swam across, and landed in Egypt, where Jupiter gave her back her first form.Ovid says that she later married Osiris, King of the country, and that after his death she was adored there under the name of Isis. See the Egyptian and Greek Fables. unveiled, book. 1, ch. 4; book. 3, c. 4.

Jobate. King of Lycia, received Bellero-phon at his home, and sent him to fight the Chimera. After having tested his probity and his courage, he gave him his daughter Philonoé in marriage. See bellerophon.

Jocasta. Daughter of Creon, King of The-bes, married Laius and had Oedipus, who later killed her father, and married her mother Jocasta without knowing her, because Creon had promised her to whoever would guess the enigma proposed by Sphinx. Oedipus had two boys and two girls. But having recognized his error, and discovered the mystery of his birth, his parricide and his incest, he gouged out his eyes, and Jocasta killed herself in despair.
This whole fable signifies nothing other than the incest of which the Philosophers so often speak in their works. We also see parricides there and all these supposed crimes of the Fable are explained chemically in the Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 3, c. 14, § 4; book. 4, c. 4 and in countless other places.

Join. To assemble, mingle, unite one thing with another. V. inhales.

lol. Son of Iphiclus and nephew of Hercules, whom he accompanied when this Hero fought the Hydra of Leme. lolas had fire, with which he burned the wounds that Hercules made to the Hydra, to prevent the heads that were reborn in the same places from swarming again.See the Egyptian Fables. and Greeks, lib. 5, ch. 4.
lol. Daughter of Euryte, King of Oecalia, was promised in marriage to Hercules, who had fallen in love with her. Euryte having then refused it to him, Hercules killed Euryte, and removed lolé. See eurytes.

the bone. All kinds of venoms. Rullandus.
los is also the name of an island in the Aegean Sea, one of the Sporades, near the island of Candia. It became very famous by the tradition which assigned the tomb of Homer to it. Pliny, book. 4, c. 12.Day

. The days of Hermetic Chemists are counted differently and are not the same as ordinary days.Their year, according to Pliny, is of one month only, some say it is of a common month, others say of a lunar month, others of a month in the manner of counting ancient Egyptians. The proof that their year is not the common year is that they explain the duration of the voyages of Isis and Bacchus, and that of the time it took Solomon's ships to fetch and bring back the the gold of Ophir, as of the same duration, although the former employed twelve years for each voyage, and the ships of Solomon were only absent three years. Michel Mayer in his book Arcana Arcanissima,
Nor do their seasons get along with our ordinary seasons. Theirs take place in the philosophical vase. They begin their operation in winter, and finish it in autumn.But their winter is the time of putrefaction, or black matter; because it is then as if in a state of death, and disposes itself to generation, more or less as Nature does during frosts and ice cubes. Their springtime is the reign of Jupiter, or when matter sheds the black color, which they call Raven's Head, Scale of the Old Dragon, etc. Their summer is the time of whiteness, or the reign of the Moon; and their autumn is the time of the rubification or perfection of the elixir; because just as autumn is the time to pick the fruits,

Jordan. (Science Herm.) Is a name given by the Philosophers to their dissolving mercury;because this mercury must wash the dissoluble body seven times to purify it, as the Scripture reports that Nahaman washed himself seven times in the waters of the Jordan to be cured of leprosy.

Joy of the Philosophers. When the stone or matter of the Philosophers has reached perfect whiteness, which is their white gold, their white sulfur, the Eudica of Morien, their swan, then all the Philosophers say that it is the time of joy, because 'they see Diana quite naked, and that they have avoided all the reefs of the sea. The Code of truth says: Whiten the brass, and tear up your books; they are useless to you then, they would only cause you embarrassment, doubts, worries, and you should only have joy.It is that when matter is white, one must be clumsy not to succeed in bringing it to perfect red, since all the volatile is then fixed in such a way as to be able to withstand the most active and violent fire.

Iphianasses. See Iphigenia.

Iphiclus. Son of Alcmene and Amphitrion, twin brother of Hercules, born of Alcmene and Jupiter, must be understood, according to the Spagyric Philosophers, of the aqueous humor which is always mixed with the mercury represented by Hercules. It is necessary to separate this aqueous humor from the mercury, when one wishes to put it to use.
Hesiod speaks of an Iphiclus who was so light in the race, that he went on the waters as on land, and that he walked on the ears of corn without making them lean.What is said to mark the great volatility of the mercurial water of the Philosophers.

Ipcacidos. Plant called Goat's Beard.

Iphigenia. Daughter of Agamemnon and Dytemnestra, was designated to be sacrificed to Diana, in order to appease the wrath of this irritated Goddess against the Greeks who were going to lay siege to Troy; because Agamemnon had killed a deer dedicated to him, she stirred up perpetual storms. The oracle decided that Diana would only be appeased by the blood of the one who had killed the deer. It was resolved to sacrifice Iphigenia. Diana, moved with pity, removed Iphigenia from the altar, and substituted a doe for her. She transported Iphigenia to Tauride, where she was a Goddess Priestess.Orestes having come there to purge himself of his parricide, Iphigenia who was his sister, recognized him, saved his life, and fled with him, carrying the statue of the Goddess. See the Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, Book. 3, c. 14, § 4.

Ipoacidos or Ipcacidos. Goatbeard

Ippia. Nickname of Minerva.

Iio or Irion. Velar, Tortella, Erymum.

Iris. Daughter of Thaumas and Electra, and sister of the Harpies, according to Hesiod. Electra was daughter of the Ocean, and Thaumas, son of Pontus and the Earth. Iris was Messenger of Juno, as Mercury was that of Jupiter; both carried on earth the orders of these Divinities.She was dressed in a dress of different colors, and hardly ever left Juno; and Apollonius of Rhodes tells us that she sent him to Thetis. Sometimes, but rarely, Jupiter used it. Homer gives more than one example. The most important job of Iris was to go and cut the fatal hair of women who were about to die, and to deliver their souls from their bodies, as Mercury did with respect to men.
The Hermetic Philosophers give by similarity the name of Iris to their matter, when after putrefaction it takes on the colors of the rainbow.They claim that everything that the Fable has imagined about Iris' employment with Juno must be understood from what happens in the Hermetic vase: that to deliver the souls from the bodies of women is precisely to sublimate the part volatile matter that remains at the bottom; which is done at the right time that the colors of the Iris appear on this material; that Iris by this means becomes in effect the Messenger of Juno, because Juno is taken for the vaporous humidity of the air enclosed in the vase, and which occupies all the space left there by matter. Iris' genealogy indicates it well enough,

Ischoemon. Species of grass, to which one doubtless gave this name, because it is suitable for stopping haemorrhages.

ischas. Dried fig.

Isaac. isiac table. Monument of Antiquity, where we find Isis, Osiris, and almost all the Gods of Egypt, with their symbols. It was given the name of Isiac, because it contains the mysteries of Isis. It is a large copper plate engraved with the first chisel. On this copper or bronze ground was a black enamel artfully interwoven with small bands of silver. When in 1525 the Constable of Bourbon took the city of Rome, a soldier who had seized it in the looting, sold it to a locksmith. It then passed into the hands of Cardinal Bembo, and then to the Duke of Mantua, who fortunately had it engraved in all its grandeur, and with great exactness, by a certain Aeneas Vico of Parma; because the original has been lost.I will not describe it here; those who are curious to see it, will find it in the work of Pignorius, entitled: Mensa Isiaca, which was printed in Amsterdam in 1669. Father Kirker spoke of it in his Oedipus Aegyptiacus. He thought he saw in it the most hidden mysteries of Egyptian theology, and went into great detail on the subject. Pignorius seems to have had as its object only the mechanical description of this Table. There is also a representation of it in the Antiquity explained by D. Bernard de Montfaucon, and in the Recueil d'Antiquités by M. le Comte de Caylus. He thought he saw in it the most hidden mysteries of Egyptian theology, and went into great detail on the subject.Pignorius seems to have had as its object only the mechanical description of this Table. There is also a representation of it in the Antiquity explained by D. Bernard de Montfaucon, and in the Recueil d'Antiquités by M. le Comte de Caylus. He thought he saw in it the most hidden mysteries of Egyptian theology, and went into great detail on the subject. Pignorius seems to have had as its object only the mechanical description of this Table. There is also a representation of it in the Antiquity explained by D. Bernard de Montfaucon, and in the Recueil d'Antiquités by M. le Comte de Caylus.
Everything there appears mysterious and enigmatic, following the genius of the Egyptians;and it would take an entire book to give a continuous and detailed explanation of it. It will be easier to find the outcome by drawing these explanations from the Hermetic Philosophy, which was properly that of the Egyptians; since Isis, Osiris and the other Gods of the country were only Hermetic Gods, as it is easy to be convinced by the proofs brought back in the Treaty of the Fables Egypt. and Greeks unveiled, book. 1 and book. 4.

Isir. The Author of the Hermetic Dictionary says that the Philosophers mean by this term the white elixir, and that the Sages call it thus when one wishes to multiply it; but I believe that the Philosophers use this name to signify the same thing as what they express by Isis, of which see the article.

Isis. Was one of the main Goddesses of Egypt and many other countries. Many Authors have looked upon her, and with good reason, as the universal Goddess of Paganism, but honored under different names. Ceres, Juno, the Moon, the Earth, Proserpina, Thetis, the Mother of the Gods or Cybele, Venus, Diana, Hecate, Rhamnusia, etc., Nature itself, were one and the same thing with Isis.This gave her the name of Mirionyme, or the Goddess of a thousand names. Also the Hermetic Philosophers, according to Hermes, who had given this name Isis, understood nothing else by this Goddess, than the volatile, humid, cold, patient and female part of the Hermetic or Sacerdotal art, as one can see clearly in Book 1 of Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled, c. 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Isthmics. (games) v.

Iteration. Operation of medicine of the third order, or of the higher order, which is commonly called multiplication.

Judgment. Raymond Lully gave this name to the projection of Hermetic powder on imperfect metals, because it is on this occasion that the artist is judged on the operations;
and that by success or failure, he judges whether he has done well or badly, and that he is then rewarded according to his works.

Judges. The Poets have claimed that Pluto had established for Judges of the Underworld his empire Eaque, Minos and Rhadamante. See their articles.

Juno. Daughter of Saturn and Ops, married Jupiter her own twin brother. She was nourished by the Nymphs, daughters of the Ocean. Jupiter, before marrying her, deceived her in the form of the cuckoo. She became the mother of Mars, Argé, Ilithie and Hébé. She also had Vulcan, but without having had to deal with any man.She always got on very bad terms with Jupiter, who, in truth, constantly furnished her with reasons for jealousy, by the quantity of Nymphs with which he amused himself. Jupiter lost patience one day, and irritated at Juno's bad ways, he hung her up with a golden chain, and tied her an iron anvil to each foot. The Gods and Goddesses interceded for her, and Jupiter relented. She was one of the three Goddesses who disputed the golden apple; she promised Paris great and rich kingdoms in order to have her adjudged: these fine propositions did not make the same impression on him as the promises of Venus, to whom he adjudged her. From there she conceived an implacable hatred against the Trojans, and engaged in the war which destroyed Paris and the city of Troy.All this fiction is explained in chapter 5 of book 3 of Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled. All this fiction is explained in chapter 5 of book 3 of Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled. All this fiction is explained in chapter 5 of book 3 of Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled.

Junonis Rosa. The ancient Poets feigned that Juno having spilled her milk on the earth, there came forth the plant known as the Lily. This milk spread in the sky formed there if this multitude of stars which composes the milky way, as one can see it in ch. 1 of book 5 of the Egyptian and Greek Fables unveiled.

Jupiter.Father of the Gods and of men, as the Poets call him, nearly perished at his birth; Saturn, his father, had made a treaty with his brother Titan, by which he had bound himself to kill all the male children born to him; and to observe this treaty, Saturn devoured his children as they came into the world. Rhée, his wife, deceived him when he came to Jupiter. As soon as he was born, she wrapped a pebble in swaddling clothes, and presented it to Saturn, who, suspecting no trickery, swallowed the pebble; but as his digestion was too hard, he vomited it up.
It was not enough to have thus deceived Saturn, it was necessary to subtract Jupiter from his sight, and from the curious attentions of the Titans.Rhée, for this purpose, had him carried to the Corybantes, who constantly resounded the noisy sound of several brass instruments, to prevent his cries from being heard. At this noise the honey flies came running, and provided all that depended on them for the food of this child. The Nymphs, the Nayads, even a goat, everything has finally contributed to its preservation.
When Jupiter had grown up, and he learned that Saturn and the Titans had conspired to destroy him from his very birth, he sought all means of revenge. He made war on them; and having conquered them, he mutilated his father, and drove the Titans into Tartarus. Thus, quiet owner of the Universe, he shared it with his two brothers, Neptune and Pluto;he gave the waters and the sea to Neptune, the hells to Pluto, and reserved heaven and earth for himself.
Jupiter supported a second war against the Giants, which he struck down all, and thus delivered all the inhabitants of Olympus from the fears and frights which these sons of the Earth had impressed upon them. This beneficent God then wished to merit the glorious title of father of the gods and of men which was given to him afterwards; he began to deceive his own twin sister, and for that he changed into a cuckoo, and pretending to be pursued by a bird of prey, he took refuge in the arms of Juno, who hid him in her bosom. Jupiter seized the favorable opportunity, resumed his first form, and did not find Juno rebellious. He married her afterwards.
Jupiter's amorous mood did not allow him to stick to this wife. He took every means imaginable to satisfy his passion for women; which quarreled the couple more than once, and made them make a very bad household. Either so as not to irritate Juno's jealousy, or to more easily accomplish his amorous intentions, Jupiter took a thousand different forms when he wanted to deal with human beauties. He presented himself to them now in the form of a swan, now in that of a bull, then in that of a satyr, of fire, of golden rain, and in an infinity of other manners; Semele was the only one who unfortunately received him with all his glory and majesty. We find these different metamorphoses in the fourteenth book of Homer's Iliad,
From all these visits were born an infinity of children, who all became Gods or Heroes, such as Bacchus, Aesculapius, Castor, Pollux, Theseus, Perseus and so many others. The Egyptians who put him among their greatest gods, did not give him so many descendants; the Greeks, who had borrowed this God from the Egyptians, adjudged him according to their whim; but the most ancient of their Philosopher-Poets always conformed, however, in the fables which they imagined concerning this God, to the object which the Philosophers of Egypt had had in view, when they invented those of their Jupiter. . This hidden object to almost all Mythologists, is clarified with the fictions to which it gave rise, in the 3rd book, chap 4 and following.
Jupiter. The chemists give this name to the metal which we commonly call Tin; but the Alchymists often mean something else, as in the explanation they give of the fable of Amphytrion and Almene, where Jupiter is taken for that celestial heat and that innate fire which is the first source, and as the cause efficiency of metals; wherefore they say that Mercury, which is their first and principal agent of the great work, is represented under the name of Hercules, begotten of Alcmene and Jupiter, because Alcmene is taken for the symbol of matter terrestrial and dry, which is like the matrix of metallic humidity on which Jupiter acts.

Jupiter in golden rain. (Sc. Herm.) See danae.
Jupiter. Converted into an eagle, and carried off Ganimede, signifies nothing other than the purification of matter by philosophical sublimation.
The Author of the Trévoux Dictionary had hardly read the Authors who treat of the philosopher's stone, or of the great art, when he says that the Philosophers call Jupiter their philosophical gold. They say everywhere that their Mercury has the Sun for father, and the Moon for mother. They regard Jupiter as the father and master of the gods; not because gold is the most perfect of metals, and they call their gold Jupiter, but because Jupiter, according to them, is nothing but the generative and innate heat of bodies, by means of which the metals are formed in the earth; it is in this sense that the Fable says that Jupiter is the father of Apollo and of Diana, of Mars, of Venus, of Mercury, etc., because under the name of Apollo or of the Sun, the chymists understand the gold;under that of Diana or the Moon, money, etc.; and as mercury is the principle of all metals on which the fire of Nature acts to form them, the Fable says that Mercury was the son and ambassador of Jupiter. Jupiter has the sky for his ordinary abode, and the earth for the place of his pleasures; it is that this heat of Nature seems to come from the sky, and that it is communicated to it in part by the Sun. If the Philosophers say that Jupiter has chosen the earth for the place of his pleasures, it is because the earth is the womb in which all the sublunary beings of the three kingdoms are born, by the generative activity of this natural heat, called Jupiter by the Ancients, who gave the Earth different names, such as Ceres, Danae, Semele, etc., of which see the articles.; and as mercury is the principle of all metals on which the fire of Nature acts to form them, the Fable says that Mercury was the son and ambassador of Jupiter. Jupiter has the sky for his ordinary abode, and the earth for the place of his pleasures; it is that this heat of Nature seems to come from the sky, and that it is communicated to it in part by the Sun. If the Philosophers say that Jupiter has chosen the earth for the place of his pleasures, it is because the earth is the womb in which all the sublunary beings of the three kingdoms are born, by the generative activity of this natural heat, called Jupiter by the Ancients, who gave the Earth different names, such as Ceres, Danae, Semele, etc., of which see the articles. ;and as mercury is the principle of all metals on which the fire of Nature acts to form them, the Fable says that Mercury was the son and ambassador of Jupiter. Jupiter has the sky for his ordinary abode, and the earth for the place of his pleasures; it is that this heat of Nature seems to come from the sky, and that it is communicated to it in part by the Sun. If the Philosophers say that Jupiter has chosen the earth for the place of his pleasures, it is because the earth is the womb in which all the sublunary beings of the three kingdoms are born, by the generative activity of this natural heat, called Jupiter by the Ancients, who gave the Earth different names, such as Ceres, Danae, Semele, etc., of which see the articles.the Fable says that Mercury was son and ambassador of Jupiter. Jupiter has the sky for his ordinary abode, and the earth for the place of his pleasures; it is that this heat of Nature seems to come from the sky, and that it is communicated to it in part by the Sun. If the Philosophers say that Jupiter has chosen the earth for the place of his pleasures, it is because the earth is the womb in which all the sublunary beings of the three kingdoms are born, by the generative activity of this natural heat, called Jupiter by the Ancients, who gave the Earth different names, such as Ceres, Danae, Semele, etc., of which see the articles. the Fable says that Mercury was son and ambassador of Jupiter.Jupiter has the sky for his ordinary abode, and the earth for the place of his pleasures; it is that this heat of Nature seems to come from the sky, and that it is communicated to it in part by the Sun. If the Philosophers say that Jupiter has chosen the earth for the place of his pleasures, it is because the earth is the womb in which all the sublunary beings of the three kingdoms are born, by the generative activity of this natural heat, called Jupiter by the Ancients, who gave the Earth different names, such as Ceres, Danae, Semele, etc., of which see the articles. and that it is communicated to him in part by the Sun.If the Philosophers say that Jupiter has chosen the earth for the place of his pleasures, it is because the earth is the womb in which all the sublunary beings of the three kingdoms are born, by the generative activity of this natural heat, called Jupiter by the Ancients, who gave the Earth different names, such as Ceres, Danae, Semele, etc., of which see the articles. and that it is communicated to him in part by the Sun. If the Philosophers say that Jupiter has chosen the earth for the place of his pleasures, it is because the earth is the womb in which all the sublunary beings of the three kingdoms are born, by the generative activity of this natural heat, called Jupiter by the Ancients, who gave the Earth different names, such as Ceres, Danae, Semele, etc., of which see the articles.

Juasa or Juiaa. Gypsum, plaster.

Ixia. Species of thistle, called Carline. There are two kinds, one called White Chameleon, which is most esteemed, the other Black Chameleon.

Ixion. Was son of Phlegias; d'Antion, following Diodorus of Sicily, some call him 3Ltion. He married Dia or Clia, daughter of Eionée or Deio-née, by whom he had Pyrithois. He fell out with his stepfather, for not having wanted to give his daughter what they had agreed upon. Ixion put him to death miserably, and not being able to find anyone who would absolve him of this crime, and make an expiation for it, he had recourse to Jupiter. This God took pity on him, received him into heaven, and even allowed him to eat at the table of the Gods. This reported benefit only served to make him ungrateful and grateful. Ixion, struck by the charms of Juno, had the insolence to solicit her to satisfy his passion.This stern Goddess, offended by such temerity, informed Jupiter, who at first regarded this accusation as a trap set for him against Ixion, who passed for his son. He wanted to figure it out for himself. He agreed with Juno that she would allow Ixion a private interview with her. For the moment of the rendezvous, Jupiter formed with a cloud a phantom which perfectly resembled Juno. Ixion, more and more in love, could not contain himself, and Jupiter saw that it was not for Ixion that the father of the gods should not receive the affront he had made to Tyndareus and so many others. The Centaurs sprang from this ghost, and Jupiter contented himself for then with driving Ixion from the celestial court. But this bold man did not become the wiser;he dared to boast of having dishonored the master of the gods, who to punish him for his insolence,
The Hermetic Philosophers interpret this fable of the Blowers and other ignorant Artists, who want to undertake to do the work without knowing it; and spend all their time raising furnaces and knocking them down, sweating blood and water in the execution of a thousand ruinous processes, at the end of which they only embrace smoke, which leaves them impure sulfur and useless ashes. ; who finally like Ixion, attached to a laborious wheel of tiring work, do and start over an infinity of operations without ever having a happy outcome. See the Egyptian Fables. and Greeks Unveiled, book 5, chapter 22.

K

Kab. Sour milk. Johnson.

Kachimie or Kakimie. Mineral which has not yet reached its perfection, or half-metal which is still in its womb like the child in the womb of the mother in the first months of her pregnancy.

Kaib. It's curdled, soured milk.

Kald. See vinegar.

Kainos. Smoke.

Kamar or Camar. Money.

Kambar. See cambar.

Kamir. Leaven, leaven of the Philosophers.

Kanesh. Reed.

Kanfor. Tin, Jupiter.

Kaprili. Sulfur.

Kasam. Iron.

Kayl. Sour milk.

Kayser.Foam of the sea.

Kazdir, Kasdir, Kacir, Kacisseros. Tin, or Jupiter.

Keiri or Keirim. Narcissus, according to some; and violier or yellow wallflower, according to others, who also write it Cheisi.

Kibrich or Kibrith. Term of Hermetic Science, which some Chemists have used to signify philosophical sulphur. It is necessary to rectify on this body Kibrich and Zubeth, that is to say, the two smokes which include and which embrace the two luminaries, and put on them what softens them, and which is the accomplishment of the tinctures and the spirits, and the true weights of Science. Married.

Kimena. A big bottle.

Kimit high. Cinnabar White. Planiscampi.

Kirath. Weight of four grains.

Kisl. Oppoponax. This term also signifies a weight of fifteen grains;
some mean four pounds, others two measures of wine. Planiscampi.

Koma and Komartos. Quicklime.

Konis. Ash.

Cost. Beechwood.

Kuhul. Lead of the Philosophers; brass that needs to be bleached; or the matter of the work in putrefaction, and arrived at the black very black.

Kukul. See kuhul.

Kimen. Union, link of the parts of the bodies. Rulland.

Kybrius. Arsenic.

Kymena. Matras, glass bottle.

Sublimated Kymit. Cinnabar.

Kymolea. Mud.

L

Balsainum labs. Water in which a metal has been extinguished.

Labrum Veneris. Thistle hosier.

Labrum. or Labium. Vase in which water is put to distill in a bain-marie.

Labyrinth. We mean by labyrinth, a kind of building filled with rooms and avenues, arranged in such a way that we enter from one to the other, without being able to find the exit. The Authors mention four main ones. The first and most celebrated was in Egypt, in the district of the city called by some Heracleopolis; it was regarded as one of the wonders of the world, and Pliny (book 36, ch. 16) recalls Potentisimum humani opus. Herodotus says that a number of Kings of Egypt had worked there successively at immense expense. It is said that Daedalus took it as a model of the labyrinth which he had built in the island of Crete, and which became so famous by the fable of the Minotaur. The third was made in the island of Lemnos;there were 150 marble columns. Porsenna built the fourth in Italy in the place where he was buried. Pliny describes these four labyrinths in the book I quoted above.
The Hermetic Philosophy which imagined the fable of Theseus and the Minotaur, took occasion of the labyrinth of Crete to embellish this fiction, and at the same time indicate the difficulties which arise in the operations of the great work, by those which there were to pull out of the maze when you entered it. Nothing less than Ariadne's thread, supplied by Daedalus himself, is needed to succeed in this;
that is to say, one must be led and directed by a Philosopher who has done the work himself. This is what Morien assures us in his Interview with King Cedid.See the Egyptian Fables. and Greeks unveiled, chapter of Theseus.

Lake. The Philosophers have often given this name to their vase and to the mercury contained therein; because it is water which has no outlet, like that of a lake which commonly has no communication except with the rivers which flow into it. But ordinarily the Philosophers have added epithets to the term Lake, in order to designate the changes which their mercurial water undergoes during the course of operations. They named it Boiling Lake, when this mercurial water is enlivened by philosophical sulphur; Lake full of stagnant water, to indicate the time of putrefaction; and Parched Lake, in time that their mercurial waters are changed into earth.Stinking lake means the same thing as dissolving matter, which is perfect only when this matter is absolutely putrefied; it's stinking menstruation.

Lachanum. Herbs, vegetables.

Lachesis. One of the Fates, daughter of Jupiter and Themis, or Night and Erebus. See hell.

Lacinias. Woolfilter. Planiscampi.

gap. Sealed earth. Also called Latuné.

Milk. (Se. Herm.) Mercurial Water of the Philosophers.Some chemists imagined that this name of milk had been given to mercury because of its resemblance in fluidity and whiteness to vulgar milk, and believed that they had found this mercurial water in the white water of vulgar mercury worked chemically; but Zachaire disabuses them, by assuring that this name was given to him only because the mercury of the Philosophers curdles and coagulates by means of the fixed body, which he names Coagule for this reason.
virgin milk. (Sc. Herm.) It is the mercury of the Sages, in the form of milky water in the wet way. Some have given it this name in the dry way, when it is white-cooked.
virgin's milk or philosophers' milk. It is the same as virginal milk.When the Sages say that the stone must be nourished with its milk, this must be understood in two different senses, either of the external fire that must be maintained to push the stone to its perfection, or of the mercury itself of which it is composed . ; and in the latter sense it is the multiplication or the making of the elixir. See elixir, multiplication, fire.
To cook the milk, that is to say to cook the mercury of the Sages, otherwise the stone to white, to push it to red.
The stone feeds on its milk, that is to say on its water or sperm from which it was made, which is none other than Hermetic mercury.
Moonmilk. Rescemberg gave this name to the species of agaric which is born on the rocks.

Lamac. gum arabic.

The pond. Sulfur.

Lamati. gum arabic. Johnson.

The mother. Vivid sulfur.

Lamies. Monsters that Fable has painted for us having the head like that of a very beautiful woman, and the rest of the body like that of a serpent. They claimed that they devoured the children. They signify nothing other than the mercurial water called woman before putrefaction, which gives her the name snake during this time. Their cruelty indicates dissolution.

Lampacos. China. Lampatan.

Lamp. (Se. Herm.) When the Philosophers speak of the lamp-fire as their fire, they must not be understood of a lamp-fire with oil or the spirit of wine;their lamplight is that of their matter. See Artephius, on the Fires.

Lunaria. Plant called Savonaria in Latin, and Savonière in French.

spear. Term of Hermetic science, which means the fire which the Artists use for the work of the stone of the Sages. The ax which was used to split the head of Jupiter, and thus make him give birth to Pallas, the sword of Jason, the club of Hercules, the arrows of Apollo, etc., signify the same thing.

Language. (Se. Herm.) Philosophers do not express the true meaning of their thoughts in vulgar language, and they should not be interpreted according to the ideas presented by the terms in use to express common things. The meaning presented by the letter is not theirs. They speak in riddles, metaphors, allegories, fables, similarities, and each Philosopher turns them according to how he is affected. A Chemistry Adept explains his philosophical operations in terms taken from the operations of vulgar Chemistry; he speaks of distillations, sublimations, calcinations, circulations, etc.; stoves, vases, fires in use among the chymists, as did Geber, Paracelsus, &c. A man of war speaks of sieges, of battles, like Zachaire.A man of the Church speaks in terms of morals, like Basil Valentine in his Azoth. In a word, they have been spoken so obscurely, in such different terms, and in such varied styles, that one must be familiar with them to understand them, and that one Philosopher would very often be at a loss to fully explain another. Some have varied the names, changed the operations; the others began their books in the middle of the operations, the others at the end; some intermingled sophistications; this one omitted something, this one added something superfluous. One says take such a thing, the other says don't take that same thing. Rupescissa maintains that Roman vitriol is the true matter of the Philosophers;and those who recognize Rupescissa as Adept recommend you not to take Roman vitriol or any other.
Merlin and Denis Zachaire exhibit the work under the allegory of a King who arms against his enemies, the first to fight, the second to sustain a siege. Merlin says that the King, before mounting his horse, asked to drink some water which he liked very much; that he drank so much of it that he was inconvenienced to death, and that a medicine having resuscitated him, he mounted a horse, fought his enemies and conquered them. This water is none other than the mercury of the Philosophers, whom their gold, called King, drinks with ardor; because they are of the same nature, and because, as the Philosophers say, nature loves nature, nature rejoices in its nature; and according to the vulgar proverb, everything loves its fellow.The philosophical mercury is a dissolving water; dissolution is a kind of death, since it only takes place perfectly in putrefaction; this is the death of the King. This King resuscitates, because putrefaction is the principle of generation, corruptio unius est generatio alterius. This is proved by many texts of other philosophers.
Bassen, in the Peat, says: Put the King in the bath, so that he overcomes nature. This water is the Trevisan fountain, where the King enters alone, and where he bathes to purify himself; he dies there, and rises there again; for the same water kills and quickens. The Philosophers have even given the name of life and resurrection to the white color which succeeds the black, and they have called the latter death.
Denis Zachaire explained himself allegorically at greater length; in the siege of the city which he supposes, he speaks of matter under the name of him who supports the siege, and of those who do it, and gives an idea of ​​​​the colors which arise in this madeira successively, indicating the colors of the banners and flags of each other.
Others explained themselves parabolically. King Artus, for example, says in the Peat: A great Treasurer fell ill with various diseases; pale colors, dropsy, paralysis. She was extremely yellow from the top of her head to her chest; from the breast to the thighs it was white and swollen, and paralytic down. She told her Physician to fetch for her on the highest mountain of all, two plants of a property and a virtue superior to all other plants. He brought it to her, she girded herself with it, and found herself the moment cured of all her infirmities. She recognized this service of her Physician by infinite riches.
Hermes, or someone by his name, spoke of the work in problematic style, and said: I have considered the rare and admirable bird of the Philosophers, which flies perpetually at the sign of Aries. If it is divided, if it is dissolved into many parts, though small, and its obscurity is dominant, it will remain with you, as being of earthly temperament and complexion. When it manifests itself in various colors it is called brass, lead, etc. Being then burnt with a violent fire at the lesser number four days, at the middle seven, and at the greater ten, it is called silver earth; it is indeed of a great whiteness and is called air, gold gum and sulphur. Take one part of air, and put it with three parts of apparent gold;the whole put in the bath at the least twenty days, at the thirty average, at the greatest forty, will give you your bronze, true fire of the Dyers, reconciling the Pilgrims, called fire of gold, etc. This excellent sulfur must be kept carefully, because it serves many purposes.
Aristeas explains himself in typical style, when he says: As we walked along the shores of the sea, we saw that the inhabitants of these coasts slept together, and did not beget; they planted trees and sowed plants that did not bear fruit. We then told them, if there was a Philosopher among you, your children would beget and multiply, your trees would bear fruit and not die, your fruits would be preserved, and you would make valiant Kings who would overcome all your enemies. We asked the King, his son Gabertin, and his sister Beya, who was a beautiful and very white girl, delicate and perfectly amiable; we joined the brother and sister, and Gabertin died almost immediately. The King seeing this, imprisoned us;and by dint of prayers and supplications, having obtained his daughter Beya,
All these ways of explaining themselves form a language extremely difficult to understand; but some philosophers, in order to conceal their work still better, have employed the riddle. The Cosmopolitan among others has put a very long one after his twelve Treatises. He supposes that traveling from the Arctic pole to the Antarctic pole, he was thrown on the edge of the sea; a reverie seized him there while he saw the Melosines fluttering there and the Nymphs swimming there. He was attentive to find out if he should see any Echeneis fish in this sea. He fell asleep meanwhile, and the old man Neptune appeared to him with his trident.This God showed him two mines, one of gold, the other of steel; then two trees, one solar, the other lunar; and told him that the water, to water them and make them bear fruit, was drawn from the Sun and the Moon by means of a magnet. Saturn took the place of Neptune, and put in this water the fruit of the solar tree, which melted there like ice in hot water. This water, he added, serves as his wife, and has the property of perfecting him in such a way that he alone will suffice without the need to plant others. For when they have perfected each other, they have the virtue of making all the others similar to them. and has the property of perfecting it in such a way that it alone will suffice without the need to plant others.For when they have perfected each other, they have the virtue of making all the others similar to them. and has the property of perfecting it in such a way that it alone will suffice without the need to plant others. For when they have perfected each other, they have the virtue of making all the others similar to them.
The ancients commonly used fables, and those of the Egyptians and Greeks were invented only with a view to the great work, if we are to believe the philosophers who often recalled them in their works. It is by following their ideas that I explained them in the Treatise that I gave to the Public, under the title of:
The Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled.
Some Philosophers have used mute language to speak to the mind's eye. They presented by symbols and hieroglyphics in the manner of the Egyptians, both the materials required for the work, and their preparations, and often even to the demonstrative signs, or the colors occurring to this material during the course of operations;because it is by these signs that the Artist knows whether he has done well or badly.
Several Philosophers have added a discourse to these hieroglyphs; but this apparent explanation is always as difficult to understand as the symbol itself, often more so. Such are those of Nicolas Flamel, of Senior, of Basile Valentin, those of Michel Majer, although d'Espagnet says that the latter are like a kind of spectacles which reveal to us quite clearly the truth which the Philosophers have hidden.
Lans. Silver which has suffered melting, and which the Philosophers call dead silver.

Laoc or Laos. Tin, Jupiter.

Laocoön. Son of Priam and Hecuba, and Priest of Apollo, did all he could to dissuade the Trojans from admitting the wooden horse, which the Greeks pretended to be a present they offered to Minerva. The gods opposed to the preservation of this city punished him by sending two sea serpents which devoured him and his two children in the Temple. These sea serpents are the serpents that emerged from the sea of ​​the Philosophers, which dissolve the fixed part in the vase, temple of the Hermetic Apollo. See the Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, Book. 6.

Laodice.Sister of Laocoon, rushed from the top of a rock into the sea. It is the volatilized stone which falls to the bottom of the vase to settle there with the mercurial water called sea.

Laomedon. Son of Ilus, King of Troy, welcomed Neptune and Apollo very well, who went to visit him in disguise. They offered him to build the walls of his city, subject to certain conditions, which he agreed with them. They raised the walls of Troy, and Laomedon refused to pay them according to their conventions. These gods, irritated by his process, punished him for it. Apollo by sending a very deadly plague, which killed many people in the city, Neptune flooded the country, and brought out of the sea a monster which ravaged all the surroundings of Troy.The Oracle was consulted on the means of putting an end to these scourges: he replied that for that it was necessary to expose Hesione, daughter of Laomedon, to be devoured by this monster. Hercules offered to deliver her with a present of a few horses. Hercules slew the monster, and delivered Hesione; but Laomedon refused to give Hercules the horses he had promised him. Hercules killed Laomedon, and gave Hesione in marriage to Tela-mon who had accompanied him on his expedition. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 5, ch. 14 and book. 6.

Laos or Laoc. Jupiter of the Sages.

Lapis of the Philosophers.Sulfur or matter of the fixed work, which the Hermetic Chymists have also called Salt of gold.

Lapis Galiseustain. Vitriol novel.

Lapis Arenosi. Jupiter. Planiscampi.

Lapis Infernum. Pumice.

Lapis porcini. Burdock.

Lapiths. See pyrithus.

Lappago. Grateron, Reble, Aparine.

Width. The Philosophers give their matter three dimensions, like the Geometers to ordinary bodies. What the former call breadth is the preparation of matter, by means of which they make medicine out of it.The height is, according to them, what is manifest in their matter, and the width is the means that one takes to achieve what this manifest keeps hidden. The height was cold and humid, and by the change of disposition the breadth succeeds, that is to say, the hot and the dry, because the manifest always hides its opposite.

Laron. Mercury of the Sages.

Larusus, Pilosella.

Laser. Benzoin sap or gum.

laterium. Laundry or capital. Planiscampi.

Lathyris. Great Esule, or Epurge.

Lathyrus. Species of vegetable called Gerres.

Laton or Brass, or Leton of the Philosophers. Mercury of the Sages, or their matter considered during putrefaction.This term laton means more generally the fixed dissolved with the volatile. That is why they say: bleach, laton, and tear up, your books, lest your hearts be torn with worry. Mercury, which is the volatile and their azoth, is what whitens the laton. When it has become white, one is assured of success. It then takes the names of white laton, white gold, leafy earth, in which it is necessary to sow gold, that is to say, the color red. When he acquired this red color, it is their red laton, their aurific sulphur, their Salamander, their Apollo.

Filthy laton. It is matter in dissolution and putrefaction, to which the Adepts also give the names of sepulchral earth, filthy body, Babylonian dragon, Raven's head, black blacker than black itself.

Laton not net. See the filthy laton.

Latona. Daughter of Coea the Titan, of Phoebe, according to Hesiod and Ovid, or of Saturn, according to Homer, held a distinguished rank among the twelve hieroglyphic gods of the Egyptians. She came immediately after Vulcan, and these peoples had raised to her a Temple covered with gold and decorated with the same metal, as being the mother of Apollo and Diana.
The Fable says that Jupiter, having fallen in love, had commerce with her. Jealous Juno sent the serpent Python against Latona, who to avoid her murderous tooth fled, and wandered long over land and sea; she finally landed at the island of Delos, which was not yet fixed. Neptune then strengthened her against the waves, of which she had previously been the plaything, and Latona gave birth there first to Diana, who served as midwife to her mother, to help her give birth to Apollo, her twin brother. Apollo grown up, killed the snake Python with arrows.
See this fiction explained in the book. 3, c. 12 and 13, from Fables Egypt. and Greeks unveiled.
latona. The Alchymists say that Latona's face must be washed;that is to say, it is necessary to extract the water from their virgin earth by dissolution, and to use this water to whiten the very earth, which is their Latona. They call this water the blood of Latona.

Later. Mercury of the Philosophers. Philalethes.

Washerman of the Philosophers. Name which the Hermetic Chemists gave to Jupiter, when the time of his reign is in force during the operations of the stone. It is the circulation of matter in the vessel. It rises in vapor to the top of the egg, condenses there, and falls like a dew, on the matter which remains at the bottom, this rain whitens it, black as it was during the reign of Saturn; it is the Enema of the Philosophers,

Laudanum.Name that Paracelsus gave to a composition of gold, coral, pearls, etc. It was a specific for fevers.

Laudina. Angelic.

Enema of the Philosophers. See. washerman.

Wash the brass. See whitening THE laton. The Philosophers say that it is necessary to wash the laton seven times in the waters of the Jordan, to remove its leprosy, as the Scripture says that it was done to Nahaman; that is to say, it must pass through the kingdoms of the seven Planets, or through the seven different operations or circles which follow one another.

Wash. When the Hermetic Philosophers use this term to express an operation of the work, when matter is in the philosophical egg; one should not hear that it is necessary to draw the matter from its vase, and to wash it in water or other liquor; but that it is necessary to maintain or increase the degree of the fire, which purifies things much better than any liquor. So when they say: when the Artist sees the blackness swimming above the material, this blackness is a black, stinking, sulphurous, injected, corrupting earth, which must be separated from the pure, by washing and rewashing so many times with the new water , that the matter becomes completely white. It only means that the fire must be maintained in the same degree until the whiteness of matter.

Wash on fire. The Philosophers give the name of Fire to their mercury, which by its circulation whitens their brass. Which made them say, the Chemists wash and whiten with Skin, and we with fire.

Wash or Zion. Becabunga, aquatic plant.

Laum. Bitter almonds.

Laxa Cymolea. Salt that forms on stones.

Lazula. See the lapis of the philosophers.

Learque. Son of Athamas and Ino, was killed by his father, who crushed him against a stone. See ino.

Leda. Wife of Tyndareus, having had intercourse with Jupiter changed into a swan, gave birth to two eggs, from which were born Castor and Pollux, Helen and Clytemnestra.See the Egyptian Fables. and Greeks unveiled, book. 3, c. 14, § 4 and book. 6, c. 2 and 3.

Lefas. Van-Helmont adopted this name from Paracelsus, to express the sap of plants. Planiscampi writes Loffas; but he was wrong, or his Printer.

Lemnos. Isia of the Aegean Sea, once famous in the Fables, because it was claimed that Vulcan had established his forges there. It was also given the name â'Ophieusa, from Ophis, serpent, because of the number of serpents found there. It was on this island that the Argonauts first landed, who stayed there for two years, and Jason their Chief there courted Hypsiphile, with whom he had children. See.Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, Book. 2, c. 1.

Lempnias. Orchid.

Elephants or Elephants. First tartar, or bowl holding the middle between the stone and the lut. Planiscampi.

Leprosy (Gr. Art). Heterogeneous parts, terrestrial impurities that the metals contract in the mine, and that the only projection powder is able to cure. Geber and some other chemists have described at great length the defects of imperfect metals. Silver is perfect, gold even more so; however, they have their infirmities and diseases.There are two kinds in the metals: the first, which is called original, and which is considered almost incurable, comes from the first mixture of the elements into quicksilver or mercury, which is their principle. The second is found in the union of sulfur and mercury. The more the elements are therefore refined, the more they are proportionally mixed and homogeneous, the more they have weight, malleability, fusion, extension,
This second disease, which comes from sulfur more or less impure, causes the imperfection of metals; namely, the leprosy of Saturn, the jaundice of Venus, the cold or cry of Jupiter, the dropsy of Mercury, and the scabies of Mars. The dropsy of mercury consists in its excessive wateriness and rawness, which come to it from the coldness of its matrix; this vice is an original sin which it communicates and transmits to all the metals which are engendered by it.
Although the Philosopher called mercury a quintessence made by Nature, it is nevertheless so watery and so cold that it can only be cured by a very powerful sulphur. The internal sulfur predominating in mercury, cooks it, digests it, thickens it, and fixes it in a perfect body;and the external sulphur, adustible, and separable from the true substance of the metals, suffocates the internal, takes away its activity, and mixes its impurities with those of the mercury; which produces imperfect metals. The disease of metals being only accidental, it can therefore be cured; this is why we see that Nature always begins with the imperfect in order to tend to perfection.
The causes of these diseases are the earthiness, the wateriness, the combustibility, the airiness of the elements in their mixture. The first prevents the union of substances; the second makes them raw; the third flammable, and the fourth volatile. The first prevents penetration and ingress; the second is an obstacle to digestion, and the sublimation of matter; the third prevents its incorruptibility, and the fourth opposes its fixation.
The impurity of the earth must be washed away by water, the coldness of water is corrected by air, the volatility of air is fixed by fire. Art must imitate Nature; washing the metallic earth with its own water;heating and digesting the watery water by air, and freezing the volatile moisture of the air by fire.
The predominant heat and dryness to the iron, make it hot and angry. Coldness and dryness make lead heavy and melancholy. Heat and humidity make pewter cheerful and sanguine. Humidity and coldness make phlegmatic money.
Humidity and heat mixed imperfectly, make the copper full of an imperfect tint, and the qualities of one and the other mixed in proportion, make the temperament of gold and its perfection. Earth and water make lead heavy, soft, black and impure. Air and water make pewter white, soft, sour, light and fusible. Fire and earth make iron red, heavy, hard, impure and difficult to fuse. Water and air mixed with a little earth, make mercury cold, fluid, aqueous, heavy and vaporous. Fire and air make copper yellow and red, combustible, volatile and impure. Earth, water, and air mixed in proportion are the perfection of silver, as is the proportioned mixture of earth, water,
The heat and dryness of iron must be tempered by the moisture of quicksilver.The coldness of Saturn by the heat of copper. Jupiter's humidity and heat by the dryness and coldness of arsenic; and the humidity and coldness of Mercury by the heat and dryness of clean and suitable sulphur. In short, Venus must be scoured with her soap, the cry of Jupiter with her white of an egg removed, the wings of the old Saturn with a fine steel, Mars washed in the bath where Vulcan washed the Sun, given a drink to Mercury . a good sulphur, and to shrink the Moon with a good salt or a good virgin earth.

Lerna or Lerna. Swamp in which dwelt the Hydra that Hercules slew, and from which the heads were reborn as he cut them off. This marsh took its name from Lernax which in Greek means a vase. This vase is that of Hermetic art, in which is contained the material of the work signified by the Hydra. It putrefies there, and finally fixes itself there by means of the philosophical fire indicated by the torch of the companion of Hercules. See the Egyptian Fables. and Greeks unveiled, book. 5, ch. 4.

Laundry. Azoth of the Philosophers, so named because it whitens the brass of the Sages.

The Your. Red color. Eat.

Tea.One of the rivers that must be crossed before arriving at the empire of Pluto. In passing it one drank of its water, and one forgot absolutely all that one had learnt, seen and done in the course of life. See hell, pluto.

Leaven. The Philosophers have taken this term in two different senses. The first and least used is properly the proper meaning of leave which makes ferment, and that when they compare their work to metals; because just as the leaven sours the dough and changes it into its nature, so the powder of projection, which is a real gold, ferments the imperfect metals and changes them into gold. Leucophagum. Blancmange, remedy for curing consumption.
The second meaning of this term leaven is that it must be understood, according to Zachaire, of the true body and the true matter of the work. "But we must be careful and vigilant, add the same Author, so as not to lose the proper hour of the birth of" our mercurial water, in order to join to it its own body, which we have previously called leaven, and now the let's call venom. The
Philosophers ordinarily understand by leaven, the red sulfur or the gold of the Sages, and the white sulfur or their Moon. When it comes to multiplication in quantity for projection, they mean vulgar gold and silver.

Leucasia. Quicklime.

Leucelectruin. White amber.

Leucoenus. White wine.

Lencolachanum.Wild valerian.

It is made with capon and partridge meat crushed in a mortar and sprinkled with almond milk.

Leucosis. Action by which one whitens the philosophical brass: which is done by the circulation of the azoth in the vase of the Philosophers. V. DEALBATION.

Leucothea. See. ino.

Levigate. To reduce a hard and solid body to an impalpable powder.

Lib. Vinegar.

Libanotis. Rosemary.

Free. Nickname of Bacchus.

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

Lichas. Servant of Hercules, he wore the robe dyed with the blood of the Centaur Nessus. Hercules having flew into a rage after taking it, threw Lichas into the sea. See lychas.
Licurgue. See Lycurgus.

Link. Unctuousness of bodies which binds their parts together, unites the volatile with the fixed, prevents the evaporation of spirits, and forms the compound of sublunary beings.

Dye link. Mercury of the Philosophers, called Medium conjungendi tincturas.
QUICK MONEY link. It is philosophical Gold, or the fixation of mercury: what happens when the material of the work has reached the color red.

bind. To unite, bring together, make adherent the separated parts of a body. It is properly to coagulate. In terms of Hermetic Philosophy, to bind ordinarily means to fix, as to loosen means to dissolve, to volatilize.

Ligation. See seal.

Line. Is one of the names that the Philosophers have given to the matter of the great work. See hen.

Ligni Heraklei. walnut wood; some have given this name to the bouis. Planiscampi.

Lili. The Author of the Hermetic Dictionary says that Lili is in general any material capable of making some excellent tincture, antimony or something else. It is doubtless from there that Paracelsus gave to the extraction of a tincture of metals the name of Lilium. But as for the term Lili, this skilful man meant something quite different, as can be seen in his treatise on the Transmutation of Metals, and in that on the Foundation of Wisdom and the Sciences.
Lilium. Philosophical tincture, or the perfect elixir of Hermetic art.
Lilium inter spinas. Honeysuckle.

Limbo of Nature. Body reduced to its first elemental and non-elementary principles. It should be observed that when the Hermetic Chemists say that bodies must be reduced to their first matter, they do not claim to reduce them to the state of the elements of fire, air, water and earth: but to the first matter composed of these items. To this matter which constitutes the basis of all the bodies of the three animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms.

Queue. Dissolving the material of the work is nothing other than cooking it, digesting it until it is reduced to powder.

Limodorum. Broomrape.

Clear.Morien gives this name to one of the things that enter into the composition of the magisterium. It's mercury. See Almagra.

Lintus. Looch.

Linear. (Way) (Gr. Art.) The Hermetic Philosophers often employ these terms in their writings, to express the simplicity of the processes of the great work. They say one must follow the linear path of Nature; that is to say that one should not amuse oneself with calcinations, sublimations, distillations and other operations of vulgar chemistry; but to act simply as Nature does, without multiplicity of furnaces and vessels.

Lion. The Chemical Philosophers often use this term in their works, to signify one of the matters which enter into the composition of the magisterium. In general this is what they call their Male or their Sun, both before and after the making of their animated mercury.Before making, it is the fixed part, or material capable of resisting the action of fire. After making, it is still the fixed material that must be used, but more perfect than it was before. In the beginning it was the Green Lion, it becomes Red Lion by preparation. It is with the first that we make the mercury, and with the second that we make the stone or the elixir.
When we find in the writings of the Philosophers the term Lion used without addition, it means the sulfur of the Sages, either white, which they also call white Gold, or red, which they simply call Gold. Sometimes they give the
name of Lion to projection powder, because it is perfect gold, purer than even gold from the mines, and because it transforms imperfect metals into its own substance, that is to say into gold, as the Lion devours other animals, and turns them into his substance, because he feeds on them.
When they use the term Leo to signify their mercury, they add to it the qualifying epithet of green, to distinguish it from the mercury digested and made sulfur. It is in this sense that we must understand these expressions of Morien: "Take the white smoke, and the green Lion, and the red Almagra, and the filth." The same Author, a few pages later, explains what he means by Green Lion.
Lion. (the old) Fixed part of the stone, called old, because it is the principle of everything.
Green lion. (Sc. Herm.) Matter which the Chemical Philosophers employ to make the magisterium of the Sages; this matter is certainly mineral, and taken from the mineral kingdom. It is the basis of all the menses of which the Philosophers have spoken. It is from this material that they composed their universal solvent, which they then acuated with the essences of plants, to make vegetable menstruation; with the essences of animals, for animal menses; and with mineral essences, for mineral menstruation.
They gave the name Green Lion to this material for several reasons, says Riplée: 1°. because it is through it that everything becomes green again and grows in nature. 2°..Because it is still an acid and unripe material, far removed from the perfection of vulgar gold; but which, by the help of art, becomes infinitely above this King of metals: it is a green gold, a lively gold, still imperfect, and which, for this reason, has the faculty of reducing all metals in their first matter, and to volatilize the most fixed ones. 3°. Because the mercury that is extracted from this matter makes it similar to itself, and destroys all other bodies, as the Lion does with other animals. 4°. Finally, because it gives a green dissolution.
One must also be careful, says Jean Seger Weindenfeld (of Secretis Adeptorum), that the Philosophers distinguish several kinds of Green Lions. By the first.They hear the sun or the star which lights us, and which causes everything to vegetate in the world. By the second, mercury, not the vulgar one, but that which is common to all individuals, and consequently more common than quicksilver or common mercury; what made the Philosophers say, that their mercury is everywhere and in everything. By the third they mean the very dissolution of their matter, which they also call Adrop. By the fourth, it is that Adrop or Azocated vitriol, called Plomb des Sages. By the fifth, it is their stinking menstruation, which Riplée, Raymond Lully, Géber and so many others call Stinking Spirit, Spiritus foetens, or Blood of the Green Lion.By the sixth, they mean common vitriol, which they call green lion of fools, sometimes verdigris. The seventh is ordinary mercury sublimated with salt and vitriol, but which is not the true matter of the Sages. Riplée sometimes calls this Green Lion Sericon. Two viscous spirits are drawn from it; the first white, opaque, resembling milk, which gave it the name Milk of the Virgin, and by Paracelsus, Glue of the Eagle. Gluten Aquiloe. The second spirit is red in color, very stinky, commonly called Green Lion's Blood. It is these spirits that the Philosophers, in imitation of Raymond Lully, have called white wine and red wine, which should not be understood as common white wine or red wine. sometimes verdigris.The seventh is ordinary mercury sublimated with salt and vitriol, but which is not the true matter of the Sages. Riplée sometimes calls this Green Lion Sericon. Two viscous spirits are drawn from it; the first white, opaque, resembling milk, which gave it the name Milk of the Virgin, and by Paracelsus, Glue of the Eagle. Gluten Aquiloe. The second spirit is red in color, very stinky, commonly called Green Lion's Blood. It is these spirits that the Philosophers, in imitation of Raymond Lully, have called white wine and red wine, which should not be understood as common white wine or red wine. sometimes verdigris. The seventh is ordinary mercury sublimated with salt and vitriol, but which is not the true matter of the Sages.Riplée sometimes calls this Green Lion Sericon. Two viscous spirits are drawn from it; the first white, opaque, resembling milk, which gave it the name Milk of the Virgin, and by Paracelsus, Glue of the Eagle. Gluten Aquiloe. The second spirit is red in color, very stinky, commonly called Green Lion's Blood. It is these spirits that the Philosophers, in imitation of Raymond Lully, have called white wine and red wine, which should not be understood as common white wine or red wine. Two viscous spirits are drawn from it; the first white, opaque, resembling milk, which gave it the name Milk of the Virgin, and by Paracelsus, Glue of the Eagle. Gluten Aquiloe.The second spirit is red in color, very stinky, commonly called Green Lion's Blood. It is these spirits that the Philosophers, in imitation of Raymond Lully, have called white wine and red wine, which should not be understood as common white wine or red wine. Two viscous spirits are drawn from it; the first white, opaque, resembling milk, which gave it the name Milk of the Virgin, and by Paracelsus, Glue of the Eagle. Gluten Aquiloe. The second spirit is red in color, very stinky, commonly called Green Lion's Blood. It is these spirits that the Philosophers, in imitation of Raymond Lully, have called white wine and red wine, which should not be understood as common white wine or red wine.
Red Lion. The Spagyric Philosophers thus call the terrestrial and mineral matter which remains at the bottom of the vessel after the sublimation of the spirits which have come out of it, and which they call Eagles. This Red Lion is also what they call Laton.
FLYING lion, LOVELY lion. V.mercury of the wise. It is called flywheel, because it is volatile; and delightful, because it is Nature's universal solvent.

Nemean lion. Fabulous animal descended from the orb of the Moon, and sent by Diana to ravage the forest of Nemea. Hercules undertook to take him, and lead him to Eurystheus. He succeeds, as we see in chap. 2 of the book. 5 of Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled.

Liquefaction. There are three kinds of liquefaction in minerals. Some have terrestrial parts, which makes them dissolve in their continuum, makes them liquefy and flow with a mercurial flux. The bodies which flow thus are called mercury, although improperly; for when lead flows thus, it should be called quick lead, and not quicksilver.
Other minerals have waters in their pores;they dissolve in fire: these are mineral waters.
Others finally contain air and igneous parts in their pores, which causes them to dilate, with a kind of disunion of their parts, which causes them to liquefy and flow in the fire. Beaker.
Philosophical liquefaction. Matter of the work in putrefaction. It is then in a veritable liquefaction, because putrefaction is the principle of dissolution.

Vegetable liquor. Mercury of the Philosophers, so named, not because it is indeed a water or a juice extracted from vegetables, but because it has in it a vegetative principle, and it is primordially the principle of vegetation.
RAW VEGETABLE LIQUOR. It is the mercury of the Sages before its preparation.
Saturnian VEGETABLE Liqueur. Saline matter which enters into the composition of the mercury of the Sages. It is taken from the plant which the Philosophers also call Saturnian; not that it is properly a plant, but they speak of it by similarity and by allegory. “One finds in Saturnian places,” says Philalethes, “a certain herb called Saturnian, whose branches appear dry, but the root is full of juice. Collect this grass with its root, and carry it to the foot of the mountain of Venus, where having dug by the help of Vulcan, you will bury your grass there, the vapor of which will open and penetrate the pores of the earth. Some
chemists have called wine vegetable liqueur; but the Hermetic Philosophers do not understand it thus.
Mummy liquor. Paracelsus gave this name to human fat.

Liquidity. State of a body whose constituent parts are not adherent. There are two kinds of liquidity, one which wets the hands, like that of water, and the other which does not wet the bodies on which the fluid is; such is that of the common mercury and that of the metals. This last fluidity has its cause in the terrestrial parts which have insinuated themselves into the pores of the metals in greater quantity than was required. Beaker.

Liquidum of Resoluto. Anything that is liquid in nature, such as water, mercury,

Liquor Mercury. Almost universal balm for healing diseases. The mercury in question is not common mercury;it is the one, says Planiscampi, which is found in quantity in Tereniabin and Nostoch.
Liquor essentialis. Nutritious food. Planiscampi.
Liquor mumia de gummi. Gum oil. Planiscampi.
Liquor aquilegius. Brandy.
Liquor microcosmi. Mumie, or extract from Mumie. Some give this name to human blood and its essence.
Liquor soiled. Spirit of salt philosophically prepared, called by Paracelsus Baume de Nature.

Liriou. The plant called Lily.

Silver Litharge. Material of the work reached whiteness by the cooking of the Sages.
Litharge of gold. Red Stone, or Sulfur of the Philosophers.

lixandram. Armonia salt.

Lobus. Plant called phaseola.

Lofas. See the effas.

Lomentum. Broad bean flour.

batch. Urine.

Loton. See the Tone and the Tone of the Philosophers.

Lotone. One ounce weight.

Lotion. Circulation of Matter in the Vase of the Philosophers; it rises in vapours, and falls in rain on the terrestrial which remains at the bottom, whitens and purifies it, like the dew on the new cloths in the Laundries.
The Philosophers' lotion is only a term applied by similarity.They wash with fire, as they burn with water. Their lotion is only a purification of their matter made by philosophical fire. Let us therefore not be disappointed by the Author who says: go and see the women who do the laundry, and who whiten the linen, see how they do it, and do as they do. He simply means, remove from matter its impurities, and that by the philosophical fire or the very fire of matter: for another Author assures us that it dissolves, purifies, congeals, blackens, whitens and reddens itself; let nothing be taken away from it, and simply add to it in a certain time what it lacks for the perfection of the work.

Lotus.

Lotus. Tree dedicated to Apollo and Venus.The Egyptians included in their hieroglyphs the plant called Lotus, and represented Horus, son of Osiris and Isis, seated on this plant; they also sometimes placed it in the hand of Isis. It was consecrated to Horus, because this God did not differ from the Egyptian or Hermetic Apollo. See the reasons for all this in the first book of Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled.

Wolf. This animal was consecrated to Apollo, and was in great veneration among the Egyptians. See why, in the book. 1, hey. 8 of Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled.
Wolf. Some chemists have given this name to antimony; but it must be understood as the mercury of the Sages. Take a hungry and lovely Wolf, subject, because of the etymology of his name, to the warrior Mars; but of race taking from Saturn, as being his son. Down. Worth. Mercury is said to be the grandson of Saturn.
Gray Wolf. Antimony.

Lubcn. Incense.

Lubricum. Material of the work reached the white.

Lucifer. Magister when he emerges from putrefaction. It is thus named from what the Philosophers call light matter that has reached whiteness, and that this whiteness is announced by a small white circle which forms on the black around the matter.

Ludus. Paracelsus and Crollius used this term to mean the sediment that clings to the bottom of chamber pots.
Ludus puerorum. Work of the stone after its first preparation.

Luifar or Aliofar. Pearls.

Light. The Hermetic Chemists give this name to mercury when it whitens after putrefaction; and it is then that the separation of darkness and light takes place. They also call Light the powder of projection, because it seems to illuminate imperfect metals when it transmutes them into gold or silver.
The Philosophers have sometimes given the name of Light to their red sulphur; because they also call it Sun, and the sun transmits light to us.

Lamp. The two great luminaries of the Sages are the gold and the silver of the Philosophers;that is to say, the matter of the work having reached the white color which they call Moon, and the magisterium of the red which they call Sun.

Lunar (Art. Gr.). The Philosophers have given the name Suc de Lunaire to their Mercury, which they have also called Spit of the Moon, Son of the Sun and of the Moon; not that this mercury is in fact the juice of a plant called Lunar, of which botanists recognize two species, the large and the small; but because they name their Mercury Moon; which Mary, sister of Moses, said to be two white plants which are picked from the low mountains, and which Philalethes calls Saturnian Herb.
Luxurious Lunar. It is the same mercury called female, which the Philosophers say is so lustful that it irritates the male and does not leave him until it has become pregnant. See. d'Espagnet, Can. 22.
Lunar or lunaria. Natural sulfur.

Moon (the). Was one of the great deities of the Egyptians, known as Isis. Macrobi and Vossius reduce to the Moon almost all the divinities of the female sex revered in times of idolatry. Ceres, Diana, Lucina, Venus, Urania, the Goddess of Syria, Cybele, Isis, Vesta, Astarte, Juno, Minerva, Libitina, Proserpina, Hecate and many others who were only formed after the Isis of the Egyptians, are only different names given to the Moon. These two Authors are right, and they glimpsed the truth without knowing it, or at least without penetrating the intention of those who only knew the same thing under these different names. As these pretended Divinities had no other origin than the Isis of the Egyptians,
The Hermetic Moon is of two kinds.The first is their mercurial water called Isis, the mother and principle of things; this is why Apuleius called it Nature, and made it say that it is one and all things. It is from this Moon that the other is formed, or Isis, sister and wife of Osiris, that is to say this same volatile mercurial water, united with its sulfur, and having reached the color white, after passing through black color or putrefaction. Considered in these two states, it takes all the names that we have reported above. The Chemical Philosophers commonly give it only those of Moon, Diana, Naked Diana, and sometimes Venus.
Moon. This term is taken in several senses; sometimes the Philosophers mean their simple mercury, sometimes their white matter, and sometimes vulgar silver. When they say that their stone is made with the Sun and the Moon, it should be understood as volatile matter for the Moon, and fixed matter for the Sun. They also call their white sulfur, or white gold, Moon. The reign of the Moon comes in operations, when matter after putrefaction changes its gray color to white.
When the Sages speak of their Moon in this state, they call her Diana, and say that happy is the man who has been able to see Diana quite naked; that is to say, matter in perfect white.He is indeed happy, because the perfection of red sulphur, in philosophical gold, now depends only on the continuation of the fire.
The eclipse of the Sun and the Moon is the time of putrefaction of matter, or the color black. Diana, according to the Fable, is Apollo's sister, she is the eldest, and served as midwife to her mother, to bring her brother into the world. This is because the color red, taken for the Sun, only appears after the white one, which is called the Moon.
Moon of the philosophers. (Sc. Herm.) Matter of the Philosophers, not unique, but forming part of the compound. It is not vulgar silver, nor mercury extracted from silver:
it is vegetable Satumia, the daughter of Saturn, called by some Venus, by others Diana, because she has a forest consecrated to her. Common money performs the office of male in the operations of the work, and the Moon of the Philosophers performs the office of female. They have given it an infinity of names, some of which seem to contradict each other; but it is necessary to pay attention that these names are relative either to the operations, or to the colors of the work, or to the qualities of this material. They called it sometimes water, and sometimes earth. Respectively to the perfect body, she is a pure spirit; and relative to mineral water she is a body, but a hermaphroditic body.Respectively to gold and silver, it is a living mercury, a fleeting water. If we compare it to mercury, it seems like a land, but an Adamic land, a chaos; she is a true Protheus.
Leafy moon. White stone.
Hornymoon. The chemists give this name to the silver lime made by etching in the following way. Dissolve one ounce of fine silver in two ounces of etching;
when the dissolution is complete, throw in the spirit of common salt, which will cause the dissolved silver to precipitate. You will then sweeten this lime, and you will have the horny Moon.
Tight moon. Cup money. When the Chymists give it the name of Lima compacta, they hear of the philosophical Moon, or matter of the work having reached whiteness, and then they also call it White gold, and Mother of stone.
Moon. Among the vulgar chymists, properly signifies the money which is made into change and furniture.

Lupinus. Weight of a half-dragma. Fernel takes it for six grains, and Agricola for eight.

Lupulus. Plant known as Hops.

Lupus Receptitius, Lupus Salicta-rius. See lupulus.

Lut. See hermes seal. In operations the vessels must be so thin that there is no opening through which spirits can evaporate. If there were any, the work would perish, or the vase would break.
The lut is properly a kind of mortar composed of different materials, which the Artists use to coat or encrust the glass vessels, so that they better resist the action of fire.The lut also serves to join the openings of two vessels, or their communicating beaks, to prevent the spirits which must pass from one to the other, or circulate therein, from dissipating and evaporating.

Lychas. servant of Hercules. See. lichas.

Lycius. Nickname of Apollo. Lycoctonum. Aconite.

Lycomede. King of Scyros, nurtured and raised in his Court, Achilles, son of Thetis. He hid there under the dress of a woman so as not to find himself at the siege of Troye. Odysseus discovered him there, and led him to that siege, because that city could not be taken without the presence of Achilles. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq.unveiled, book. 6, Fatal. 1.

Lycurgus. Father of Archemore, entrusted the education of this child to Hypsiphile, daughter of Thoas who reigned in Lemnos. While Hypsiphile had gone to show the Greek princes a fountain to quench their thirst, a serpent bit and killed the little Archemore with its bite. The Greeks, out of gratitude, instituted games in honor of Archamore, and gave them the name of the Nemean Games. See. hypsiphile.

Lycus. King of Thebes, having wanted to do violence to Megara, Hercules came to her aid and killed Lycus. It is the precise of the fable, which the Alchymists thus explain. Lycus means in Greek the same thing as Wolf in English. All the Spagyric Philosophers and particularly Basil Valentin, Benedictine Religious in Germany, mean by the Wolf the metallic spirit. All metallic matter is composed of a body, a soul and a spirit. Megara is the soul, and Hercules is the body. The spirit, like the quickest, is ferocious and voracious, and during putrefaction it wants to attack the soul and corrupt it; but as it is beyond its reach because of its igneous seed and its abundance of ether,the fight which takes place between them is very sharp and very long; the body then seizes the spirit, coagulates it, fixes it, and kills it, so to speak.

Lyncee. Son of Egyptus, having married Hypennestre, daughter of Danaus, the latter ordered all his daughters, fifty in number, to kill their husbands on the first night of their wedding. All obeyed, except the only Hypennestre. Lynceus, her husband, fled, and afterwards avenged the death of his brothers by that of Danaus. See hypermnestre.

Lysidice. Daughter of Pelops and Hippodamia, married Electrion, according to some, and had Alcmene, mother of Hercules. Others say that AIcmene was daughter of Electrion and Anaxo. See. alcmene, hercules.