MYTHO-HERMETIC DICTIONARY M-P

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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Macedonia. God of the Egyptians, whom these peoples represented under the figure of a wolf, like Anubis under that of a dog. Some Authors say that they both accompanied Osiris on his travels. See how this fable should be interpreted chemically, in Book 1 of Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled, c. 8.

Maceration. Attenuation of a mixture made by its own humidity, or in some foreign menstruation. Maceration precedes putrefaction and disposes the mixture there.

chewed. Flyingworm. Ruilandus.

chewed. Any fixed matter. Ruilandus.

Swallowtail.Son of Aesculapius and Epione, found himself with his brother Podalyre in the Trojan war, and was wounded by an arrow there. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 3, chap, 12, § 2 and book. 6. Magea. Philosophers, Priests and Priests of Persia, who once made themselves famous for their science and their wisdom. Their doctrine was the same as that of the Priests of Egypt, successors of Hermes, the same as that of the Brachmanes among the Indians, of the Druids among the Gauls, of the Chaldeans among the Babylonians, of the Philosophers among the Greeks, etc. . . Philo teaches us, in his book of the Particular Laws, that their science had for its object the knowledge of Nature and of its Author;

Machinar. Material with which earthenware pots are varnished. Johnson.

macra. Red earth. Johnson.

damn. Whey forming butter.

Magale. Latin term which means a hute, a hut in French; but Paracelsus by this term understood all kinds of perfumes made with minerals.

and that this knowledge was so familiar to them, that they did surprising and wonderful things. They knew how to bring into play all the springs of Nature, and from their mutual action resulted prodigies which were taken for miracles.
The Magi believed the resusrecovery of the body and the immortality of the soul. They made a profession of Magic, but of that sublime and, so to speak, celestial Magic, practiced by the greatest men of Antiquity, to which the name of Theurgy was subsequently given, to distinguish it from superstitious Magic. and condemnable which is exercised by the abuse of natural things and holy things, with the invocation of evil spirits;
whereas Theurgy consists in the knowledge and practice of the most curious and least known secrets of Nature.

Magisterium. It is the operation of the great work, the separation of the pure from the impure, the volatilization of the fixed, and the fixation of the volatile one by the other, because we would never come to the end of it. working them separately.
The Philosophers say that their magisterium has the principle of one, four, three, two and one. The first one is the first matter from which everything was made: four are the. four elements formed from this first matter:
three are sulphur, salt and mercury, which are the three principles of the Philosophers: two is the Rebis, or the volatile and the fixed; and one is the stone or the result of operations, and the fruit of all Hermetic labors. Sometimes the Philosophers call each operation Magisterium, which are the preparation of mercury, the fabrication of sulphur, the composition of the elixir.
In fact of vulgar chemistry there are three kinds of magisteriums, which take their denominations from the motives which make them undertake.Some look at the quality of the mixtures, others at their substance, their colors, smells, etc. We say:
master of smell. When by the help of Art we remove from a confection, a remedy, etc. an unpleasant and disgusting odor, by preserving their properties, as when one mixes as much weight of leaves of large figwort as of senna in a medicine, to remove from the senna its unpleasant odor and its disgusting taste; when by repeated distillations the bad odor is removed from the oils of animals or vegetables. master of weight. When we increase the natural weight of the body without increasing its volume. master of powders.
master of fixed. When volatile bodies and spirits are made into fixed bodies by circulation, or when the soft bodies of their nature are hardened.
master of consistency. When we coagulate or thicken a liquid thing, either to preserve it without alteration, or to give it more properties. Such are the extracts, crystallizations of salts, &c.
master of color. When adding a foreign color to a body, or manifesting an intrinsic color. Such is the salt of tartar, which is white outwardly, and potentially red, like the nitre. We bring out the red color of the first one by mixing in the spirit of wine. This term is also used for the colors given to metals.

When a body is reduced to impalpable powder, either by trituration, or by calcination, or by putrefaction, or finally by dissolution. master of flavor. When one gives a pleasant flavor to what had a disgusting one, or which did not have one; or when correcting, for example, an acrimony. The whole art of cooks consists in these operations. MAGISTERIUM OF SOUND. When bodies are given a part slur which makes them sound louder than they naturally are; such is the metal of bells: copper and Petain taken separately and in the same mass, would not give the same sound as they do when they are united.
master of principles. When bodies are decomposed and reduced to their principles. The vulgar chemists claim to do this operation by the force of elemental fire, by means of distillations, sublimations, etc. They draw phlegm, spirit, oil, salt, and the caput mortuum or dead head; but they are mistaken, since their pretended principles can still be reduced to others which elementary fire cannot separate, or which it destroys. To reduce bodies to their first principles, one can only do so by a natural agent drawn from these same principles. If the body is very sulphurous, a mercurial solvent is needed, which takes over the sulphur. Beaker.
quality teacher. When a bad quality is removed from a mix,

The different firing of brick, of metals, gives them a more perfect sound, and the perfection or goodness of metals and certain bodies is often judged by their sound. Marcasite. Mineral matter of which there are many species, because all the stones which contain little or a lot of metal, are called by this name. It is even given to several sulphurous stones from which no metal can be extracted; it suffices for this that they contain a great deal of sulfur or vitriol: in the latter case they should rather be called simply Pyrites. Several chemists have taken marcasites for the material of the great work; they had probably not read the works of Bernard, Comte de la Marche Trévisanne, who clearly says that marcasites are not the required material.
MAGISTERY OF VOLATILE. When a fixed body is made volatile. The Hermetic Philosophers say you will not succeed, if you do not spiritualize the bodies and corporify the spirits, that is to say, if you do not make the fixed volatile, and fix the volatile.

Magma. Marc, what remains at the bottom of a gourd after distillation. It is more properly called Dead Head. The term Magma is also said more particularly of what remains after the expression of a juice, a liquor.

magnes. The Cosmopolitan used this term to signify the matter of philosophical mercury. He says that she has a magnetizing virtue which attracts from the rays of the Sun and the Moon the mercury of the Sages. See, LOVE.
MAGNES ARSENICAL is a powder made with crystalline arsenic, live sulfur and raw sulfur, equal parts; it is admirable, says Planiscampi, for the attraction of the plague poison, applied to the tumour.
MAGNES VITRARII. Alkali salt.

Magnesium. Matter from which the Philosophers extract their mercury. Often they give this name of Magnesia to their lead, or the black matter during putrefaction, sometimes to their prepared mercury.
WHITE MAGNESIA. It is sulfur or white gold, the matter in the vase during the reign of the Moon.
RED MAGNESIA. It is the red sulfur of the Philosophers, their gold, their Sun. Magoreum. A drug that acts without the physical cause being discovered;
Raymond Lully (Theor, cap. 30.) gives the simple name of Magnesia to the leafy earth of the Philosophers, or their matter having reached whiteness. This earth is, he says, our magnesia in which our whole secret consists; and our final secret is the freezing of our quicksilver in our magnesia by means of a certain diet.
MAGNESIA OF THE PHILOSOPHERS is the name that Planiscampi gives to a fluid amalgam of silver and mercury.
LUNAR MAGNESIA is the regulus of antimony, as well as SATURNIAN MAGNESIA. Who is also called Lead of the Philosophers and the first Being of metals.

Magnesis Magnensius. Is human blood reduced to powder by a philosophical operation.

Magneticus Tartareua. Stones that form in the human body.

such is the powder of sympathy, the Unguentum armarium of Paracelsus, etc.

Magra. Red earth.

Maya. Daughter of Atlas, and mother of Mercury. See MERCURY.

Right hand. Magisterium au rouge, so called because without it one cannot succeed in doing the work. Philalethes.
LEFT HAND. Magisterium in white.

Glass house. Egg or philosophical vase, which they also called King's Prison.
WISE CHICKEN HOUSE. This is the oven or furnace called Athanor; but more particularly the vase enclosed therein.

Maius Noster. It is the philosophical dew and the magnet of the Sages.

Evil.A metaphorical term which signifies the putrefaction and dissolution of the matter of the Sages in the Hermetic egg. The Philosophers have employed this term, because the idea which it presents is always a principle of destruction or even a destruction of a being; it is in this sense that we say, death is the greatest of evils, because death is a dissolution of bodies. Fever is an evil, because it is a cause or principle of destruction. Flamel in his Hieroglyphic Figures represents a man dressed in black and orange, with a scroll on which is written: Dele mala quœ feci. He himself explains these words in these terms: take away my darkness. For evil signifies by allegory blackness.We find the same term taken in the same sense in Peat: cooked until black,

Maladoram. Rock-salt.

Malaribio. Opium.

Malaribric. See MALARIBIO.

Male. (Sc. Hermet.) Magisterium in red. We must be careful, when we read the works of the Philosophers, by which place of the operations they begin to bet. Many have omitted the magisterium and assume it has already been done. That is why they say: take the male and join him to his female. They then speak of the perfect magisterium to the red.

Malchorum or Malehorum. Rock-salt.

Malech. Common salt.

Malicorium. Orange peel.

Malinathalla. Plant called in French Souchet, in Latin Cyperus.

Maltacode.Medicine in which wax enters. Blanchard.

Mamolaria. Plant known as Ursine Branch.

Manbruck. Common and vulgar money.

Mandella. Black hellebore seed.

Manheb. Metal slag.

Manna Chymicorum or Manna Mercurialis. It is a white precipitate of mercury, which is then passed through the still in a snow-white form. It is also called Aquila coelestis. Blanchard.
Béguin says, in his Chemistry, that this manna is made by dissolving mercury in strong water, that it must then be precipitated with sea water, or salt water, and then distill this precipitate first little by little. fire.

Mana. Mercury of the Philosophers.They also called it divine Manna, because they say that the secret of extracting it from its mine is a gift from God, like the very matter of this mercury.

Manu Christi. Pearl sugar.

Marathon. Fennell.

Marble. The Philosophers gave this name to their vegetable Saturnia, in comparison with the marble which the Painters use to grind their colours, because this crushed Philosophical marble divides and attenuates the gold of the Philosophers. See, CRIBLE.
The marble of the Hermetic Sages is properly their mercury; but they have also given the same name to their material which has become white by firing, because it is then brilliant like polished white marble. Means, in terms of Hermetic Science, the mixture of sulfur and mercury in the philosophical egg. This is what they also call the copulation of male and female.


Market. Litharge.

Marga. Is a certain slightly greasy and unctuous matter found in some stones; which gave it the name Pebble Marrow.

Wedding. Nothing is more used in the writings of the Philosophers than this term. They say we must marry the Sun with the Moon, Gabertin with Beya, the mother with the son, the brother with the sister; and all this is nothing but the union of the fixed with the volatile, which must take place in the vessel by means of fire.
All seasons are proper to make this marriage; but the Philosophers particularly recommend the spring, as that in which Nature is most disposed to vegetation.Basil Valentine says that the husband and the wife must be stripped of all their clothes, and be clean and washed before entering the nuptial bed. D'Espagnet and all the others assure us that the work will not succeed unless the male and the female are so purified that no heterogeneous part remains. The whole secret of the preparation of mercury consists in this purification. The ferment or leave must also be perfectly pure, if we want the son who will be born of this marriage to have a degree of perfection that he can communicate to all his brothers and subjects.
MARRIAGE OF BROTHER AND SISTER. WEDDING.
And when the Philosophers say that from this marriage is born a child much more beautiful and more excellent than his father and his mother, they mean by that the gold or the aurific powder, which transmutes the imperfect metals into perfect ones; ie gold or silver. Husbands. Weight of 83 pounds and 3 ounces. Blanchard. Marisca. Fig. Marmoraria. Acanthus or Branch-ursine. March. Sometimes the Hermetic Philosophers take this term in the ordinary sense of the Chymists; but when they speak of their Mars, it is matter digested, and cooked to a certain degree; they then say that she passes through the reign of Mars. That's when she starts to blush. MARCH.
The Hermetic Chymists also gave this name to the union of the fixed and the volatile in the time of their mixture before sublimation, it is then the marriage of Beya and Gabertin, of the brother and the sister, of the Sun and of the moon; and in the time of the perfect union which is made by sublimation, it is the marriage of Heaven and Earth, whence all the Gods of the Pagans have issued. It is the reconciliation of contrary principles, the regeneration of the mixed, the manifestation of clarity and efficiency, the nuptial bed from which must be born the royal child of the Philosophers, more powerful than his fathers and mothers, and who must communicate his scepter and his crown to his brothers.This is what the Chymists have called the incest of father and daughter, of brother and sister, of mother and son. When it comes to vulgar chemistry, Mars means steel, iron. Martach or Marthat. Litharge. Martech. The Hermetic Chemists 'gave this name to their material considered in the time of putrefaction. Marthek. Some use this term to express the red stone, the leave of the work; but Luke, in the Code of Truth, says; take Marthek and blanch him; meaning laton, or black matter. Maruch. Oil. Johnson. Masal. Term employed in some Chemistry works, to signify soured milk. Masardegi. Lead.








God of war and fighting, was born from Juno without knowledge of man. Stung and jealous that Jupiter had given birth to Minerva without her help, she thought of a way to conceive without Jupiter; Flora pointed out a flower for this purpose to Juno, who made use of it; she conceived and gave birth to Mars in Thrace. Mars was one of the twelve great gods of Egypt. Homer calls him the son of Jupiter and Juno; the Greeks called him Ares, and the Latins are the only ones with Apollodorus who called him son of Juno without the participation of any man. The ferocious character of the God Mars did not prevent him from being sensitive to the charms of Venus: he courted her, and obtained favors from her.The Sun, who noticed it, warned Vulcan, husband of Venus, who caught them in the act, by means of a metal net which he forged; this lame god then exposed his wife and Mars to the laughingstock of the gods, and only released them at the solicitation of Neptune. See what these fictions mean in Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 3, c. 8 and 10.














Masarea. Hawkweed.

Massellum. Tin, Jupiter. Confused mass. See LATO.

Mastach. Preparation of strong opium in use among the Turks. Some call it Anfion, or Amphion.

Masalis. Mercury of the Philosophers.

Mass of Coquemar. Material of the work.

Masseria. Hermetic Mercury.

Matersylva. Honeysuckle.

Matter. In terms of Hermetic Philosophy, is the subject on which this practical Science is exercised. All those who have written on this Art have endeavored to hide the true name of this matter, because if it were once known, we would have the main key to Chemistry.They named it by all the names of created individuals, because it contains, they say, potentially all the qualities and properties of elementary things. It is a fifth element, a quintessence, the material principle and end of everything. It is not rare also to see in the books of Alchymy, all that produces seed being taken for the matter of the great work, in the same way that one can say the man and the animals composed of the plants, because they feed on it . They thus express themselves by speaking of distant matter, as they would speak of the next, of potency as of act, of cause as of effect; what does not contribute little to make take the change with the readers who are not versed in this Science.
Gerhard Dorn says that it is the very matter of which the heavens are composed, that it is the quintessence of our sublunary, incorruptible, and preserving matter of this lower world, the true vegetative, the soul of the elements, which preserves from corruption all the sublunary bodies, and gives them the degree of perfection that suits each species: that with the help of Art we can separate it from it and communicate it to the three animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms: that this matter finally is what the Alchymists call the Bird of Hermes which continually descends from heaven to earth, and ascends there again. We can see all the other praises he gives it in his Traite de Lapide Metaphysico. But does the matter of the heavens differ from that of the earth?Is it necessary for vegetation, conservation, and the alteration of the sublunar bodies? Can it be the next material of the Chemical art? I leave the first two to the Naturalist Physicists to decide, and the third point to the Alchymists, whose real raw material is none other than the accidents of the first material of Aristotle's Cultists. The chymists take this matter, because it is the seed of things, and the seed of each being is its first matter which is sensible to us. Whenever, therefore, the Hermetic Philosophers speak of their first matter, it must always be understood of the seed of the bodies. whose true raw material is none other than the accidents of the first material of Aristotle's Cultists.The chymists take this matter, because it is the seed of things, and the seed of each being is its first matter which is sensible to us. Whenever, therefore, the Hermetic Philosophers speak of their first matter, it must always be understood of the seed of the bodies. whose true raw material is none other than the accidents of the first material of Aristotle's Cultists. The chymists take this matter, because it is the seed of things, and the seed of each being is its first matter which is sensible to us. Whenever, therefore, the Hermetic Philosophers speak of their first matter, it must always be understood of the seed of the bodies.
There would be many things to observe on this first matter of chemists; but it is up to those who make Treatises of the Great Work to speak of it with all the breadth it deserves. I will therefore content myself with saying with Becher (Oedipus Chymicus) that all bodies are not in their entirety this first matter so sought after; but that they contain it, and that they are indeed it as to power; which must even be understood of metals, which can only be considered as this first matter after having been reduced to it.
It is therefore the seed of the bodies, which is there. first matter of the chymists, in which they distinguish the male seed which takes the place of form, and the female seed which is the proper matter to receive this form.This is why, when the chymists speak of their first matter, they most often mean the female seed, although they sometimes speak of one joined with the other. Then they say that it has everything it needs, except fire or external agent, which Art supplies to Nature, as Empedocles says in the Code of Truth.

This matter is therefore found only in the seed of bodies, and in the point of perfection proper to generation; that is to say, when it has not been corrupted or altered by Nature or Art: and when taken as such, it has the power to engender, which is only waiting to be reduced. in action by means of fire. If we take it generally, without regard to form, it is found in all bodies, but not taken as matter of having chemical form. In animals it is called Menses, in plants Rainwater, and in minerals Mercurial Water. They all start from the same root, and yet compose, according to Becher, three quite different materials, although they have a lot of affinity between them, being only a subtle and viscous water;but as they differ in their own substance, it is not possible for Art to change them one into the other. That of animals seems to be made for union, that of plants for coagulation, and that of minerals for fixation; which is easily noticed in the difference in the union and connection of the parts which compose each individual of these three kingdoms. and that of minerals for fixing; which is easily noticed in the difference in the union and connection of the parts which compose each individual of these three kingdoms. and that of minerals for fixing; which is easily noticed in the difference in the union and connection of the parts which compose each individual of these three kingdoms.
The first matter of the chymists, distant, is heavy water produced by mercurial vapor; the next is mercurial water which does not wet the hands, as Saint Thomas says in his Commentary on the 3rd book of Aristotle, touching Meteora.
The end proposed by the chymists in the philosopher's stone being to raise the imperfect metals to the perfection of gold, by means of its form and its matter, it is therefore necessary that both be metallic and mineral.
The alchymists could not succeed in their design if, as Aristotle the chymist says, they did not reduce bodies to their first matter, that is to say, to their seminal matter, and then place it in a matrix suitable for produce fruit if desired.
For the first article, everyone knows that things are only destroyed by opposites;it is the sulfur which gives the form, it is therefore necessary to use mercury to dissolve it; and after this dissolution, a sulfur will be added to coagulate and fix the mercury, by making the marriage in the vase suitable for this purpose. The greater part of the Philosophers think that everything has as its principle a soapy water, that is to say, composed of two substances, one saline and the other oleaginous, called Chaos, and suitable for receiving any form whatsoever. can be; that God divided it into two parts, into gross water, and into subtle water; the first viscous, oily or sulphurous, the second saline, subtle and mercurial. He further subdivided them into three general parts;
The Hermetic Philosophers have always spoken of this matter and of the operations of the Art in allegorical and enigmatic terms. Sulfur and salt, as the two constituent principles of this matter, have been named, the first King, Male, Lion, Toad, Fire of nature. Grease of the Sun, the Sun of the bodies, the Lut of wisdom or sapience, the Seal of Hermes, the Manure and the Earth of the Philosophers, incombustible Oil, red Mercury, and an infinity of other names even from various languages, which all however means some fixed, coagulant or glutinous matter; because they attribute to sulphur, the form, the innate heat, the sperm, the soul, the odor, the color, the flavor, the fixity, and all that is capable of causing the cohesion of the parts of the bodies.
The second principle or salt which comprehends all the different waters of which we have spoken, as seeds of the three kingdoms, is not the common salt or the salt of the bodies, acid, or which burns the tongue; for this flavor comes from the sulfur which is mixed with it, and consequently all these sorts of salts should only be regarded as mixed, and not as principle salts. The salt of the Philosophers must be understood abstractly from this sulphur, and they have named it so only because its accidental form often gives it the appearance of ice or coagulated salt, or because it resolves into water so easily than salt.
It is this salt which they properly call matter fit to receive form.This is why they named it Radical Humid, Menstrual, Potential Body, Thing or Substance capable of receiving all kinds of forms, Queen, Female, Eagle, Serpent, Celestial Water. Foam of the Moon, Clef, white Mercury. Mercury of the Philosophers, Eau de vie et de mort, Wax on which the seal of Hermes is imprinted, Water of ice, Rain of the Philosophers, Fountain, Bath of the King, Bath of the body, Very sour vinegar, Soap, and so much other names which will be found below in alphabetical order, and most of which will be explained in the articles which concern them. Key of Metals. Heart of Saturn. Heart of the Sun. Colcotar. Anger. Gold Glue. Fellow. Compar. Compound. Compote.
from the most subtle he formed animals, from the dirtiest of metals, and from that which partakes of the two he composed vegetables; so that that of one kingdom cannot be radically transmuted into another kingdom, by any operation of Art. The practice of chemistry proves to those who would doubt this system, says Becher, that it is not the production of a hollow brain. Sulfur acts on salt by agglutinating it and thus giving it form: salt acts on sulfur by dissolving it and puttingrefying it; and one joined with the other in proportionate quantity, constitute a viscous and vitriolic water, which is the first matter of Nature and of Art.
Here are some of the names that the Hermetic Philosophers gave to their matter.Most of them are explained in this Dictionary, because, say Morien and Raymond Lully, it is in the intelligence of these names so different from the same thing, that the whole secret of the Art consists. Some are drawn from Greek, others from Hebrew, some from the Arabic language, several from Latin and French.
Abstain.
Steel.
Adam.
Adam.
Drop.
Afrop.
Lamb.
Aibathest.
Eagle.
Eagle of the Philosophers.
flying eagle.
Magnetic.
Air.
Brazen.
Burnt brass.
Non-combustible brass.
Blackbrass.
Alarm.
Albar Aeris.
Albira.
Alborach.
Alchaest.
Alcharir.
Alcopbil.
Alembroth.
Alocam.
Alocins.
Aikusal.
Almagra.
Almizadir.
Aludel.
Alum.
Also.
Aizemad.
Aizon.
Amalgra.
Drunk.
Soul of Saturn.
Soul of the Elements.
Soul of the World.
Anachron.
Anathron and Anatron.
Anathuel.
Androgynous.
Antimony.
Antimony from parts of Saturn.
Antybar.
TREE.
LunarTree.
Metal tree.
Philosophical Tree.
SolarTree.
Aremaros.
Money.
Quicksilver.
Coagulated quicksilver.
Argyrion.
Arneth or Zamieh.
Arsenic.
Asmarcech.
Astima.
Atimad.
Aycafort.
Azoch.
Azoth.
Bath.
Diana’s bath.
King's bath.
Sun bath.
Marie bath.
Vaporbath.
Bea.
Berbell.
Butter.
GOOD.
Very communicative.
White from Black.
Whiteness.
Drink.
Wood of Life.
Goldenwood.
Borax.
Boritis,
Borteza or Boreza.
sheep.
fog.
Caddy.
Caduceus.
Cain.
Cambar.
Camereth.
Dunce.
Caspa.
Caspachaia.
Ash.
Ash of Tartar.
Fuse ash.
Non-combustible ash.
Black ash.
Chai.
Chaia.
Camel.
Field.
Chaos.
Lime.
Quicklime.
Path.
Chess.
Chesseph.
Chesseph Hai.
Shibur.
Dog.
Corascenian dog.
female dog from Armenia.
Something crossed or tormented.
Vile thing.
Chyle.
Sky.
Sky of the Philosophers.
Average sky.
Clarity of the Sun.
Key to the Work.










Confection.
Container.
Thrilled.
Roost.
Crow.
White body.
Confused body.
Contrary body.
Dirty body.
Perfect body.
Unsuitable body.
Mixed body.
Black body.
Corsufle.
King's Crown.
Knife.
Moon spit.
Toad.
Screen.
Crystal.
Dangerous.
December.
December E.
Deeb. Iron. Ferment. Sublimated ferment. Fire. Watery fire. Artificial fire. Fire versus Nature. Corroding and non-corrosive fire. Ash Fire.
Dehab.
Diabetes.
Average device.
Butter sweetness.
Duenech.
Dragon.
Flying dragon.
Dragon crawling.
Babylonian dragon.
Fiery water.
Azothic water.
Burning water.
Fountain water.
Water of Art.
Blood Water.
Talc water.
Water of Life.
Urine water.
Styx water.
Star water.
Leafy water.
Hyleate water.
Empowering water.
Heavy water.
Ponderous water.
First water.
Dry water.
Plain water.
Viscous water.
Ebemich.
Ebesemeth.
Element.
Fifth element.
Elixir.
Eisaron.
Embryo.
Hell.
enemy.
Sword.
Mary.
Spatula.
Mind.
Embodied spirit.
Crude spirit.
Spirit cooked.
Spirit of Clarity.
penetrating spirit.
UniversalSpirit.
Ostrich stomach.
Tin.
Summer.
White Aethelia.
Sealed star.
To be metallic.
Eudica.
Euphrates.
Eve.
Excrement of the Glass.
Fada.
Falcon.
Favonius.
Calcined faces.
Faces dissolved.
Female.
Women.
Prostitute woman. Fruit of the Sun Tree. White smoke. Citrine smoked. Red smoke. Manure. Gabertine. Gabritius. Gabrielus. Giuniis. Ice. White eraser. Gold Gum. Gum, red. Gophris. Granusœ. Gur. Hageralzamad. Hebrit. Hermaphrodite. Swallow. Winter. Male. Oil. Mars oil. Non-combustible oil. Red oil. Wet white. Radical wet. Humidity. Burning humidity. Hydra of Lerna. Hyle.

Lamp fire.
Sand Fire.
Damfire.
Unnatural fire.
Liquid fire.
Natural fire.
Gall.
Blessed Son of Fire.
Son (grand-) of Saturn.
Son of the Nile.
Son of the Sun and the Moon.
Phlegm.
Flower of Brass.
Flower of the Sun.
Fountain.
King's Fountain.
Form.
Form of Man.
Brother.
Brother of the Serpent.
Fridanus.
Fruit. One Father of all things. Phoenix. Philson. Rock. pet stone. Burning stone. Stone known in the chapters of the Books.

White hypostasis.
Egg yolk.
Filth of the Dead.
Infinity.
Tasteless.
Day.
Jordan.
Iris.
Jud he voph he.
Kamech.
Kenchel.
Kibrich.
Kinna.
Boiling lake.
Dry lake.
Milk.
Virgin milk.
Eagle's Tears.
Lato.
Lazul.
Laundry.
Line.
Lion.
Red Lion.
Green lion.
Vegetable liqueur.
Litharge.
Wolf.
Lucifer.
Light.
Lead Light.
Moon.
Leafy moon.
magnes.
Magnesium.
White magnesium.
Red magnesium.
Left hand.
Right hand.
Evil. Male.
Marble.
Marcasite.
Lead Marcasite.
March.
Martheeka.
Marthek.
Mass of Coquemart.
Matter.
Matter of Matter.
Matter of all shapes.
Lunar matter.
Morning.
Fauheh Medal.
Medicine of the Spirit.
Medicine of the three orders.
Melancholy.
Menses animal.
Mineral menses.
Vegetable menses.
Sea.
Mercury.
Mother.
Mother of Gold.
Mother of Metals.
Measure.
Microcosmos.
No.
Honey.
Mining.
Gold mining.
Ministry.
Mizadir.
Dead.
Bitter death.
Mozhacumia.
Nature.
Fifth nature.
Neusi.
Black blacker than black itself.
Cloud.
nuts.
West.
Eye of the Fishes.
Egg.
Egg of the Philosophers.
Oing.
Bird of Hermes.
Olive.
Ollus.
Shadow.
Shadow of the Sun.
Gold.
Gum Gold.
Oriental gold.
Or du Bec.
Coral Gold.
Ethereal gold.
Goldleaf.
Roman gold.
East.
Orchid.
Father.

Stone of the Philosophers.
Starstone.
Indian stone.
Pierre indrademe.
Metallic stone.
Mineral stones.
Peter no Peter.
Red stone.
Vegetable stone.
Lead.
WhiteLead.
Lead of the Philosophers.
Human hair.
Point.
Echeneis fish.
Powder.
Powder from the ashes.
Chicken.
Chick of Hermogenes.
Milk rennet.
Spring. Lunar juice. Sweatshirt of the Sun. Talc. Tamuas. Tartarus or Hell. Tartar. Bull. Tinting of Metals. Tincture of Hermes.
Prison.
Prostitute (the).
Purity of Death.
Peacock tail.
Raceen.
Root of Metals.
Branch of Gold.
Randerich.
Rare.
Ray of the Moon.
SunRay.
Recon.
Reheson.
Residence.
Risoo.
King.
Rose in the thorns.
Dew.
May dew.
Redness.
Ruby.
Sand.
Saffron.
Salamander.
Dirty.
Saliva of the Moon.
Mushroom saliva.
Incombustible saliva.
Precious saliva.
Saltpetre.
Blood.
Dragon's Blood.
Blood of the Salamander.
Lion's Blood. Human blood.
Spiritual blood.
Saturn.
Brine.
Navy brine.
Soap.
Soap of the Sages.
shine.
School secrets.
sedena.
Lord of Stones.
Salt alembroth.
Alkali salt.
Alvisadir salt.
Lunar salt.
Salt of the Pilgrims.
Salt of the Sages.
Salt of Salts.
Urine Salt.
Salt fuse.
Nitrate salt.
Solar salt.
Seed.
Path. Bury.
Sericon.
Serinech.
Snake.
Winged snake.
Serpent of Cadmus.
Snake devouring its tail.
Serpent without Wings.
Servant.
Fugitive serving.
Red Servant.
Seth.
Pomegranate syrup.
Smeratha.
Sodo of the Philosophers.
Sister.
Sister of the Serpent.
First sister.
Evening.
Sun.
Eclipsed sun.
Terrestrial sun.
Ambrosian sulfide.
Sulfur from Nature.
Sulfur of metals.
Non-combustible sulfur. Red sulphur.
Sulfur Zarnet.
Fixed solution.
Volatile solution.
Sperm of Everything.
Sperm of Metals.
Seed of the Philosophers.
Sperm of Mercury.
Splendor.
Splendor of the Sea.
Splendor of the Sun.
Gorgeous. Tuchia. Vessel. Vessel of the Philosophers. Sealed vessel. Steam. vulnerability. Venom. Deadly venom. Tinting venom. Wind. Venus. Rod of Metal. Verjuice. Glass. Green-grey. Virtue of the Stars. Mineral virtuality. Life. Exhausted old woman. Old age. Virgin, Vine of the Sages. White wine. Red wine. Vinegar. Vinegar of the Philosophers. Very sour vinegar.

Temaychum.
Darkness.
Earth.
Adam Earth.
damned land.
Land of Rest.
Land of the Tombs.
Excavated land.
Clay.
fat earth.
Stinking earth.
Red earth.
Virginland.
Raven's head.
Raven's dead head.
Tevos.
Thabritis.
Thelima.
Theriac.
Theta or Thita.
Thion.
Timar.
Toarch.
Third. This matter is called vile, and Philalethes among others says that the price of the material principles of the work does not exceed three louis d'or.

Viper.
Virago.
Virility.
Visitation of the Occult.
Vitriol.
Vitriol novel.
Red vitriol.
Union of Spirits.
Children's urine.
Vulpes.
Vulphi.
Xit.
Yharit.
yle.
Zaaph.
Zahav.
Zaibac.
Zephyr.
Zibac.
Zinc.
Zit.
Ziva.
Zotichon.
Zumech.
Zumelazuli.
We know the true Philosophers by the material they use for the magisterium. Those are in error who use various materials to compose their mercury, that is to say, materials of various natures.She is one, and although she is everywhere and in everything, she can only come out of her own mine. It is viscous water, a corporified spirit. It is the same material that Nature uses to make metals in the mines; but it must not be imagined that it is the metals themselves, or that it gets away with it; for all the Philosophers recommend leaving the extremes and taking the middle; as to make bread one does not take, says Philalethes, neither the grain, nor the bran, but the flour. You don't make bread with baked bread either. We must not also seek to form a matter of the four elements, which are the principiant principles of everything;but an elemental matter, which contains in itself the four elements, and which is the seed of the metals. This matter was veiled by the Ancients under various fables, but more particularly under those of Hercules and Antheus, of Pyrrha and Deucalion. But if anyone wants to succeed in the operations of the Magisterium, let him learn beforehand, says Philalethes, what is meant by the companions of Cadmus, what is the Serpent who devoured them, what is the hollow oak against which he pierced that Serpent; what is meant by the doves of Diana, who surmount the Lion by coaxing him; this Green Lion, which is a true Babylonian Dragon, whose venom kills everything:
He adds that as for the manufacture of the dry water of the Sages, two crowns are enough to make a pound of it. He assures us, moreover, that one can have as much principle matter of this water as would be needed to animate two pounds of mercury. Morning. Magisterium in red, called Morning by the Philosophers, because its color is first aurora before being perfect in red. Matrix. (Sc. Herm.) The Philosophers give this name to the mine of their mercury, and to their vase. The first, because it is in the mine where it is embodied and formed; and the second, because the vase performs the function of the womb of animals where generation is perfected.
Several Philosophers say that the poor have as much of this matter as the rich; but it must be understood as the principle matter of which that of the Sages is composed. Our water, says Philalethes, is composed of several things, that is to say of a single and unique thing made of various substances, but of one and the same essence. It is necessary that in our water there is a fire, a vegetable satumian liquor, and a bond of mercury. This fire is sulphurous mineral, without being properly mineral, far from being metallic. It is a chaos or spirit, in the form of a body, which is however not body, since it is all volatile, and which is not so absolutely spirit, since it resembles a liquefied metal.
Sometimes the Philosophers have restricted the name of Matter to their animated mercury, and not to the matter from which it is extracted.
TRUE MATTER OF METALS. It is, according to the Philosophers, the mercury of the Sages impregnated and animated by its sulfur, It is a viscous water, and a vapor which congeals and fixes itself more or less, according to the degree of coction which it receives. This vapor is quicksilver, not the vulgar. The philosopher's stone is composed of this cooked, digested and exalted quicksilver: this is why it penetrates metals, completes cooking them, and gives them the perfection of gold; because it is gold itself, and a lively, lively gold, infinitely more perfect than ordinary gold.
LUNAR MATTER.Solvent of the Sages.
SINGLE MATERIAL OF METALS.
Magisterium in white.

Mathecloram. Rock-salt.

The matrix of matter from which the Philosophers extract their mercury, is the earth, according to Hermes, in his Emerald Tablet. Some Chemists say that sea salt is the matrix of metallic nature.

Matronalis Flos. It is the violet, according to Blanchard, who thinks it was given this name from the sweetness of its smell, which makes it so sought after by ladies.

Maza. Macarons. Blanchard.

Mecal or Mekal. Weight.

Meceri. Opium.

Mecon. Poppy.

Meconium. Extracted from black poppy, and condensed in mass.
The name Meconium is also given to the first excrement black as pitch, which a child gives up after emerging from its mother's womb.These excrements, dried and reduced to powder, cure the blindness which is not of birth, if one puts this powder in the eye from time to time. This powder must be kept very dry in a well-stoppered bottle, and in a dry place.

Doctor of the Planets. It is not the mercury of the Philosophers, as the Author of the Hermetic Dictionary says, it is the Philosopher himself who uses the mercury of the Sages to cure the imperfection of metals, The Philosophers called this medicine the Day of Judgment. Let fools seek our work, and fall from error to error in seeking it, they will never come to its perfection until the Sun and the Moon are converted into one body; which cannot be done before the Day of Judgment. Morian.
Medicine heals, and this Physician administers it. The Philosopher's stone or the powder of projection is that medicine which perfects the metals, and cures the diseases of the three kingdoms of Nature.

Medical. Art of inventing, knowing, preparing and administering remedies suitable for curing the diseases which afflict the human body, and for keeping it in a state of good health. Some say that this Art is long and very difficult to learn, others with Paracelsus assure that it is short and very easy. The former no doubt consider Medicine according to the principles of the Galenic School; it is that professed today by the Doctors who are called Doctors of Medicine, whose principles subject to the systems that each one imagines to his fancy, make Galenic Medicine a conjectural science whose practice is often very dangerous for the patients who use it.
It is therefore wrong to shout so loudly against the Doctors, and these have not.no more reason to rise so loudly against the Empiricals; if we wanted to be in good faith, we would admit that there is at least as much charlatanism in the practice of Galenic Medicine as in that of Empirical Medicine. On both sides there are good talkers and very bad Doctors. To decry all the Empyrics as one usually does, and to want to refuse them the administration of their remedies, is to deprive the public of a resource which it does not very often find in those whom the title of Doctor presents to it as clever people . Everybody knows that the good woman's remedy commonly saves most of those whom all the drugs of the Pharmacy used doctorally had perhaps put in the bad state they are in, instead of curing them. Non omnia possumus omnes.It is well known that a Physician alone cannot know all the remedies suitable for curing all sorts of illnesses; far from discrediting himself by allowing his patients, even by ordering remedies indicated by others, he would gain greater confidence, would learn remedies of which he was unaware, and would make use of them in similar cases. It is well known that a Physician alone cannot know all the remedies suitable for curing all sorts of illnesses; far from discrediting himself by allowing his patients, even by ordering remedies indicated by others, he would gain greater confidence, would learn remedies of which he was unaware, and would make use of them in similar cases. It is well known that a Physician alone cannot know all the remedies suitable for curing all sorts of illnesses;far from discrediting himself by allowing his patients, even by ordering remedies indicated by others, he would gain greater confidence, would learn remedies of which he was unaware, and would make use of them in similar cases.
Paracelsus reduced the whole art of healing to very simple principles for theory and practice. Was he right? I would be tempted to believe it. Still, it is true that he made admirable cures, and that he made a great reputation for himself. If he had written his works in a more intelligible way, perhaps today we would do him the justice he is denied. He made everything a mystery; he has used foreign names to express known things: we have taken the change; their remedies have been badly composed;they did not have all the success that one had to hope for on his word, and it was concluded that Paracelsus was only a charlatan. It is to put on the path those who would be tempted to have recourse to the works of Paracelsus, that I have inserted and explained in this Dictionary a large number of Paracelsic terms. Several Authors have made a special study of it, such as Beccher, Rullandus, Johnson, etc. and it is from the works of these scholars that I have drawn my explanations.
The true and only means of remedying all these inconveniences would be to publish the process of what is called Universal Medicine, this only remedy would cure all diseases;but those who pass for having known it and put it into practice, declare that it would result from it still greater inconveniences for society, because of the abuses which the wicked would make of it. They have therefore only taught it in their Treatises on this matter in an enigmatic, allegorical, metaphorical manner, etc., so, they say, that it becomes intelligible only to those whom God will wish to favor with it. It is to make it less difficult for them, that after having combined these Authors among themselves, and collected the various explanations which they give of each other, I have inserted them in this Dictionary.
MEDICINE.The Philosophers distinguish several kinds of medicine, although they all have the same object, which is the cure of the diseases which occur to individuals of the three kingdoms of Nature. They call Medicine of the Higher Order their elixir when it is perfect for healing the ills of the human body, and for transmuting imperfect metals into gold. They have sometimes given it this name when their stone is only perfect white. Their Medicine of the lower order is their elixir projected on an imperfect metal; it becomes pure by this elixir, and can be used, after cooking, to project onto other imperfect metals. This medicine is not suitable for diseases of the human body. That of the higher order heals them by consolidating it, or rejuvenating it.Medea used it for Jason's father. The medicines taken at the Apothecaries have an entirely opposite effect; they weaken while evacuating, they ruin the temperament, and finally lead to the tomb, when nature does not have the force to resist the poison which they contain and which one gives with the balm.
The Philosophers still give the name of Medicine to the different operations of the great work, which is why they count three kinds. The first is what they call First Order Medicine. It is, according to the Philalethes, the preparation of the stone, which precedes the operation of the perfect preparation; it is properly called the separation of the elements, and the purification of each of them by themselves, according to what Nature requires. The magisterium is done by this preparation, which the Philosophers have disguised under several names which mean almost the same thing, and which is done by the same regime, that is to say, to cook the compost.So when they say to distill in the still, to separate the soul from its body, to roast, to water, to calcine, to rub, to nourish, to adjust together, to eat, to assemble,
Medicine of the second order is that preparation of the stone, which immediately follows that of which we have just spoken. It is called the perfect preparation. It is also called fixion, fermentation, creation of stone, and perfect conjunction of the elements. Geber calls it the short work, opus breve.
This medicine therefore perfectly prepares the stone, fixes it, and causes it to ferment. The ferment of the stone is made of the pure matter of the metals, that is to say of the sulfur of nature and of the vapor of the elements, and this ferment only becomes such when the Moon and the Sun are reduced to their first material . It is necessary to know five things with regard to this medicine: 1°.
It was given this name, says Philalethes, because in this perfect conjunction, or true marriage, the separation of the elect and the damned takes place, that is to say, of the coarse and impure earth, called damned by the Chymists. even vulgar, and of the purest substance of stone matter. This substance is none other than the powder which rises from the faeces and separates from it. It is the ash of the ash, the earth extracted, sublimated, honored and chosen. What remains at the bottom is the ashes of the ashes. a damned, rejected earth, the faeces and slag of the bodies, which must be rejected. because they have no principle of life; and anything that is not of the true purity of the elements will be destroyed on the day of judgment. Raym.Lully. Then the elements will be found pure, elevated above the fixed and resplendent like crystal, because they will have become incorruptible earth, which will not fear the attacks of fire. there. It is done by the same operation, of the same thing, and in a single vase. So the purpose of this medicine is to convert the stone into a fixed, spiritual and tingent earth. Then the elements will be found pure, elevated above the fixed and resplendent like crystal, because they will have become incorruptible earth, which will not fear the attacks of fire. there. It is done by the same operation, of the same thing, and in a single vase. So the purpose of this medicine is to convert the stone into a fixed, spiritual and tingent earth.Then the elements will be found pure, elevated above the fixed and resplendent like crystal, because they will have become incorruptible earth, which will not fear the attacks of fire. there. It is done by the same operation, of the same thing, and in a single vase. So the purpose of this medicine is to convert the stone into a fixed, spiritual and tingent earth.
THIRD-ORDER MEDICINE.
It is the preparation of the stone which the Philosophers call Multiplication. Medimnus. A measure containing one hundred and eight pounds or six bushels. Blanchard. Medium or Middle Substance of Bodies.
Let the Philosophers reduce years to months, months to weeks, weeks to days, and days to hours. 2°. Let every dry thing greedily drink up every moisture of its kind. 3°. That it acts on this humidity much faster than it did before. 4°. That the more earth there is, the less water there is, and that the solution is made better and more quickly. 5°. That any solution is made according to the convenience of the thing to be dissolved; and that whatever dissolves the Moon also dissolves the Sun. If the Artist wants to succeed, he must know the weights, the measures of time and fire, otherwise he will lose his work and his pains. Philalethes.
The first medicine mundifies and tints the body, but this tinting is only apparent, and goes into the dish. The second has the same effect, but the tincture it gives is permanent and fixed, though useless. The third pushes the stone to its perfection, and multiplies it in quantity and quality.
The first is the work of Nature, the second is the work of Art, and the third is of Art and Nature, and is also called the Medicine of the higher order.
SINGLE MEDICINE. White stone.

Medea. Daughter of Aetes, King of Colchos, son of the Sun, had for mother Idya, daughter of the Ocean. Jason having arrived in Colchos for the conquest of the Golden Fleece, Medea fell in love with him.She made use of her enchanting art to further her lover's enterprise. By means of the pharmaques which she gave him, he tamed the bulls which spurted fire from their nostrils, killed the dragon which guarded the Golden Fleece, sowed its teeth in the field of Mars, from which were born armed men who killed each other, and he seized the Golden Fleece.
After this expedition Medea fled from her father's house with Jason, who married her. When they had arrived in Thessaly, Medea rejuvenated Eson, father of Jason. The daughters of Pelias having seen this prodigy, desired that Medea render the same service to Pelias; the latter, pretending to consent to it, found a way to avenge Jason for the bad treatment Pelias had had for Eson. She hired the daughters of Pelias to cut it into pieces and cook it in a boiler with a mixture of aromatic plants. The so-called secret did not have the success they expected.
Jason having then fallen in love with Glaucé, daughter of Creon, repudiated Medea. The latter knew how to dissimulate her spite, and under the pretext of making a present to Glaucé of a crown, she composed it in such a way that the fire took to the head of her rival as soon as she had put it on her head , and it was consumed. Some Authors say that it was a small casket which Medea said was full of jewels, and that the fire came out of it as soon as Glaucé opened it. Finally, others said it was a dress.
Medea was not satisfied with this revenge, she massacred in front of Jason even two children she had had by him, and fled through the air on a chariot drawn by two winged dragons. See these fictions explained in the first chapter of the second book of Fables Egypt.and Greeks unveiled. Jellyfish. Daughter of Phorcys and Keto, had two sisters who were given the name Gorgons, as well as Medusa. Neptune fell in love with this one who was very beautiful, and had intercourse with her in the very temple of Minerva. This Goddess, indignant at the desecration of her temple, changed Medusa's hair into serpents, and gave her the property of transforming into stone anyone she looked at. Perseus, aroused by Pallas who lent him his shield and spear, and aided by the heels of Mercury, knew how to attack Medusa and cut off her head. From the blood that came out of his wound were born Chrysaor, father of Geryon, and the horse Pegasus.



It is the mercury of the Sages, because the matter from which it is drawn has not received from Nature all the perfection of which it is capable; Art takes it in this state, and completes what Nature had begun.
MEDIUM BETWEEN METAL AND MERCURY. This is, according to Sinesius, the real material of the work. Artephius says it is the very mercury of the Philosophers.

Medulla Lactis or Milk Marrow. It is butter or cream, which is also called Milk Flower. Meleagris. Plant called Fritillaria, perhaps named Meleagris, because its flower is spotted like a bird called in Latin Meleagris. It is a species of partridge found in Barbary. Melech. Common salt. Mix. See MIXTURE.

The head of Medusa retained even after its death the property of turning those who looked at it into stone; Perseus made use of it against Atlas, who had received it badly. See the Fabs. Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 3, c. 14, § 3.

Mel Juniperinum, or Juniper Honey. It's juniper extract.
MEL NOVUM, or New Honey. It is the quintessence of antimony. Planiscampi.
MEL ROSCIDUM AND AEREUM. Mana.
MEL SATURNI, or Honey of Saturn. It is lead salt, also called Butter and Sugar of Saturn.

Mela. Lead.

melancholy. Means the putrefaction of matter.The Philosophers also call this operation calcination, incineration, pregnation. This name has been given to black matter, no doubt because the color black has something sad about it, and the mood of the human body called melancholy is regarded as black, boiled bile, which causes sad and dismal.

Blend. Combined conjunction of two or more bodies, when this results a compound which is called mixed. These different combinations make different mixed; and since of eight bodies one can combine 40,320 mixtures, one should not be surprised at the infinite diversity which is found in Nature.
There are two kinds of mixtures or mixtions, one which Beccher calls superficial, and the other central.
The superficial mixture is that which is done in such a way that the parts of the mixed bodies can separate again, as if one mixes absinthe with spirit of wine, after a long digestion, these two bodies make one. superficial mixture, because, by putting everything in the still,
The central mixing takes place, for example, when rainwater mixes with the seeds, in such a way that it becomes a homogeneous body with them, and they can no longer be separated. All dissolutions in etching are superficial mixtures. The mixture of food with our own substance, are central mixtures. The basis of this last mixture is the sympathy that lies between the wet and the dry.The basis of the superficial mixture is only the density and the rarity of the different bodies which compose the mixture. From which we can conclude that the magnetism of Nature has as it were two poles, towards which tends the mixtures of compound bodies. Rare bodies seek out, have a kind of appetite or sympathy with dense bodies, and dry bodies with those that are humid.

Mixture (Sc. Herm.). When the Sages speak of mixture, one must not imagine that they mean to speak of the union of two different things, and taken out of the vase. It is one and the same thing which separates into two, and which by coction is reduced to one. This is the true mixture which is made precisely in the time of putrefaction.

Melanosmegma. Black soap.

Melanter. Opium.

Melanzana. Apple of love.

Melaonea or Melones. Small black earthworms which come out in the month of May in the meadows, and which exhale a pleasant odor when crushed. This same name has been given to a species of small golden-green beetle. Rulland.







Melga. Salamander.

Meliboeum or Melibocum. Copper.

Melia. Ash.

Melicerte. Son of Athamas and Ino. On fleeing with her mother to escape the mistreatment of Athamas, they rushed into the sea. The gods, out of pity, changed Ino into a sea goddess, under the name of Leucothoe, and Melicerte into a sea god, under the name of Palemon. . It is in his honor that the Isthmian Games were instituted. See the Egyptian Fables. and Greeks unveiled, book. 4, c. 9. Mercury or Quicksilver. Flowing metal composed of a metallic earth F' and a fluidifying earth;

Melicratum. Mead which is made from one part honey to eight parts water.

Meliphyllum.
Melissa.
Melissophyllum.

Mellisodium. Burned lead.

Mellose. Earthworms.

Melocarpus. Aristolochia fruit.

Melusi. Mercury.

Earth membrane. Material from which the Philosophers extract their mercury.

Menalippe. Queen of the Amazons, was caught in a fight by Hercules, who kept his baldric and his weapons to carry them to Eurystée. See. AMAZONS.

Menalopiper. Black pear.

Menelaus.Son of Atreus and Erope, according to Homer, married Helena, daughter of Jupiter and Leda. Paris having taken it from him, all the Princes of Greece sided with him, and assembled a formidable army to avenge him. They besieged Paris and Hélène in the city of Troye where they had retired. The city surrendered after ten years of siege. Paris was killed, and Menelaus took Helena back. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 6.

Menfrige. Putty.

Mensiracost. Mana.

Menstruation. It is strictly speaking in the animal kingdom a blood which flows every month through the natural parts of women, and of the females of some animals.Michel Schot says in his Treatise on Physiognomy that Jewish men are also subject to it. The name of Menstrue has also been given, although improperly, to vegetable and metallic waters, which are regarded as the feminine principle of these two kingdoms, and in which something is put to be dissolved.
MENSTRUE OF THE PHILOSOPHERS. See MERCURY OF THE SAGES. Some chemists, ignorant of the principles of Nature and of the great work, have regarded various things as Menses of the Philosophers, or as matter from which this mercury must be extracted. Some worked on the salts, on the minerals, on the lands of different species; because the Sages say that their matter is mineral; others have employed plants for this purpose, the greater and lesser lunaria, the celandine, &c. because they had read in the books of the Adepts, that this matter is vegetable. Others finally worked on eggs, hair, horn, women's menses, seconds, urine, human blood, and everything they could imagine taken from animals, such as sheep's droppings,on what it is written that this matter is animal, and that some have said like Aristotle and Riplée that it is terminus ovi, the Cosmopolitan that it draws from the belly of the ram. We have also seen it distill, circulate, digest, etc. dew water, because it is gathered at the equinoxes, and some philosophers have given it that name; but all these chymists misunderstood the writings of the Sages according to the meaning presented by the letter; since they take care to warn that they speak only by analogy and similarities. and that some Philosophers have given it this name; but all these chymists misunderstood the writings of the Sages according to the meaning presented by the letter;since they take care to warn that they speak only by analogy and similarities. and that some Philosophers have given it this name; but all these chymists misunderstood the writings of the Sages according to the meaning presented by the letter; since they take care to warn that they speak only by analogy and similarities.
MENSTRUE. The menstruation of the Philosophers is properly their mercury; however they often take this term for the matter which contains this mercury. Water is the menstruation which contains the seed of things, and carries them into the earth by insinuating itself through its pores. The earth which serves as their matrix, incubates them, digests them, as much by the heat proper to the sperm, as with the aid of celestial fire; and finally brings to light the individuals who must come from it according to the determined species of the sperm. Sperm differs from menstruation in that the latter is only the receptacle of the other. From Spaint.
WHITENED MENSTRUAL.Hermetic Mercury which contains the two Dragons of Nicolas Flamel.
STINKY MENSTRUAL or FETID WATER. It is what Géber and Raymond Lully call foul spirit, or the Sulfur of the Sages; we need in all the work only the living water and the fetid spirit. This stinking menstruation is matter in putrefaction.
ESSENTIAL MENSTRUE. Without which nothing can be done; it's the same thing.
VEGETABLE MENSTRUE. Raymond Lully says that the menstruation of the Sages increases with plants; but not that their menses are strictly vegetable.Some give this name to the spirit of wine rectified seven times by the still, or to the manner taught by Raymond Lully and Jean de Roquetaille, known under the name of Jean de Rupescissa; because they claim that this fiery water has the property of drawing tincture from gold, and of producing marvelous things.
but it is not the mercury of the Sages.
SECOND MENSTRUE It is the laton of the Philosophers.

Sea. The Sea of ​​the Philosophers is very different from that heap of salt water to which most men so recklessly expose themselves to seek the riches of Potozi and other countries. Their sea is everywhere; and the Sages sail there with a tranquility unaffected by winds or storms. Their sea ';n general are the four elements; in particular it is their mercury; sometimes the matter from which it must be extracted, because Flamel calls this mercury the Foam of the Red Sea, and the Breath of the mercurial Wind; which is the same as the Red Servant of Trevisan. It is by exposing themselves on this sea, full of pitfalls for bad Chemists, that so many of them are shipwrecked,
DRY SEA. This is what they also call dry water, permanent water, astral water, and their mercury.
REPURGED SEA. Magisterium reached whiteness.

Meradum. See ALMIZADIR.

this is why there are as many mercury as metals, which can be mixed with this fluidifying earth. There is such a great sympathy between this mercurial or fluidifying earth, and the metals, that when it is once mixed with them, it clings to them so firmly, that it coagulates itself rather than being separated from it. . It is in this admirable sympathy that the whole secret of the Hermetic Philosophy, or of the great work, consists; that is to say, to have this mercurial earth pure, and in the state in which it is before being mixed with any metal. In this consists the difference of the common mercury from the mercury of the Philosophers. The first is composed of this mercurial earth and a metallic earth;the second is properly only a mercurial or fluidifying earth. Beaker.
MERCURY. Mineral vapor, unctuous, viscous, grime, congealed in the pores of the earth into a homogeneous and incombustible liquor. Basil Valentine and Sendivogius define mercury, an acid salt of mineral nature. These definitions are suitable for mercury, the principle of metals and the vulgar mercury, known as quicksilver, which is a true metal. We must therefore distinguish between two kinds of mercury, the vulgar, and the principle mercury. The first is dead, when it is out of its mine, because its internal fire is dormant, and it can no longer act, if it is not put into action by the mercury principle.The second is called, not quicksilver, but quicksilver by Physicists Chemistry, to distinguish it from the common, and to mark its quick power, who acts in the mines; or which outside the mines is only waiting to be excited by the hands of a skilful Artist, to act still with greater effect on metals. THICKENED MERCURY. V. THICKENED WATER. MERCURY IN MINERALS AND METALS. It is the Mercury of the Philosophers. STERILE MERCURY (Sc. Herm.) It is mercury taken abstractly from its sulphur, because the female represented by their mercury is always sterile without the conjunction and action of the male signified by sulphur. The Mercury of the Philosophers is not found in the land of the living, that is to say, fully prepared.
Mercury appears to our eyes under three different veils, with which Nature has clothed it: 1°. in the form of a fluid, which does not wet the hands, when touched; it is vulgar quicksilver, which is called virgin mercury, when it comes out of the mine, and when avarice has not altered it by any mixture; 2°. under the figure of cinnabe; 3°. under that of arsenic or reagal. The mercury principle is that which the Hermetic Philosophers praise so much, and the vulgar mercury is that commonly used by ordinary chemists and physicians.
MERCURY SOLVENT. Which Spagyric Philosophers use to reduce metals, minerals, plants and all bodies to their first matter. There are three kinds of mercury in the sense of the Alchymists: simple dissolving mercury; the compound dissolving mercury, which is properly their true mercury; and common mercury, or that derived from metals. Simple mercury is water extracted, according to the principles of their Art, from a material whose true name they took great care to conceal, and to which they gave an infinity of it which can be seen in the article Matter. They more commonly call it magnesia, lead, chaos. It is a mineral material.The Philalethes defines this mercury as water or dry, viscous vapor, filled with acidities, very subtle, dissipating easily in the fire,
The compound mercury is that of which we have just spoken, to which a second matter has been added, and which they consequently call rebis, laton, brass of the Philosophers, etc. Almost all the Philosophers speak only of this one in their works. We have already defined common mercury.
WHITE MERCURY OF THE SAGES. It is the white stone.
RED MERCURY. This is the perfect red magisterium.
UNIVERSAL MERCURY. It is the spirit spread throughout the Universe to animate it.
MERCURY CRUD.It is the solvent of the Sages, not the vulgar quicksilver, called mercury crud by the chymists.
MERCURY PREPARING. (Sc. Herm.) Dissolvent of the Philosophers, which prepares the dissoluble body, to arrive at the perfection of the magisterium.
SUNSET MERCURY. MERCURY, whose feet the old man wants to cut off with his scythe, is an emblem which Jewish Abraham used to signify the fixation of the mercury of the Sages, and not to signify matter, as almost all the false Adepts think. Mercury is volatile, and is of no use unless fixed to white or red. Abraham represented an Old Man, to signify the length of time necessary for this operation.


But it is drawn from the very land of the living, and from the virgin land which is at the center, and in the interior of this land of the living; and that by an ingenious artifice, very simple, but only known to the Sages. The Cosmopolitan says this is done by means of their steel, and the Philalethes by their magnet. MERCURY TWICE BORN. It is the same. VEGETABLE MERCURY. See MENSTRUAL PLANT. MERCURY OF LIFE. (Sc. Herm.) It is the elixir of the Sages composed of their mercury. They call it so, because it transmutes imperfect metals; whom they call dead; and that this mercury is indeed the principle of the generation and preservation of the individuals of Nature.

The Mercury extracted from the Red Serf is properly the Mercury of the Sages at the time of its first preparation.
Rubified mercury is the red stone, also called animated mercury.
CROWN MERCURY. It is the perfect elixir of the Sages, whom they call their King, whose head is adorned with a diadem with three crowns,
MERCURY SULPHIDE is the true mercury of the Sages, which differs from the vulgar in that the latter does not have a sulfur which animates it, and the other has an inseparable one, which only waits to be excited.
ANIME MERCURY. (Sc. Herm.) It is the double mercury of the Sages. Pantaléon claims that Bernard, Count of La Marche Trévisane, is the first of the Philosophers who introduced animated mercury into the Great Work;that d'Espagnet and Philalethes have imitated it, and that all modern philosophers have applauded it. It is the mercury of the Sages animated by metallic sulfur, by the means reported in the Philosophy of Metals of Trevisan, in the place where he speaks of the fountain in which he saw his golden book dissolve, as ice melts in hot water.
DUAL MERCURY. v. MERCURY CORALLIN, is mercury which has been given the color red with egg oil, or other waters. Rulland. Mercury. Son of Jupiter and Maia was born on Mount Cyllene in Arcadia; Juno forgot her jealousy towards this son of Jupiter; she even took so much interest in his preservation that she undertook to feed him with her milk. Others think it was Ops.



MYSTERIOUS MERCURY. It is still the same: thus named, because all the Adepts make it a true mystery to all those who are not, unless they find them prudent, discreet, God-fearing, in short, such as they are. wish to be initiated into the mysteries of the great work.
MERCURY CRYSTALLINE is mercury sublimated several times, and reduced in the form of transparent crystals. Jupiter used it in his messages; he charged him with sweeping the assembly hall of the gods, and occupied it as his butler before the abduction of Ganymede. He had been given wings which he attached to his hat and to the heels of his shoes; they helped him to dispatch his messages more promptly.



Mercury was almost still in the cradle, that he showed his penchant for theft. Having entered Vulcan's forge, he stole his tools; and the same day he defeated Cupid in the struggle. He took away the scepter of Jupiter, and the fear of fire was the only reason that prevented him from also stealing his thunderbolts. When Apollo was expelled from Heaven and made himself guardian of the herds of Admete, Mercury stole the oxen he guarded. He even had the skill to remove Apollo's bow and arrows, to prevent this God from using them for his revenge. Mercury invented the lyre, and exchanged it with Apollo for the caduceus which he always carried in the suite. Mercury tried his virtue on two serpents which were fighting;

He slept neither day nor night, because he was in charge of receiving the souls of the dying, and of leading them to the sojourn of Pluto and to the Champs-Elysées. He carried in his hand a golden rod, around which were two coiled snakes, which seemed to want to devour each other; but the rod had the property of reconciling them. Jupiter, wishing to remove lo, changed into a Cow, from the scrupulous guard of Argus, instructed Mercury to rid him of this guardian; what he did. See the explanation of these fictions and others that have been invented about him, in the book. 3', c. 14, § 1, Egyptian and Greek Fables unveiled. Mercury Trismegistus. The oldest known philosopher.

as soon as she touched them, they agreed. Mercury used it to pacify disputes, and to make enemies friends. MERCURY MINERALIUM. Oiliness extracted from the gold or silver mine. Planiscampi. MERCURIUS REGENERATUS, or regenerated Mercury. It is the first being or principle of mercury. MERCURIUS A NATURA COAGULATUS. All solid metal. MERCURIUS METEORISATUS. Mercury of life. MERCURIUS CRYSTALLINUS. Mercury sublimated several times, and thereby rendered clear and transparent as crystal. MERCURIUS CORALLINUS. Red precipitate of mercury. Merdasengi. Burnt lead powder.


It is from his Greek name Hermes that those who know the Great Work have taken the name of Hermetic Philosophers. See HERMES.
MERCURIALIS SEVA. Natural and primitive water of alum, which Planiscampi says is the principle of mercury.
MERCURY ASTRUM. Sublimated Mercury, or its quintessence.
MERCURIUS LAXUS. Mineral turbulence.
MERCURIUS CORPORALIS METALLORUM. Mercury of metals precipitated. Mother. The Spagyric Philosophers sometimes give the name of Mother to the vase which contains the matter of the great work;

but they more commonly say that the Sun is the father of the stone, and the Moon its mother, because, according to them, the madeira of the stone, as of everything else, is begotten of the four elements, mingled and combined by the influences of these two luminaries; and not that ordinary gold, which they also call Sun, and vulgar silver, which they call Moon, are the materials that must be taken to do the great work.
STONEMOTHER. Material of the work reached white; this same name is better suited to mercurial skin, since it is from it that the matter of the stone is formed.
MOTHER OF ALL ELEMENS. It is chaos, Hyle, the raw material of which the elements were made, and of the elements all things,
MOTHER OF ALL METALS.The Sages gave this name to their mercury, because they say that it is the principle of the metals; what some chemists have interpreted as vulgar mercury.
The mother ates her child. Allegorical expressions used by some Philosophers, to say that the Philosophical earth has drunk all its water, which had come out of it; this is what they call Cohobation.
Put or seal the mother on the belly of her child. It is to nourish the philosophical child, who is sulphur, with the virginal milk from which he was formed; the sulfur or the child then fixes with it this virginal milk, which was volatile: to fix is ​​to seal. Wonders of Wonders.

John's Robin. A Philosopher expressed himself thus, to signify the blackness which comes to matter by putrefaction. white blackbird; it is the white stone, the Moon of the Sages, Diana, etc.
WHITE BLACKBIRD, or BLEACHED. Matter of the work, after the reigns of Saturn and Jupiter gave way to that of the Moon.

(Science Hermét.) This is the true name of the perfect elixir, because nothing on earth is more wonderful; this is why most Philosophers call the Great Work the Work of Divine Wisdom. Is there anything more admirable, indeed, than to see a little powder change an immense weight, of any imperfect metal whatsoever, into gold? to cure all diseases of the human body and of animals, even those which the Faculty of Medicine regards as incurable? to cause leaves, flowers and fruits to produce in twenty-four hours, while nature does so only in whole years? and finally many other things that the wise know, but that they will never divulge except to those they want to initiate? Some have called the Mercury of the Philosophers the Wonder of the World.

Mesbra. Tuthi.

mesel. Tin, Jupiter.

Messenger of the Gods. It is the universal spirit diffused in all nature, or the Mercury of the Philosophers, which is formed from it.

Mest. Sour milk.

Mestudar, or Nestudar. Armonia salt.
Measurement of the Wise. The Hermetic Dictionary cites Alphidius, and says accordingly that the mercury of the Sages is their measure; he would have said it better if he had explained it from the weight. Philalethes speaks only of the measurement of time, and adds that if one ignores weight, measurement of time and fire, one will lose. his time and his pains; which should be understood as multiplication.

Metal. The metals of the Philosophers are that matter from which one extracts the spirit, and from which spirit one makes the stone to the white and the stone to the red. Their perfect metals are these very stones; often they call them Corps.
The ancient chymists gave the metals the names of seven planets, because they thought they noticed in them properties and colors analogous to those which the astrologer recognizes in the planets. They accordingly named the lead Saturn, the tin Jupiter, the iron Mars, the gold the Sun, the copper Venus, the quicksilver Mercury, and the silver Moon. The whole diet of Jupiter is employed in washing the laton; which is done by the successive ascent and descent of mercury on the earth.
We distinguish the perfect metals, which are gold and silver; and in imperfections, which are copper, iron, lead, tin and mercury. The Philosophers also call Imperfect Metals the material of the work, when during the operations it is affected with colors other than white and red. These last two compose the kingdoms of the Sun and the Moon, the others are the kingdoms of the other Planets.
Most chemists do not count mercury among the metals, and claim that it is only its seed; but the true matter of metals is, properly speaking, only a vapour, a spirit which corporifies itself in the bowels of the earth, in proportion as the central fire sublimes it towards the surface; it becomes a viscous water, which combines with different sulphur;it is cooked and digested with them, in a more or less perfect manner, according to the greater or lesser purity of the matrix in which the metals are formed.
SLOWING METAL. It's mercury.

Metas, or Metal. Some chemists have given this name to the weight which we commonly call a gros, a dragme.

Metals. (Science Herm.) When the Sages speak of metals, they do not commonly mean those used in the commerce of life; they should only be explained in this sense when they speak of the transmutation of imperfect metals into gold or silver. Their metals are none other than the different states of their mercury during the operations of the magisterium.These states are seven in number, as there are seven planets and seven common metals; this is why they give the regime of their work to the seven Planets, which they claim to dominate in each state, and each domination is manifested by different colors. The first regime is that of mercury, which precedes the color black. The second is that of Saturn, which lasts all the time of putrefaction, until the matter begins to turn gray; it is then that the Sages call their matter, lead of the Philosophers. The third is that of Jupiter, son of Saturn, who was taken, according to the Fable, from his voracious father, whom Jupiter mutilated to deprive him of the ability to engender: from the mutilated parts and thrown into the sea, Venus was born ;what is to be understood of the color black which no longer reappears in the magisterium. And from then on Jupiter is the father of the Gods, with Juno, represented by the air enclosed in the vase, and the humidity which is mixed with it. from the parts mutilated and thrown into the sea, Venus was born; what is to be understood of the color black which no longer reappears in the magisterium. And from then on Jupiter is the father of the Gods, with Juno, represented by the air enclosed in the vase, and the humidity which is mixed with it. from the parts mutilated and thrown into the sea, Venus was born; what is to be understood of the color black which no longer reappears in the magisterium.And from then on Jupiter is the father of the Gods, with Juno, represented by the air enclosed in the vase, and the humidity which is mixed with it. The Poets gave this laton the name of Latona, mother of the Moon and the Sun; because the regime of the moon is a consequence of the ablution of the laton, which thereby becomes white, and of a dazzling whiteness like that of the moon. Venus then dominates, and it is in time that matter takes on a citrine color, which tends towards a leaden red, or iron rust, and then comes the regime of Mars, friend of Venus, which lasts until the orange color, represented by the aurora, before the course of the sun. Phoebus, brother of Diana, finally appears in the color of purple.
This water represents the sea, whose ebb and flow is marked by these continual ascents and descents. But the Philosophers have another sea, which we will see explained in his article. Metempsychosis. Translation of the soul of a living being into the body of another being that was only potentially alive. It is said that Pythagoras had drawn the feeling of metempsychosis from the priests of Egypt, and this is true; but the followers of Hermetic Philosophy claim that this system of Pythagoras has been badly explained, and that it has been given a meaning which it did not have. The Sages of Egypt taught Pythagoras metallic transmutation, which this Philosopher then treated enigmatically in his Works.
The Poets have pretended that Diana, her sister, served as midwife to her mother Latona when she gave birth to the sun, because the red, true gold and true sun of the Philosophers, would never appear, if white or Diana did not appear. had appeared before. one , see how much the Mythologists err in the arbitrary explanations they give of the Fable, which is only a multiplied allegory of the Great Work. The Adept alone is capable of giving the fables the true explanation which suits them. Incest, adultery, and the other crimes that the Poets have imputed to the Gods, will then only be operations of hermetic science, personified, to allegorize all that is done successively in the Great Work.
The Blowers and the vulgar Chemists are no less seriously mistaken when they work on base metals, in the thought that they will arrive at the magisterium by their means. For although from them is the entrance to our work, says the good / Trevisan, and that our matter, by all the sayings of the Philosophers, must be composed of quicksilver, and quicksilver is in other things only The metals... Yet are they not our stone while they remain in metallic form; for it is impossible for a matter to have two forms. Our stone is a worthy middle form between metal and mercury. The same Author speaks extensively of metals in his Work on Stone, to which, for this reason, he has given the title of Philosophy of Metals.
The Chemists and Metallurgists say that the metals have diseases;I made the detail in the article LEPRE. Metis. Jupiter, peaceful possessor of Olympus, after having struck down the Giants, married Metis, Goddess whose knowledge was superior to that of all the Gods and of all men. But in the time that she was ready to give birth to Minerva, Jupiter instructed that she was destined to be the mother of a son who would become the ruler of the universe, swallowed the mother and the child, so that he could learn good and evil from her. It was by the advice of Metis that Jupiter made his father Saturn take a potion which made him vomit, first the stone which he had swallowed, and then all his children which he had devoured. POWDER. It is to philosophically dissolve the matter of the work in the vase.

Those who were unacquainted with the Great Work heard everything he wrote According to the meaning that the letter presented, and not according to the spirit. Pythagoras' idea was none other than to imply that the spirit, or what constitutes the soul of perfect metals, passed through transmutation into lead, iron, and other imperfect metals, and made them other than they were before. Oh. Berrichius.
The Academicians did not understand by metempsychosis the translation of the intellectual soul of man into the body of another man, of an animal, or of a plant; but only the translation, or rather the conversion of the animal, elixirial soul, into another, to give it animal life; it is in this way that nature acts constantly.The dissolution of the body of animals allows the volatile spirits of this animal to evaporate, the fixed spirit mingling with those of the earth; both separated from the terrestrial substance which held them imprisoned, act magnetically on their fellows, who also act on their side. Nature, by their union, forms new mixtures, or similar, or different, according to the matrix where they meet. animal excrement, or from their bodies fallen into complete putrefaction, plants feed, other animals feed on these plants, and by a continual cycle, some are metamorphosed into others; which means that nothing perishes in the world, and that its volume does not increase, despite the possible and even real increase of its specific individuals.So the wolf can be converted into a lamb, the lamb into a wolf; hay into ox, ox into man, man into hay, etc. For the elixir or radical moist of each mixture, filled with the spirits of that mixture, is called soul, because it is the immediate subject of the living soul, as the spirit is its efficient cause; it is in this sense that the great world is said to be animated. other animals feed on these plants, and by a continual cycle, some are metamorphosed into others; which means that nothing perishes in the world, and that its volume does not increase, despite the possible and even real increase of its specific individuals. So the wolf can be converted into a lamb, the lamb into a wolf; hay into ox, ox into man, man into hay, etc.For the elixir or radical moist of each mixture, filled with the spirits of that mixture, is called soul, because it is the immediate subject of the living soul, as the spirit is its efficient cause; it is in this sense that the great world is said to be animated. other animals feed on these plants, and by a continual cycle, some are metamorphosed into others; which means that nothing perishes in the world, and that its volume does not increase, despite the possible and even real increase of its specific individuals. So the wolf can be converted into a lamb, the lamb into a wolf; hay into ox, ox into man, man into hay, etc.For the elixir or radical moist of each mixture, filled with the spirits of that mixture, is called soul, because it is the immediate subject of the living soul, as the spirit is its efficient cause; it is in this sense that the great world is said to be animated. despite the possible and even real increase of its specific individuals. So the wolf can be converted into a lamb, the lamb into a wolf; hay into ox, ox into man, man into hay, etc. For the elixir or radical moist of each mixture, filled with the spirits of that mixture, is called soul, because it is the immediate subject of the living soul, as the spirit is its efficient cause; it is in this sense that the great world is said to be animated.despite the possible and even real increase of its specific individuals. So the wolf can be converted into a lamb, the lamb into a wolf; hay into ox, ox into man, man into hay, etc. For the elixir or radical moist of each mixture, filled with the spirits of that mixture, is called soul, because it is the immediate subject of the living soul, as the spirit is its efficient cause; it is in this sense that the great world is said to be animated. as the mind is its efficient cause; it is in this sense that the great world is said to be animated. as the mind is its efficient cause; it is in this sense that the great world is said to be animated.


Some time after Jupiter had swallowed Metis, he felt seized with great pain in the head; he had recourse to Vulcan, who with a blow of his ax split his head. Minerva emerged fully armed from the wound, even at a very advanced age. See the chemical explanation of all this in Fables Egypt. and Greeks unveiled, book. 3, c. 4 and 9.

Metopium. Galbanum. Blanchard.

Subways. Perfect red stone.

Put. (Sc. Herm.) When the Sages say in their books, put this, add that, it should not be believed that they are recommending adding or putting anything foreign or even analogous to what has been put once in the vase;they only hear that it is necessary to continue to cook the compost, which lacks nothing but the boiling, constantly maintained until it turns white or red.
PUT below what is above, and what is above below. This is what the Philosophers call converting the elements, changing natures; that is to say, to make the fixed volatile, and to fix the volatile.
GIVE BIRTH. Expression which means the same thing as work, of which see the article. Mineral. Mixed Participant of the Principles of Metals. The metallic minerals are composed of very simple and homogeneous parts, which renders the mixture of them very fixed, and almost incapable of corruption. Their base is a coarse, vitrifiable earth;
This dissolution takes place by means of putrefaction; it reduces the compost, says Flamel, into an impalpable powder, as subtle as the atoms which one sees fluttering in the rays of the sun.

Mezeroeum. A species of plant that is of the laurel class; some call it Chamelee.

Micha and Michach. Copper, Venus. Rullandus.

Micleta. Medication to stop bleeding.

Microcosmos. Man is usually given this name, which signifies little World; because man is the epitome of the great. The Philosophers also give it to their magisterium, because it contains, they say, all the virtues of things superior and inferior.

Midas.King of Phrygia, and son of Cybele, sought to win the benevolence of Bacchus, by welcoming Silenus. One day when this foster-father of the God of wine had gotten drunk, and was sleeping near a fountain, Midas had him tied with a garland of flowers. They took him in this state to the Palace of the King, who treated him perfectly well, and then took him to Bacchus. This God was charmed to see him; and to reward Midas, he offered to grant him without exception all that this King would ask of him. Midas, without much thought, demanded that everything he touched be turned to gold. Bacchus gave him this property. When Midas wanted to eat, he was astonished to see the very meats he touched turned into gold, and therefore incapable of being eaten;and fearing to starve, he had recourse to Bacchus, and begged him earnestly to deliver him from such a fatal gift. Bacchus consented to this, and ordered him for this purpose to wash himself in the Pactolus River. Midas was there, and communicated to the waters of this river the property which was so expensive to him.
There arose later a disagreement between Apollo and the God Pan, over song and music. Midas was chosen as arbiter, and foolishly judged that Pan sang better than Apollo. This God, to punish him for having judged so badly, made him grow his ears in the shape of donkey's ears. See. the explanation of this fable in Book II of the Unveiled Egyptian and Greek Fables, ch. 5.

Noo.Perfect sulfur of the Philosophers. They gave it this name, because they called it Sun, and this star is in its highest degree when it is at noon.

Honey. Solvent of the Philosophers.

Mifres. Asphalt.

Migma. Mixture of different simple, to form a medicine.

Milcondat. Dragon's blood.

Middle of the sky. Some Hermetic Authors have so called the dissolving matter of the great work, because they say that the wind has carried their dry water, their mercury, into its belly, and that it is found in principle in the air.
MIDDLE BETWEEN MINE AND METAL. It is the material of the work. Medium to unite the tinctures, it is the philosophical mercury.Middle between metal and mercury, it is the perfect sulphur.

Militaris, or Stratiotes. Aquatic Houseleek, so named for its virtue in stopping the blood from wounds. The same name has also been given to the plant known as Yarrow.

Mina or Mna. According to Dioscorides, it was formerly a weight of sixteen ounces, or 128 drams. The Attic mine weighed twelve and a half ounces, the Roman twelve ounces, and that of Alexandria twenty ounces, or 160 drams. Blanchard.

Mine. Matter from which metals and minerals are formed in the bowels of the earth.This matter, according to the principles of the Hermetic Philosophy, is first of all only a vapor that the elements push with the air and the water into the bowels of the earth. The central fire sublimes it towards the surface; it is digested and cooked with the sulfur it encounters, and according to the degree of purity of the mixture and of the matrix, more or less perfect metals are formed.
CELESTIAL FIRE MINE. Magisterium in red, or Sulfur of the Philosophers. He who has had the good fortune to succeed in making this mine of celestial fire, says d'Espagnet, let him preserve it very preciously. There is nothing in the world so excellent. Mining. The Philosophers give the name mining to several things.

and as they do not have organs like vegetables and animals, they are formed by simple accretion, and all have the same form, or, to put it better, have no determine one, as has each species of the other two kingdoms of Nature. However, they also have a seed, but the same for all, which does not consist in the assembly of various parts, but in a very simple subject, to which are conjoined and adherent many other parts which constitute its apparent form.
It enters three ingredients into the mineral compound, a seed, an unctuous moisture which clings to it, and finally a mercurial moisture which augments and nourishes it. The seed is the same for all minerals and metals; but like all the children that the same man would have with one or more women, would almost all be different.
The minerals also differ among themselves, according to the matrix where the seed is deposited and grows. The food and the different proportions of ingredients that go into the mix are its diversity. Beccher explains the nature of minerals at great length in his Physica subterranea, and no one before him had done so in a more plausible way.
The Philosophers say that their matter is mineral: indeed it is; but it must not be imagined that they derive their mercury from any mineral such as it may be, except, as Philalethes says, from the first principle of salts, which is not, however, salt, nor has any form of salt.In vain therefore do the false Adepts employ minerals, marcasites and salts, both vegetable and mineral, nor borax salts, rock salts, nitre, alum, vitriol and attramens, they do not will only get ashes and the loss of their sorrows and their property . It is surprising that all the Philosophers constantly repeating that their matter or their mercury do not derive from these things, there are however so many people who do not want to believe them.

Minerva. The Egyptians had placed a Minerva among their great gods, and she was particularly revered at Sais. They said she was the wife of Vulcan, the oldest and first of all their gods. The Libyans said she was the daughter of Neptune and of the lake of Tritonidae, and that Jupiter had adopted her for his daughter.But the Greeks said that she was really the daughter of this father of the gods. Jupiter, they said, after the war of the Titans, seeing himself, with the consent of the other gods, master of Heaven and Earth, married Metis, who passed for the wisest and most prudent girl in the world: but seeing her ready to give birth, and having learned from Heaven that she was going to give birth to a daughter of consummate wisdom, and a son to whom the Destinies reserved the Empire of the world, he devoured it .Some time later, feeling a great pain in his head, he had recourse to Vulcan, who with a blow of an ax cleaved his brain, from which emerged Minerva fully armed, in the form of a young girl of a mature age. , so that she was henceforth in a position to succor her father in the war of the Giants, where she distinguished herself greatly. At the end of the fight she found Bacchus badly treated, but still quivering; she lifted him up, presented him to Jupiter, who gave him back his strength and vigor. so that she was from then on in a position to succor her father in the war of the Giants, in which she distinguished herself greatly. At the end of the fight she found Bacchus badly treated, but still quivering;she lifted him up, presented him to Jupiter, who gave him back his strength and vigor. so that she was from then on in a position to succor her father in the war of the Giants, in which she distinguished herself greatly. At the end of the fight she found Bacchus badly treated, but still quivering; she lifted him up, presented him to Jupiter, who gave him back his strength and vigor.
Minerva had a dispute with Neptune over who would have preference in naming the city of Athens; Minerva won by the judgment of the twelve great gods. She deprived Tiresias of his sight, because he had had the temerity to look at her naked in the bath. Vulcan wanted to do violence to this Goddess;but she defended herself so well that, without suffering any affront, Vulcan became the father of Ecricthonius, and the Earth his mother. Minerva having taken the child, who was counterfeit, shut him up in a basket and fed him.
Vulcan, Minerva and Prometheus had a common altar; and to the solemnities of both parties torches and lighted torches were carried, with baskets. The owl, the dragon and the rooster were dedicated to him.
Minerva is usually represented with a helmet on her head, a pike in one hand, and a shield in the other, with the aegis on her chest. This Goddess was the protector of the Heroes; Hercules and Odysseus experienced it on all occasions.The reason is that they are all Chemical Heroes, and this Goddess was in the same category; what makes say that it fell a golden rain in Rhodes the day of his birth. See the explanation of all these fictions in the Fables Egypt. and Greeks unveiled, book. 3, c. 9 and book. 6.
By armed Minerva the chymists ordinarily mean their mercury. When the Fable says that it was born from the brain of Jupiter by a blow of an ax given to him by Vulcan, it is the mercury which sublimates itself by the coction made by the fire, or Vulcan.The Philosophers express themselves in the same sense of the Fable, when they say that it is necessary to strike with the sword, the sword, the knife, to bring the child out of the womb of its mother. It is as if they were saying: cook the material of the work to push it to the degree of perfection of which it is susceptible. Several adepts have called their sulfur mining, because this red body is the principle and the beginning of their tincture and of their metals. Their white miner is their magisterium to the white, and their red miner is their stone to the red in the first work. Ministry. Mercury dissolving the Sages.

They call by this name the matter from which they know how to extract their mercury, and then they call it properly mine of their mercury; but ordinarily when they say simply our mining, or the mining of metals, then they mean their animated mercury, or, what is the same thing, their matter after putrefaction in medicine of the first order, because it is in the putrefaction produced by the meeting of body and mind. Philalethe says that Parier des Sages is the mine of their gold, and that their magnet is the mine of their steel. Minos. Son of Jupiter and Europa, married Pasiphae, daughter of the Sun. He was King of Candia, and waged war among others against the Athenians.


They have sometimes called it Prime Minister, because the work must begin with the purification of matter, and it is in this purification that the mercury of the Philosophers is formed.

Minimum. Red Sulphur, or Celestial Fire Ore. Minotaur. Monster having human form from head to waist, and the rest of the body like that of a bull. Pasiphae, wife of Minos, gave birth to him, and Minos had him locked up in the labyrinth, where he was fed with human flesh. Theseus, son of the King of Athens, who had been sent to fight him, won the good graces of Ariadne, daughter of Minos, to whom Daedalus who had built the labyrinth, had discovered the way out. She gave Theseus a ball of thread by means of which he found the way out, after defeating the Minotaur.

After having vanquished them, he obliged them to send him every year as tribute seven young boys of the first of the Republic, to fight the Minotaur of which Pasiphae had given birth, and which he had enclosed in the labyrinth which Daedalus had built. Theseus, who had the fate to fight this monster, defeated it and returned triumphant to Athens. The Fable represents Minos to us as a Judge so honest that Pluto chooses him, with Eaque and Rhadamante, to judge the dead, and send them to the Champs Elysées, or to Tartarus. See the Egyptian Fables. and Greeks unveiled, book. 3, c. 14, § 5. Harvest.

See these fictions explained in the Egyptian and Greek Fables. unveiled, book. 3, c. 14, § 5 and book. 5, c. 22.

Mirabilis Peruviana. Fragrant Solanum, so named from the admirable variety of flowers of this plant.

Miracle of Art. It is the white and red projection powder, so named because the Art can do nothing more perfect for the health of the human body, and for the transmutation of metals into gold.

Misadir or Misatis. Armonia salt.

Misal. Sour milk.

Misatis. See MISADIR.

Missadam. Mercury or quicksilver.

Misserasi. Talc, plaster.

Missy.Mineral matter, a species of chalcitis which participates in vitriol. Its substance is hard, shiny and shiny gold in color. We. found it formerly in the copper mines of Cyprus, according to Dioscorides; today we do not know what it is. Blanchard says it's a kind of rust that grows on chalcitis, like verdigris on copper.

Mixadir. Armonia salt.

Mixed. Assembly of several homogeneous or heterogeneous bodies. We can reduce all the mixed to three classes, in the system that everything is composed of earth and water.
The first contains the mixtures made of water and water, the second those which are constituted of earth and earth, and the third those which have for principles earth and water.The last two classes contain the three kingdoms of Nature, the animal, the vegetable and the mineral.
In these three kingdoms even the mixtures of each kingdom are different, according to the difference in the proportions of the mixture.
In the mineral kingdom the mixing takes place by accretion alone, because all its constituent parts are almost similar to each other. Vegetables are made by accretion, alteration, digestion and vegetation, because of their dissimilar parts, just as the animal kingdom, which, besides accretion, &c. of the vegetable kingdom, still requires the action and the union of what we call soul.
The mixture which forms the body of animals consists in union; that of vegetables, in coagulation; that of the minerals in the fixing. Beaker.

Mixtion. Anything composed of the different parts of several things as confused together. The Spagyric Philosophers use rather indiscriminately the terms intrusion, submersion, conjunction, connection, complexion, composition, instead of mixture, to deceive the curious ignorant; and they define mixtion a union of altered miscibles, conjoined by all sides of their smallest parts. By miscible they mean the elements. Pantheus Venetus.

Mna. See Mina.
Mnemosyne. Daughter of Heaven and Earth, had Jupiter the nine Muses. See the Muses article.

Philosophical month. The Hermetic Chemists make their months of forty days, which is the time of putrefaction of matter.But they say that the month is a period which imitates the movement of the Moon; that is why some do it for thirty, others forty days. It is called philosophical, because the Hermetic Philosophers count it thus for the time of their operation. It should not be imagined, however, that they mean by that forty natural days, much less is needed; but they are thus expressed enigmatically for time, as for matter and for the vase. See. TIME. Monification. Preparation of raw materials from which the Philosophers extract their mercury. This preparation is the first operation of the work and precedes that of the perfect preparation.

The Adepts say: the time of the harvest has arrived, to signify that the Hermetic work is completed, that the projection powder is perfect, and that by the use that can be made of it by transmuting imperfect metals into gold or in money, we reap the fruits of the labors we have endured.

Molhorodam. Rock-salt.

Molibdena. lead mine.

Molipdides. Saturn stone or lead.

Molification. Same thing as solution, trituration, putrefaction.

Mollugo. Species of cleaver, whose seed does not attach to clothes.

Molly. Homer spoke of Moly as a plant of great virtues, and said that Mercury presented it to Odysseus when he was on the island where Circe was staying.It was formed, says the Fable, from the blood of a Giant who had been killed. Our Botanists have given the name of Moly to a species of garlic which hardly differs from common garlic, except because it has no bad smell. It sprouts from its root five leaves a foot or a foot and a half long, two or three fingers wide, thick, pointed, green; but often covered with a powder which easily separates from it: there rises between them a stem three or four feet high, round, bare, green, hollow, bearing at its summit an umbel or bouquet of small flowers. with six or seven pointed leaves, arranged in a circle, white or reddish.After they have passed, small triangular fruits appear, divided internally into three cells, which contain almost round, black seeds, resembling those of an onion. Its root is bulbous, usually as big as a fist, black outside, white inside.

Molybdaena. Plant called Persicaire. Molybdoena is also a name given to litharge, and to lead mine.

World (Small). Perfect stone of the Philosophers, so called because they say that it contains all the properties of the great world, and that it is like its epitome. Mountain. The Philosophers gave this name to the metals by comparison.

It consists in the separation of the pure parts from the impure ones, and of the sulphurous, combustible and arsenical parts from the mercurials properly so called. Some have called this mondification, purification, rectification, administration. The sign which indicates this perfect mondification is a celestial, white, dazzling color of matter, and resembling that of the finest silver. Mortify. See. COOK THE MATERIAL. It is also to change the external form of a mixture, as one does that of mercury by making it fixed from the volatile that it was. Mosardegi. Lead. Moselle. Jupiter, pewter. This term, in some Chemists, signifies mercury. Moots. Same as Eudica.

Our bodies (says Riplée, 2, part.) have taken their names from the planets, which has caused them to be called mountains, in comparison from where the Scripture says, when the water will be tormented and troubled, the mountains will rush to the bottom of the sea.
Sometimes the Alchymists have understood by the term Mountain, their vase, their furnace, and all metallic matter.

Mora Bacci, Mora Bâti, or Mora Vaccinia and Vaccinia. Bush.

Morping. State of the matter of the Sages in the hands of a bad Artist, and not the defect of the fire of coals or other matters to make it act, as interpreted by the Author of the Hermetic Dictionary.

Dead. In the chemical sense, is the present state of putrefaction of the mixed;and regeneration is their resurrection. This is why they distinguish two states of Death. One is absolute death, which is an essential separation, and the loss of the roots and the intimate form of the mixed, incapable after this death of resuming its first form. The other state is that of accidental death, which is only a separation of the excrements, without alteration of the pure roots, and of the intrinsic form which contains the idea of ​​the mixture. This death is that of the grain in the earth before it germinates; of the seed in the womb, and of all that is renewed by generation.

Death of the Elements. (Sc. Herm.) Change in the apparent form of the material of the magisterium;such, for example, as this matter in the earth is after solution: this is what the Philosophers call conversion of the elements.

Mortar. Mercury or dissolvent of the Philosophers, so named because by its means the gold of the Sages or the dissoluble body is reduced to an impalpable powder, and resembling, says Flamel, the atoms which flutter in the rays of the sun.

Mortification. In terms of chemistry, is a species of pulverization which disposes mortified bodies to a new generation; such is that of the seeds of vegetables, which are put in the ground to make them germinate and push out new shoots similar to those which had produced them.It is in this respect that the axiom has been made, the corruption of one body, is the beginning of the generation of another; for it is demonstrated that there is no generation that has not been preceded by mortification. This kind of corruption has been given the name of mortification, because this putrefaction taking place slowly, the seeds seem to die. It differs from putrefaction properly so called, in that the former is only for a time; and that she is not true corruption or rottenness, to which the generation of the same species of plants or animals never succeeds. In mortification, the radical humidity of the earth in vegetables, and that of the seed in animals, dominates for a time the innate and vivifying heat;but, after a time, this igneous spirit, aided by external heat, regains new strength and, dominating in its turn the radical humidity, completes generation. Multiplication. Operation of the great work by means of which the projection powder is multiplied, either in quality or in quantity to infinity, according to the good pleasure of the Artist. It consists in repeating the operation already done but with exalted and perfected materials, and not with raw materials as before. The whole secret, says a Philosopher, is a physical dissolution in mercury, and a reduction in its first matter. For this effect, the Philosophers take matter cooked and prepared by Nature, and reduce it to its first matter, or philosophical mercury from which it was drawn.

Mill of the Sages. It is the dissolvent of the Philosophers. They gave him this name for the same reason that they called him Marble, Crible, Mortar, whose articles see.

Die. This term has two meanings in the works of the Philosophers. He takes himself to make him fall into putrefaction and dissolution, in order to procure new life for the philosophical child. He also hears it from the fixation of the volatile, after volatilization. Which made Philalethes say, matter must be dried and fixed; then she will be dead. It is then fermented, and the ferment which is its soul will revivify it.

AVERAGE. For joining and uniting dyes. It is the Mercury of the Philosophers.
MEDIUM DEVICE. Magisterium in white.

Moz. Myrrh.

Mozhacuinia. Mercury of the Sages.

Mu. Meum.

Mucago.Mucilage.

Mucarum and Mucharum. Barbaric name given to the syrup of rosés, and to their infusion.


To have a full knowledge of this operation, one must observe five things.
1°. Let the Adepts reduce years to months, months to weeks, weeks to days, days to hours, etc.
2°. The Philosophers have the axiom that every dry thing eagerly drinks up the moisture of its kind.
3°. That the dry then acts more quickly on its wet than it did before.
4°. The more land and the less water, the sooner the solution will be.
5°. That every solution is made according to convenience, and that whatever dissolves the Moon, also dissolves the Sun.

Murpur. Copper, Venus.

Musadir. Armonia salt.

Museum.Ancient Greek Poet, one of the first to bring Egyptian Fables to Greece.

Muses. The Muses, nine in number, are commonly regarded as daughters of Jupiter and Mnemosyne. Diodorus of Sicily says that the Muses did not differ from the Singers who accompanied Osiris in his conquests in the East. Their origin and their occupations could not be better represented than Hesiod did in his Theogony.
Apollo has always been regarded as presiding over the assembly of the Muses; and nothing is so charming as what is said of the concerts of Parnassus where this God presided, and where they sang in a manner capable of charming men and gods. Hercules also passed for their driver; and that's where the name Musagete came from. The Muses were also regarded as Warrior Goddesses; and they have often been confused with the Bacchantes, because in fact they did not differ from them. Plutarch even teaches us that sacrifices were made to them before giving battle.
One day of bad weather, says the Fable, the Muses took shelter at Pyrenée: he found them to his liking, and wanted to do violence to them;they asked the gods for wings to escape from his hands. They got them; they fled, and he lost his life pursuing them.
The Alchymists regard the Muses as the symbol of the volatile parts of the matter of the Hermetic work. The reasons for this can be seen in book 3, ch. 14, § 3 of the Unveiled Egyptian and Greek Fables.

Muzadir. Armonia salt.

Myacantha. Small shrub called Brusc.

Forget-me-not. Plant called Mouse-ear.

Myrrha. Daughter of Cyniras, fell in love with her own father, with whom she committed incest by the stratagem of her nurse whom she had put in her confidence. Her father having discovered the fact, drove out Myrrha, who took refuge in Arabia, where she was changed into the tree which bears myrrh, and there gave birth to Adonis the fruit of her loves. See the Fa-bles Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 4, c. 4.Mystery

. Operation or making of the Great Work, so called because all the Philosophers make it a mystery that they discover only to their most intimate friends. Some have given the name Mystery to the first matter of the work, because it is that which they have concealed the most in all their works.

Mystrum. Measurement of the Ancients.
the little six dragmes.

N

Naiads. Water Nymphs. This name comes from a Greek word, which means to flow. The Poets took this idea from the Hermetic Philosophers, who first personified the materials of their work, and the required operations, with the colors which manifest themselves during the union of the fixed part with the volatile. The latter being a flowing mercurial water, they gave it the general name of Naiad.

Nanphora. Stone oil. Planiscampi.

Nappy. Nymphs of Hedgerows and Forests. In Hermetic Chemistry, like all Nymphs, they are the symbol of mercurial water.

Naphtha or Bitumen.Material of the work in putrefaction, so named because the bitumen is a brown-black, and the material of the Philosophers in putrefaction, resembles black pitch. Three qualities of these principles: the volatile, the fixed, and a third which participates in both. Three divisions of the day according to creation: day, night and twilight. Three measures of things: the beginning, the middle and the end. Three measures of time: past, present and future. Three dimensions in bodies: length, width, and height. Three principles of man: soul, spirit and body. Three parts in the body of the microcosm, corresponding to as many parts of the macrocosm: the head, the chest and the belly.

Naporan. Sea shell that gives purple color. Adepts have sometimes given this name to their perfect sulphur, because it has this color.

Nar. Fire.

Narbasaphar. Leton or copper; but it must be understood from the brass of the Sages.

Narcissus. White flower, into which the fable says that a young man of surprising beauty, son of the river Cephissus, and a nymph, was changed. Proserpina was abducted by Pluto while she was picking narcissus.
See what it all means, book. 4, c. 3 of Egyptian and Greek Fables unveiled.

Nass. Furnace. Nataron. Nitre.

Natron.Species of fixed alkali salt, which the ancient Egyptians used to make glass, or to whiten and degrease fabrics, and which, when combined with all oily liquors, lymphatics, and other fats, produces the same effects on the body. that operates on the leather lime which is used to tan them. The Egyptians also used it to embalm the bodies that we know today as Egyptian Mummies. After having emptied them of the intestines and the brains, they put these bodies for 70 days in Natron; and when they were sufficiently impregnated with this salt, the head, chest and belly were filled with resinous and bituminous matter. Wednesday. of France, January 1751.

Nature. The eye of God.God himself, always attentive to his work, is properly nature itself, and the laws he has laid down for its preservation are the causes of everything that takes place in the universe. To this first motor or principle of generation and alteration, the ancient Philosophers added a second embodied, to which they gave the name of Nature; but he was a secondary nature, a faithful servant who obeyed his master's orders exactly, or an instrument led by the hand of the sovereign Worker, incapable of making a mistake. This nature or second cause is a universal spirit, vivifying and fruitful, the light created in the beginning, and communicated to all the parts of the macrocosm. The Ancients called it an igneous spirit, an invisible fire, and the soul of the world.
The order which reigns in the Universe is only a developed continuation of the eternal laws. All the movements of the different parts of the mass depend on it. Nature forms, alters and corrupts incessantly, and her moderator, present everywhere, continually repairs the alterations of her work.
The term Nature also means the part of the Universe made up of the terrestrial globe, and all that belongs to it. In this last sense Nature, according to all Physicists and Chemists, is divided into three parts, which they call kingdoms; namely, the animal kingdom, the vegetable, and the mineral. All the individuals of this sublunary world are included in this division, and there is none who does not belong to one of these three kingdoms. All three start from the same principle, and nevertheless are composed of three different substances, which are their seeds; namely, menstruation for animals, rainwater for plants, and mercury water for minerals. Each kingdom is again composed of an assembly of three substances,analogous in some way with those of the other kingdoms; that is to say, of a subtle, tenuous, spirituous and mercurial substance, of a gross, earthly and filthy substance, and of a third mean, and which partakes of both. There is no body from which Art does not manage to separate these three kinds of principles.
Besides these three substances, we notice a fourth, which may be related to the first by its tenuity and its subtlety; but which seems to differ from it, in that it is almost impossible for the Art to reduce it to a liquorous spirit, whereas the other condenses into water, such as the spirit of wine and the other subtle liquors, to which we give the name of Spirit. This incondensable matter is what JB Van-Helmont calls Gas.It is that which makes itself felt, which evaporates from the beginning of the fermentation of bodies. Beccher says he was unable to condense this gas, which evaporates from the wine as it ferments in the barrels.
In these three classes of individuals the seed is different, and according to the same Author, contrary to each other in certain respects; although they have much affinity between them, as having issued from the same principle, one cannot become the seed of a kingdom different from its own: so that the Creator having once separated these three substances from the same principle, they are no longer transmutable into each other. Those who scrutinize Nature find in it a triune character, which seems to bear the imprint of the seal of the Trinity. Theologians will see in this character mysteries and such surprising things, which are all done in threes, that they are quite capable of strengthening our faith.Skillful and judicious physicists see that this trinary number of the three kingdoms is well worthy of all their attention. The age of a man, however prolonged, is not sufficient to observe the astonishing and admirable operations which take place in the laboratories of these three kingdoms. Is there anything more incomprehensible than what happens in the dark abode where man is conceived and engendered, of a substance so vile, so corruptible, in a way so simple and so common, in a few months, composed however of an infinity of veins, nerves, membranes, valves, vessels, and other organs, the least of which could not be perfectly imitated by the most skilful Artist of the Universe? What could be more admirable than to see in one night, in the same rain,in the same soil, so many different plants, so diverse in color, in smell, in taste, in shape, germinate and grow and in such great quantity, that there is no man in the world who has even seen them all, far to have known its properties! The fossils have nothing less admirable, and we are no more in a condition to explain their generation perfectly, than that of the other two kingdoms. We know a lot, we may not even know more; but what is known to us is certainly enough to make us cry out with the King Prophet: That your works. Lord, are beautiful! Tu as. does everything with great wisdom. that there is no man in the world who has even seen them all, far from having known their properties!The fossils have nothing less admirable, and we are no more in a condition to explain their generation perfectly, than that of the other two kingdoms. We know a lot, we may not even know more; but what is known to us is certainly enough to make us cry out with the King Prophet: That your works. Lord, are beautiful! Tu as. does everything with great wisdom. that there is no man in the world who has even seen them all, far from having known their properties! The fossils have nothing less admirable, and we are no more in a condition to explain their generation perfectly, than that of the other two kingdoms. We know a lot, we may not even know more;but what is known to us is certainly enough to make us cry out with the King Prophet: That your works. Lord, are beautiful! Tu as. does everything with great wisdom. we are perhaps still ignorant of more; but what is known to us is certainly enough to make us cry out with the King Prophet: That your works. Lord, are beautiful! Tu as. does everything with great wisdom. we are perhaps still ignorant of more; but what is known to us is certainly enough to make us cry out with the King Prophet: That your works. Lord, are beautiful! Tu as. does everything with great wisdom.
These three kingdoms still have a difference in their way of being, which distinguishes them one from the other. Animals have a body, the parts of which seem to form only an assembly made by union; plants by coagulation, and minerals by fixation. The latter are found only in the bowels of the earth, and half outside the earth; the animals are all out of the ground, or are totally separated from it.
The study of Nature brings with it so many amenities, so much pleasure and so much utility, that it is surprising to see so few people apply themselves to it.
Some ancients reduced everything in combination, and admitted numbers as the form of all that exists, or as the law according to which everything is formed in Nature.Tycho Brahe collected his reflections on this in an extremely rare card today, to which he gave the title: Calendarium naturaîe magicum perpetuum, profundissimant rerum secretissimarum contemplationem, totiusque Philosophiœ cognitionem complectens. He bets there on almost all of Nature, which he arranges under the numbers from unity to twelve. As most readers will be glad to have some idea of ​​it, here is the substance of what it contains. There have been three kinds of time which have passed or which have passed since creation: the time of Nature, called the law of Nature; the time of the law, or the law of Moses, and the time of grace, or the law of grace. Three Theological virtues: faith, hope and charity.
Everything is combined and composed in Nature, according to certain invariable measures formed, so to speak, on numbers which seem to arise from one another. There are several unique things in the world that represent unity to us. A God, principle and end of all things, and who has no beginning, just as in numbers nothing precedes unity. It will also have no end, as unity can be added to unity by an infinite progression.
There is only one Sun from which seems to proceed the light which it communicates to the whole Universe, after having received it. There is only one macrocosm and one soul in the Universe. In the intelligible and material world a single stone of the Sages, and in the microcosm a heart, source of life,
Unity is therefore the source of friendship, of concord and of the union of things, as it is the principle of their extension; because one unit produces two. This number two is the principle of the generation of things, composed of two; namely, of form and matter, of male and female, of agent and patient; this is why this number is that of marriage and of the microcosm, and signifies the procreated matter. The form, the male and the agent are the same thing. The Sun, the Earth, the Heart, the Form, and what Astrologers call Dragon's Head, are regarded as male. The moon, the water, the brain, the matter and the tail of the dragon are the female; the first represented by Adam, the second by Eve.So God only created one male and one female; and nothing in the Universe is generated without the cooperation of one with the other. Which is represented to us by the two Cherubim who covered the ark with their wings, and by the two tables of the law given to Moses, which were enclosed therein.
The unity added to the number two makes three, a sacred number, very powerful and perfect; and the second division of Nature and its principle God into three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The Son is begotten of the Father, and the Holy Spirit proceeds from both. Also the Creator seems to have wanted to manifest himself to us in the whole book of Nature;as it was its beginning, it seems to have formed man from all the quintessence of things, to be the spectator of the Universe, and to recognize therein its Author. Everything also in Nature is composed of three and divided by three: three persons in God, three hierarchies of Angels, the supreme, the middle and the low, which multiplied by itself forms nine, of which we will speak hereafter. There are three kinds of souls in the Universe: the intelligent, the sensitive and the vegetative. These three souls are found in man, the sensitive and the vegetative in animals, and the vegetative alone in plants. A mind somewhat enlightened and instructed in Nature will see without difficulty that all these things divided into three, however, make one and the same thing;


Three intellective powers in the microcosm: memory, mind and will.
Three kingdoms in Nature: the mineral, the vegetable and the animal, in which man should not be understood in particular, because he is composed of the quintessence of the three.
Three kinds of elements: pure, compound and decomposed.
Three material principles of all mixtures: sulphur, salt and mercury. A unit added to three produces four, which becomes, according to Tycho Brahe and several others, the foundation of all numbers, the fountain of nature, as containing the perfect number from which everything was created. This is why the Universe is divided into four elements, fire, air, water and earth, to the first three of which correspond two planets to each;

The head in the sky, the chest in the firmament or in the air, the belly in the ground.
Three main elements: fire, air and water. There are six manners of being or modes of bodies: size, color, shape, relative position, rest and motion. The cube has six sides. Six degrees of man: understanding, memory, feeling, movement, life and animality. Six main external parts in the head of man and other animals: two eyes, two ears, the nose and the mouth. fleeing nature. Volatile matter which is not permanent in fire, such as common mercury. We must take care of all these metallic materials of a fleeting nature, because they are not proper to the magisterium. Argo ship (the).
as the three persons make one God. Time past, present and future are one and the same time; the height, the width and the length of a body, make only one body. The soul, the spirit and the body compose only one man; all these things are nevertheless very distinct from each other, and we conceive the difference, as well as the union to make the unity; why would anyone doubt the existence of a God in three persons?
namely, the Sun and Mars in fire, Jupiter and Venus in air, Saturn and Mercury in water; and the Earth has in common the Sun, the Moon and the fixed Stars.
There are also four cardinal points in the world: East, West, South and North.
Four winds: Eurus, Zephyrus, Aquilo and Auster.
Four qualities of the elements: the light of fire, the transparency of Air, the mobility of water, The Philosophers everywhere recommend that only things of the same nature enter into the composition of the stone; because nature delights in its own nature, nature improves nature, nature perfects nature, nature contains nature, and nature is contained by nature, as Parmenides says in the Code of Truth.
Four principles of man corresponding to the four elements: soul to fire, spirit to air, animal soul to water, and body to earth.
Four main humors in the body of the small world: bile, blood, pituite and melancholy.
Four faculties of his soul: intellect, reason, imagination and feeling.
Four progressive degrees: to be, to live, to learn and to understand.
Four movements in Nature: the ascending, or from the center to the circumference; the descending, or from the circumference to the center; the progressive or horizontal, and the circular.
Four terms of Nature: substance, quality, quantity and movement.
Four mathematical terms: point, line, area,
Four physical terms: the seminal virtue or seed of bodies; their generation; their growth and perfection.
Four metaphysical terms: being or existence; gasoline; virtue or the power to act, and action.
Four moral virtues: prudence, justice, temperance and strength.
Four complexions or temperaments: liveliness, cheerfulness, nonchalance and slowness.
Four seasons: winter, spring, summer and autumn.
Four Evangelists: S. Mark, S. John, S. Matthew and S. Luke.
Four sacred animals: the lion, the eagle, the man and the ox.
Four kinds of mixtures: animals, plants, metals and stones.
Four kinds of animals: those that walk; those who steal;those who swim, and those who crawl.
Four physical qualities of bodies: hot, wet, cold and dry.
Correspondences of metals to the elements: gold and iron to fire; copper and tin in the air; quicksilver in water; lead and silver to ground.
Four kinds of stones that correspond to them: precious and sparkling stones, such as diamonds, rubies, etc.; light and transparent stones, such as talc; hard and clear stones, like pebble; opaque and heavy stones, such as marble, etc.
Of the twelve signs, three correspond to each element: Aries, Leo and Sagittarius to fire; Gemini, Libra and Aquarius to the air; Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces to water;grounded Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn.
The number five is consecrated to Mercury, says Tycho Brahe, and is no less mysterious than those which precede it. We see there the water, the air, the fire and the earth of which is composed any mixed which makes a fifth quite abbreviated of the four.
Five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch.
Five kinds of mixtures: stones, metals, plants, zoophytes and animals.
Five kinds of animals: humans, quadrupeds, reptiles, fish and birds.
Five extremities common to male and female animals: the head, the two arms and the two feet.
Five fingers on each foot and on each hand of man.
Five main parts in the interior of the body: heart, brain, lung, liver and spleen.
Five parts in plants: root, stem, leaves, flower and seed.
Nature has as it received its last perfection by the number six; for the world was completed on the sixth day of creation, and on that day God looked upon all that he had made, and all was perfectly good.
There are six imagined circles in the sky: the actic, the antarctic, the two tropics, the equinoctial and the ecliptic.
Six wandering planets: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Mercury and the Moon.

But Nature seems to delight in the number seven more than any other, and the Pythagoreans, who regarded it as the most mysterious number, called it accordingly the carriage of human life. The virtue of this number, they said, manifests itself in all the generations of Nature, and serves particularly for the generation of human nature. It is used to compose it, to make it conceive, to train it, to give birth to it, to nourish it and to make it live. Aristotle says there are seven cells in the womb; if the semen remains there for seven hours, conception takes place; the first seven days, it becomes fit to receive the human figure; the child is perfect, is born and lives when it comes into the world at seven months;after seven days he sheds the superfluous from his navel; after twice seven days his eyes turn towards the light; this is why the nurses must take great care to always place the child so that he can see the light directly, this lack of attention makes many shady children; after seven months his teeth begin to grow;
after the third septenary he begins to speak; at the age of seven his teeth fall out; in the second septenary of years he begins to have the generative faculty; at the third septenary it becomes stronger, and assumes nearly all its growth; on the fourth he is a perfect man; on the seventh it begins to decline, and the seventh decade is usually about the end of its life, as King David says.
The tallest human height is commonly seven feet.
In the great world there are seven planets, seven Pleiades, seven days of the week. Every seven days the Moon changes quarters.
The ebb and flow of the sea is more noticeable on the seventh day of the Moon, and on each septenary. We would not finish if we wanted to report here all that is done in sevens in Nature. One can see in Holy Scripture how mysterious this number seven was. Everything seemed to go there in sevens: prayers, feasts, purifications, etc.; seven lean and seven fat cows, seven wheat ears, seven plagues of Egypt, seven years of famine; Naaman washed seven times in the Jordan; David praises God seven times during the day;seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, etc. The rest of Tycho Brahe's Map looks more particularly at the planets and the signs of the Zodiac, with their cabalistic virtues and properties; that is why I pass over it in silence. When the Philosophers say that it is necessary to change natures, it is not to cause the mixtures of one kingdom to pass into the nature of another kingdom, as a vegetable would be in the metallic nature; but to spiritualize the bodies; and to embodie the spirits, that is to say, to fix the volatile, and to volatilize the fixed: what they also call putting the underside on top, and the top under; reduce the earth to water, and the water to earth.

The reason for this is that the principles of the matter of the magisterium are the same as those of the metals, and that not being yet animated by the properly metallic soul, they nevertheless have the faculty of uniting together in the mixture that we do. Let no one imagine succeeding in doing the work, taking, for the material of the magisterium, plants, or the salts of plants, hair, human blood, urine, or any other thing taken from man or animals, nitre, vitriol, attramens , common salt or any other salt; antimony, bismuth, zinc, orpiment, arsenic, sulphur, and whatever kind may be minerals, except one, says Philalethes, which is their first being.
We must therefore not take common mercury for this purpose, nor mercury extracted from metals, nor metals alone, although they are all of the same nature. The Souffleurs must be careful that Morien warns them, that everything that is bought expensive is useless, and is worth nothing for the work; that if one does not find the material of the magisterium vile, despised, thrown, even sometimes on the heaps, and trampled under foot in the places where it is, in vain will one put one's hand to the purse for the acquire, since one can amass it oneself on the mountains, in the plains, and in all countries; that it costs nothing but the trouble of looking for it and picking it up; that benign Nature forms her ready to work, and that the ingenious Artist has only to help Nature,so that she gives him this celestial and divine water, this mercury of the Sages so sought after by so many people, and found by so few people. Let the studious lover of Hermetic Science engrave himself very deeply in the spirit that he must imitate Nature; use the same principles and the same ways, to arrive at the same end, that it does not employ animals to make a plant, but the seed of this same plant, or a plant to make a metal, nor metal to make an animal; but the seeds of each thing to make each thing. Let him learn to know Nature, and not be mistaken in taking for vegetable what is mineral, or for mineral what is animal. To have this knowledge, it is to God or to a Philosopher that one must have recourse.We must pray with authority and uprightness of heart, with humility and perseverance; and will God, so good, so merciful, refuse to man, who is his image, this principle of health and wealth, he who grants food to the young of the crows who invoke him? Nemea. In the Nemean forest there was a furious lion that ravaged everything, Hercules killed him. See forest. Nemeans (Games). See game. Neogala. Newmilk. Neoptolemus. Nickname given to Pyrrhus, son of Achilles. V. pyrrhus. Nepheloe. This name is given to small white and light spots that occur on the eye and on the nails. We also call Nepheloe these small clouds which swim in the urine.

Nature joins by nature; nature contains nature; nature rejoices in nature; fine nature nature; nature loves nature; nature overcomes nature; nature retains nature, are ways of speaking of the Philosophers, to signify that the philosophical dissolvent must be of the same nature as the body which is to be dissolved, that one perfects the other in the course of operations, and the union of two is done first by putrefaction, and then by fixation. Mercury dissolves the fixed which is of the same nature, since it was made of it; the sulfur or fixes it, then fixes the mercury, and makes of it the powder of projection.
This is why the Hermetic Chemists say that the various natures do not mend; that is to say, are not capable of perfecting themselves, because they cannot unite perfectly. Thus the juices of the plant called lunar, nor any other plant juice that it may be, are worth nothing for the metallic work. The mercury claimed to be fixed by their means is a pure deception.

Shipwreck. (Sc. Herm.) The Hermetic Philosophers so call the errors of the Chymists in the search for the stone of the Sages, because they call their mercury sea; and that this mercury and its properties are absolutely unknown to the blowing chemists.

Vessel mounted by the Argonauts for the conquest of the Golden Fleece. See the book. 2, c. 1 of Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled.

Naxos. Island in which Bacchus found Ariadne, after Theseus had abandoned her there. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 5, ch. 22.

Nebulgea. A kind of salt found coagulated on pebbles and stones.

Necrocomicum. A term that Paracelsus coined to mean the animal soul of man. He says it dwells in the water that is around the heart, and it is no bigger than the little finger of a man's hand.He adds that there are three lives or three essences in man, all three of which may be called Spirit; namely, the spirit of heaven, or air; the spirit of the microcosm, which is properly the animal soul; and mind of all muscles. This is what committed him to understanding all these lives or spirits under the name of Necrocomicum.

Necrole. Necroleus. He who of the first has written skillfully of a thing. Paracelsus says that Moses was one of the Necrolia of the Philosophy of the Adepts. Nostra in Adepta Philosophia Necroleus, and Antesignanus Moyses fetus est. Paracelsus, from Azoth. Nelee. Son of Neptune and Tyro, .

Necrolium. Sovereign remedy to preserve health. Raymond Lully called him his nigrum, etc. Planiscampi.

Nectar. Drink of the Gods. It is the medicine of the Philosophers. The nectar took its name from neoV, juvenis, and claomai possideo; as if to say, drink that preserves youth. The Hermetic Philosophers attribute the same property to their medicine. In the course of the operations of the work, they give the name Nectar to their mercury or azoth, because it quenches the matter which remains at the bottom of the vase, which they have called Saturn, Jupiter, Venus, etc.

Snow. The Alchymists explain of the oil of gold, or sulfur of the stone, that snow of which Pindar speaks, when he says, that the King of the Gods spread in the city of Rhodes a great quantity of golden snow, made by art of Vulcan . Oh. Borrichius.
snow (Sc. Herm.) Magisterium to the white, because then rushes a white powder like snow. And when they say that the snow must be cooked, that is to say, that the digestion and circulation of the compost must continue.

Neith. Name of the Egyptian Minerva.

daughter of Salmoneus, had by Chloris, daughter of Amphion, twelve sons, whom Hercules killed, except Nestor. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled.

Nepenthe. Remedy which Homer says that Helen used, and which had been given to her in Egypt. This remedy cured all kinds of diseases, and always preserved joy and satisfaction in the hearts of those who used it. It must be interpreted as the universal panacea of ​​the Hermetic Philosophers. It is the only remedy that can produce this effect, because it gives health and wealth, and provides a long life to enjoy it. Theodore Swinger gave the name Nepenthes to an opiate whose base is laudanum; this opiate, says Blanchard, has admirable effects when given against vapors and melancholy. It delivers from all languor and sadness, and gives joy and cheerfulness.

Nephele. Wife of Athamas bore him two children, Phrixus and Helle. Athamas repudiated her, to marry Ino, daughter of Cadmus, by whom he had Learque and Mélicerte. Ino indisposed her husband's spirit against her rival and her children. Phrixus and Helle fled to escape the outbursts of Athamas. They rode on a ram with golden fleece, and thus wanted to cross the sea to retire to Colchos. Hell fell into the sea and perished there, Phrixus arrived safely. Nephele was then metamorphosed into a cloud, that is what her name means. See the explanation of these fables, in chap. 9, of the book. 4 of Egyptian and Greek Fables unveiled.

Nephthe. One of Typhoon's wives.See typhoon.

Nepsi. Tin.

Neptune. Son of Saturn and Ops, brother of Jupiter and Pluto. These three brothers, after having chased their father from Heaven, divided the Empire of the Universe between them. Jupiter had Heaven, Neptune the Waters, and Pluto the Earth or the Underworld. Neptune married Amphitrite, and had many children by several Nymphs whom he seduced by transforming himself in all sorts of ways.
Jupiter drove him out of Heaven with Apollo, because they had conspired against him. They retired to Laomedon, and built the city of Troy. Laomedon not having given Neptune the salary they had agreed upon, this God took revenge by flooding the whole country.The Oracle was consulted to learn the means of putting an end to this scourge; he answered that Neptune would not be appeased, that the daughter of Laomedon had not been exposed to be devoured by a sea monster; what was done. Hesione was exposed, Hercules killed the monster and delivered her.
Neptune had a dispute with Minerva, to whom would give the name to the city of Athens. It was agreed that whichever of the two would provide men with the most useful thing would have the preference. Neptune struck the earth, a horse came out of it, Minerva struck it too, an olive tree was seen growing with its flowers and fruits; the Areopagus declared her victorious.
The Tritons and the other sea gods always accompanied Neptune, who was carried on a chariot made of a sea conch, and drawn by black horses. Neptune was regarded by the ancients as the author of all earthquakes. See the rest of the Fables that have been invented about him and their explanation, in the Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 3, c. 7.

Neree. Son of the Ocean and of Thetis, according to some; according to others, son of the Earth and the Sea: he married his sister Doris with whom he had a large number of daughters, called by her name Néréides. They spent all their time dancing and frolicking around Triton's chariot.The Nymphs of Jupiter and Themis sent Hercules to Nereus to be instructed in what he would have to do to safely remove the golden apples from the garden of the Hesperides. It is not without reason that Hercules will consult Nérée, since this one being son of the Earth and the Water, is the symbol of the matter of the Great Work, without the knowledge of which it is not possible to succeed. It is in the same sense, according to the true chymists, that the predictions of the calamities of Troy must be interpreted, that the same Nérée did in Paris. Orpheus says that Nereus was the oldest of. Gods, because the matter of stone is the substance of which everything on earth is composed. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book.2, c. 2 and leave. 1, p. 508, 523.

Nereids. Sea nymphs. See. NEREE.

Nerion. In Greek Rhododaphne, in French Oleander.

Nessus. Centaur, son of Ixion and a cloud, wanted to do violence to Déjanira, whom Hercules had entrusted to him to make him cross the Evene river. Hercules noticed this, from the other side shot him an arrow from which Nessus died. Feeling mortally wounded, he gave Deianira his tunic dyed with his blood, making her understand that this tunic would have the virtue of preventing Hercules from loving others but her, if he only dressed her once. , and that she would even increase the fires which he burned for her.Deianira took it, engaged Hercules to dress it, and this Hero felt seized by a fire which devoured him. See Dejanira, and the Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, Book. 5, ch. 19.Nestor

. Son of Neleus and Chloris, was one of the Greek Heroes who laid siege to Troy. He had been, before this war, at the wedding of Pyrithous. where he bravely fought against the Centaurs. Agamemnon only needed ten Nestors to overcome the siege of Troy. Nestor lived to such an advanced age that when you wish someone long life, you wish him the years of Nestor. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 6.

Nestudar. Armonia salt.

To clean. See wash, whiten.
to clean L'ÉTABLE D'AUGIAS is to purify matter of terrestrial and aqueous impurities. See augias.

Nephew. Large copper tube.

Neusi. Magisterium in red.

Nentha. amnion.

Chicken’s Nest. Mercury of the Sages. It is also sometimes the vase which contains matter, or the triple vessel which Flamel calls the Cockpit of the chicken.

Nile. The river Nile was placed in the rank of the great gods of Egypt, no doubt, say some mythologists, because of the great advantages it procured for this country by its overflows. It is also given the name Ocean.The aim of the religious ceremonies and of the worship that the Egyptians rendered to this river was to teach the people that water is the principle of all things, and that with the fire which gives it its fluidity and which maintains it, she had given life and movement to everything that exists. The water of the Nile not only fertilized the fields, which without it would have become barren and deserted; but he still procured this fertility for women and animals. It is not rare to see in that country sheep which have borne two or three lambs at the same time,
The festivals celebrated in honor of the Nile were among the most celebrated.The ancient Kings of Egypt attended it accompanied by their Ministers, by all the Great Ones of the Kingdom, and by an innumerable crowd of people.
The Indians paid great respect to the Ganges, whose waters, to which they attributed great virtues, passed among them as holy and sacred.
The cult rendered to water in Egypt and Persia spread throughout the East, and even in the countries of the North.
Vossius assures the same of the ancient Germans and some other peoples, as may be seen in his learned Treatise on the Origin and Progress of Idolatry.
We know that the Greeks were no less careful to revere the ocean, the rivers and the waters. They never undertook any journey by water except beforehand to make some libations and sacrifices to the marine divinities.
Maxime de Tire relates some reasons which could induce different peoples to honor the rivers which watered their country: some for their utility, others for their beauty; these for their vast expanse, those for some fabulous tradition, such as that of the combat of Hercules with the river Achelous. But if Maxime de Tire had been able to penetrate into the ideas of the first Philosophers, he would have guessed the object of these fables. He would have seen that these Masters of Philosophy thought that water had been the first matter of everything, and that animated by the fire of light, it spreads this spirit in all beings. This is the physical reason that led to the invention of fables.Coming next to the particular of the Hermetic Philosophy, water is the basis of the work, the principle and the agent.

Niobe. Daughter of Tantalus and Euryanasse, was married to Amphion, who built a City to the sound of his lyre. Niobe had six boys and six girls. Proud of her fertility, she insulted Latona, who, in revenge, urged Apollo and Diana to kill the children of this reckless girl. This God and this Goddess killed them with arrows. Niobe's grievance touched the Gods, who turned her into rock. See the Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, Book. 3, c. 12.

Nisa.City built by Bacchus in his expedition to India, in memory of the island of the same name, where he was fed and brought up by the Nymphs. The description of the beauties of this island is very similar to that given by the Cosmopolitan of the island which he pretends to have seen in a dream. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 3, c. 14, § 2.

Nitre. There are several kinds; the natural and the artificial. The first is found attached to the surface of the walls, or to the rocks. The second is drawn by leaching of land and rubble! walls. That of Alexandria is a little colored with faint red. The ancient Nitre of the Egyptians is as it were unknown to us. Several chymists have claimed that the mother water of nitre, or that reddish water which remains after the crystallization of nitre, was the first Stygian water of the Philosophers. They accordingly called the nitre Cerberus, Infernal Salt, Mercury;they even claimed that this mother water filtered, evaporated, coagulated, then dissolved in the air, evaporated, coagulated and dissolved again many times, became the magnet of the Cosmopolitan, from where one had to extract the Hermetic mercury dissolving gold. But they should have been careful that this Author, speaking of the nitre, does not speak of the common, but of the philosophical. That's why it always says our nitre. The mother liquor of nitre is the material from which the famous Santinelli powder is made. One evaporates all the humidity of this water after having put it in an iron boiler, over a clear fire.When the material has become like a greyish stone without being burned, it is allowed to cool, it is put in pieces in large earthenware pots, with plenty of water, where it dissolves; this first water is withdrawn without disturbing the faeces, a second water is added, and so on several times until the water no longer has the flavor of sea salt or nitrous. The water is decanted, and the faeces, which look like starch, are dried. These faces are powdered for use. This powder has admirable virtues to unclog and purify the blood. Some have called the gravelly ashes of Alexandria niter. Rullandus.Blanchard says that the names Bau-rach, Algali, sel Anderone, Anatrem, Cabalatar have been given to the nitre, and that Basil Valentin indicated it by that of Serpent de terre, Serpens terrenus.

Nitriales. All limestone.

Nitron. Foam of glass. Rullandus.

Noas. Arabic term that some have used for that of copper. Rulland.

Wedding. Reunion of the fixed and the volatile in the work of the magisterium and the elixir. These weddings are made more than once before reaching the perfect point of the projection powder.
The Philosophers have designated them under the fables of the weddings of Peleus and Thetis, under those of Pyrithois, etc. See their articles.

Nochat. Copper.

Noera. Capital of a still. Rulland.

Black blacker than black itself.
It is the matter of the work in putrefaction; because then it looks like melted pitch. Little is said except of the second operation, where the fixed is dissolved by the action of the volatile. In the Fables, black always indicates this putrefaction, as well as mourning, sadness, often death. Thetis, going to implore Jupiter's protection for Achilles, presented herself to this God in a black robe blacker than black itself, says Homer. When Iris went to find her on behalf of Jupiter, so that she persuaded her son Achilles to return Hector's body to Priam, Iris found her dressed in black at the bottom of her marine cave. This putrefaction is always indicated by something dark in the works of the Philosophers.Sometimes it's the raven's head, the dark jacket, Jean's blackbird, the darkness; sometimes the night, the eclipse of the Sun and the Moon, the horror of the tomb, hell and death. They also name the black color which supervenes on matter, their lead, their Saturn, their brass which must be whitened, the head of More. They all agree that the blackness appears around the fortieth day of cooking. They also call it the key to the work, and the first demonstrative sign, because, says Flamel, if you do not blacken, you will not whiten; if you do not see this blackness in the first place before any other determined color, know that you have failed in the work, and that you must begin again.their Saturn, their brass that must be whitened, the head of More. They all agree that the blackness appears around the fortieth day of cooking. They also call it the key to the work, and the first demonstrative sign, because, says Flamel, if you do not blacken, you will not whiten; if you do not see this blackness in the first place before any other determined color, know that you have failed in the work, and that you must begin again. their Saturn, their brass that must be whitened, the head of More. They all agree that the blackness appears around the fortieth day of cooking. They also call it the key to the work, and the first demonstrative sign, because, says Flamel, if you do not blacken, you will not whiten;if you do not see this blackness in the first place before any other determined color, know that you have failed in the work, and that you must begin again. you will not bleach; if you do not see this blackness in the first place before any other determined color, know that you have failed in the work, and that you must begin again. you will not bleach; if you do not see this blackness in the first place before any other determined color, know that you have failed in the work, and that you must begin again.

Darkness of Night. V. black. night.

Blacken. To cook the matter, to make it dissolve and putrefy. See. the Hermetic Treatise in the first part of the Egyptian and Greek Fables unveiled.

Name. (Sc. Herm.) Nothing, says Morien, has so misled those who study the books of the Chemical Philosophers, as the multitude of names they have given to their matter, and to the unique operation that the one must do to reach the magisterium . But let it be known that matter, being unique, has only one proper name in each language. The different colors which arise in this matter have caused it to give all the names of the matters which are thus colored. For example, when it is black, the Philosophers have called it ink, mud, crow's head, and all the names of black things. When it came to white, they named it purified water, snow, swan, etc. After the white comes the color citrine; then the Philosophers say our oil, our air,and of all the names of spirituous, volatile things, as they had called it salt water, alum, &c. when it was white. When it has reached red, they call it sky, red sulphur, gold, carbuncle, ruby, and finally the name of all red things, both stones and plants, and animals. As for the names of the operations, they are explained in the articles which concern them. Let it be known only that philosophical sublimation is only a purification of matter by itself, or a dissolution of bodies into mercury. both stones and plants, and animals. As for the names of the operations, they are explained in the articles which concern them.Let it be known only that philosophical sublimation is only a purification of matter by itself, or a dissolution of bodies into mercury. both stones and plants, and animals. As for the names of the operations, they are explained in the articles which concern them. Let it be known only that philosophical sublimation is only a purification of matter by itself, or a dissolution of bodies into mercury.

Navel of the Earth. The ancient Greeks gave this name to the island of Delos, because they said it was the middle of the Earth. They proved it by the Fable, which says that Jupiter sent two eagles, one to the East, the other to the West, and that they met on the island of Delos, after flying tirelessly. always directly, and with the same speed. See.Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, Book. 3, c. 4 and 12.

Nomius. Nickname of Mercury.

Nonius. Name of one of the horses that dragged Pluto's chariot. V. abaster.

Nora. Lime, nitre and any salt. Rulland.

Nostoch. Species of terrestrial sponge, covered with a rather strong film; it is about the size of female sponges, sometimes as big as a man's head. It is found in grasslands in June, July and August. She is light, red, with holes inside like a sponge. When standing and still fresh, it jiggles, when stirred, much like flan or meat jelly. Some have called it star throw. Rulland. It's a kind of puffball.

Noted. The wind Notus was the son of the gods, like Boreas and the Zephyrus; the others were children of Typhoon, according to Hesiod. Basil Valentin says that the Notus wind and another are felt in the work, and that they blow very strongly: as the Notus or Noon wind is humid and rainy, it was pretended that it rose in the vase in the time of the volatilization of matter which rises in vapours, and falls back in a kind of rain, which fertilizes the philosophical earth; and as this wind of the Philosophers is formed by this matter, which is the principle of the Gods of the Fable, it is thereby found to be the child of the Gods, but of the Hermetic Gods.

Nurse.The Philosophers thus call the mine, or matter from which they draw their mercury and their sulphur; which must be understood before the first preparation, and during the second. Michel Majer has represented the philosophical child by an emblem, where we see a woman with a terrestrial globe in the middle of her chest; from this globe emerge two breasts, to which are attached the lips of a child who sucks them, supported by the arms of the woman; on the pennies are written these words, taken from the Emerald Table of Hermes: nutrix ejus est Terra; the Earth is its nurse.But when it comes to the nurses of the Gods, ordinarily they are designated by the volatile parts, or the mercurial water of the Philosophers, as can be seen in my Treatise on Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled.

To feed. V. cook. It is to this operation that we must relate what the Fable says, when it teaches us that Thetis fed Achilles with ambrosia during the day, and that she hid him under ashes during the night, to accustom him to fire, which must have been his element.

Child food. This term means fire and philosophical mercury; for it is said in the Fable, that Thetis, mother of Achilles, nourished him with nectar and ambrosia during the day, and hid him under ashes during the night.Achilles is the symbol of the fire of mercury, from which the child must be born, which is even often signified by Achilles, but even better by Pyrrhus his son. The food is the mercury, and the child is the magisterium that must come out of it.

Core. Mercury of the Philosophers, so named because it must be extracted from its mine by separating the terrestrial, aqueous and heterogeneous parts, in which it is buried as the nucleus is enveloped in its bark. Leave the bark and take the kernel, says Philalethes; that is to say, take the kernel, and leave the wood that covers it.

Nuba. Copper. The name nuba has been given to the manna which is collected in Ireland, because it has a reddish color, like that of copper. Planiscampi says she is rosy in color, and that she is the second species of Tereniabin.

nuchat. Brazen.

Cloud that eclipses the Sun. Expressions that signify the blackness and putrefaction of matter.The clouds of the Philosophers are the vapors which rise from matter to the top of the vase, where they circulate, condense, and fall back in rain or dew, which the Adepts call May dew. The golden rain which fell on the island of Rhodes at the time of Minerva's birth was produced by these clouds. They also form those with which Jupiter surrounded lo to shield it from the eyes of the jealous Juno. These are again those clouds in which Juno and Jupiter hid on Mount Ida. This cloud is also that which Ixion embraced, and that into which Nephele was metamorphosed; finally those on which Iris was carried, when she made her messages.

Nuhar. Brazen. Venus.

Night (the). Daughter of Earth and Chaos. Orpheus says she was the mother of the gods. She allied herself with Erebe, from whom she had many children.
The Philosophers also take the Night as a symbol of their matter that has reached black, or putrefaction. She is then in effect the mother of the Chemical Gods, because they only give the name Saturn to their matter when it is blacker than black itself; and Saturn is the first of these Gods.

Nummus. Material of the black work.

NusiadaL

Nusiadat. Armonia salt.

Nussiadai.

Nux Unguentaria. Ben. Nymphs.

Nyctea. Antiope's father, conceived a great aversion for her, which forced him to retire to Epic, King of Sycione, who married her. She had Zethus and Amphion, who are said to be sons of Jupiter. See antiope.
Nyctea was also the name of one of the horses hitched to Pluto's chariot.

Nyctimene. Daughter of Nyctéus, fell in love with her very father, and found a way to unite with him without his recognizing her. Having discovered the thing, he wanted to kill her; but the gods changed her into an owl. This fable is explained in the same way as that of Myrrha, of which see the article.

Daughters of the Ocean and of Thetis; Hesiod causes them to be born from the foam of the sea, as well as Venus. They were given names analogous to the places they were supposed to inhabit. Limniades, those who frequented the ponds; Napées, those who presided over the Bocages: those who liked the woods, Dryades; and Hama-Dryades, those who attached themselves to some particular tree; those of the mountains, Oreades; finally those who inhabited the Sea, Nereids. In general the Nymphs are taken by the Alchymists for the volatile parts of the matter of the Great Work.
Porphyry (from Antr. Nymp. p. 25) thought that the idea of ​​​​the Nymphs came from the opinion held by the Ancients, that the souls of the dead wandered around the tombs where their bodies were buried, or in the places that they had dwelt during their life. But Homer gives the name of Nymphs to Shepherdesses, and to illustrious Ladies. Hesiod increased their number to three thousand, and made them live for several thousand years. It is to the Nymphs that Jupiter, Bacchus, and most of the Gods and Goddesses owe their nourishment and education. Homer gives an admirable description of the air of the Nymphs. They guarded the flocks of the Sun, and according to what the same Author says, they took more from the beauty and nature of the Goddesses than from those of women.
This is why the Ancients with Orpheus thought that the Nymphs were properly the aqueous humor animated by the fire of Nature, which was the basis of the generation of all the mixed.

Nysa. City located on the borders of Arabia and Egypt, in which Bacchus was born. He was fed by the Nymphs on an island of the same name, formed by the waters of the Triton River. It was the most agreeable country in the world; limpid waters sprinkled verdant meadows dotted with flowers; it abounded in all kinds of fruit, and the vine grew there of its own accord. The temperature of the air there was so healthy that all the inhabitants lived there without inconvenience until extreme old age. See the Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, Book.3, c. 14, § 2.

Nysadir. Armonia salt.

Nysoe. Armonia salt. Rullandus.

O

O.Taken simply is a chemical character which signifies alum; when cut horizontally through the middle or across its diameter, it indicates common salt: if cut perpendicularly, it is nitre. A horizontally cut O with a dot above and below the line also denotes common salt. An O with an arrow touching it on the side opposite iron means iron, steel, Mars. Two O joined by a chevron in the shape of pairs of glasses, means magnet. An O surmounted by a cross is antimony if the cross is below, it is Venus or copper. Two O joined by a perpendicular or horizontal line, marks arsenic. Three O placed in triangles mean oil. Two O close to each other with a rising line at each, called day.An O surmounted by a half-moon and a cross below means mercury, quicksilver. An O with a dot in the middle means gold. Here are all these characters with those where the O enters as the main part.
Steel, Iron or Mars.
Alum.
Antimony.
Quicksilver or Mercury.
Arsenic.
Arsenic.
Cinnabar.
wax.
Copper, Venus.
Calcined copper, or Aes ustum.
Calcined copper.
Calcined copper.

.
digest.
Mind.
Wheel light.
Oil.
Oil.
Day.
March.
Mercury.
Mercury precipitated.
Mercury precipitated.
Mercury sublimated.
Mercury sublimated.
Nitre.
Night.
Gold or Sun.
Orchid.
Powder.
Purify.
Realgar.
Realgar.
March saffron.
Alkali salt.
Armonia salt.
Rock-salt.
Black sulfide.
Sublimate.
Verdet, or verdigris.
Glass.
Vitriol.
Oabelcora. Cucurbite. Planiscampi.

Obac. Armonia salt.

Obelchera or Obeikera. Cucurbite.

Obrizum. Calcined gold in brown color.
Ocab. Armonia salt.

Ocean.Son of Coelus and Vesta, was regarded as a God and the father of the Gods. He married Thetis, and had many children, rivers, streams, Proteus, Ethra, wife of Atlas, Persia, mother of Circe, one. infinity of nymphs. Some Ancients said Ocean, son of Heaven and Earth. Homer speaks a great deal about the frequent journeys of the gods to Ocean. The Philosophers have given the name of Ocean and Sea to their mercurial water, principle of the Chemical and Hermetic Gods. With the fixed part of the work, it gives birth to all these Nymphs that are said to be daughters of Ocean. It is with them that Saturn, Jupiter and the other gods have commerce, and from which are born the Heroes of the Fable, as can be seen in my Treatise on the Fables Egypt.and Grecq. unveiled.

West. Name that some chemists have given to the matter of the work in putrefaction. It is the dissolution of the Hermetic Sun; it is called West, because this Sun then loses its radiance, just as the celestial Sun deprives us of its light when it sets. When the white color appears after the blackness of putrefied matter, it has been called East, because it seems that the Hermetic Sun then emerges from the darkness of the night.

Occult. Sun of the Philosophers hidden in the belly of magnesia. It is this Sun, says Philalethes, that we honor, because without it our arcana could not be stripped of its imperfections. But this Sun is not vulgar gold, the Sages alone see it, feel it, perceive it and know it And this Sun, he adds, cannot perfect our tincture by itself; it needs the help of the Moon, which subtilizes it and renders it volatile, purifying it of its impurities. This Moon is the mother and the field in which we must sow our Sun. To make the occult manifest is to extract mercury from its mine; it is also to cook matter in putrefaction, until whiteness, and the other succeeding colors manifest themselves.Make the occult manifest and the occult manifest; these expressions mean nothing else than to dissolve the fixed in volatile mercurial water, to volatilize it afterwards.

Occupation. Mixture of the perfect body with the matter of which it was composed by weight and measure in a suitable vase, and at a philosophical fire.

Ochema. Any liquor or vehicle with which drugs are mixed.

Ochrus, Ochrum, Ochra. Peas of the small species; kind of vegetable.

Ocob, Ocop, Otop. Armonia salt.

Ocypeted. One of the Harpies. See harpies.

Ocyroe. Nymph, daughter of the Centaur Chiron. See Chiron, and the Fables Unveiled, Book. 3, c. 7.Smell

. The Philosophers say that the matter of their Art is distinguished by its smell;that it has that of assa-foetida, that of tombs and sepulchres. But it should not be understood as raw material, and considered before its first preparation. Nicolas Flamel teaches us that the Artist does not smell this bad smell, unless he breaks his vessels; which indicates that they then speak of the time when this matter is in putrefaction. For the same Author says that the Artist judges her such, because she is in a state of death, like a corpse in its tomb. That's why Morien says she smells like corpses. Raymond Lully, who also expresses himself in this sense, warns us that such a sweet smell follows this bad, that it attracts all the birds in the vicinity to the H;top of the house: that is to say, the matter volatilizes after putrefaction, and rises to the top of the vase, to then rush into the Sea II of the Philosophers.

Oedipus. Son of Laius and Jocasta. His father, having learned from the oracle that he would die by the hand of his son, had him exposed so that he would perish. A shepherd; 'having found him hanging by one foot from a tree, untied him, and carried him to the King of Corinth. The Queen, who had no children, adopted him and nursed him. When he grew up, he learned from the Oracle that he would hear from his parents if he went to Phocis. He went on his way, and having met his father, he killed him without knowing him.Arrived at Thebes, he guessed and gave the solution of the enigma that Sphinx had proposed; Jocasta, who was to be the reward of the one who would solve this enigma, was adjudged and placed in the hands of Oedipus who married her, and had two sons, Ethéocles and Polynices, with two daughters, Antigone and Ismene . Oedipus then recognized his crimes, and gouged out his eyes. See the Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, Book. 3.

Oeneus. Déjamre's father, was killed by Hercules, who married his daughter. See dejanira.
Oeno. One of the daughters of Anius, obtained from Bacchus the power to change anything she wanted into wheat, oil and wine. See the Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, Book.3, c. 14, §2.

Oenoloeum. Mixture of oil and wine.

Œnomaua. Father of Hippodamia, having learned from the oracle that his son-in-law would kill him; to avoid this danger and get rid of all those who were courting his daughter, he told them that he would only give her to whoever defeated him in the chariot race. The lover was to pass in front, and Œnomaiis pursued him with spear in hand to kill him, if he did not win the victory according to conventions. Oenomaus had already killed several of them, when Pelops, who was not intimidated by it, presented himself to enter the lists. But he used trickery;he won over Myrtile, coachman of Oenomaiis, and induced him to break the chariot of this Prince, who perished in the fall; and Pelops obtained Hippodamia. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 6, Fatality 4.

Oenomel. Honeyed wine.

Oenone. Nymph who made her stay on Mount Ida. She fell in love with Paris when he was still only a shepherd, before he awarded the golden apple to Venus. This Nymph predicted to him that he would be the cause of the ruin of his country. When Paris was wounded at the siege of Troye, he had himself transported to Mount Ida near Oenone, and expired in his arms. She was so saddened by it that she died of grief.See Book 6 of Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled.

Oenopion. Son of Ariadne and Theseus. See ariadne.

Oenothera. Plant called Lysimachia.

Oeta. Mountain made famous by the death of Hercules, and his burial. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 5, ch. 1.

Egg of the Philosophers. (Sc.Herm.)
A large number of chemists have imagined that the Sages called the Philosopher's egg the vessel in which they enclose their matter in order to cook it; and they accordingly gave it the figure of an egg.Although this form is in truth the most suitable for circulation, it is neither the idea nor the meaning of the Sages; they understood by the Philosophers' terms of egg, not the container, but the content, which is properly the vase of Nature, and that even during putrefaction; because the philosophical chicken is enclosed therein, and the internal fire of matter excited by the exterior fire, like the internal fire of the egg excited by the heat of the hen, revives little by little, and gives life to the matter of which he is the soul, from which the philosophical child is finally born,
Egg more commonly signifies the very matter of the magisterium which contains the mercury, the sulfur and the salt, as the egg is composed of the white, the yolk and the film or the shell which encloses the whole.This matter is called egg, because nothing resembles better the conception and birth of the child in the womb of its mother, and the generation of chickens, than the operations of the magisterium, and of the philosopher's stone; which should serve as a guide for Artists, and not the invented rules of vulgar Chemistry, which destroys everything, instead of building up.
Raymond Lully says that the material of the work accumulates in the shape of an egg, when it is fixed: this is why it was given the name egg, when it has reached whiteness; a few while she's putrefying.

Work. The Philosophers include several works, although there is only one, but divided into three parts.The first, which they call simple work, is medicine of the first order, or the preparation of matter which precedes the perfect preparation, it is the work of Nature.
The second part, called middle work, is the perfect preparation, the medicine of the second order, the elixir and the work of Art.
The third is multiplication, and the work of Art and Nature.
The first preparation purges, monifies the bodies and tints them in appearance; but its dye is not permanent to the cup.
The second operation, or medicine of the second order, monifies and tints the bodies with a permanent dye,
Third-rate medicine is properly the Great Work.It requires more sagacity and industry, and perfectly tints bodies with much profit, because a single grain converts millions of grains of imperfect metals into gold or silver. Philalethe assures us that he has explained very clearly the whole work and its system in his work, which has the title: Enarratio methodica Trium Gebri medicinarum, seu de vera confectione lapidis Philosophici; and adds at the end of this work that everything is contained in these four numbers 448, 344, 256, 224; that it is even impossible to succeed without the knowledge of these numbers. I have put them here for the satisfaction of those who will take the trouble to seek their explanation.
All these operations properly compose what is called the Great Work, the Work of the Sages.So named from his excellence above all other productions of the Art. Morien says it is the secret of the secrets that God revealed to the holy prophets, whose souls he placed in his holy Paradise.
The great work therefore holds the first rank among beautiful things: nature without Art cannot do it, and Art without Nature would undertake it in vain. It is the masterpiece that limits the power of both; its effects Are so miraculous, that the health it procures and preserves, the perfection it gives to all the compounds of nature, and the great riches it produces, are not its highest marvels. If it purifies bodies, it enlightens minds; if he carries the mixtures to the highest point of their perfection, he raises the understanding to the highest knowledge.Several Philosophers have recognized in it a perfect symbol of the mysteries of the Christian Religion; they called him the Savior of humanity and of all beings in the great world, for the reason that universal medicine, which is the result, cures all diseases of the three kingdoms of nature; let him purge all the mixed of their original spots, and repair by his virtue the disorder of their temperament. Composed of three pure and homogeneous principles, to constitute only one substance far superior to all bodies, it becomes the symbol of the Trinity; and the followers say that it is from there that Hermes bet on it in his Pymander, as a Christian would have done.Their elixir is originally a part of the universal spirit of the world, embodied in a virgin earth from which it must be extracted to pass through all the operations required before arriving at its term of glory and immutable perfection. In the first preparation he is tormented, as Basil Valentine says, until she sheds her blood; in putrefaction he dies; when the white color succeeds the black, he comes out of the darkness of the tomb, and rises glorious; he ascends to heaven, quintessential; from there, says Raymond Lully, he comes to judge the living and the dead, and to reward each according to his works;that is to say, that the good Artists, the Philosophers, know by the effects that they have operated well and gather the fruits of their work, while the blowers find only ashes and dust, and are condemned to fire perpetual of their furnaces, without ever being able to succeed. Raymond Lully adds that the elixir has the power to drive out demons, because they are enemies of order, concert and harmony, and that he brings the principles of things into perfect accord; it is by re-establishing this accord that he restores equilibrium in the humors of the human body, and that he cures its diseases.
All these marvels which have charmed the hearts of the Philosophers, by enlightening their minds on the darkest and most mysterious secrets of nature, have irritated the minds of the ignorant, who judge of everything only by the senses. They consequently barked at this treasure, which they could not possess, and made the Great Work pass for a learned chimera, a reverie, an illusion. They cannot understand that an elementary substance can cure all sorts of ailments, however incurable the ordinary Physicians have declared them; they cannot persuade themselves that it can act on all bodies in such an astonishing way, that crystal it makes diamonds, lead it makes gold; and accuses the Philosophers of impostures,when they assure that they have done it and that they have experienced it. Fortunately for the Philosophers, learned people, well recognized as such, such as Beccher, Stahl, Kunkel, Borrichius, and so many others, took up the defense of the Great Work, and supported its reality and existence. It is not necessary, after what they have said, to make an apology for it. One can see the Preliminary Discourse which is at the head of the Egyptian and Greek Fables unveiled. to make the apology. One can see the Preliminary Discourse which is at the head of the Egyptian and Greek Fables unveiled. to make the apology. One can see the Preliminary Discourse which is at the head of the Egyptian and Greek Fables unveiled.
The great work must be a very easy thing to do, since the Philosophers have taken such pains to hide it, and have called it at the same time a woman's amusement and a children's game. When they said it was a women's work, they often alluded to the conception of a man in his mother's womb; because, according to Morien, the work of stone is similar to the creation of man: first, there must be the conjunction of male and female; second, conception, then birth, finally food and education.
The Great Work is also called the stormy sea, on which those who embark are perpetually liable to be shipwrecked, and this because of the great difficulties that are encountered in order to succeed perfectly. These can be seen in the Treatise difficulties of Theobaldus of Hogelande, and in the Treaty of Gold by Pic de la Mirandole.

Bird. The Philosophers have fairly commonly taken the birds for symbol of the volatile parts of the matter of the great work, and have given various names of birds to their mercury: sometimes it is an eagle, sometimes a gosling, a crow, a swan, a peacock, a phoenix, a pelican; and all these names are appropriate to the material of the Art, according to the differences of color or state which it experiences in the course of operations. The Philosophers have also had regard in these denominations, to the characters of the birds from which they have borrowed the names, to make the metaphorical application to their matter.When they wanted to designate the volatility and the action of dissolving mercury on the fixed part, they called it eagle, vulture, because they are strong and carnivorous birds. Such is the one whom the fable says gnawed the liver of the unfortunate Prometheus. It is the eagle who must fight the lion, following Basil Valentine and the other Adepts. Putrefaction is expressed by this fight, which is followed by the death of the two adversaries. Blackness being a consequence of putrefaction, they said that from the bodies of the two combatants a crow was born; both because this bird is black, and because it feeds on dead bodies. Darkness gives way to the varied colors of the rainbow.It has therefore been said that the crow was changed into a peacock, because of the same colors which are admired on the tail of this animal. Next comes the whiteness, which could not be better expressed than by the swan. The poppy redness that follows, gave rise to imagine the phoenix, which is said to be red, because its very name expresses this color. Thus each Philosopher borrowed from the birds which he knew, the names which he believed to be suitable for what he wanted to express. This is why the Egyptians had introduced into their hieroglyphs the two kinds of Ibis, black and white, which devoured serpents and purged the country of them. One sees a number of examples of these allegories in the Egyptian and Greek Fables unveiled.
hermes bird. Mercury of the Philosophers.
wingless bird. Sulfur of the Sages. Senior has taken as a symbol of the volatile and fixed matters of Art, two birds which fight, one having wings, placed above one which has none; one and the other are held by the tail, and the one who has developed wings seems to want to take off the other, who seems to be making every effort not to lose ground.
bird of the wise. Philosophical Mercury.
golden bird. Magisterium before its ^fixation; so called, because it contains the principles of gold, and because it is volatile.
green bird. Material of the work before its preparation.

Gosling of Hermogenes.Solvent of the Philosophers, whom Trevisan has named the Portier du Palais du Roi.
The Gosling was consecrated to Juno, for the reason that it is the symbol of the mercurial humidity, from which this solvent is formed.

Oleander. Rosette, oleander.

Oeum Ardens. Tartar oil rectified.
oleum colchotharinum. Red oil of vitriol.
oleum palestrinum. Vinegar. oleum vitrioli AURIFICATUM.
Oil of vitriol sweetened with gold. It is properly the incombustible oil of the Philosophers.
oleum terrae. Kind of oil Petroleum, but of a more graceful smell and a little reddish color.

Olive. Magisterium in red. Some have named it Perpetual Olive.

Olivier. Tree consecrated to Pallas, because it is said that she made him come out of the ground by striking her, and that because of the usefulness of its fruit, the Areopagus decided in favor of Minerva that she would have preference over Neptune, to name the city ​​of Athens. See neck brace.

Ollus. Matter to black.

Olus Atrum. Plant called big axis.

Olympus. Mountain of Thessaly, whose summit is lost in the clouds. The Poets took it for Heaven and said that the Gods dwelt there. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled.

Olympics (Games). See games.

Shadow.The Philosophers have called Shadow of the Sun the heterogeneous and impure parts with which the fixed grain of chemical gold is mixed, and from which it must be separated. They have given the same name to their vegetable saturnia, to their moon, to their electra.
Cimmerian shadows. Black color of matter in the time of its putrefaction. It is the same as the black sail of Theseus' ship on his return from Crete. The Fable also gives the same name of Shadow to the volatile parts which circulate in the vessel, and has expressed them by the Shadows which wander along the river Cocyte. See hell, champs-elysees.

Omphale. According to the Fable, was Queen of the Lydians. Hercules fell in love with her, to the point of making the madness of dressing in his clothes, taking his distaff and slipping away, without however this love reducing any of his courage, of which he gave proof in the fight in which he won. Cercopas. The Alchymists say that Omphale is their land, with which Hercules, or their mercury, is in love, until becoming, in the operation, the same thing with it, and that Cercopas signifies the heterogeneous parts which he separates, and purifies by its power and activity.The Philosophers having the habit of taking women for symbol of their mercurial water, it was necessarily necessary, in this circumstance, to pretend that Hercules had taken the clothes of Omphale, and had done his work; because this mercury,

Evening primrose. Plant known as Lysimachia. The Elders gave her the names Onagra, and Ono-thera, from what they believed she had. virtue of softening the strength of donkeys when they were hit with this plant.

Onitis. Species of oregano, which doubtless took the name Onitis, from the fact that donkeys eat it willingly, and in preference to many other plants.

Onobrychia. Sainfoin.
Onolosat. Weight of an obol, or half-scruple.

Opas. Nickname for Vulcan.

Ophirisi. Animated Mercury of the Philosophers.

Opobalsamum. Liquid balm, or Nutmeg oil.

Opochrisma.Ointment, or Sympathetic Balm, which heals wounds by rubbing only the weapon that made it. It is also called Unguentum armorium.

Oprimethiolim. Mineral spirit which contributes to the formation of metals and minerals.

Ops. Daughter of Heaven and Vesta, sister and wife of Saturn, was worshiped under the name of Cybele, and was regarded as the Goddess of Riches; because being the philosophical ground, it is indeed the base of the hermetic work, source of the wealth like health. As a woman, she is taken for quicksilver.

Gold. The purest and most perfect of all metals, has been called by the Adepts, Sun, Apollo, Phoebus, and various other names, especially when they have considered this metal as Philosophical. The gold which is used to make coins, vases and other things in use in civil society, is called dead gold, taken respectively from that which is the basis of the work; because the Philosophers say that all the metals which have suffered fusion have lost their life by the tyranny of fire. Their bright gold is that fixed grain, principle of fixity, which animates the mercury of the Sages and the matter of the stone, that is to say, the humid radical of the metals, the most digested portion of the unctuous and mineral vapour. who forms them.But it more properly takes the name Quick Gold, when it has become Sulfur of the Philosophers,
ethereal gold. Philosophical Gold. altered gold. It is the quick gold of the Sages. White gold. Magisterium of the Philosophers reached whiteness. They gave it this name, because of its whiteness, and that from it is born yellow and red gold, that is to say the perfect red stone, which is their true gold, their sun, their leaven, their red smoke.
gold in spirit. It is the gold of the Sages reduced to its first matter, which they call reincrusted, and volatilized by their mercury.
or philosophize. When they say take the gold, they do not mean vulgar gold; but the fixed matter of the work in which their bright gold is hidden and as if in prison.So their 24 carat gold is their pure gold and without mixture of heterogeneous parts. volatile gold. Thundering gold. Crolius. coral gold. Matter fixed to red.
gum gold. Fixed Matter of the Philosophers.
EXALTED gold,
MULTIPLIED gold, Projection powder.
SUBLIMATED gold,
vivified gold. It is gold re-encrusted, and volatilized.
gold of Alchymy. Sulfur of the Philosophers.
gold leaf. Sulfur of the Sages in dissolution.
BLEACHED gold. See WHITE smoke.
gold and silver with respect to stone. These are the two ferments for the white and for the red. These two metals only make quick silver frozen, digested and cooked by the fire of their own sulphur. Ordinary gold, the most perfect of all metals, cannot as such be carried by Art to a higher degree; but when it is reduced to its first matter by a secret and philosophical way, Art, says Philalethes, can then raise it to a perfection much more extended than that which it had received from nature. From dead that he was before his reincrudation, he becomes alive by means of the mercury of the Sages, who being alive, resurrects him. This is why the Philosophers say that the dead must be resuscitated, and the living must be put to death;that is to say, dissolve, putrefy and volatilize the fixed, and by its means then fix the volatile. Gold is destroyed by water which is of its nature, and not by any other solvent; because all things are reduced to their first principles by their very principles. Any other dissolution is violent and unnatural; it is rather a separation, a division of the parts of the body, than a real dissolution. This dissolution must be true and radical, so that it can be a channeling to a new generation. Those who want to succeed in the Hermetic Art, must therefore be careful not to take a solvent of a nature that is not of a metallic nature;for if they do not attach themselves to the very seed of metals, extracted from its mine, they will never succeed. Gold is destroyed by water which is of its nature, and not by any other solvent; because all things are reduced to their first principles by their very principles. Any other dissolution is violent and unnatural; it is rather a separation, a division of the parts of the body, than a real dissolution. This dissolution must be true and radical, so that it can be a channeling to a new generation. Those who want to succeed in the Hermetic Art, must therefore be careful not to take a solvent of a nature that is not of a metallic nature;for if they do not attach themselves to the very seed of metals, extracted from its mine, they will never succeed. Gold is destroyed by water which is of its nature, and not by any other solvent; because all things are reduced to their first principles by their very principles. Any other dissolution is violent and unnatural; it is rather a separation, a division of the parts of the body, than a real dissolution. This dissolution must be true and radical, so that it can be a channeling to a new generation. Those who want to succeed in the Hermetic Art, must therefore be careful not to take a solvent of a nature that is not of a metallic nature;for if they do not attach themselves to the very seed of metals, extracted from its mine, they will never succeed. and not by any other solvent; because all things are reduced to their first principles by their very principles. Any other dissolution is violent and unnatural; it is rather a separation, a division of the parts of the body, than a real dissolution. This dissolution must be true and radical, so that it can be a channeling to a new generation. Those who want to succeed in the Hermetic Art, must therefore be careful not to take a solvent of a nature that is not of a metallic nature; for if they do not attach themselves to the very seed of metals, extracted from its mine, they will never succeed.and not by any other solvent; because all things are reduced to their first principles by their very principles. Any other dissolution is violent and unnatural; it is rather a separation, a division of the parts of the body, than a real dissolution. This dissolution must be true and radical, so that it can be a channeling to a new generation. Those who want to succeed in the Hermetic Art, must therefore be careful not to take a solvent of a nature that is not of a metallic nature; for if they do not attach themselves to the very seed of metals, extracted from its mine, they will never succeed. than a real dissolution. This dissolution must be true and radical, so that it can be a channeling to a new generation.Those who want to succeed in the Hermetic Art, must therefore be careful not to take a solvent of a nature that is not of a metallic nature; for if they do not attach themselves to the very seed of metals, extracted from its mine, they will never succeed. than a real dissolution. This dissolution must be true and radical, so that it can be a channeling to a new generation. Those who want to succeed in the Hermetic Art, must therefore be careful not to take a solvent of a nature that is not of a metallic nature; for if they do not attach themselves to the very seed of metals, extracted from its mine, they will never succeed.

Oreads. Mountain Nymphs.

Orepis. Burning steam from scale. Planiscampi.

Orestes. Son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, left his father's house at an early age, to avoid the ambushes that Egyste, Clytemnestra's lover, set for him, after having killed his father Agamemnon. When Orestes had reached a certain age, he was secretly reunited with his sister Electra, and concerted between them the means of avenging themselves on the murderer of their father. They took their measures so well that they caused Egyste and Clytemnestra to perish in the Temple where they were sacrificing. Orestes then killed Pyrrhus, son of Achilles, who had taken Hermione from him. He felt himself afterward seized with a rage or a mania which gave him almost no moment of respite; so that he roamed the country wandering hither and thither like a vagrant.The Oracle consulted on this, replied that to be delivered from this fury, he had to go to Tauride, and remove there the statue of Diana from the Temple where she was revered there. He took with him Pylades, his intimate friend, who accompanied him there. Scarcely had they arrived there than they were arrested and imprisoned to be sacrificed to Diana, who was believed to be made propitious by the shedding of the blood of strangers. As one of the two had to be preserved, and as the death spell had fallen on Orestes, when he was asked to be sacrificed, Pylades presented himself. Orestes maintained that he himself was Orestes. Finally Thoas, King of the Country, had Orestes delivered into the hands of Iphigenia, who recognized him as his brother.Having learned the subject of the voyage from Orestes, she herself removed the statue of Diana, of which she was Priestess, and They fled with it, after having killed Thoas. Back in Athens, Orestes made the required expiations there for his murders, and came to his senses. He then died from the bite of a snake. See the explanation of this fiction in the Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, book. 3, c. 14, § 4.

Orgies. Festivals celebrated formerly in honor of Bacchus. See the Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, book 4, chap. 1.

East. Mercury of the Philosophers. Some chemists have given the name Orient to urine. But often the Adepts understand by this term the white color which succeeds the black, by allusion to the east, where the Sun rises when it comes out of the darkness of the night.

Orion. Had for fathers Jupiter, Neptune and Mercury. These three gods, traveling on earth, lodged with Hyrieus, who gave them the best fare he could. They asked him what he would like as a reward, and promised to give it to him. He told them that he wanted nothing more in the world than to have a son.Shortly afterwards they procured him a son, as told in the Fables. This son, named Orion, devoted himself a great deal to hunting, and finally died of an arrow shot at him by Diana, according to the testimony of Homer. Orion is the symbol of the philosophical child, born of Jupiter, or matter that has reached the gray color; of Neptune, or of the Sea of ​​the Philosophers, and of the Mercury of the Sages. The hunt in which he devotes himself, is the volatilization of matter; and the death that Diana gives her, is the fixation of Orion, or of volatilized matter, and which takes place when the white color, called Diana, appears.

Orithya. Daughter of Erectheus, was kidnapped by Boreas, and from their trade were born Calais and Zethus, who accompanied Jason to the conquest of the Golden Fleece. When they arrived at Phineus, they rid him of the Harpies, who perpetually tormented him, and infected all the meats served to him. See Calais.

Orizeum. Gold.

Orizeum Foliatum. gold leaf; it is philosophical gold in dissolution.

Orizeum Praecipitatum. Gold in saffron.

Orizontis. Dye-gold.

Ornus. Wild ash.

Orobo. Glass of metals.

Orogamo. However, according to Rulland.

Orpheus. Son of Apollo and the Nymph Calliope; according to some, son of Oeager and Polymine, father of Museus, and disciple of Linus. Mercury presented Orpheus with the lyre which he played with such perfection that the rivers stopped in their course to hear it; the rocks came to life, and followed him; tigers and other ferocious animals became tamed, all Nature became sensitive to the sound of Orpheus' lyre.
He perfected himself in the sciences by frequenting the priests of Egypt, who revealed to him all the mysteries of Isis and Osiris entrusted to them, and he brought back the fables and the solemnities which were adopted in Greece. But Orpheus, by communicating to his country the knowledge he had acquired in Egypt, accommodated himself to the notions of his compatriots, and made himself respectable there by persuading them that he had discovered the secrets of the Gods and of Nature, with the art of curing the sick.
He married Eurydice, and loved her so passionately, that death having taken her from him, he went to seek her in the Underworld.Pluto and Proserpina allowed themselves to be touched by the tender sounds of Orpheus' lyre, and allowed him to take his dear Eurydice with him to the abode of the living; but on condition that she would follow him, and that he would not turn his head until she had come to earth. Orpheus did not have enough patience, and his love did not allow him to be deprived of the sight of his wife for so long; he looked behind him; Eurydice was taken from him again, and he lost her forever. Orpheus then despised all other women; and the Bacchantes, in revenge, tore him to pieces. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 3.

Orphne.Name of one of the horses that dragged Pluto's chariot. See abaster.

Orchid. Sulfur of the Philosophers hidden in their mercury, taken for the male and agent seed. They often understand by the name of orpiment the perfect philosophical sulphur, that is to say, the white or red stone; sometimes the very material of the magisterium before its preparation, as can be seen in the article Arsenic.

Orus. Son of Isis and Osiris, according to the Egyptians. Diodorus says that Orus having been killed by the Titans, Isis had resurrected him and made him immortal. Orus, according to the Ancients, was none other than Apollo: his mother Isis had taught him the art of guessing and curing all illnesses.
This Orus, according to the Hermetic Philosophers, as Michel Majer says in his Arcona arcanissima, is this philosophical child born of Gabritius his father and Béya his mother, or if you want Isis and Osiris, Jupiter and of Latona, the treasure of the Egyptians , for the love of which his ancestors undertook so many journeys and labors, and by means of which men perform such great wonders. It is, in two words, philosophical gold, and universal medicine. V. the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 1, ch. 5.

Osatis. Guede, Pastel.

Oscieum. Plant called Ache.

Osemutum. Ironwire.

Osiria. God of the Egyptians, son of Saturn, married his sister Isis, and made himself commendable to the peoples over whom he reigned, by benefits without number. He made a trip to the Indies, to teach the inhabitants of these countries the art of cultivating the soil. On his return Typhon his brother slew him, and cut his body into pieces. Isis picked up the scattered members, locked them separately in different coffins, and gave them custody to the Priests of the country, instructed by Mercury, and forbade them under penalty of life to divulge the place of the burial of Osiris.
Osiris was among the Egyptians the symbol of the Sun, the same as Bacchus among the Greeks, and Adonis among the Phoenicians.
The Hermetic Philosophers say that all the fables of the Egyptians must be understood in a very different sense from that which they first present to the mind. They had invented all these names and these fables, only to hide from the vulgar the secret of the true way of making gold and universal medicine. Isis and Osiris are therefore the real matter of this mysterious Art; this matter is androgynous; they also call it the Moon and the Sun, sulfur and mercury, brother and sister, etc. By comparing the work to the conception of animals, which cannot be done without the joining of male and female, it is found in their rebis matter, the agent and the patient, from which is finally born a more beautiful son. , more powerful than its parents; that's to say,the elixir and gold which has the property of transmuting other metals into gold, which matter could not have done before its preparation. Mich. Major.
He had been given this name of Osiris, because it means hidden fire, active and vivifying principle of Nature. This is why it was said to be the same as the Sun, because of the principle of heat and life that this star spreads in all the beings of the Universe. The fabulous life of Osiris is an allegory of the required operations of the Hermetic Philosophy, and an exposition of all that happens in the course of these operations. See the Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, book 1, chap. 2 and 3.

Osmunda. Species of fern called Royal Fern.

Osoror.Opium.

Ossa. Mountain of Thessaly, which the Fable says was once part of Mount Olympus and which Hercules separated from it to give passage to the river Peneus. Mont-Ossa was the place where the Centaurs and the Giants made their stay. See the Egyptian and Greek Fables unveiled.

Ossaparalelli. Specific for taste. Planiscampi.

Ostrutium, or Astrantea, or Magis-trantia. Imperative.

Osyris. Plant known as Toadflax.

Otap. Armoniac salt reddened by the water of Colcotar.

To remove. When the Philosophers say that we must remove or put, they do not mean that we must diminish or add something to the vessel; but only that it is necessary to continue cooking the matter, because it dissolves, it purifies, putrefies, congeals, coagulates, blackens, whitens and carries out all its operations by itself, without the Artist puts his hand in it.

Othan. Mercury of the Philosophers.

Othus and Ephialtes. Giants, son of Neptune and Iphidanue, wife of Aloeus. The Poets claimed that in nine years these two Giants had grown to the height and breadth of nine logs of land. They were bold enough to fight the Gods; Apollo killed them with arrows. Homer, book. 11 of his Odyssey.See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 3, c. 7 and 12.

Oubelcore. Cucurbite.

Work of Patience. It is the Great Work, so called, because it is extremely long to do. This is why the Philosophers all recommend to have patience, and not to be discouraged by the length of time; that all haste comes from the devil; that Nature has its determined weights, measures and time to achieve its ends.
woman's work. The Philosophers almost all say that the great work is a woman's work and a children's game, to signify the facility of perfecting the stone to those who are instructed in the operations. And the thing is undoubtedly true;for if it had been very difficult, they would not have applied themselves so much to hiding them. Many even say that if they said them openly and clearly, they would be laughed at; and that if we were to believe them on their words, even the most stupid would leave their trades and their profession to undertake to make the philosopher's stone. Indeed, to succeed, it is enough to take a material that Nature has left imperfect, a base material and despised by everyone, whom fools trample underfoot; and perfect it by following the simple processes of Nature. Do you need so many furnaces, so many vessels, so many operations to reduce a solid matter to water without adding anything, and then put it back in the ground without adding anything to it;reduce it again to water with addition, put it back in the ground again without addition;
finally resolve and coagulate? Here is all the work, which it is not possible to achieve by calcinations, reverberations, solutions, distillations, sublimations, cohobations, and the other innumerable operations of vulgar chemistry.

Open. Dissolving matter, making bodies soft and fluid. The envious Philosophers, says Flamel, have never spoken of multiplication except under these common terms of Art, open, close, bind, unbind. They called to open and loosen, to make the body soft and fluid like water, and to close or bind, to coagulate it by a stronger decoction.

Oxatis. Sorrell.

Oxeleum. Vinegar beaten with oil.

Oxos. Vinegar.

Oxyacantha. Berberis.
It is also the name of the shrub called Hawthorn.

Oxycroceum. Medicine composed of vinegar, saffron and some other drugs.

Oxydercica. Eye drops or remedies to sharpen eyesight.

Oxygala. Sour milk.

Oxylapathum. By she.

Oxyrhodinium. Rose vinegar.

Oxus. Plant called Clover, Hallelujah; Cuckoldbread.

Oxytripyllum. Sour clover: so called because it has a slightly sour taste, and is three-leaf like the common clover.

Goose of Hermes. Mercury of the Philosophers.

Goose of Hermogenes. Volatilized stone matter after dark.

Bird. See bird.

Ozo. Arsenic.

P

P. Means in Chemistry and in the language of Doctors, a handful.
EAPBY
. Equal parts.
GO. AEQ.

Pachuntica. Ingredients which thicken, which give consistency to a medicine. Some Philo6k>-phes have given the name of Pacunticum to the sulfur of the Sages, because it coagulates and fixes their mercury.

Jackpot. Lydia River, which has its source at Mount Tmolus. The Ancients said that the waters of this river rolled spangles of gold, and that it had received this property from Midas, who washed himself in it, to get rid of the disastrous gift that Bacchus had given him of changing everything into gold. he would touch. See the Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, Book.2, c. 5. Pajon. Bezoar. Palamede. Son of Nauplius, King of the island of Euboea, incurred the hatred and aversion of Ulysses, to the point that the latter had him stoned by the Greeks. Odysseus pretended to be mad not to go to the Trojan War, and for this purpose harnessed two animals of different species, with which he plowed the shores of the sea, and sowed there salt instead of grain. Palamede put before the plow Telemachus still in infancy. Odysseus stopped his plow so as not to hurt his son, and let it be known by this attention that he was not as foolish as he wanted to make believe.

Poeon. Physician who heals Pluto of the wound Hercules inflicted on him, when this God of the Underworld attacked him while he was cleaning the stable of Augeas. It is from this Pœon that the plant known as peony in French, was called pœonia in Latin.

Chicken Straw. Flamel says himself that he gave this name to the ashes of the bowl on which the vase of the Philosophers is placed.

Odysseus therefore set out with the other Greek princes, and avenged himself on Palamedes, supposing that the latter was in league with Priam. For this purpose he had a sum of money buried in the tent of Palamedes, and had a supposed letter from Priam intercepted. The Greeks fell into the trap, and stoned Palamedes.
All this fiction has no other purpose than to teach us that Ulysses, instead of working on the real material of the work, harnessed two animals of different species, that is to say, believed he could succeed by mixing in the vase two matters of different natures, against the sentiment of all the Philosophers.Palamede or Art, from the Greek Palame, put before his eyes his still young son, who by his name made him understand that he was far from succeeding in what he proposed. Odysseus immediately perceived his error, left his badly harnessed plow, followed the Greeks, or the true way which leads to perfection in the work, and succeeded in it by taking Troy; enterprise which he would never have accomplished if he had not had Palamede stoned, that is to say,
Palemon. Son of Athamas and Ino, Was first called Melicerte; but he took the name of Palemon, after he had been numbered among the marine gods. See mischief.

Puck. Kind of tile usually of stone, sometimes of wood, or iron, with which we used to play. The pucks were very large and very heavy, and fatal accidents sometimes happened. It was with one blow of these pucks that Apollo slew the young Hyacinthe, and Perseus his grandfather Acrise. See acrisis and hyacinth.

Palladium. Small figure of Pallas, three cubits high, holding a spear in the right hand, and in the left a distaff and a spindle. The Poets claimed that she had fallen from the sky into the city of Troy, and that this city would never be taken by the Greeks, if they did not first sixteen this figure. The Alchymists say that it is the symbol of the qualities which the Artist must have who undertakes the great work; the prudence, the subtlety of spirit, the knowledge of Nature and the science of this art. See. the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 6, Fatality 3.

Pallas. Goddess of the Arts and Sciences, born from the brain of Jupiter, by the blow of an ax given to her by Vulcan.It was she who always favored Hercules and Odysseus in all their exploits. See neck brace. Panacea. Was one of the Divinities of Medicine: she gave her name to specific remedies for a large number of diseases. The universal panacea is one of the results of the Hermetic work, and the only one that the ancient Philosophers first proposed to themselves. It is probable that the transmutation of metals was not their first object, and that the reflection alone on the force and the properties of their medicine, made them consider it as suitable to produce this effect, which succeeds according to their hopes. See the Preliminary Discourse at the head of the Treatise of Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled. panchymagogum. Sublimated soft.
pallas is also the name of one of the Ceans who made war on Jupiter.Minerva seized this Giant and flayed him.

Bang. Son of Mercury and the Nymph Dryops, according to Homer, of Mercury and Penelope, according to Herodotus, of Heaven and Earth, according to others, was one of the greatest gods of the Egyptians, who looked upon him as the father of Nature. They represented him under the figure of a goat. See the first book of Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled.





Pankration. One of the exercises of the Games of the ancient Greeks. It was also called wrestling. Hercules remained victorious at all the Games, as can be seen in Book 4 of the Unveiled Egyptian and Greek Fables.

Pandatoea. Solid electuary.

Pandalitium. Whitlow.

Pandemic (Disease). Is the one that attacks everyone indiscriminately: it's pretty much the same thing as epidemic.

Pandora. Hesiod claimed that she was the most beautiful and the first woman in the world. Vulcan, he says, made it, and after he had animated it, he presented it to the Gods, who were so amazed at it, that they all hastened to decorate it with their most excellent things. .Venus told him of her beauty, Pallas of her wisdom, Mercury of her eloquence, Apollo of her music, Juno of her wealth, and so on. Jupiter, irritated against Prometheus because he had taken fire from heaven, made this woman serve for his revenge; he presented Pandora with a closed box, full of all sorts of evils, and sent it to Epimetheus, brother of Prometheus, who had the imprudence to open it. All these evils took flight, and he only had the skill to retain hope in them. Proinetheus, to whom Jupiter had first sent Pandora, mistrusted the trap that was being set for her, and did not want to receive her as his companion. This is why Jupiter feels Mercury to tie Prometheus on Mount Caucasus, where a vulture was to gnaw his liver perpetually. V. Prometheus.

pannus. Natural spot of the skin, brought on at birth, or occurring as the effect of some disease.

Pantaure or Pantaure. Name that the Brahmans gave to the matter of the Great Work. As if to say all gold. Apollonius of Thyame relates many things that the Brahmans had taught him of this alleged stone, which they said had the virtue of magnetism. See Michel Majer, in the first and sixth books of his Golden Table. It is not necessary, he says, to seek this stone in India, since the birds bring it to us. See volatile. Paracelsus. Famous German doctor who lived towards the end of the 16th century. We have a large number of works by him on philosophical, metallurgical and medicinal matters.

Peacock. Bird dedicated to Juno. The Fable says that this jealous Goddess asked Jupiter for the Nymph lo changed into a cow, and having obtained it, she gave it to Argus, who had a hundred eyes, as a guard. Jupiter instructed Mercury to rid him of this importunate guardian. Mercury indeed slew him, and Juno cast her hundred eyes upon the Peacock's tail. See argument. The Hermetic Philosophers say that this fable is an allegory of the state of matter in the work when the colors of Peacock's tail manifest on its surface.

paphis. Son of Pygmalion and the Statue that this famous Statuary had made. See pygmalion.

He is believed to be a disciple of Basil Valentin, a Benedictine monk from Germany. Paracelsus wanted to reform the theory and practice of Medicine, and for this purpose published very simple principles, of which it seems that he had a very great knowledge. He always made admirable cures of even the most desperate illnesses. This novelty, his science and the successes made him very jealous, consequently a great number of enemies. His works, written in a metaphorical style, are today almost unintelligible, despite the keys that have been taken care to put at the end. However, many of its remedies have been guessed, which are still in use today.He often changed the names of the ingredients, and substituted barbarous and unknown ones for those by which they were ordinarily known. As this Author is often in the hands of those who apply themselves to the study of Hermetic Philosophy, I thought it my duty to render them the service of explaining in this Dictionary most of these barbaric names, according to Beccher, Johnson, Rullandus and some other Authors. Paracelsic Medicine is the same as Hermetic Medicine, if we believe Blanchard. As this Author is often in the hands of those who apply themselves to the study of Hermetic Philosophy, I thought it my duty to render them the service of explaining in this Dictionary most of these barbaric names, according to Beccher, Johnson, Rullandus and some other Authors.Paracelsic Medicine is the same as Hermetic Medicine, if we believe Blanchard. As this Author is often in the hands of those who apply themselves to the study of Hermetic Philosophy, I thought it my duty to render them the service of explaining in this Dictionary most of these barbaric names, according to Beccher, Johnson, Rullandus and some other Authors. Paracelsic Medicine is the same as Hermetic Medicine, if we believe Blanchard.

Paridisi Grana. Cardamom.

Paralysis Herba or Paralytica. Primrose.

Pardalianches. Aconite.

Paregoric (Medicine), Is the one that has an innocuous and softening property, which soothes the pains, such is the calm balm.

Paris. Son of Priam, King of Troy.His mother Hecuba being pregnant with him, thought that she had designed a lighted torch which was to set all of Asia ablaze. The Oracle consulted, answered that she would give birth to a son who would be the cause of the total mine of her country. Priam, to avoid this disaster, had the new-born child exposed, so that he might be devoured by beasts; but Hecuba had him taken away, and entrusted him to the shepherds of Mount Ida to be brought up among them. They named him Alexander. When he grew up he fell in love with the charms of the Nymph Oenone, by whom he had two children.Paris (as it was later called) gained a reputation for uprightness and probity in its judgments, which made it chosen as arbiter of the disputes which arose among the shepherds and the inhabitants of Mount Ida. . The Discord which was not called with the other Gods and Goddesses at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, threw in the middle of the meal a golden apple, on which was written: for the most beautiful. Juno, Pallas and Venus each claimed that this apple belonged to them. The gods not wanting to stand as Judges in this dispute, Jupiter ordered that the judgment would be referred to Paris. Mercury was appointed to warn him of this, and the three Goddesses presented themselves before our shepherd. Each sought to win him over by the most flattering promises.Juno offered him immense wealth, Pallas promised him wisdom, and Venus tempted him by promising to put him in possession of the most beautiful woman in the world. Paris, after carefully examining the Goddesses, awarded the apple to Venus, who kept her word. Paris then made himself recognized at Troye as the son of Priam, and after that made a journey to the Court of Menelaus, King of Sparta, and having fallen in love there with Helena, who was Queen of it, Venus procured for him the means of to remove; which he did, and took her to Troye. Menelaus interested all the Greek princes to avenge the affront he had received from Paris, and put himself with his brother Agamemnon at the head of a formidable army, to reclaim Helen.Priam having refused it, the Greeks besieged Troy, which lasted ten years. Paris found herself at hand with Menelaus during the siege, and Venus, seeing her protege weaker, carried him away from the midst of the fight. Hector his brother having been killed by Achilles, and the latter having entered the temple of Apollo to marry Polyxena, Paris shot him an arrow, which hit this Hero in the heel, the only place where he was not invulnerable. Achilles died of the wound; and Pyrrhus his son wounded in his turn Paris, who was to breathe his last in the arms of Oenone. Some say that he died of a poisoned arrow of Hercules, which Philoctetes shot at him. See the 6th book of Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled, c.3 and following.

Parnassus. Mountain on which the Fable says that the Muses and Apollo made their stay. See the reasons for this in the 3rd book, chap. 14, § 3 of the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled.

Paronychia. Small plant, which perhaps was so named from the Greek words para and onux, near the nail, as if to say: Herb suitable for curing the evils which come near the nails.
Paronychia is also the name given to the evil that comes to the fingertips, otherwise called Paronychia.

Parks. Goddesses three in number, appointed to execute the destinies of men, and to dispose of the lives of humans as they please.Hesiod calls them daughters of Jupiter and Themis, others of Erebus and Night. According to Orpheus, they make their stay in a dark cave, and live in very good harmony. They are named Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos. Lachesis, the youngest, holds a distaff which represents the destiny of men; Clotho spins, and Atropos cuts the thread, when the moment of death has come. The first presides over birth, the second over life, and the other causes death by cutting the thread. They follow the orders of Destiny: and they were also called Guardians of the Archives of the Gods. See the Egyptian and Greek Fables, lib. 3, c. 6 and book. 4, c. 3.

Parthenia or Parthenos.Nickname of Minerva.

Party with Party. Mixture of gold and silver. Paracelsus.

Part One. Magisterium in red.

Pasiphae. Daughter of the Sun and Perseis, and wife of Minos, King of Crete. She fell in love with a bull, and Daedalus provided her with the means to satisfy her passion. She conceived of it a monster which was named Minotaur;
Minos locked him in the labyrinth that Daedalus had built, and Theseus killed this monster. See minos, theseus, minotaur.

Passerine. Plant known under the names Alcine, Morgeline.

Passive. Who seems not to act, who receives the agent's action.Philosophers sometimes use this term instead of patient, which means the same thing. See patient.

Father Metallorum. It is sulfur, so named because the Hermetic Philosophers say that mercury is the female and mother of the metals, and that sulfur is the father, because of its hot and coagulating quality.

Patience. The work of stone is, say the Sages, a work of patience, because of the length of time and labor required to bring it to perfection. This is why Géber says that many Artists have abandoned it out of boredom, others for the same reason have wanted to rush it, and have not succeeded.

Patient. A substance on which another substance acts, to bring about the generation of some mixture.Mercury is the patient in the work of the stone, and sulfur with fire are the agents.

Patroclus. Son of Menetius and Sténélé; being still a child, he killed the son of Amphidamas, and fled to Phthia, where Peleus received him and placed him with his son Achilles under the discipline of the Centaur Chiron. It was from there that the intimate bond between Achilles and Patroclus began, which lasted until the latter's death. Hector having killed him at the siege of Troy, Achilles, who had resolved not to fight for the Greeks, could not resist the desire to avenge the death of his friend. He then made a truce with the anger he had conceived against Agamemnon, because he had taken away his dear Briseis.Thetis gave him new weapons in place of those he had lent to Patroclus, and which Hector had taken from him. He first made his friend's funeral; and did not cease fighting until he had killed Hector. See. Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, Book. 6.
Pauladada or Pauladadum. Species of sigillated earth found in Italy.

Poppy of the Philosophers. Perfect red stone, so named because it has the color of field poppies.

pedal. One of Achille's horses, born to Zéphyr and the Podange cavalry; this is why Homer says that its course equaled that of the wind.

Peganum. Plant called Rhue.

Pegasus.Winged horse, born, according to some, of Neptune and Medusa, and, according to others, of the blood of Medusa alone, issued by the wound which Perseus made him. Pegasus having flown away on Mount Helicon, struck a rock there with his foot, from which there immediately issued a fountain which was named Hippocrene. Pallas gave Pegasus to Bellerophon, to go and fight the Chimera, and by his means he conquered her. See jellyfish, bellerophon.

Pegernus. Mercury of the Sages.

Peeled. Son of Eaque and the Nymph Aegina, married Thetis, and made her mother to Achilles. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 6, c. 2.

Iron spade.Matter of the work in putrefaction.

Pelias. Son of Neptune and Tyro, brother of Eson, King of Thessaly, conceived a great aversion against Jason his nephew, and sent him to conquer the Golden Fleece, to expose him to perish, and get rid of him. Pelias slew Aeson. Medusa, to avenge Jason against Pelias, engaged the daughters of the latter to cut him into pieces, and cook them in a cauldron, having persuaded them that he would rise again younger and in all his vigor. They did, but he did not come back to life. See the Egyptian and Greek Fables, lib. 2, c. 1. She married Odysseus, and became the model of marital chastity.

Pelion. Mountain of Thessaly, also called Ossa, see the article.

Movie. Material of the work while it is in putrefaction, so named because a film forms on its surface, black and shiny like molten pitch.

Pelops. Son of Tantalus and Taygette, was served cooked in the meal that his father made to the Gods. Ceres was the only one who did not notice it; she took off a shoulder and ate it. The gods, out of pity for Pelops, resuscitated him, and gave him an ivory shoulder in place of the one Ceres had eaten.
Pelops, grown up, was at the Court of Oenomaus, and fought against him in the chariot race, to have his daughter Hippodamia in marriage.This Lover had won over Myrtile, coachman of Œnomaus, who adjusted his chariot so that it broke in the race, and Œnomaus was killed. Pelops married Hippodamia, and had Atreus and Thyestes. See the Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, Book. 4, c. 6 and book. 6, Fatality 4.

Peludo. Cooked honey.

Penes. Son of the Ocean and of Thetis, was a river of Thessaly; he married Creuse, by whom he had Ipheus and Stilbia. Apollo had from this Nymph Centaurus and Lapithus. See centaurs.

Penelope. Daughter of Icarus and Peribeus, had Pan from his trade with Mercury.
Harassed relentlessly by a number of lovers who courted her while Ulysses was at the siege of Troy, and his rather long absence, which was a result of it, she promised to consent to their wishes as soon as she had finished a canvas she had begun ; but at night she undid what she had woven during the day. She continued this game until the return of Odysseus, who killed them all. Before the siege of Troy, Penelope had a son named Telemachus by Odysseus. Pentacles. They are sorts of seals, on which are engraved signs, traits, unknown characters, which are said to have an admirable property for curing the illnesses for which they are made.
The story of Penelope is the portrait of the operations of bad Artists, who do not follow the true path which leads to the perfection of the work, and who destroy the operations of the morning in the evening. Ulysses is the model of good Artists, who destroy on their arrival the badly planned operations and processes of bad Artists. Homer's Odyssey is the exposition of errors where they fall with every step they take; and the Iliad, or the story of the Trojan War, is the description of the course one must follow like Ulysses, in order to attain the goal which a true Philosopher has in view. See. Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, Book. 6. Periphethea. Brigand of Epidaurus, who had a club for arms.

They are composed of metals which have a relationship with the signs and the planets, under whose domination they are engraved. See the Archidoxes of Paracelsus.

Pentadactylon. Palma Christi.

Pentamyron. Ointment composed of five ingredients; namely: calamity styrax, mastic, opobalsamum, wax and nardic ointment.

pentaplerum. Wide plantin.
Pentatheton. Ointment or balm suitable for healing bruises and excoriations of the skin.

Pepansis. Cooking proper to give perfection to a thing, or to correct one that is spoiled. Pierce with spear or with arrow, javelin, etc.

Pepantic. First heat required to digest the material of the work, and dispose it to putrefaction for a new generation.

Pepastic (ointment). Is the one also called maturative, which disposes and brings a tumor to suppuration, softening and soothing the pain, as if to say, an ointment which matures by cooking.

Peplion,

Peplia, Species of esule, called wake morning of the vines.
Peplus,
peplus is also the name formerly given to a sleeveless white dress brocaded with gold, on which were represented the actions and combats of Minerva, Jupiter and the Heroes. It was carried in procession like a banner, in the festivals of the Panathenaic, or instituted in honor of Minerva.

Pepsi.

It is cooking the material of the work with the philosophical fire, called spear, javelin, etc.

Percipiolum. Specific remedy for some disease. Blanchard. Planiscampi.

Percolation. An old word which means filtration, to clarify a cloudy and silty liquor, by passing it very gently through an I; trace paper, or a tight cloth.

Perdicium. Plant called Parietaire.

Perdonium. Grass wine. Planiscampi. Persephone. See proserpina. Petigo. Plant called liverwort. Can't. Tree named Pine. Popular.

Father. Stone of the Philosophers, having reached the red, or their sulphur, called father, as much because he performs the office of male in the generation of the hermetic child, as because he is the principle and like the father of the tincture of the Sages . They also say that the Sun is the father, and the Moon the mother of the matter of their stone. Hermès, Emerald table.

Periamma. Amulet, or medicine that is said to cure, or at least to alleviate illnesses, by hanging it only on the neck.

Periaptum. See periamma.

Perily menu. Honeysuckle.

Periclymene. Son of Neleus, and brother of Nestor.Neptune gave him the power to take all kinds of forms, to escape the pursuit of his enemies. Hercules was not taken by surprise; and while Periclymene, after wounding Hercules, was flying away in the form of an eagle, Alcides shot an arrow at him, which pierced him, and slew him.

Period. Daughter of Aeolus, married the Achelous River, and had Hippoda-mus and Oresteus.

peripheral. Operation by which material is reduced to ashes. The other is called Adulphurs when reduced to fine sand. These two operations together are called Agasoph.

Periploca. Species of convolvulus.

Theseus, passing through this country, was attacked by this brigand. Theseus fought him and killed him. Delighted to have won this club, he always wore it, as Hercules wore the skin of the Nemean lion. See Theseus.

Peristeron. Verbena, a plant that the ancients called sacred.

Pearl of the Chemists. Spring dew, so named because it comes together in pearl-like drops. Some chemists have looked upon it as the true matter of the Hermetic work; and as the Philosophers say that two matters are needed, one male, the other female, they have given the name of male to the dew of autumn or of the month of September, and that of female to that of the month of September. may; because, they say, that of the spring participates more in the cold of the winter which preceded it, and the other in the heat and the heat of the summer.

Pero. Daughter of Nelee and Chloris, was courted by many lovers. Neleus declared that he would give her in marriage only to him who would kidnap the oxen of Hercules and bring them to him.Bias, son of Amythaon, undertook it, and succeeded in it, helped by his brother Mélampe, Bias married Pero.

Perseus. Son of Jupiter and Danae, grandson of Acrise. The latter having been warned by the Oracle that his grandson would take his life, he had his daughter Danae locked up in a bronze tower, in order to protect her from the pursuit of men. Jupiter having been enamored with the charms of Danae, slipped into the tower in the form of a golden rain. Danae let herself be won over, and became pregnant. Acrise, noticing that his daughter was pregnant, had her locked up, with the son she had given birth to, in a wooden chest, which he then had thrown into the sea. shores of the island of Seriphe, where Polydectus reigned; Di-tys his brother was fishing then, and pulled the trunk into his net. He opened it, found Danae and her son still alive;and having learned their history, he led them to the Palace, where Polydectus treated them with all sorts of humanities. This King was not long in feeling the impressions of the charms of Danae, and solicited her with all possible instances to satisfy his amorous desires. Danae was always rebellious; and Polydectus not daring to use force because of Perseus, who was still with his mother, he sent this young man to fight Medusa, and bring her her head. Perseus undertook to carry out this perilous enterprise, and for this purpose obtained the shield of Minerva, with a mirror, the winged heels of Mercury, and a scimitar which this God also presented to him; Pluto gave him a helmet and a bag.With all this paraphernalia Perseus went, says Hesiod, as fast as the wind, and flew as lightly as thought. He reached the Gorgons, and with a blow of his scimitar he cut off Medusa's head, and presented it to Minerva, who had guided her by the arm. From the blood that came out of the wound was born Pegasus, on whom Perseus ascended; and flying through the wide expanse of air, he had occasion to test the virtue of Medusa's head before his return to Polydectus. Andromeda had been exposed, tied to a rock on the edge of the sea, to be devoured by a sea monster. Perseus, who saw her, presented the head of Medusa to the monster, killed it, freed Andromeda, and married her.This Hero passed from there to Mauritania, where he changed Atlas into this mountain which still bears his name. Arrived at Seriphe, he made Polydectus test the virtue of the head of Medusa, and converted him into a rock. Perseus was then at Larisse, where he found Acrise his ancestor; and having instituted games and public rejoicings there to mark the joy he felt at seeing this country again, he unfortunately threw his puck at Acrise, who perished of the wound. Perseus finally died, and was placed in the constellation that bears his name. See the explanation of the circumstances of this Hero's life in the Unveiled Egyptian and Greek Fables, book. 3, c. 14, § 3. Phaeton.







Tree consecrated to Hercules, because he picked some branches from it, while going to the Underworld to deliver Theseus. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 5, ch. 22.

Phase. Lentil, a kind of vegetable.
Phaedra. See Phaedrus. Phaetuse. One of the daughters of Apollo and Clymene, sister of Phaëton. Lampétie his other sister, with Phaëtide, wept so bitterly the unfortunate fate of their brother, that the Gods, touched with compassion, converted them into poplars. Phagedena. Gnawing ulcer, which has given rise to the name Phagedenica of the ointments suitable for gnawing away superfluous flesh. Phallus.

Son of the Sun and the Nymph Clymene; being offended that Epaphus, son of Jupiter, reproached him that he was not the son of the Sun, Clymene advised him, to prove it, to go and find the Sun, and to ask his permission to drive his chariot one day only. He therefore went to find the Sun, and made him so much entreaty to induce him to promise to grant him a favor which he wished to ask of him, that the Sun swore to him by the Styx not to refuse it to him. Phaëton explained himself, and the Sun granted him the driving of his chariot, after having done his best to entertain him from this mad enterprise, and having given him all the necessary instructions to avoid the danger which threatened him. Scarcely had Phaëton taken the reins,that the horses of the Sun, feeling a hand less fit to lead them, ran at their whim, not taking the ordinary path, approaching too near the earth. Ceres, fearing a total conflagration, brought her complaints to Jupiter, who; instantly struck down Phaëton, and threw him into the river Eridanus. See (Explanation of this Fable in Unveiled Egyptian and Greek Corns, Book 3. Phoenix. Fabulous bird consecrated to the Sun. The Egyptians claimed that this bird was red, that it was unique in the world, and that every hundred years it came to the city of the Sun, where it made a tomb of spices, set it on fire, and was reborn from his ashes . The phoenix is ​​none other than the red sulfur of the Philosophers. See the Egyptian Fables.





Representations of the body parts of Osiris, which Isis could not find. See Osiris. This representation was carried in the solemnities instituted in their honor, and among the Greeks in those of Bacchus. See; orgies, and the Egyptian and Greek Fables unveiled, book. 1 and 4, ch. 1.

Phanlec. Iron called Mars.

Phase. River of Colchis, in which passed the Argonauts. See. the chap. 1 of the book. 2 of Egyptian and Greek Fables unveiled.

Phebns. See Apollo.

Phaedra. Daughter of Minos, and wife of Theseus, fell madly in love with her son Hippolyte.Unable to make him consent to his passion, she accused him to Theseus of having wanted to attack his honor. Theseus having added faith too imprudently, drove Hippolytus from his house, and begged Neptune his father to avenge him for the affront that this son had wanted to make him. Hippolyte was withdrawing in his chariot, when a sea monster frightened his horses, who took the bit between their teeth, broke the chariot through the rocks, and put Hippolyte to death. Phaedra recognized his fault, and hung himself in despair. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. dev., lib. 5, ch. 22.

Phellodris and Phellos. Cork. Pherephata. Name of Proserpina. See what it means, book.

and Grecq. dev., lib. 6, c. 5, First fatality.
phoenix. Son of Amintor, was cursed by his father for having had intercourse with one of his concubines, at the persuasion of his mother. Phénix retired to Pelée, father of Achille, and became the Mentor of the latter. He accompanied him to the Trojan War, and commanded the Dolopes there. He finally became blind, as Homer says in the first book of the Iliad. See. the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. dev., lib. 6. Philoctetes.

4, c. 3 of Egyptian and Greek Fables unveiled.

pheres. Son of Jason and Medea, was slain by his mother in revenge for Jason having abandoned her to marry another.

Philadelphia. Apparine, glutton.

Philanthropists. See philadelphus.

Phileto. One of the Hyades. See hyades. Philosophize. Amateur of wisdom, who is instructed in the secret operations of Nature, and who imitates her processes in order to succeed in producing things more perfect than those of Nature herself.

Son of Poean, was so intimate a friend of Hercules, that this hero, dying on Mount Oeta, made him a present of his bow and arrows, dyed with the blood of the Hydra Leme, after having obliged him by oath not to reveal to anyone the place of his burial, nor the place where he would have laid his arrows. The Oracle consulted on the event of the enterprise of the siege of Troy, having declared that this city could not be taken without making use of the arrows of Hercules, the Greeks discovered that Philoctetes was its depositary. He was a friend of the Trojans; therefore difficult to induce him to provide anything to their disadvantage. Odysseus was chosen to engage him there, and he succeeded.Philoctetes, not wanting to violate her oath, only pointed to the place where these arrows were. Ulysses even urged him to join the Greeks; but on the way, Philoctetes unfortunately dropped one of these arrows on his foot, and the wound formed such a stinking ulcer, that the Greeks, by the advice of Odysseus, abandoned Philoctetes in the island of Lemnos. The Greeks, seeing that they could not succeed in taking Troye without the arrows of which Philoctetes was the depositary, again deputed Odysseus, who brought him to the siege of the city. As soon as Philoctetes arrived, he fought Paris, and killed him. After the capture of this city, Machaon, son of Aesculapius, and famous physician, heals Philoctetes with the rust of the spear of Achilles.See the explanation of all these circumstances in the Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, Book. 6, Fatal. 2. Philoctetes unfortunately dropped one of these arrows on his foot, and the wound formed such a stinking ulcer, that the Greeks, by the advice of Odysseus, abandoned Philoctetes in the island of Lemnos. The Greeks, seeing that they could not succeed in taking Troye without the arrows of which Philoctetes was the depositary, again deputed Odysseus, who brought him to the siege of the city. As soon as Philoctetes arrived, he fought Paris, and killed him. After the capture of this city, Machaon, son of Aesculapius, and famous physician, heals Philoctetes with the rust of the spear of Achilles.See the explanation of all these circumstances in the Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, Book. 6, Fatal. 2. Philoctetes unfortunately dropped one of these arrows on his foot, and the wound formed such a stinking ulcer, that the Greeks, by the advice of Odysseus, abandoned Philoctetes in the island of Lemnos. The Greeks, seeing that they could not succeed in taking Troye without the arrows of which Philoctetes was the depositary, again deputed Odysseus, who brought him to the siege of the city. As soon as Philoctetes arrived, he fought Paris, and killed him. After the capture of this city, Machaon, son of Aesculapius, and famous physician, heals Philoctetes with the rust of the spear of Achilles.See the explanation of all these circumstances in the Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, Book. 6, Fatal. 2. by the advice of Odysseus, abandoned Philoctetes in the island of Lemnos. The Greeks, seeing that they could not succeed in taking Troye without the arrows of which Philoctetes was the depositary, again deputed Odysseus, who brought him to the siege of the city. As soon as Philoctetes arrived, he fought Paris, and killed him. After the capture of this city, Machaon, son of Aesculapius, and famous physician, heals Philoctetes with the rust of the spear of Achilles. See the explanation of all these circumstances in the Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, Book. 6, Fatal. 2.by the advice of Odysseus, abandoned Philoctetes in the island of Lemnos. The Greeks, seeing that they could not succeed in taking Troye without the arrows of which Philoctetes was the depositary, again deputed Odysseus, who brought him to the siege of the city. As soon as Philoctetes arrived, he fought Paris, and killed him. After the capture of this city, Machaon, son of Aesculapius, and famous physician, heals Philoctetes with the rust of the spear of Achilles. See the explanation of all these circumstances in the Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, Book. 6, Fatal. 2. As soon as Philoctetes arrived, he fought Paris, and killed him.After the capture of this city, Machaon, son of Aesculapius, and famous physician, heals Philoctetes with the rust of the spear of Achilles. See the explanation of all these circumstances in the Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, Book. 6, Fatal. 2. As soon as Philoctetes arrived, he fought Paris, and killed him. After the capture of this city, Machaon, son of Aesculapius, and famous physician, heals Philoctetes with the rust of the spear of Achilles. See the explanation of all these circumstances in the Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, Book. 6, Fatal. 2. Phionitie.

The name of Philosopher has always been given to those who are truly instructed in the processes of the great work, which is also called Science, and Hermetic Philosophy, because Hermes Trismegistus is considered to be the first who made himself famous there. . They claim that they alone deserve this respectable name, because they boast of being the only ones who know nature thoroughly, and that by this knowledge they arrive at that of the Creator, to whom they render their duties and their tributes with much attention, love and respect. They say that this love is the first step which leads to wisdom, and constantly recommends it to their disciples, whom they call children of Science.See the Preliminary Discourse, and the Hermetic Treatise at the head of the first volume of Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled. Philter. In vulgar chemistry, it is a piece of cloth or felt, cut and sewn in the shape of a hollow and inverted cone, in which one puts a liquor, to make it pass through, in order to clarify it. It is also done with gray paper, or paper without glue adapted in a funnel. But in terms of hermetic chemistry, Philter means philosophical mercury, because it is by means of it that one separates the pure from the impure. The Philter is also the Azoth of the Sages, which whitens the laton or the im-1-world bodies, and strips it of its impurities. Filter. See potion. Phineas.
This Egyptian Philosophy is the source of the Fables, and the origin of the physical and astronomical Gods which are explained in the Treatise which I have just quoted.

Philosophy. See to philosophize.

Philtration. Action by which one purifies, one clarifies a liquor, by separating the subtle from the thick, the terrestrial and the gross from the liquid, the faeces from the liquor. It is done by passing a liquor through a cloth, a piece of cloth, or paper without glue.




Son of Phoenix, King of Salmidesse, was punished with blindness by the Gods, for having put out the eyes of his children. They also had him tormented by the Harpies, who removed or spoiled the meats served to him. Calaïs and Zethus delivered him from these monsters when they passed by his house on their way to conquer the Golden Fleece. Phineus, out of gratitude, taught the Argonauts the route they should take to arrive happily in Colchis, and to return to their homeland. See all this chemically explained in Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, Book. 2, c. 1.

Philosophical Philosophy. It is sometimes the furnace of the Sages; more commonly the earthen vessel, or the philosopher's egg.

Natural enmity, or antipathy of one animal or of a mixture against another, such as that of cats against mice, of spiders against toads, of storks against frogs, of a mad dog against water, of one pole of the magnet against the other. The Philosophers say that their Dragon has phionitia against water, and that it must be forced to drink of it and to wash itself in it, to strip it of its old and impure scale. Philal. Roll.

Philson. Sulfur of the Philosophers or red magisterium.

Phlegethon. One of the rivers of the Dark Empire of Pluto. See hell.

Phlegm. Water or vapor which rises from the material of the work, and which by cohobing itself, whitens it.This is why some philosophers have given the name of phlegm to mercury, and to the stone which has reached whiteness.

Phlegyas. Son of Mars, and father of Ixion and the Nymph Coronis, having learned that his daughter had had trade with Apollo, he insulted this God who killed him with arrows. He was condemned in Tartarus to always have a rock hanging over his head. Virgil gives it to us for the Preacher of the Underworld.
.... Phlegyas miserrimus omnes Admonet, et magna testatur voce per
umbras. Discite justifying moniti, and not temnere Divos. Aeneid. lib. VI. Useless sermon, given to people who can no longer benefit from it.
The story of Phlegyas is only an allegory which is found explained in the Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, book. 3, c. 12 and book. 5, ch. 22.

Phlogium. Species of violets, so named from the fact that we see on their flowers some lines of the color of fire.

Phlogiston. (Chemistry) Fixed fire that has become the principle of bodies. This is the flammable material, or sulfur principle. The phlogiston in the metals units their parts, since they are converted into lime as soon as they are deprived of it, and are then reduced to their first state by adding new phlogiston to them.From this greater or less quantity of phlogiston, or from the degree of cohesion of the principles of the metals, we can reduce their relative value, independent of that which opinion attributes to them; for the more these substances resist fire, the more they have solidity, the more their polish is brilliant. It is therefore on this resistance that the price of metals depends, and not on their rarity or abundance. Also gold that fire cannot tame, and which appears to have as little phlogiston as possible for the union of its parts, is it regarded as the first of the metals. Silver, which fire penetrates only with the greatest difficulty, unless lead, borax, or some alkali salt is added to it, immediately succeeds gold.Next come copper, iron, tin, lead, bismuth and zinc. Moreover, by this resistance we must not understand that which these metals oppose to their fusion, but the confidence with which they persist in their state of fusion, with the more or less of evaporation and waste; or some alkali salt, immediately succeeds gold. Then come copper, iron, tin, lead, bismuth and zinc. Moreover, by this resistance we must not understand that which these metals oppose to their fusion, but the confidence with which they persist in their state of fusion, with the more or less of evaporation and waste; or some alkali salt, immediately succeeds gold. Next come copper, iron, tin, lead, bismuth and zinc.Moreover, by this resistance we must not understand that which these metals oppose to their fusion, but the confidence with which they persist in their state of fusion, with the more or less of evaporation and waste; Phosphorus or Light-bearer. Is one of the names that the Philosophers gave to the small white circle which forms on the material of the work when it begins to whiten. They called it so, because it announces the whiteness which they called light. Phryxus. Sons of Athamas and Nephele, wanting to escape with Helle his sister, from the ambushes that their mother-in-law Ino set for them, decided to save themselves in Colchis, and mounted one and the other on a sheep, they exposed themselves to the waves of the sea. Hell terrified, fell and drunk.
or, if you will, the greater or lesser difficulty they have in converting into lime or slag: without this, a greater value would be attributed to iron than to silver, or to copper, since it is much more resistant to fusion than these two metals. The excess of phlogiston produces in metals the same effect as its deficiency. They both make mineral matter hard and intractable to fire.
Phlogiston is found in all individuals in Nature. In the animal this phlogiston abounds in the fatty or oily parts which are most susceptible of inflammation. M. Wipacher (Dissertation printed among the Elémens de Chymie de Boerhave) regards animal spirits as an igneous matter, to which he gives the name of Phlogistique automaton.
This fire was known to the ancients as well as to the moderns, particularly the Hermetic Philosophers, who almost always spoke of it by allegories and metaphors, and almost always gave it the names of the various fires employed in the operations of vulgar chemistry. See in this respect the treatise on General Physics, at the head of the Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled.

Phoebus. Nickname of Apollo. See his article.
phoenix is ​​also one of the names of the palm that bears dates.

Phorbas. Chief of the Phlegians, killed and massacred all those who came to hand. Apollo conquered him and put him to death.

Phorcys. Son of Neptune and Earth, became father of the Gorgons, Stheno, Euryale and Medusa.V. gorgonians.

Phorgis. V. phorcys. Phteiroctonon. Staphisagria or licegrass. Phthora. The same as Staphisagria. Phthirion. Licegrass. Phu or Phy. Valerian. Phyllira. Nymph beloved of Saturn, from whom he had the Centaur Chiron. See chiron. Phyllytis. Centipede species. Phyllum. Mercurial. Blanchard. Physalis. Lupine flowers. Physalos. Toad. Phyteuma. Is a species of plant of the class of toadflax. Blanchard. stone that Saturn swallowed, and then returned.


Phryxus landed happily in Colchis, where he consecrated his sheep to Jupiter, others say to Mercury, others to Mars. It is the fleece of this sheep which was subsequently called the Golden Fleece, for the conquest of which Jason and the other Argonauts exposed themselves to so many dangers. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, iv. 2, c. 1 and book. 4, c. 9.

Phtha. God of the Egyptians, the same as Vulcan.

Phtarticum. Medication suitable for corrupting the flesh and making it come? to suppuration.





















Football. Cut off Mercury's feet; expressions which mean, to fix its volatility. The Philosophers have often used these expressions, and Abraham the Jew represented hieroglyphically in his first figure a winged old man, his mouth gaping, and a scythe in his hand, who appears in action to cut off the legs of a young man under the figure of Mercury. .

Pieria. Country of Macedonia, where the Muses dwelt; which gave them the name of Pierides.

Rock. Said, in terms of Hermetic Science, of all that is fixed, and does not evaporate in fire.
Does not mean anything other than the fixed matter of the work which is dissolved and confused with the volatile during the putrefaction called Saturn. He vomited it up, says the Fable, and it was deposited on Mount Helicon, because after putrefaction and dissolution, this volatilized matter fixes itself again, and becomes stone again; this is why the Fable says that Saturn was obliged to vomit it up. Philosophical Stone. Result of the Hermetic work, which the Philosophers also call Powder of projection. The philosopher's stone is looked upon as a pure chimera, and the people who seek it are regarded as madmen.
This stone became very famous in antiquity: the Latins, following Priscien the Grammarian, named it Abadir; and the Greeks, if we believe Hesychius, Boetylos. They were believed to be animated, and they were consulted like the Theraphim. These stones were round and of mediocre size. Isidore, as we see in his Life written by Damascius, said that there were Baetyles of different kinds, that some were consecrated to Saturn, others to Jupiter or to the Sun, etc. See Saturn.
This contempt, say the Hermetic Philosophers, is an effect of the just judgment of God, which does not allow such a precious secret to be known to midwayers and the ignorant. The most famous and learned modern chemists not only do not regard the philosopher's stone as a chimera, but as a real thing. Beccher, Stalh and many others have defended and supported it against the repeated assaults of ignorance, and people who ordinarily rise up against it without knowing anything more than its name. See the Preliminary Discourse of the Treaty of Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled. See alchymy. purified and reduced to pure mercurial substance.
adiz stone. Armoniac salt of the Sages.
pet stone. Human blood. This name has also been given to the different species of Bézoarts.
arabic stones. Rulland claims it is Talc, which is also called Specular Stone, Moonstone, Mary's Glace. See Pliny, book. 36, c. 22.
rock. The Sages gave this name to their matter in many of the circumstances in which it is found, according to its more or less cooking and perfection. Philalethes says in his Traite de vera Confectione lapidis Philosophie!, that the terms stone, unique stone, mean only the matter of the Sages brought to whiteness by philosophical cooking.
There are three kinds of stones.The stone of the first order is the matter of the Philosophers perfectly
The stone of the second order is the same matter cooked, digested and fixed in incombustible sulphur. The stone finally of the third order, is this same matter fermented, multiplied and pushed to the last perfection of fixed, permanent, and tingent tincture. Hermetic Triumph.
attic stone. See. boric stone.
wounded stone. See perfect stone.
boric stone. Lapis Borricus. Name that the Sages gave to their matter to white. Others called her Pierre Atticos. Pandulphe, Discourse 21, in the Peat; and Lucas, Disc. 22, named her Aiar.
silver stone. Mercury of the Philosophers after it was animated; that's to say,that he received his soul and his spirit; what is done when matter achieves whiteness. moon stone. It is Talc, if we are to believe Avicenna who deals with it at great length. But the Stone of the Moon of the Philosophers is the matter of the work that has come to white. hephestion stone. Pyrites. Medea stone. It is Pliny's Black Hematite, who talks about it in the 10th chapter of his 37th book. ethesian stone. Topaz, or the material of the work that has reached the saffron color. famous stone. In terms of chemistry, is none other than the salt of urine. lime stone. Also said, in terms of chemistry, copper slag. Rullandus.
stone of bacchus or denys. Is a hard stone, black and quite often marked with red spots. Pliny, Solinus and Albert say that being crushed and infused in water, it gives it the smell and taste of wine, and that it prevents drunkenness or cures it. That's where it got its name from.
cherubim stone. Sulfur of the Sages.
swallow stones. Lapis Chelidonis. Small stones the size and shape of a flaxseed. Dioscorides says that they are found in the ventricle of little swallows, when the Moon is at the crescent. There are usually two different colors. Pliny says that they are red and mixed with black spots on one side, and on the other all black.The ancients attributed large properties to them, stone and not stone. The Hermetic Philosophers gave this name to their perfect magisterium, and not to the matter of which they make it, as some Chemists wrongly think. They did not call it stone, because it bears no resemblance to stones, but because it resists the attacks of the most violent fire, like stones. It is an impalpable powder that is very fixed, heavy and has a good smell, which has led to its being called projection powder, and not projection stone. stone of all colors. Some chemists have given this name to the glass. Eat. star stone. Sulfur of the Philosophers. Indian stone. Magisterium in red.






stone (the big one). It is the philosopher's stone.
golden stone. Said of the urine itself, in terms of chemistry. Roll.
mountain stone. It's the turtle stone that is born wisely in the air. It is the material of the work, of which Hermes said: the wind or the air carried it in its belly. It is born in sublimation; for if there were no air in the vase, the volatilization could not take place, and the vessel would risk breaking. It is even reborn there several times, because the fixed must be volatilized with each operation, which Morien calls disposition.






indrademe stone, lazul stone. See Indian stone.
moon stone. Magisterium in white.
mineral stone. Mercury of the Sages after the conjunction of mind and body, that is, when matter begins to settle.
perfect stone. Red elixir.
predicted stone. Magisterium in white.
round stone. Matter reached whiteness.
red stone. Sulfur of the Philosophers.
bloodthirsty stone. Dry water of the Philosophers, which changes bodies into spirits. It is the virtue of spiritual blood, without which nothing can be done. Artephius.Flamel also speaks of it on the occasion of his hieroglyphic figure, where he represents children whom the soldiers cut their throats, and whose blood they put in a tub where the Sun and the Moon come to bathe. He says on this subject, that it would be an ungodly and utterly unreasonable thing to use human blood, or any animal, to do the work; and he clearly assures that he speaks in this circumstance only by allegory. The stone is vile, and must be made with the seed of the metals; but it is precious by its admirable effects on the infirmities of the three kingdoms of Nature.
solar stone. Red sulphur, or magisterium to the red. These sulfurs are a production of Art, and not of Nature;in vain do the chymists seek them on or in the earth, as a thing which it produces. It only gives the material from which they are made, as it gives the grain from which bread is made.
green stone. Matter of the Philosophers in putrefaction. It is called green, because it is still raw, and has not acquired by digestion the degree of dryness and perfection it requires.
single stone. It is the perfect elixir, which is unique, because there is no mixture in the world which is comparable to it for its properties. When we say that the stone contains all things, and that all things are of it and by it, it is because being the radical humidity of everything, it is its principle. citrine stone.
The radical humidity is the basis of the mixtures of the three kingdoms, and the principle of their life, because it always has within it the fire that animates everything. The stone is composed of the humid radical of the metals, as the most fixed; this is why it operates so many wonders, by fortifying nature, and by repairing its losses, which food can do only very imperfectly. animal, VEGETABLE AND mineral stone. It is the perfect elixir, composed of the quintessence of the three kingdoms. Not that it is necessary to compose it, to take one thing from each kingdom; but because it is the principle of it, and it is medicine proper to cure their infirmities, and to push them to the degree of perfection of which they are capable.

Stonework pushed to the color of topaz.
first stone. Magisterium in white before the multiplication, that is to say, the first sulfur of the work, the Moon of the Philosophers.
second stone. Sulfur of the Sages, their celestial fire mine.
paradise stone. Projection powder, the miracle of Art and Nature. Some have given this name to the Mercury of the Philosophers.
The terms Philosopher's Stone should not be confused with Philosopher's Stone. The first must be understood as the material of the work, and the second as the work in its perfection.
Touchstone. Battus was turned into a touchstone by Mercury, for having had the indiscretion to say where Mercury had put the oxen of Admete, which he had stolen while Apollo was guarding them. V. beaten.

Pound. See cooking. Pirithoiis. Son of Ixion, became a close friend of Theseus. He helped her to kidnap Helen, on condition that Theseus would lend her his arm to get a wife too. The wedding of Pirithouis, who wished to marry Hippodamia, was disturbed by the Centaurs; Theseus avenged his friend.
Pilizenii. Hare's white tail hairs. Planiscampi.

Pilos. Clay.

Pinang. Areca.

Pindus. Mountain of Thessaly, dedicated to Apollo and the Muses. See muses.

They then agreed to go to the Underworld to abduct Proserpina, wife of Pluto. This God seized them, and made them bind in the very place where he had made them stop. Hercules having been sent by Eurystheus to carry off the dog Cerberus, met his friend Theseus, and delivered him from his captivity; he left Pirithouis there, because he could not obtain his freedom from Pluto. See the Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, Book. 5, ch. 22. We also write Pyrithois.

Pirittes or Pyrites. This name is given to all sorts of marcasites, which are distinguished in particular by the name of the metal which they contain; like gold chrysites, silver argyrites, iron siderites, copper chalcites, lead molybdites.

Piso.Mortar.

Pissasphaltos. Asphalt, bitumen from India.

Pissasphaltus. Asphalt.
Pisseleon. Pitch.

Pitys. Tree called Pine.

Pityusa. Esule. Platyophthalmon. Antimony. Plecmum. Lead. Pleiades. Daughters of Atlas and the Nymph Pleione, seven in number. Orion pursued them for five years without being able to win their good graces, nor obtain any favor from them. They prayed to the Gods to protect them from his pursuits, and they were transported to Heaven. Some say that they were nurses of Bacchus, and that they were called Electra, Alcyone, Céléno, Maïa, Asterope, Taygete and Merope.

Planets. The Egyptians were the first to deify the planets, following the sentiment of the Mythologists. But the Hermetic Philosophers claim that the Priests of Egypt only bet by allegories, when they gave the planets for Divinities, under the names of Isis for the Moon, Osiris for the Sun, Jupiter for the star which bears this name, and so of the others, as can be seen in the Egyptian and Greek Fables unveiled. The object of Hermes Trismegistus was to veil under an allegory the work that is called Hermetics, its matter and its processes. He imagined a relation of the metals with the seven planets, and gave them the same names which have remained to them until our days. This is why the planets of the chymists are the vulgar metals,and the complaints of the Philosophers are the philosophical metals. The matter which has reached the black color by putrefaction is their Saturn or their lead; the gray color which succeeds the black is their Jupiter or their tin; the color white is their Moon or silver; the saffron color is their Venus or their Copper, as well as the green color; the rusty color of iron is their Mars or their iron, and the red-purple color is their Sun or their gold. This succession of colors forms their Zodiac and their seasons.As these colors must appear successively and always in the same order for each operation, which are repeated three times for the perfection of the work, without including the multiplication, namely the manufacture of sulfur, that of stone and that of elixir, the Philosophers commonly say that it takes three years to complete the work. Those who understand multiplication there, count the years by the number of times they repeat each operation. Here is the means of agreeing the Philosophers in the apparent contradictions which one finds in their works, when they speak of the time required for the perfection of the work. V.time. Pleione. Daughter of the Ocean and of Thetis, married Atlas, of whom she had the Pleiades. Pleres Archonticum.





The latter, alone of the constellation they form, no longer appears. The Poets claim that, ashamed of having married a mortal, she disappeared. Others say it was Electra, who hid her face with her hands so as not to see the ruin of Troy, and of the Kingdom she had founded with her husband Dardanus. These seven stars appear at the head of Taurus, two at the horns, two in the eyes, two in the nostrils, and the seventh, much darker, in the middle of the forehead. It begins to appear around the middle of May. See the Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, Book. 2, c. 2 and book. 3, c. 14, § 3. white lead. Matter reached white. Some give this name to Hermetic mercury.



Head powder.

Plerotic. (Ointment). Is the one who restores the flesh, and fills the voids that ulcers or wounds usually leave.

Plisthenes. Son of Pelops and Hippodamia, left in dying his two children Agamemnon and Menelaus under the tutelage of his brother Atreus, who raised them as his own.

Ploma. White broth, plant called Verbascum in Latin.

Lead. Water of all metals, according to Paracelsus. Lead is considered the softest and most basic of metals. The Chymists call it Saturn, and the Hermetic Philosophers the Father of the Gods. Paracelsus says that if the Alchymists knew what Saturn contains they would abandon all other matter to work only on this one.Riplée says, on the contrary, that however lead is worked, it will always remain lead;
and that one should not take the son whose mother is subject to so many impurities. The lead of the Philosophers, their Saturn, is the matter of the work which has reached blackness during putrefaction. They also called it in this state Black lead.
Molten Lead. Same as black lead. Golden Rains, The Fable mentions several golden rains. Jupiter changed into golden rain to enjoy Danae enclosed in a tower. A golden rain fell on the island of Rhodes when Minerva was born from the brain of Jupiter.

lead of the philosophers. Planiscampi says that it is antimony, of which Paracelsus distinguishes two species, one which he calls black antimony in the Saturnian, the other white or Jovial antimony. Artephius says that antimony must be taken from the parts of Saturn; but he then explains his idea, when he says that he calls the matter of Art antimony, because it has its properties. It could therefore well happen that Paracelsus and the others who name antimony as the material of the great work, understand it in the same sense as Artephius. So don't be fooled by the names. sacrificed to him were black. Ibid. book. 3, c. 6. Plutus.

The Ancients hid under the veil of these fables the volatilization of the Philosophical Gold, which falls in the form of rain on the matter which remains at the bottom of the vessel. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 2, c. 7.

Pluto. Son of Saturn and Ops, having shared the empire of the world with Jupiter and Neptune his brothers, the Underworld fell to him. Rejected and rejected by all the Goddesses because of his ugliness and the dark place of his stay, he was obliged, in order to have a wife, to kidnap Proserpina, daughter of Ceres, and took her to the Underworld on his chariot drawn by four black horses. See the Egyptian Fables. and Greeks unveiled, book. 4, c.3. The gate of the Underworld was guarded by a three-headed dog that vomited fire, and prevented the shadows from leaving Tartarus when they entered it. Hercules kidnapped this Cerberus to obey Eurystheus, and Pluto, in revenge, went to fight Hercules while he was cleaning the stables of Augeas. Hercules wounded Pluto, who retreated into his Dark Empire. Ibid. book. 5, ch. 8. It is therefore not a question of weighing the materials to make the mercury of the Philosophers, since Nature itself puts there the required proportions. It is in the second and the third works where the weights are to be observed, so that the volatile may in the beginning overcome the fixed and volatilize it, and the fixed may in its turn dominate.


Son of Jasion and Ceres, according to Hesiod, was also honored as the God of riches. Hesiod's former Scholiaste looks at this genealogy as a pure allegory, and with good reason, since Ceres and Jasion are two fabulous characters, as can be seen in the Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, book. 4, c. 2 and 3.

Podalyre or Podalire. Son of Aesculapius and Machaon, excelled in Medicine, and accompanied the Greeks to the siege of Troy.

Podarcius. First name of Priam, King of Troy, received the crown from the hands of Hercules, after this Hero had delivered Hesione exposed to a sea monster, and killed Laomedon, father of Podarce. See. priam, and the Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled, book.5, ch. 14. Weight. All art consists, according to the Philosophers, in the weights and proportions of materials. Let's not get our minds twisted to find these weights. I answer them, says Trevisan, that at the places of the mine, there is no weight; because weight is when there are two things. But when there is only one substance, there is no regard to weight; but the weight is in relation to the sulfur which is in mercury: for the element of fire which does not dominate in raw mercury, is that which digests matter. And for what is good Philosopher, knows how much the element of fire is more subtle than the others, and how much it can overcome in each composition all the other elements.
Poets. The Poets have invented characters and supposed crions for them, not to imagine the pure and objectless blandness, as fairy tales might be; but to instruct either Morals or Physics. Many Mythologies claim to see in Homer and other Ancients the history of the centuries, which they however call fabulous; but if they were in good faith, they would admit that it is not possible to combine the events which the poets report, in such a way as to make a continuous history of them. M. l'Abbé Banier, after having collected all that the Authors have said in this respect, has tried to relate all the fables to history, and has made three large volumes to explain them in accordance with this system; but the perpetual contradictions,and the anachronisms found in almost every chapter prove that this system cannot be sustained, and that the Poets could not have had history for their object. The conformity of the Greek fables with those of the Egyptians, of which they are only an imitation, would suffice to cause this system to be abandoned. The Hermetic Philosophers better informed, it seems, of the true object of the Egyptian fables, explained the Greek Poets by the Hermetic Philosophy, that is to say, Homer and Hesiod; for Homer had drawn his fables from Egypt, and the other Poets drew theirs from this Prince of Poetry. Hermes was the Author of these fables; it was therefore natural to explain them by Hermes himself, or by those whom he had initiated into the mysteries of his art.This is why we find the fables so often recalled in the Hermetic works. I have explained them in accordance with their ideas in my Treatise on Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled; which means that I refer the reader to these explanations, because this Dictionary is, strictly speaking, only a reasoned Table.
And, so the weight is in the primary elemental composition of mercury, and nothing else. Phil. Put. Human hair. Some Philosophers gave this name to their dissolving mercury, which made some Artists think that human hair and hair were the material of the work. They had probably not read Trevisan's Treatise on the Philosophy of Metals, which names hair among the things that are excluded from the work, as well as everything that can be taken and comes out of animals. . Point. The Philosophers call point, punctum, their white magisterium, because the whole work depends on it. They said accordingly: Whiten the laton, and tear up your books.
For all art consists in dissolving and coagulating, volatilizing and fixing.
The Philosophers also called Weight, the process required in operations. See layout. Polydec. King of the island of Seriphe, received in his palace Danae and Perseus his son, whom Acrise had exposed to the waves of the sea to kill them there. Polydectus was enamored with the charms of Danae; but he could not obtain his favors. Perseus seemed to him an inconvenient and formidable Argus; to get rid of it he sent him to fetch the head of Medusa. Perseus unfortunately obeys for Polydectus, who probably did not know its properties. Perseus presented it to him on his return, and Polydectus at this sight was converted into a rock.



For when one has succeeded in this, one is sure to succeed by continuing only the regime of fire.

Fish. When the material has reached a certain degree of cooking, it forms on its surface small bubbles that resemble the eyes of fish. See eyes.

polemonium. Plant known as Béen Blanc.
Polish. It is cooking, digesting the material of the work to bring it to perfection.

Polish. One of the Hyades. V. hyades.

Pollux. Son of Jupiter and Leda, brother of Castor, Helen and Ciytemnestra. Pollux was twin brother of Clytemnestra. The two brothers made themselves very famous by great deeds, and accompanied Jason in the conquest of the golden fleece.Pollux during this trip killed Amycus who challenged the foreigners to the combat of the cestus. Castor having been killed by Lyncée, Pollux obtained from Jupiter that he could communicate his immortality to Castor, and that they would live and die alternately. See beaver. Polyxene. Daughter of Priam and Hecuba, was granted to Achilles by Priam. They assembled in the temple of Apollo to make the marriage; and Paris, brother of Polyxena, having hidden himself behind the statue of Apollo, shot an arrow at Achilles and struck him in the heel, the only place where he could be wounded. Achilles died of the wound, and Pyrrhus his son avenged his father's death by that of Polyxena, whom he sacrificed on his tomb. See achilles.

V. perseus.

Polygophora. Smoky wines, or any other liquors that intoxicate.

Polyneuron. Plantain.

Polypharmac. Good remedy for many diseases.

Polyphemus. One of the Cyclopes, son of Neptune and the Nymph Thoose, according to Homer, was of a monstrous and gigantic size: he had only one eye in the middle of his forehead, and was of a brutal character, and strong given to women. He made his home in a cave in the mountains of Sicily, where he fed many cattle. He was madly in love with the Nymph Galathée, and killed his rival Acis. Odysseus having been thrown by the storm on the coasts of Sicily, Polyphemus devoured four of his companions.Odysseus having found a way to intoxicate him, gouged out his eye with a burning ember, and fled
with the other companions of his travels.

Polypoda. Small insects called Woodlice, Piglets.



Pomambra. Pastille, or composition of several fragrant things, among which amber makes itself particularly felt. It's like saying Apple of amber.

Golden Apple. The fables mention several golden apples: Discord threw one on the table during the wedding feast of Peleus and Thetis; she had put an inscription there: for the most beautiful. The Goddesses who were at these weddings each claimed that this apple belonged to them. The Gods, even Jupiter, did not want to stand as Judges of this dispute, and sent Juno, Pallas and Venus, who were arguing over it, back to Paris to decide. He awarded it to Venus, which was the first cause of the Trojan War. See book. 6 of Egyptian Fables. ei Grecq.unveiled, c. 2 et seq.
Hippomenes by the advice of Venus took three golden apples and threw them at Athalanta to stop him in his tracks, and he succeeded. V. athalante. These apples had been picked in the garden of the Hesperides, where they grew in abundance. Hercules removed them all to obey Eurystheus. The very leaves of the tree that produced them were golden. These apples are the same as those of which the Cosmopolitan speaks in his Parable to the Children of Science, that is to say the philosophical gold. Porphyrion. One of the Giants who made war on the Gods wanted to do violence to Juno in the presence of Jupiter himself. This God and Hercules pursued him and slew him. Porronitri.
To pick apples from the garden of the Hesperides is, in the Hermetic style, to make the sulfur of the Philosophers. To throw them at Athalante is to fix the volatile; and to award it to Venus is to finish the first work by fixing the volatile part, to then work on the composition of the stone and the elixir represented by the siege and capture of the city of Troy.
fragrant apple. V. pomambra.

Populago. Plant known as pas-d'âne, coltsfoot. It was named Populago, because its leaves are white on one side like those of the Poplar.

Porcello. Small insects called Woodlice.

Porfiligon. Scale of iron.



Salt fuse.

Porrosa. St. John's Wort, or Hypericon.

Door. Means the same as key; entrance or means of operating in the whole course of the Work. Riplée made a Treatise of it which he called the twelve Doors, as Basil Valentin called his the twelve Keys, that is to say the twelve operations that must be carried out to achieve the perfection of the philosopher's stone. , or projection powder.

Posca. Oxycrat. Blanchard.

Poseidon. Nickname of Neptune.

Poseidonia. Festivals in honor of Neptune. Chicken. The Philosophers recommend giving the Hermetic Vase a heat similar to that of a brooding hen.

Posset. Whey, which is made by boiling milk: when it boils, beer is thrown into it which makes it turn. It is run through a cloth when it is turned: what is coagulated remains in the cloth, and the whey passes into a vessel placed below to receive it. This little milk is given in ardent fevers.
In chest inflammations, a similar little milk is made with Spanish wine instead of beer; and a spoonful of it is drunk hot every quarter of an hour until it reaches at least a pint.

Narrow Pot of the Philosophers. Vessel that contains the material of the work.

Spraypowder. Result of the Hermetic work, or powder which
being projected on the imperfect metals in fusion, transmutes them into gold or silver, depending on whether the work has been pushed to white or to red. See Philosopher's Stone.
black powder. Matter of the Sages in putrefaction.
White powder. Artwork material fixed to white.
discontinued powder. Matter of the Sages when it has come out of putrefaction, and rises with the color white.
To powder is to dissolve the gold of the Philosophers. Flamel says that this dissolution reduces this gold, or sulphur, to fine powder like the atoms which flutter in the rays of the sun. Chicken of the Elders. Sulfur of the Philosophers.

Many people have imagined that it is necessary to measure the degree of the external fire and of coal, or of a lamp, or some other similar elementary and artificial fire, with that of a brooding hen, and have put a thermometer in the stove. to fix the heat to the same degree; but they are wrong. The Philosophers speak in this circumstance of the inner fire and of nature, compared with reason to that of the brooding hen, because both heats are natural and such as nature requires them for its generations. The hen is the female, or the mercurial water; the cock is the brimstone of the Philosophers. This hen of the Sages has a natural heat like common hens; but this heat is not sufficient for the generation of the chicken, it is only suitable for brooding it;and for generation and fecundity, it is necessary to add to it the igneous and hot seed of the cock. The two seeds joined together form the germ which develops and perfects itself when it is brooded by the hen. The exterior fire is, says Trevisan, only the cold-guard; just as the vulgar hens scarcely lay eggs, and do not brood during the frost, but only when the spring brings a milder air temperature. The two seeds joined together form the germ which develops and perfects itself when it is brooded by the hen. The exterior fire is, says Trevisan, only the cold-guard; just as the vulgar hens scarcely lay eggs, and do not brood during the frost, but only when the spring brings a milder air temperature.The two seeds joined together form the germ which develops and perfects itself when it is brooded by the hen. The exterior fire is, says Trevisan, only the cold-guard; just as the vulgar hens scarcely lay eggs, and do not brood during the frost, but only when the spring brings a milder air temperature. Purple. The fables say that Apollo dressed in the color of purple when he sang on his lyre the victory that Jupiter and the Gods won over the Giants. That the Trojans covered the tomb of Hector with a purple-colored carpet, that Priam carried purple-colored cloths as a present to Achilles; and all this signifies only the purplish-red color which arises in matter when it is perfectly fixed.

The Author of the Hermetic Dictionary incorrectly says that the chicken of the Sages is mercury. The chicken is what is begotten, not what begets.
chicken having a red head, white feathers, and black feet;
it is the material of the work which begins to turn black through putrefaction, then white as the philosophical dew or the azoth purifies it, finally red when it is perfectly fixed. Flamel consequently calls the vase of the Philosophers the Habitacle of the chicken.
hermogen chicken. Matter reached whiteness.

The Philosophers have also called it Purple, Ruby, Phoenix when it is in this state.

Push. Opium.

Praecipitatus Philosophicus. Mercury precipitated by the internal fire of gold, or essencified gold. Planiscampi.

Praet. Nat. gold PN Outre nature. Practice. Green-grey.

Pratum Viride. Brazen flowers. Planiscampi.

Precipitation. Defect that the Philosophers blame those who are bored for the length of the work. Beware of haste, or you will spoil everything, said Morien. All haste comes from the devil, he adds, and remember that it takes a lot of patience; that we must not pick;fruit before its maturity, and that the time of this maturity is determined by Nature. Orpheus could not bring his wife Eurydice back from Hell, for not having had the patience to wait for her to come out before turning his head to see her.
Pregnancy. Time when matter is putrefied. It is so named because corruption is a transmission to generation, and there is no conception when putrefaction has not preceded. The term take, however, is sometimes understood in the natural sense; when, for example, it is necessary to put the fixed and the volatile in the vase, or the sulfur and the mercury, to animate this mercury, and make it the Rebis.

Take. When the Philosophers say, take this, take that, they do not mean that nothing should be taken with the hands, either to add something to the matter once put in the vase, or to remove some parts of it; but only that it is necessary to continue the regimen and the operations until the perfection of the sulfur in the medicine of the first order, of the stone in the medicine of the second, and of the elixir in the medicine of the third.
After this conjunction Mercury has, say the Philosophers, all that is necessary for the perfection of the work, and all that the Philosophers seek. See the Treatise of Philalethes, which has the title: Enarratio methodica trium Gebri Me-dicinarum, seu de vera confectione lapidis Philosophorum. The same Author says in his Treatise on the Open Entrance to the Closed Palace of the King: There is a very secret and purely natural work, and that is done in our mercury with our gold. It is to this work that we must attribute all the signs of which the Philosophers speak: it is done neither with fire nor with the hands, principles. (Sc. Herm.) Philosophers often call the ingredients that make up the magisterium principles, and not the principles or rules of Hermetic Science.
the outside heat only prevents the cold.

Preparation. Action by which one removes superfluous things from matter, and one adds to it those which it lacks. There are three kinds of preparations in the work, or the making of the magisterium; the first is manual, not philosophical; this is why the Philosophers have omitted it in their writings, although the success of the work depends on it. The second is the philosophical preparation of agents, which the Philosophers call the first; and Philalethes, the imperfect preparation. The third is the making of the elixir, or the complete and perfect preparation.But the successive philosophical preparations are only one and the same repeated operation, according to Morien, who calls them dispositions.

Presmuchim, Presmuchum and Presmuckis. Are only one thing, called Ceruse.

rennet. (Sc. Herm.) Fixed body of the compound of the work, so named, because it coagulates, congeals, and fixes the volatile mercurial water, which several Philosophers have called Milk, because, says Zechariah, that as well as the curd differs from milk only by a little solidity acquired by coction, in the same way our curdled or coagulated rennet differs from our mercury only by the coction which it has acquired.

Priests.The Egyptian Priests were chosen Philosophers, and instructed by Hermes Trismegistus, in the science of Nature and Religion. He communicated the first to them, under a promise to keep it for them with an inviolable secret, and only initiated them into these mysteries after a long trial of their discretion. He taught them this science, under the shadow of the hieroglyphics which he had invented, and which he explained to them. The Priests did the same with regard to those whom they judged worthy of being initiated, and amused the people with Fables, says Origen, while they philosophized under the veil of the names of the Gods of the country, that they had imagined. Museum, Lin, Melampe, Orpheus, Homer, and some other Greek Philosopher Poets, learned these secrets from the Egyptians,and carried them to their country under the veil of the Egyptian Fables, which they dressed in the Greek style. These are the Fables that I explained in my Treatise on Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled.

Priam. Son of Laomedon, King of Troy, was brother of Hesione. After Hercules had delivered this Princess from the sea monster to which she had been exposed to be devoured, he killed Laomedon, because he did not keep the promise he had made to her. At the request of Hesione he put Priam on the throne, and took from him the name of Podarce which he bore before. This King had, among other children, his wife Hecuba: Paris, who by the kidnapping of Helen was the cause of the Trojan War, of the ruin of his country; Hector who killed Patroclus and succumbed under the blows of Achilles. After the latter's death, and the city of Troy having been taken, Pyrrhus, son of Achilles, killed Priam in the temple of Jupiter, where he had taken refuge.See the explanation of this allegory, in the Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 5, ch.
Priapus. Son of Bacchus and Venus. Juno, jealous of this Goddess, did so much by her enchantments that she made monstrous and completely counterfeit the son that Venus was carrying in her womb. Venus having given birth to him, took him away from her presence because of his ugliness, and made Lampsaque feed him. Subsequently becoming the terror of husbands, he was driven from that city; but the inhabitants, having been afflicted with a secret disease, reminded him, and he was ever the object of public veneration. His statue was placed in all the gardens.It seems that the Greeks imagined the cult of Priapus in imitation of the infamous use of the Phallus among the Egyptians and the Phoenicians. See the Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, Book. 4, c. 1 and 4.

Principle. That from which a thing derives its beginning, or what constitutes the essence of an individual. This definition applies only to physical things. The principles of a thing must be simple, pure, and unmixed, because they must form a homogeneous mixture. This should not be understood in the order and respectively with the general mixture made for the creation of the world; because in this case the parts of the bodies which seem to us the simplest are even composite. And if we pay close attention to the term principle, we will soon see that it can be applied differently; because 1°. we can say that God is the principle of everything; 2°. nature; 3°.fire, as the author of the mixture of the parts, and as sustaining them by its heat. 4°. also called principle of things, what constitutes its miscible parts, which can be considered first in general relative to the Universe, and in particular as constituting such and such an individual. Which forms two sorts of principles, some distant, and others near. Thus the furthest principle removed from the human body is the earth, when this food is formed, which is its immediate principle; from these foods is formed the seed, or the nearest animal principle. We can also conclude from what we have just said that we still distinguish two kinds of principles;some active, like God, Nature, etc., and others passive, like the material and constitute parts of physical beings. Some call these principles, the first formal, and the second materials; by the formals we mean the agent; and by the materials the patient. The first principles are earth and water; the next ones are the first mixed ones that were made of it. The special or nearer principle is the special seed of each individual. This is also what caused the distant principles or first principles to be given the name of principiant principles, and to the others that of principled principles.
There enter into the work three principles, each of which is respectively called the essential principle, and the other two superficial, though all three are absolutely necessary. Our work, says the Trevisan, is composed of a root and two mercurial substances, which, however, being of the same nature, are reduced to a single principle. This has led several philosophers to say:
We have only one material, one plan and one stove. The first principle named root, and by Riplée Base of the Work, is the father of the third menstruation of Raymond Lully; these two Authors regard it as the first and the most essential, because it determines and glorifies the two other mercurial substances raw, pure and drawn simply from their mines.This first principle does not increase the weight of matter; the other two increase it, and are the cause of the death of the compound. They light the fire against nature; and by the conjunction of this with the fire of nature contained in the third subject of which we spoke, an unnatural or average fire is formed, from which is born putrefaction, and then the completion of the work. We must in turn regard the second mercurial substance as an essential principle, since it is the mineral water which extracts the tinctures, hides them in itself, and revives the fire hidden in the other, delivering it from the prison where it was withdrawn. The effect which each principle operates in the work is such.
All these principles may be regarded as essential under various points of view, and in comparison with each other and with respect to the work. We have already said how one of the principles should be regarded as first and principal. The principle which contains the fire against nature, called by Riplée Lion vert, by Flamel the Babylonian Dragon, and by the Trevisan Portier du Palais, is called by all the Philosophers the Key of the Work, because it is he who makes almost everything, that without it we would work in vain, and that in it is hidden all the secret of the Hermetic Philosophy. It is the garden of the Sages where they sow their gold, where this gold grows and multiplies. The Author of the Grand Rosary calls it Root of Art and the Soap of the Sages.Sometimes the Philosophers call it their Moon, their Sulphur, their Mercury, their Earth, and it is finally almost the only thing which they hid in their writings; being therefore regarded as the basis of the work, it may be called the essential principle. principle of metals. Magisterium in white. The Philosophers further distinguish three principles in the metals, which they call natural principles or of nature; namely, salt, sulfur and mercury. These are their principled principles, engendered from the four elements, first principles of all mixtures. They regard sulfur as the male or agent, mercury as female or patient, and salt as the bond of the two.

The body is the principle of fixity, and deprives the other two of their volatility; the spirit gives the input by opening the body; and water, by means of the spirit, draws fire from its prison, it is the soul; and these three principles united by the solution, putrefy, to acquire a new life more glorious than that which they had before. Springs. Time when mercury takes on the warm and humid temper and complexion of the air; which is done by a fire of the second degree. This heat must be mediocre and temperate, but stronger than that of winter. The sulfur during this diet dries out the mercury.
Thus when the Philosophers say that the metals must be reduced to their first principles, or to their first matter, they do not mean that they must be demoted to the elements, but only until they are become mercury, not vulgar mercury, but mercury of the Philosophers. See on this subject the Philosophy of Metals of Trevisan, the twelve Treatises of the Cosmopolitan, and the Treatise on Physics at the beginning of the Fabs. Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled. Prison. The Philosophers take this term in several different senses. First, for the terrestrial parts, coarse and heterogeneous, in which their mercury and their gold are locked up as in a prison, from which they must be delivered.

It produces the herbs and the philosophical flowers, that is to say the colors which precede the white, and the whiteness itself. Matter then can no longer be destroyed. The Philosophers, to determine this passage from black to white, named it spring, as well as matter itself. Mercury became so proud to see himself as incombustible oil, that he no longer recognized himself. Having thrown down his eagle's wings, he devoured his slippery dragon's tail, declared war on Mars, who having assembled his company of light Horses, had Mercury taken, imprisoned him in the hands of Vulcan, whom he made Jailer of prison, until he was again delivered by the female sex. The Moon appeared as a woman in a white dress;

Secondly, for the vase in which we put the material of the work, to work in the magisterium. It is in this sense that we must understand Aristeas when he says that the King of the coasts of the Sea had him confined in a narrow prison, where he kept them for forty days and more, and that he only delivered them. after they had returned his son Gabertin to him. Trevisan also speaks of prison in the same sense. Thirdly, for mercury, which by dissolving the fixed holds it as if in prison during all the time of darkness, which they also called Sepulchre, Tomb. Fourthly, for the very fixation of mercury.It is in these last three senses that we must understand the prison of which Basil Valentine speaks in the Preface to his Twelve Keys, in these terms: I (Saturn) do not blame my calamity on any other than Mercury, who by his negligence and lack of care has caused me all these misfortunes; that is why I conjure you all to take upon him vengeance for my misery; and since he is in prison, let you put him to death, and leave him so corrupt, that not a drop of blood remains. I (Saturn) lay the fault of my calamity on none other than Mercury, who by his negligence and carelessness caused me all these misfortunes; that is why I conjure you all to take upon him vengeance for my misery;and since he is in prison, let you put him to death, and leave him so corrupt, that not a drop of blood remains. I (Saturn) lay the fault of my calamity on none other than Mercury, who by his negligence and carelessness caused me all these misfortunes; that is why I conjure you all to take upon him vengeance for my misery; and since he is in prison, let you put him to death, and leave him so corrupt, that not a drop of blood remains. Procession. Nicolas Flamel used in his hieroglyphic figures, the emblem of a procession which many people attend dressed in different colors, both to indicate the successive ascents and descents of the material which are made by its circulation in the vase, as well as to signify the colors that follow.

she threw herself at the feet of the assistants, and after several sighs accompanied by tears, she begged them to deliver the Sun her husband, who was imprisoned by the deception of Mercury, already condemned to death by the judgment of the other Planets.

Privinum. First tartar. Planiscampi.

Process. Operation. Way of doing. The processes of the Hermetic art in the composition of the stone of the Sages, are an imitation of those which Nature employs in the composition of the mixtures.

This is the explanation he gives there himself in these terms: therefore with the consent of Perenelle, carrying on me the extract of these figures (from Abraham Juif), having taken the habit and staff of Pilgrim, in the same way that one can see me outside this same arch, in which I put these hieroglyphic figures inside the cemetery (of the Saints Innocents in Paris) where I also put against the wall, from a and on the other side, Moult pleases God, procession
. If it is done in devotion.

It is in this same view that the ancient Egyptian and Greek philosophers had instituted processions for the solemnities of the feasts of Osiris, Bacchus, Ceres, Adonis, etc., in which various symbols of colors were carried in the order in which they manifest, as can be seen in the 4th book of the Egyptian and Greek Fables.

Depth. Philosophical dimension of the stone. Height and depth are the two extremes, and width is the middle that units them. Black is height, white is width, and red is depth. Philalethes.

Projection.The Cultists of the Hermetic Philosophy call powder of projection, a powder, result of their Art, which they project in very small quantity on the imperfect metals in fusion, by means of which they transmute them into gold or silver, according to the degree of its perfection.
It should be noted that in the projection all the metal on which the powder is projected is not transmuted into gold or silver, if it has not been well purified before putting it into fusion. There is only mercury, because it has less impure and heterogeneous parts, and has much more analogy with gold.
To make the projection on the mercury, it suffices to heat it a little; the powder is projected before it smokes. We wrap this powder in a little wax, and we throw this ball on the molten metal;
the crucible is covered, and this powder is left to act for a quarter of an hour or so; and after allowing the material to cool, it is removed. If it were brittle, it would have to be projected onto a small quantity of the same molten metal; because that would be proof that too much powder had been added.

Prometheus. Son of Iapetus and Clymene, formed the man of silt, says the Fable, and did so with so much industry that even Minerva was seized with astonishment. She wanted to contribute to the perfection of this work:
she transported Prometheus to heaven, so that he could choose there what he thought fit. Before seeing there several bodies animated by celestial fire, he admired their beauty, and to endow his face with it, he touched the chariot of the Sun with his wand, removed a spark, carried it to the ground, and animated his face with it . Jupiter, indignant at this larceny, resolved to punish all mankind for the theft of Prometheus. He therefore ordered Vulcan to forge a woman of perfect figure, to whom he gave a box filled with ailments. Prometheus, to whom she presented herself, did not want to trust her; His brother Epimetheus allowed himself to be surprised, received the box, opened it, and all the evils that afflict humanity came out.Jupiter was not satisfied with this revenge; he also punishes the author of the theft, and ordered Mercury to seize Prometheus, tie him to a rock on Mount Caucasus, and send a vulture to devour his liver. He made the torture longer, by giving this liver the property of regenerating itself as the vulture devoured it. Hercules who had been very intimately connected with Prometheus, resolved to deliver him from this torment; he shot an arrow at the vulture, killed it, and untied his friend.
The Hermetic Philosophers find in this fable a symbol of their work, and say that Prometheus represents their sulfur animated by celestial fire, since he is himself a miner of this fire, according to the testimony of d'Espagnet. The Sun is its father, and the Moon its mother: it is in its volatilization with mercury that it flies away to the heaven of the Philosophers, where they unite together, and bring this fire to earth; that is to say, they impregnate the earth which is at the bottom of the vessel with it, cohabiting with it. By fixing himself with her, Prometheus finds himself tied by Mercury to the rock, and the volatile parts which act ceaselessly on this earth are the vulture or the eagle which tear his liver.Hercules or the Artist delivers him from this torment by killing the eagle, that is to say, by fixing these volatile parts. See the Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, Book. 2, c. 2 and book. 5, ch. 17. Proserpine. Daughter of Jupiter and Ceres, was kidnapped by Pluto when she was picking narcissus in the meadow. Pluto made her his wife, and declared her Queen of the Underworld. Ceres sought her by sea and by land; and having learned that she was with Pluto, Ceres addressed himself to Jupiter to get her back. Jupiter promised that he would have it returned to her, provided that Proseroine had not eaten anything during her stay in that dark Empire.

Propolis, or Propolix. Is a kind of cement or coarse wax, of a slightly bitter taste, and of a blackish color, with which the bees coat the crevices of their hives, and even the entrance, when the approach of winter obliges them to confine themselves to it. Planiscampi calls it virgin wax, others sacred wax. When you put it on hot coals, it gives off an odor almost like that of aloes. Lémeri says that this matter is a kind of reddish or yellow putty.

Propoma. Beverage composed of wine and honey, or sugar.

Proportion. Combination of the weights, of the material principles of the compound of the hermetic work. See. layout, weight.

But Ascalaphe, who had seen her pick a pomegranate, of which she had eaten three seeds, did not have the discretion to keep quiet. Jupiter therefore ordered that Proserpina should remain six months with Pluto, and six months with Ceres. See the explanation of this fable in the book. 4, c. 3 of Egyptian and Greek Fables unveiled.

Proserpinaca. Plant called Centinode, Corregiole, Knotweed.

Prospheromena. Medicines taken: by mouth, such as purgatives, cordials, etc.

Prostitute. The prostituted woman of the Philosophers is their Moon, their vegetable Saturnia, their Babylonian Dragon; art purifies her of all her stains and restores her virginity.When she is in this state, the Philosophers call her a virgin. Take, says (d'Espagnet), a winged virgin, pregnant with the spiritual seed of the first male, and give her in marriage to a second, without fear of adultery.

prosthesis. Son of the Ocean and of Thetis, was a marine God, who took on all sorts of figures when he pleased. He guarded the herds of Neptune. They turned to him to know the future, and he deceived the curious by the different forms he took. To be right, it was necessary to bind him; then he resumed his natural form, and announced future things to those who had put him in this state. Orpheus calls Protheus the principle of all mixtures and all things, and the oldest of all the gods.He says he holds the keys of nature, and presides over all its productions, as being the beginning of universal nature. The Latins gave him the name of Vertumnus, because of the variety of figures and forms he took.
Protheus is none other than the universal spirit of nature, an igneous spirit diffused in the air; the water receives it from the air, and communicates it to the earth. It is specified in each kingdom of nature, and is embodied there by taking various forms, according to the matrices in which it is deposited. When one knows how to tie it and bind it, say the Philosophers, that is to say, to corporify and fix it, one does with it what one wishes;it then announces the future, since it lends itself to operations, by means of which you produce what you have in view. The Hermetic Chemists make it the stone and the elixir, as much for the transmutation of metals, as for preserving the health of those who are well, and restoring it to those who are sick.

Protesilas. Son of Iphiclus, married Laodamia. Shortly after his marriage, he set out for the siege of Troye. The Oracle had said that whoever dismounted first would be killed. Protesilaus, seeing that none of the Greeks dared to do so, descended firmly, and was indeed killed by a Trojan. Laodamia, having learned of her death, had a statue made which resembled her deceased husband, and kept it always near her.Finally the grievance of the loss of this husband whom she loved madly, led her to kill herself, to go and join him. The marriage of Protesilaus and Laodamia is that of the fixed and the volatile of the matter of the Hermetic Work; the embarkation of the Greeks is the dissolution and volatilization of this matter; landing is the beginning of the new fixation of the volatilized matter; and as the Philosophers call this fixation death, the Oracle had rightly said that the first who would set foot on the ground, that is to say, who would change from volatile water to earth, would be killed by the Trojans, who in the whole Iliad are taken for the symbol of the fixed earth of the Philosophers. See the Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, Book. 6.that is to say, whoever from volatile water would change into earth, would be killed by the Trojans, who throughout the Iliad are taken for the symbol of the fixed earth of the Philosophers. See the Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, Book. 6. that is to say, whoever from volatile water would change into earth, would be killed by the Trojans, who throughout the Iliad are taken for the symbol of the fixed earth of the Philosophers. See the Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, Book. 6.

Psalachante. Nymph who desperately loved Bacchus, from whom seeing herself despised, she killed herself, and was changed into the plant that bears her name.

Psammeticus.King of Egypt, was the first who allowed foreigners to trade in his states. The Greeks began to frequent them, and learned from the Egyptian priests of the philosophy that Hermes their teacher had taught them. This Philosophy being given under the veil of fictions, the Greeks brought back to their country the fables they had learned, and divulged them, dressed in the Greek way. These are the fictions that I explained in my Treatise on Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled.

Psammismus. Bath of hot sand, in which the feet of those with dropsy are buried, to dry up the humors which are carried to the legs, and make them swell.

Psammodea. Sandy sediment from urine.

Psammos, or Samoa. Sand.

Psilothron.Coulevrée, bryony.
psilothron is also the name given to topical ointments applied to break down hair. In French it is called depilatory.

Psincus and Painckis. Ceruse.

Psora. scabies.

Psorica. Compound medicine to cure scabies, gripe.

Psoricum. Composed of two parts of calcitis, and one of cadmium, or silver foam, pulverized, and mixed together with white vinegar. We put everything in a vase, seal it well, and place it in hot horse manure for forty days. After that, this matter is dried over hot coals until it turns red. Planiscampi.

Psyche.Although the fable of Psyche is not among the number of Egyptian fictions, it nevertheless contains the same principles, and whoever imagined it had the same object in view: it is too beautiful to pass over in silence; it is according to Apuleius that we will relate it.
Of the three daughters that a King and a Queen had, the youngest was the most beautiful, and nature, in forming her, had given her so much care to her that she seemed to have surpassed herself. People came from all quarters to the Court of this King to see this singular beauty, and from admiration they passed to the most passionate love.Venus, jealous to see Gnidus, Paphos, Cythera abandoned and deserted by the prodigious assistance attracted by Psyche, ordered Cupid to wound her with one of his arrows, and to make her fall in love with an object unworthy of her charms. Cupid wanted to carry out his mother's orders, but Psyche made the same impression on him that she made on others, and he fell madly in love with her. Psyche's sisters were married to Sovereigns; but no one dared to aspire to its possession. The oracle of Apollo, consulted on the destiny of this young Beauty, replied that she would not have a mortal husband, but a God to be feared by the Gods and even by Hell: he added that Psyche must be exposed on a high mountain on the edge of a precipice, adorned with ornaments that announce mourning and sadness.They obeyed the Oracle, and no sooner had she reached the place indicated than a gentle Zephyr carried her to the middle of a wood, to a superb palace, shining with gold and silver, and of which each pavement was a precious stone. This palace seemed to him uninhabited, but voices invited him to make his stay. She lacked nothing. Meals equally abundant and delicate were followed by admirable concerts, and the pleasures followed each other, without Psyche even noticing who procured them for her. When night came, the husband who was destined for her approached her and left her before daybreak, which lasted several nights in a row. but instead of a monster, she saw Cupid sleeping;
Cupid, informed of the researches that Psyche's sisters were making of her, at first forbade her to see them; but finding her sad and dreamy, he allowed her to speak to them, on condition that she would not follow their advice. The same Zephyr that had driven her in! this enchanted place, transported her sisters there. Psyche, after telling them of her happiness, sent them away laden with presents. These two jealous Princesses resolved to ruin her;and as Psyche had told them that her husband had not yet shown himself to her, although he loved her madly, they took the opportunity, in another interview, to remind her of the oracle of Apollo, which had spoke confusedly of I don't know what monster, and told her that her husband was a serpent who would kill her. Psyche frightened by this speech, began to suspect something about what her husband did not wish to manifest to her, and told them that she would follow their advice, if they showed her the means of getting rid of this anxiety. They advised him to hide a lighted lamp with a razor; and that when the monster was asleep, she would use the lamp to see him, and the razor to cut his throat.Psyche followed this advice, she got out of bed, took the lamp and the razor; and a razor to cut his throat. Psyche followed this advice, she got out of bed, took the lamp and the razor; and a razor to cut his throat. Psyche followed this advice, she got out of bed, took the lamp and the razor; Psyche took advantage of all this advice and received the much desired box; but hardly had she emerged from Hell than she opened the box with the intention of taking for herself some of the attractions it contained. She found there only an infernal and soporific vapour, which seized her instantly, and made her fall asleep on the ground.
his ruddy complexion, his youth, his developed wings, his fair and flowing hair made him recognize it.
Seized with astonishment, and in despair at having done such an affront to such an amiable husband, doubting his happiness, she was on the point of using against herself the sword with which she had wanted to cut her husband's throat, when A drop of oil fell from his lamp on Love's shoulder, and woke him up. His charms called her back to her: she appeased her wrath. While examining Cupid's bow and his quiver, she had hurt her finger a little when feeling the tip of one of his arrows. The wound, too light to occupy it preferable to the charms of Love,
Psyche wants to stop her by her foot, Cupid kidnaps her, carries her off, and finally drops her.He stopped on a cypress, reproached her bitterly for the lack of confidence she had had in his advice, and disappeared. Psyche in despair, rushed into a river, but the Nymphs, the Naiads who respect the wife of Love, carried her to the banks. There she met the God Pan, who advised her to appease Love. She was wandering the world looking for ways to achieve her goal, when she met one of her sisters; she told him of his adventure, and told him that Love, the better to avenge himself, had resolved to marry one of his sisters. Inflated with this hope, this sister escapes from the palace, travels to where the Zephyr first took her; and imagining that he would carry her again, she sprang forward, let herself fall, and perished miserably.Psyche laid the same trap for her other sister, who had the temerity to allow herself to be caught in it, and also perished.
However Venus, informed of the pains Cupid was suffering, sought out Psyche to punish her. This afflicted wife was still looking for her husband, and having come near a temple, she offered Ceres a sheaf of ears which she had gathered, begging her to take it under her protection; but the Goddess let her know that she could do nothing but protect her from her enemy. Juno, whom she met, gave her almost the same answer. Psyche therefore decided to seek love from Venus, her mother.But this jealous Goddess, without paying attention to Psyche, ascended Olympus, and begged Jupiter to order Mercury to seek out this unfortunate woman, and bring her to him. One of the Attendants of Venus brought her to him, and this angry Goddess tore her hair, tore her dress, abused her with blows, then ordered her to separate during the day all the different grains of peas, wheat, barley, millet, poppies , lentils and beans which she had purposely had collected in a heap. Psyche remained dumbfounded and motionless, but unofficial ants took charge of this work, and spared her the trouble. Venus then commanded him to go to the other side of a very deep and very fast river to shear golden-haired sheep, and bring her the wool.Ready to rush into this river, a voice from a reed told her an easy way to get this wool, which she took to the Goddess. of lentils and beans that she had purposely had picked up in a heap. Psyche remained dumbfounded and motionless, but unofficial ants took charge of this work, and spared her the trouble. Venus then commanded him to go to the other side of a very deep and very fast river to shear golden-haired sheep, and bring her the wool. Ready to rush into this river, a voice from a reed told her an easy way to get this wool, which she took to the Goddess. of lentils and beans that she had purposely had picked up in a heap. Psyche remained dumbfounded and motionless, but unofficial ants took charge of this work, and spared her the trouble.Venus then commanded him to go to the other side of a very deep and very fast river to shear golden-haired sheep, and bring her the wool. Ready to rush into this river, a voice from a reed told her an easy way to get this wool, which she took to the Goddess.
An irritated woman is not easily appeased, so Venus was not calmed by such prompt obedience; she again ordered him to fetch an urn full of black water flowing from a fountain guarded by dragons. An eagle appeared, took the urn, filled it with this water, put it in his hands to return it to Venus. This almost exhausted Goddess imagines an even more difficult task.Venus complains that she has lost part of her charms while dressing her son's wound, and orders Psyche to descend to the Kingdom of Pluto, and there to ask Proserpina for a box containing some of her charms. Then Psyche, not believing that it was possible to descend into Hades without dying, was about to throw herself from the top of a tower, when a voice told her the way to the Underworld, and told her to go to Tenares, that she would find there the way which leads to the abode of Proserpina; but that she would not engage in it without having provided herself with a cake in each hand, and two coins, which she would hold in her mouth, from which Charon would take one himself after having passed in his boat;and that when she met the dog Cerberus, who guards the entrance to Proserpina's palace, she would throw him one of her cakes. That finally Proserpina would give him a favorable reception; that she would invite him to sit down at a great feast; but that she must refuse his offers, sit down on the ground, and eat nothing but brown bread; that then Proserpine would give him the box,
Cupid cured of his wound, still impassioned for his dear Psyche, escaped through one of the windows of the palace of Venus, and finding his dear wife asleep, awakened her with the point of an arrow, put the steam back into the box, t told him to take it to his mother.
Cupid then went to find Jupiter, who had the Gods assembled, and declared that the God of Love would keep his Psyche, without Venus being able to oppose their union. He at the same time ordered Mercury to abduct Psyche within; Heaven, where she drank ambrosia in the company of the Gods, and became immortal. The wedding feast was prepared, and celebrated; the gods each played their part, and even Venus danced there. Purity of Death.
All the Mythologists have looked upon this fable as an allegory, which marks, they say, the evils that voluptuousness, signified by Love, causes to the soul, under the symbol of Psyche. But it can be explained hermetically like other fables. Psyche is, according to the Adepts, the mercurial water; and Cupid, with his torch, his bow and his arrows, represents the fixed earth, hot and igneous, mining celestial fire, following d'Espagnet. He is therefore said to be the son of Venus and Vulcan, and Psyche the daughter of a King and a Queen, that is to say of the Sun and the Moon, say the Philosophers. Her charms made an impression on Cupid himself, so she could only marry one God, according to the oracle of Apollo;for the mercurial water can only ally and unite intimately with a Hermetic God,
Psyche exposed on a mountain from where Zephyr transports her to a palace shining with gold, silver and precious stones, and where Cupid comes to visit her during the night, represents this vapor which rises at the top of the Hermetic vase, in which Basil Valentine says that the Zephyr blows. Flamel compares it to an admirable flower, shining with gold and silver, swaying in the wind. This vapor, deposited and lowered to the bottom of the vase, dissolves the matter which is there, putrefies it and brings about the black color, symbol of the night. It is then, say the Philosophers, that the union of the two takes place, signified by the approaches of Cupid.Psyche was careful not to recognize her lover then, he was truly that dragon so advocated by the Philosophers, that serpent Python, this shapeless monster of which so much is said in all their works. But Cupid has only the name of serpent, and does not have its form; it has not lost its beauty for that, it is only hidden by the darkness of the night; as soon as Psyche uses the light of a lamp to see him, that is to say, as soon as the color white succeeds black, she will recognize the most beautiful of the Gods, and the most formidable. B had his wings extended and developed ready to take flight, which he did indeed as soon as he was awakened by a drop of the incombustible oil from the lamp of which Artephius speaks, which fell on the shoulder of the Love.He took his flight, and kidnapped Psyche who wanted to hold him back. It is the volatilization of matter that rises to the top of the vase, where the volatile and the fixed rise together. Cupid drops Psyche who rushes into the mercurial water; but she will not be drawn in it; the Naiads respect the wife of Love, they will carry her on the banks; it will then wander in the world seeking Love, since matter circulating during volatilization wanders in the vase until it has encountered the philosophical earth represented by Ceres, who however cannot yet put it into shelter from the indignation of Venus, because she herself is not yet fixed. Juno, or the humidity of the air, does not promise him more.Psyche therefore decides to seek Love from her mother Venus, that is to say in the citrine color called Venus, which succeeds the white one. This Goddess begged Jupiter to send Mercury to seek Psyche. Here is the philosophical mercury in action. Psyche is presented to Venus, who ill-treats her, and obliges her to perform different labors, which indicate all that happens in the operations of the following work. The different grains collected in a heap are separated by ants; it is the dissolution of stone and putrefaction, of which the black water which an eagle draws from a fountain, to render service to Psyche, is an even more significant symbol. The golden fleece which Venus asks for is the sulfur of the Sages, and the same as that which Jason removed.But to achieve this perfectly black color, called Hell by the Philosophers, Psyche must go down to the Kingdom of Pluto, to ask Proserpina for a box filled with her charms. She won't even succeed unless she brings two cakes and two coins. Psyche goes there; she meets Charon, that dirty, stinking old man, covered in rags, and having a gray beard; she must also find Cerberus there, to whom she will give one of her cakes, and will finally reach Proserpina, or the color white, who will give her the box that Psyche is looking for. The Author of this fable probably did not think it necessary to go into any longer detail, because the second operation is only a repetition of the first.He contented himself with saying that this box contained a soporific vapor, which seized Psyche as soon as she opened it, in order to indicate by this vapor the volatilization and by its effect the fixation, or the rest which follows it.

Psyticum. Refreshing medicine.

Psylothrum. See psilothron.

Pteris. Fern.
Pterna. Lime.

Maid Rhea. Mercurial water before it is united with its sulphur. Take, says d'Espagnet, a virgin, who although impregnated with the virtue and seed of the first male, has nevertheless suffered no attack on her virginity, because a spiritual love is not capable of defiling it. : Marry her to a second male.

Pucho. tenesmus.

Boxing. One of the exercises practiced in the games of the Greeks and Romans. See games.

Draw. It's the same cooking. Riplée defines the putrefaction, the death of bodies, and the division of the matters of our compound, which leads them to corruption, and disposes them to generation. Putrefaction is the effect of continuously maintained body heat, not manually applied heat. Care must therefore be taken not to push the exciting and external heat beyond a temperate degree: matter would be reduced to dry and red ashes, instead of black, and everything would perish. Putrefaction is so effective that it destroys the old nature and form of the putrefied body;

Matter of the Philosophers arrived at the color white. It was thus named because the black color caused by putrefaction is called Death, Filth of the Dead, and because the color white, being in itself the symbol of purity, succeeds the black. When it is in this last state, they say that the brass must be washed and purified; so when it is washed, it is pure.

Purge. See cleaning.

Purification. Separation of the impure parts from those which are pure, or of the heterogeneous parts of the homogeneous ones, or of the corrupt parts from those which are not it.
There are various kinds of purifications. One is made by fire, the other by water; the first is called calcination, cupel, rectification, etc.;the second is called ablution, mondification, separation, etc. The purification of matter is absolutely required to prepare it for the second operation of the great work, called by Philalethes the perfect preparation, which is done by the reduction of the wet with the dry, immediately after the purification. This first preparation or purification is done by calcinations, distillations, solutions and freezing; that is to say, by the separation of the superfluous, and by the addition of what is lacking in matter. Three diets are required for this; the first is to reduce matter to the nature of fire by calcination; the second to resolve it into water by the solution; the third, to reduce it to air by distillation;and the fourth, to reduce it to earth by freezing. All these regimes must be understood as the Philosophical Work. But there is a purification of matter from which the mercury must be extracted. The Philosophers have hardly spoken of this purification, although it is absolutely required; they passed it over in silence, as much because it is the key to the work, as because it is done manually and is not philosophical. It consists in separating all the terrestrial and heterogeneous parts of matter, first by a humid bath, says d'Espagnet,

Pusca or Posca. Oxycrat.

Putrefaction. Corruption of the moist substance of the bodies, by default BI> of heat;putrefaction also takes place by the action of a foreign fire on matter. It is in this sense that the Spagyric Philosophers say that their matter of stone is in putrefaction, when the heat of the extrinsic fire putting into action the internal fire of this matter, they act in concert on it, heat the mixture, separate from it the moisture which bound the parts, and after several circulations in the hermetically sealed aludel vessel, reduce the matter into the form of dust; which has given them reason to call putrefied matter ashes, and to deceive the ignorant by calling calcination that action by which matter seems reduced to a kind of lime. This is why Hermes says that black whitens ashes;and Parmenides, in Peat: Putrefaction destroys our matter, gives it another way of being, like calcination does stones. See calcination, corruption. Putrefaction usually follows solution, and it is often confused with digestion and circulation. Putrefaction is regarded as the fourth degree of chemical operations: it is the principal one and should be regarded as the first; but order and mystery demand that we give him this place, says Paracelsus; it is known to very few people; and these degrees, he adds, (Book VII, of the Nature of Things) must succeed each other like the links of a chain or the runs of a ladder;

of which, if one were taken away, there would be an interruption, the prisoner would escape, the goal could not be attained, and the whole work would perish. Pytheus. Nickname of Apollo. Python. Horrible and monstrous serpent, born from the mire and mud left by the Deluge of Deucalion. Apollo exhausted almost all the arrows in his quiver against this monster, which he finally killed. It was in memory of this victory that the Pythian games were instituted. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 4, c. 7.
she transmutes it into a new way of being, to make it produce an entirely new fruit. Everything that has life dies there; all that is dead putrefies there, and finds new life there. Putrefaction removes all acridness from the corrosive spirits of salt, and makes them sweet;
it changes colors; it lifts the pure above and precipitates the impure, separating them one from the other.
When physicists say that there is no generation without putrefaction having preceded it, we must not understand it as a corruption or intimate putrefaction of the principles of the mixture and of the substance proper to the compound, but of that which simply produces the solution of the external sperm, and which releases the principles from the bonds which embarrassed them and prevented them from acting. When the putrefaction passes this degree, the various species of mixtures do not generate their like, and degenerate into other mixtures, as wheat degenerates into tares. Thus entire or substantial putrefaction extinguishes the form of the mixture.
Physical putrefaction is the purging of the radical humidity, by the natural and spontaneous fermentation of the pure and homogeneous principles with the impure and heterogeneous.
The Philosophers have sometimes given the name of putrefaction to their matter which has reached blackness, because blackness is the effect and the true sign of it.

Pylades. Son of Strophius, bound with Orestes of a friendship so intimate, that he offered himself to death for him, when he accompanied him in Tauride to remove the statue of Diana, of which Iphi-genie was Priestess. See. orestes.

Pylus. Island where the Poets pretended that Nélée reigned;Hercules came to this island, killed Neleus and all his family, except Nestor, and wounded Juno with a three-pointed dart, just as she wanted to rescue Neleus. Pylus, according to the Spagyric Philosophers, is the symbol of the philosophical matter in which Neleus or the mineral sulfur dominates, which Hercules or the mercury kills by purifying it through putrefaction, which is a kind of death. His family are the metallic spirits fixed by mercury after putrefaction, and Nestor who remains alone signifies the salt which remains intact. Juno is the aurific, celestial and incorruptible matter which seems to want to join Neleus against Hercules, who wounds it with a three-pointed dart, because its nature and its substance are mercurial, sulphurous and saline.

Pynang. Areca.

Pyr of the Sun. Philosophical sulphur.

Pyramid. Mass of one or more stones assembled in a very high point. The pyramids are square. The most famous are those of Egypt. Pliny says there were three main ones, numbered among the wonders of the world. The largest and highest contained eight arpents, having on each side of its base 883 feet, and on the top 25. The middle was 737 feet in all directions, and the third 363. The costs of building them were immense, and prove that gold was extremely common among the Egyptians. See Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, Book One.

Pyraenus. Spirit of wine, as if to say Fire of wine.

Pyreticum.Febrifuge drug.

Pyrithois. See. pirithous.

Pirois or Pyrous. Name of one of the horses of the Sun. Columella says (book 10) that some have also given this name to the planet Mars, because of its reddish color.

Pyromy. Art of regulating and conducting the degrees of heat for chemical operations. The Hermetic Philosophers say unanimously that their whole secret consists in the regime of fire, when one has the matter of stone. See fire, heat.

Pyros. wheat. Blanchard.

Pyrotechnics. See pyronomy.

Pyroticum. Cautery, blisters.

Pyrus. See Pyrois.

Pyrrhus.Son of Achilles and Deidamia, was also called Neoptolemus. After the death of his father killed by Paris, he went to the siege of Troye, because one of the destinies of this city was that it could not be taken if one of the descendants of Eaque did not attend. Pyrrhus there slew Priam in the midst of his gods, and threw the young Astianax, son of Hector, from the top of a tower; and as Polyxene had been the cause of the death of Achilles, he immolated him on his tomb. Returning from this expedition, he married Hermione, daughter of Menelaus and Helen, although already betrothed to Orestes, which cost him his life, because Orestes killed him in front of the altar of Apollo. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 6.

Pythians. Pythian or Pythian games. They were instituted in honor of Apollo, after he killed the snake Python. See games.