MYTHO-HERMETIC DICTIONARY Q-Z

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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Q. Pl. Means as much as one wants.

QV At will.

QS Enough.

Quadrants. Four ounces.

Quadratus. Nickname of Mercury.

Whenros. White stone, which the Ancients said was found in the brains of vultures. They thought she had the ability to bring milk to women.

Quanli. Lead.

Quaris. Stone gall.

Quartarium. The same as quadrants. It also means a measure containing five ounces of wine, or four and a half ounces of oil.

Quebolia. Mirabolans.

Quebric. Arsenic of the Philosophers.

Quebrit. Sulfur of the Sages.

Quebuli.Mirabolans.

Quemli. Lead.

Quercula. Plant called chamoedrys, small oak.

Dragon tail. It is, according to Hermes, the mercury of the Philosophers in putrefaction.
dragon's white tail. Oil of mercury, or the white stone, so named because the black color is called Dragon, and white succeeds it.
dragon's red tail. It is the red magisterium, or the red sulfur of the Philosophers.
peacock tail. These are the colors of the rainbow, which manifest themselves on matter in the operations of stone.To indicate the colors which supervene on this matter, Basil Valentin and several other Philosophers have used as successive symbols, the crow for the color black, the peacock for the various colors of the rainbow, the swan for the white, and the phoenix for red .
red fox tail. Minimum.

Quiamos. Come to earth. Rosacea.

Quibrit. Sulfur of the Philosophers. Morian.

Quintessence. The quintessence, the specific magnetism, the bond, the seed of the elements, the composition of the pure elements, are, says the Breton (Philosophie Spagyrique), expressions synonymous with the same thing, the same matter or subject, in which lies the form. It is a material essence in which the celestial spirit is enclosed, and operates. We could define the quintessence as a fifth principle of the mixtures, composed of what is purest in the four elements.
quintessence of the elements. It is the Mercury of the Philosophers. Raymond Lully and Jean de Roquetaillade, known under the name of Jean de Rupe Scissa, each wrote a treatise which entitled it: de Quinta essential, the object of which is the composition of Hermetic mercury. Both deceive the ignorant, by betting on this quintessence, as if it were made with the spirit of vulgar wine, instead of philosophical wine. Jean Séger Weidenfeld treated it at great length in his work entitled: de Secretis Adeptorum, sive de usu spiritûs vini Lulliani. and spirit of wine is absolutely mineral, and not vegetable, but sharp and made more powerful with vegetables, according to the use which one wants to make of it, says the same Raymond Lully.

Quinte Nature.

Quiris. Stone found in the nest of hoopoes. Some ancient Naturalists attributed to this stone the property of revealing secrets, and of exciting extraordinary dreams in those who wore it during sleep.

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R. Means take, put.

Raan. Armonia salt.

Raari. Armonia salt.

Rabeboya. Root of the great Flamula or great Flambe. Some have given the name of Rabeboya to the Moon, or female of the Sages.

Rabiel. Dragon's blood.

Rabira. Tin, Jupiter.

Rabric. Sulfur of the Philosophers.

Racari. Armonia salt.

Rashi.
Mercury of the Sages.
Racho.

Root. Some Chemical Physicists have given the name of roots to what others call principles, and have named them differently, although they are only the same things. They call the principles of the mixed, the pure fixed and the pure volatile, roots; everything that enters into the composition of the mixture is supposed to be heterogeneous, and not root, because it is an obstacle to the perfect union of the roots, on which the duration depends; and causes separation from it, whence ensues death. It is for this reason that the union of principles, made by Alchemy, is permanent and incorruptible.
root (Sc. Herm.) Mercury of the Sages during putrefaction.They said that their matter or rather their mercury was composed of two things issued from the same root; because indeed from one and only soft matter, and which is everywhere, as the Cosmopolitan says, we draw two things, a water and an earth, which united make only one thing and never separate. This union makes it only one root, which is the seed and the true root of the philosophical metals.
The root of the work is, according to Trevisan, the principal ingredient of the philosophical compound; this is why Riplée calls it the base. It is the mature sulfur of the Sun of the Sages, by virtue of which the other two mercurial substances ripen and acquire the degree of perfection of gold. The Philosophers have also named it the Fire of Nature.
root of art. White stone. We must not confuse the root of the Art with the root of the Work, because the beginning of the Work is the manual preparation, which anyone can do, of the raw material, instead of which the Art Philosophy begins only after this preparation, of which almost no Philosopher has spoken. Thus the root of the Work taken in its principle, is raw matter,
root of metals. Some have given this name to antimony, others to common mercury. Both were wrong. By Antimony and Mercury are to be understood those of the Hermetic Philosophers, which are the same thing, and which is itself the root of antimony and vulgar mercury; that is to say, what everything is resolved into.
root. Also said of the main parts of the human body, from which the others seem to depend or derive their origin. The brain is the root of all ligaments, the heart is the root of all limbs, and the liver is that of blood. These roots often suffer only by accident. By keeping them healthy, we keep the whole body; but it is also necessary to cure the accidents, to preserve the principal.Paracelsus.
root of the tinctures of the sun and the moon. It is the mercury of the sages united to its sulphur.

Racy. Armonia salt.

Will radiates. Tin, Jupiter.

Radix Cava. Species of aristolochia, whose root is hollow.

Raib. Stones of all kinds.

Oak Grape. Assembly of small red globules outside, white and almost milky inside, of a very styptic taste, which one finds in spring on the roots of the oak; it is during this time that they must be picked, because in summer they become ligneous. They are dried in the shade, and then pulverized. It is specific for dysentery, blood flow, and hemorrhage. Rulland.

Ramag.Ash. The ignorant allow themselves to be duped by rogues who present them with false receipts, and ask them for gold to make them. If they had studied the principles of Nature and of the great work in the works of true Philosophers, they would not be surprised. They would see there that matter is one, vile, common, and that he who has a sufficient quantity of this matter, has more need of patience and work, than expenses to make; that the work does not lie in the multitude of things, and that only one nature, a vessel and a stove are needed. Let them read Trevisan, Zachaire, they will soon be disillusioned with these misleading recepts. If the Philosophers sometimes give recepts, they take care to warn that they should not be understood literally,

Branch of Gold. The one that Aeneas carried with him, to have entered the Kingdom of Pluto, and which it was necessary to have in order to approach Proserpina, is the symbol of the matter of the Sages, as d'Espagnet explains. It is taken from a tree similar to that which produced the apples of the Hesperides, and to that on which hung the Golden Fleece. But the difficulty is to recognize this branch and this branch; for the Philosophers, says the same Author, have studied more particularly to hide it than anything else. He alone can snatch it: qui Maternas agnoscit aves. .... And gemims cui forte columbce, Ipsa sub ora viri coelo worships flying. See a more extensive explanation at the end of Book Six of Unveiled Egyptian and Greek Fables.

ramed. Rhubarb.

Ramich. Gall nuts.

Ramigi, Ramigiri. Colofone.

Ranac. Armonia salt.

Randeric. Material of the work, or Rebis, before it has reached whiteness.

Rasaheti. Es ustum, burnt copper.

rasar. Tin.

shave. White lead.

Raseos.
Copper, Venus.
Shaves.

Rastig. Chemical Jupiter.

Rastol. Copper, brass.

Rastul. Salt. Raved. Rhubarb.

Raved-Seni. Oriental rhubarb.

Raxad. Armonia salt.

Rayb. See raib.

Raymond Lully. Hermetic philosophizing, one of the most learned, most subtle, and most highly recommended reading, as having written most clearly on the principles of things, and as having most penetrated into the secrets of Nature.
D'Espagnet particularly praises his Old Testament, his Codicil, his Theory and his Practice. Zachaire adds to it the Letter of this Author to King Robert of England, and says that his reading made him aware of his error. Raymond Lully says little about the water so desired by the Philosophers, but what he says about it is very significant. As for the diet, no one has written about it more clearly than he. He talks endlessly about white wine and red wine; but it should not be taken literally. See wine.

Sun and Moon rays.
The Philosophers say, according to Hermes, that their mercurial water is extracted from the rays of the Sun and the Moon by means of their magnet; some chymists consequently torture themselves to find a magnet or an attraction which can produce or attract this matter: Borrichius disillusions them with all the true philosophers, when they say that the matter from which this mercury must be extracted is found on earth, and that it is a virgin land:
that one should not consequently seek to fish it in the air. Raymond Lully says positively that she draws herself from the earth, and Hermès says that the earth is her nurse.

Realgal or Realgar. Magisterium in red.

Say it again. (Sc. Herm.) Matter of the Sages in the first operation of the Work. The raw mineral spirit like water, says the good Trevisan, mixes with its body in the first decoction, dissolving it. This is why it is called Rebis, because it is made up of two things, namely of the male and the female, that is to say of the solvent and the dissoluble body, although basically it is only the same thing and the same matter.
The Philosophers have also given the name of Rebis to the material of the work which has reached white, because it is then a mercury animated by its sulphur, and because these two things, issued from the same root, form but one whole. homogeneous. V. androgine, hermaphrodite.
rebis is also taken for human excrement, and for the droppings of pigeons.

Rebolea. Burnt faeces.

Reboli. Mummy liquor.

Rebona. Fire calcined droppings.

Rebosola or Rebisola. Specific drawn from urine, against ictericia.

Receive. Instructive process or memory for doing the Great Work. They are called so, because they begin like Doctors' prescriptions, with the Latin word Recipe, which means take... Reffacing. Dissolution of the body by a damp and proud spirit. Recham. Marble. Container. In terms of chemistry, is a matrass or balloon adapted to the beak of the capital of a still or a retort, to receive the liquor which distills from it.
and that when they say take this, put that, they are not claiming that it is necessary to add or put something foreign to what is already in the vase; but only that it is necessary to continue the diet to bring about a change of color in the matter, and to push it from a less perfect state to a greater degree of perfection. We should therefore only hear them literally when they say take, when it is necessary first to put the matter in the vase, to make mercury, then sulphur; when of this sulfur and mercury it is necessary to make the Rebis to achieve the stone, and finally for this stone with the mercury to make the elixir. This is the whole work. they do not claim that one should add or put something foreign to what is already in the vase;but only that it is necessary to continue the diet to bring about a change of color in the matter, and to push it from a less perfect state to a greater degree of perfection. We should therefore only hear them literally when they say take, when it is necessary first to put the matter in the vase, to make mercury, then sulphur; when of this sulfur and mercury it is necessary to make the Rebis to achieve the stone, and finally for this stone with the mercury to make the elixir. This is the whole work. they do not claim that one should add or put something foreign to what is already in the vase; but only that it is necessary to continue the diet to bring about a change of color in the matter, and to push it from a less perfect state to a greater degree of perfection.We should therefore only hear them literally when they say take, when it is necessary first to put the matter in the vase, to make mercury, then sulphur; when of this sulfur and mercury it is necessary to make the Rebis to achieve the stone, and finally for this stone with the mercury to make the elixir. This is the whole work. We should therefore only hear them literally when they say take, when it is necessary first to put the matter in the vase, to make mercury, then sulphur; when of this sulfur and mercury it is necessary to make the Rebis to achieve the stone, and finally for this stone with the mercury to make the elixir. This is the whole work.We should therefore only hear them literally when they say take, when it is necessary first to put the matter in the vase, to make mercury, then sulphur; when of this sulfur and mercury it is necessary to make the Rebis to achieve the stone, and finally for this stone with the mercury to make the elixir. This is the whole work. Salt. Substance composed of little sulfurous earth and much mercury water. The chemists understand by salt the substantial matter of body; of which sulfur is the form. Seutiomalache. Some interpret it as chard, others as spinach, still others as mallow. Blanchard. Sexcunx. See sescuncia. Sextario. Two ounce weight. Sextula.




In terms of Hermetic Philosophy, the container is the earth which remains at the bottom of the vase, and which drinks and receives the vapors which condense at the top of the vase, and fall back as rain. The receptacle is the body, and the vapors are the spirit, which corporifies itself by uniting with the earth which fixes it.

Reconciliation. (Sc. Herm.) The Hermetic Philosophers recommend reconciling enemies, and making peace between them, so that they may be united inseparably; that is to say, the volatile must be united with the fixed, so that the volatile becomes fixed forever. Lambspringius represented this volatile and this fixed under various emblematic figures of animals and birds; Flamel, under that of two dragons, one winged, the other wingless.But who will be taken as arbitrator of their dispute? and who will be the mediator of this peace? Two are needed, according to all the Philosophers, Vulcan and Mercury; this is why the latter is represented with a caduceus, around which are twisted two serpents, male and female, and of opposite properties. The Poets also say that Mercury attuned enemies, and recalled souls to bodies. The Fable gives an example of Vulcan's power to unite different things, when it says that Vulcan surprised Mars and Venus in adultery, and bound them together until Mercury came to unbind them.

Reconcile the Enemies. (Sc. Hermét.) Philosophical expressions, which signify the reunion of the fixed with the volatile, by means of mercury and Vulcan.See reconciliation.

Correction. New purification of a chemical body or spirit, by repeated distillation, or by some other operation used for this purpose. In terms of Hermetic Chemistry, it is the same as sublimation, or exaltation of the material of the work to a more perfect degree. See. sublimation.

Rectify. Give a greater degree of perfection. See sublimate.

Reduction. Metallic powder made by calcination. It is reduced to liquor, and finally to spelter. Planiscampi.

Reduction. Downgrading of a thing that has reached a certain degree of perfection, to a degree that is less so, as if with bread one made grain of wheat. Thus the reduction of the metals to their first matter, so recommended by the Philosophers, is the retrogradation of the Philosophical, and not vulgar, metals to their own seed, that is to say, a Hermetic mercury. This reduction is also called reincrudation, and is made by the dissolution of the fixed by the volatile of its own nature, and from which it was made. but in hermetic mercury, which is the first proximate matter of the philosophical metals. reduction. Also said of the union of one thing with another.
Thus the reduction of metals into their first matter, is not an operation by which one reduces them into the four elements, because they are only the first distant matter;
This is what d'Espagnet calls the reinceration of the soul in stone, when it has lost it; which is done, he says, by suckling her and feeding her with a spiritual and rorigific milk, until she has acquired a strength capable of resisting the attacks of the fire. This reduction is therefore an operation by which one inserts, one fattens, one nourishes, one fattens, one subtilizes and one units the elements or principles, so that the fire acts on the air, the air on the water. , water on land, etc.

Reduce. Also means in two differing senses, like the term Reduction, of which see the article.

Rezon. Sulfur of the Philosophers perfect in red.

Refeetivum.

Refraction. Same as element conversion.

Diet. (Sc. Herm.) The Philosophers say that everything consists in the regime of fire. We must not be taken in the literal sense of these words. The whole success of the work depends in fact on the regime of the fire; but they understand by these words, not only the conduct of the exterior fire, exciting, and preserving the matter of the impressions of the cold air; it is also necessary to understand them of the regime of philosophical fire, that is to say, of the fire of nature, and of the fire against nature, so that from these two combined goods, a third is born, which the Philosophers call unnatural fire.These three fires, together with the outer fire, are the four fires which Artephius says are necessary in the work. He names only three, however, because he speaks only of the Philosophical fires, and it is these fires that must be proportioned geometrically; in this consists the whole secret of the regime.
We must, however, be careful, says Philalethes, that although the action of our stone is unique, that is to say cooking with natural fire, the state of this heat varies in three ways. The fire should be moderate to black and the beginning of white; one then increases this fire by degrees, until perfect exsiccation or inceration of the stone.
This fire is further strengthened until red. Dastin says: the fire will be light in solution, mediocre in sublimation, moderate in coagulation, continuous in dealbation and strong in rubification. Too great a fire spoils and burns the flowers of the magisterium; too small a fire does not excite enough, and nothing is done. So let us be careful that there are two heats in our work, namely, that of sulphur, and that of external fire; this is not taken from the substance of the material of the work, because it is not permanent with the quantity and the weight of the mercury. That of sulphur, on the contrary, forms one body with mercury, and animates it; it is part of the magisterium, and is an integral and essential part of it.This is why Aros says: mercury and fire must be enough for you; what is meant after the first conjunction. Some Philosophers give as an example of the regime which must be followed in the operations of the work, the course of the Sun in the four seasons of the year, and say that it is necessary to begin in winter. But we should not hear them from the vulgar winter, it is from the philosophical winter, that is to say from the time when matter disposes itself to generation by the dissolution and putrefaction of the fixed part by the action of the volatile and of internal fire . This winter can be found during the vulgar summer, because one can begin the work at any time, Zachaire and Flamel did it in the spring. See times, seasons.Some Philosophers give as an example of the regime which must be followed in the operations of the work, the course of the Sun in the four seasons of the year, and say that it is necessary to begin in winter. But we should not hear them from the vulgar winter, it is from the philosophical winter, that is to say from the time when matter disposes itself to generation by the dissolution and putrefaction of the fixed part by the action of the volatile and of internal fire . This winter can be found during the vulgar summer, because one can begin the work at any time, Zachaire and Flamel did it in the spring. See times, seasons.Some Philosophers give as an example of the regime which must be followed in the operations of the work, the course of the Sun in the four seasons of the year, and say that it is necessary to begin in winter. But we should not hear them from the vulgar winter, it is from the philosophical winter, that is to say from the time when matter disposes itself to generation by the dissolution and putrefaction of the fixed part by the action of the volatile and of internal fire . This winter can be found during the vulgar summer, because one can begin the work at any time, Zachaire and Flamel did it in the spring. See times, seasons.But we should not hear them from the vulgar winter, it is from the philosophical winter, that is to say from the time when matter disposes itself to generation by the dissolution and putrefaction of the fixed part by the action of the volatile and of internal fire . This winter can be found during the vulgar summer, because one can begin the work at any time, Zachaire and Flamel did it in the spring. See times, seasons. But we should not hear them from the vulgar winter, it is from the philosophical winter, that is to say from the time when matter disposes itself to generation by the dissolution and putrefaction of the fixed part by the action of the volatile and of internal fire .This winter can be found during the vulgar summer, because one can begin the work at any time, Zachaire and Flamel did it in the spring. See times, seasons.

To govern. To govern, to conduct an operation. See, diet.

reign. (Sc. Herm.) The Fable feigns four principal kingdoms of the Gods, which the Poets have also called ages. The first was that of Saturn, called the golden age; the second, that of Jupiter, or the silver age; the third, the age of copper, or that of Venus; and finally the fourth, the age of iron, or that of Mars. The Mythologists have explained these four kingdoms or ages in a moral sense, and the Adepts, with more reason, explain it in the philosophical-chemical sense; for these four kingdoms are indeed only the four principal colors which occur to Philosophical matter during the operations of the work, as may be seen in all the Books of the Adepts, which treat of the operations of stone.The first color is black, which they attribute to Saturn; the second, the white, which they give to Jupiter; the third, the citrin, which characterizes Venus; and the fourth, red, or the color of purple, which befits Mars.
reign is also said of the divisions or classes under which all sublunary beings are ranged. There are three of them, to which we have given the names of mineral kingdom, vegetable kingdom, and animal kingdom. Under the first one includes metals, minerals, precious and rough stones, pebbles, limestone and gypsum soils, bowls, bitumens and salts, The second contains trees, plants, and all plants. Finally, the third is made up of animals of all species, quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fish, and crustaceans.
The individuals of each kingdom are multiplied by a seed analogous and specified for that kingdom; so that a dog breeds a dog, a tree produces a tree, and the metals have a general seed proper to all metallic individuals.The seed of one kingdom must not be used to produce an individual of another kingdom. Those, then, are mistaken, who believe they extract the Philosophical mercury, the seed of metals, of the alkaline salts of plants, or of the parts taken from animals. “Be diligent in seeking things that agree with reason, and with the books of the Ancients, says Basil Valentin (Foreword); know that our stone does not arise from combustible things, because it fights against fire, and supports all its efforts, without being in any way altered by it. Do not, therefore, draw it from those materials in which nature, all powerful as she is, cannot place it.For example, if someone said that our stone is of vegetable nature, which nevertheless is not possible, although it appears in it I do not know what of vegetable, it is necessary that you know that if our lunar was of the same nature than the other plants, it would serve like it as matter fit for the fire to burn, and would only gain from it a dead salt, or, as we say, the dead head. Although our predecessors wrote amply of vegetable stone, if you are not as clairvoyant as Lynceus, their writings will exceed your range; for they only called it vegetable, because it grows and multiplies like a vegetable thing. mighty as she is, cannot put her down.For example, if someone said that our stone is of vegetable nature, which nevertheless is not possible, although it appears in it I do not know what of vegetable, it is necessary that you know that if our lunar was of the same nature than the other plants, it would serve like it as matter fit for the fire to burn, and would only gain from it a dead salt, or, as we say, the dead head. Although our predecessors wrote amply of vegetable stone, if you are not as clairvoyant as Lynceus, their writings will exceed your range; for they only called it vegetable, because it grows and multiplies like a vegetable thing. mighty as she is, cannot put her down.For example, if someone said that our stone is of vegetable nature, which nevertheless is not possible, although it appears in it I do not know what of vegetable, it is necessary that you know that if our lunar was of the same nature than the other plants, it would serve like it as matter fit for the fire to burn, and would only gain from it a dead salt, or, as we say, the dead head. Although our predecessors wrote amply of vegetable stone, if you are not as clairvoyant as Lynceus, their writings will exceed your range; for they only called it vegetable, because it grows and multiplies like a vegetable thing.which nevertheless is not possible, although it appears in it I do not know what of vegetable, it is necessary that you know that if our lunar one were of the same nature as the other plants, it would serve like it as material suitable for fire to burn, and would only take away from him a dead salt, or, as they say, a dead head. Although our predecessors wrote amply of vegetable stone, if you are not as clairvoyant as Lynceus, their writings will exceed your range; for they only called it vegetable, because it grows and multiplies like a vegetable thing.which nevertheless is not possible, although it appears in it I do not know what of vegetable, it is necessary that you know that if our lunar one were of the same nature as the other plants, it would serve like it as material suitable for fire to burn, and would only take away from him a dead salt, or, as they say, a dead head. Although our predecessors wrote amply of vegetable stone, if you are not as clairvoyant as Lynceus, their writings will exceed your range; for they only called it vegetable, because it grows and multiplies like a vegetable thing. and would only gain from him a dead salt, or, as they say, a dead head. Although our predecessors wrote amply of vegetable stone, if you are not as clairvoyant as Lynceus, their writings will exceed your range;for they only called it vegetable, because it grows and multiplies like a vegetable thing. and would only gain from him a dead salt, or, as they say, a dead head. Although our predecessors wrote amply of vegetable stone, if you are not as clairvoyant as Lynceus, their writings will exceed your range; for they only called it vegetable, because it grows and multiplies like a vegetable thing.
In short, know that no animal can extend its species, if it does not do so by means of similar things and of the same nature. That's why I don't want you to look for our stone elsewhere or on the other side than in the seed of its own nature, from which Nature produced it.Draw from this also a certain consequence, that you must in no way choose an animal nature for this purpose.
Now, my friend, so that I may teach you where this seed and this material is drawn from, think to yourself for what end and what use you want to make the stone; then you will know that it is extracted only from metallic root, ordered by the Creator to the generation only of metals. Notice first, says the same Author (Lumière des Sages) that no common quicksilver serves our work; for our quicksilver is drawn from the best metal, by Spagyric art, and is pure, subtle, shining, clear as rock water, diaphanous as crystal, and without rubbish. In
the mineral kingdom, gold is most excellent with diamond; in the vegetable, it is the wine; and in the animal, man.

Regulates. Is a generic term, very much in use among chemists, to express the mass which remains at the bottom of the crucible, when some piece of mineral or metallic lead has been melted there. The name of regulus is more usually given to the pellet of antimony; and when it is mixed with other metals, the name of the metal is added to it. So we call martial regulus, the one where iron enters, or Mars, etc. Many chemists have looked upon this last regulus as being the matter of the great work, and have named it the wolf. Philalethes contributed not a little to mislead them, by what he says in his Introitus apertus, in which he seems to designate him quite clearly.But Artephius who speaks of antimony, and even calls it by his own name, also says that this antimony is the antimony of the parts of Saturn, and calls it Saturnial Antimony, and says, our Saturnial Antimonial Vinegar. He then explains himself, saying that he calls their matter antimony, not because it is in fact antimony, but because it has the properties of it; which suffices to throw a light on the place of Philalethes, and to prevent the ignorant from spending their money working on vulgar antimony, nor on its regulus.

Regulate. Reduce a metal to a spell.

Reilli. Acid salt, or vinegar. Re-increase. Demotion. V.
REDUCTION.

Re-embed.Reduce a body to its first principles. Artephius says that to reincrude means to decook, to soften the bodies until they are stripped of their hard and dry consistency. One cannot succeed in the Work if one does not reincrude the perfect body, if one does not reduce it to its first matter. See, reduce.

Queen. Mercurial water of the Philosophers, which they have thus named, because they have called their sulfur King, who must be married with this water, his natural wife, and his mother. Basil Valentine and Trevisan are the two who used this term Queen more particularly.

Reiteration of destruction. It is when the second arrangement is made, to arrive at the stone after having made the sulphur. Morien says that this arrangement or second operation is a repetition or reiteration of the first.

Remora Aratri. Plant known as Beef Ridge.

Remore. Name of a small fish which the Ancients said had the property of stopping a vessel in its course, although sailing at full sail. The Hermetic Philosophers gave the name of Remore and Echeneis to the fixed part of the matter of the Work, by allusion to the supposed property of this fish, because this fixed part stops the volatile part by fixing it.

Return the soul to the stone after removing it.

Delicious meal of the Philosophers.It is when their science makes them discover some secret of nature of which they were unaware.

Upper and lower water reservoir. Mercury of the Sages. They called it so because it is the epitome of the little world, and it is like the quintessence of the elements.

Residence. Magisterium in red, called residence, because in it resides all that is needed to animate the mercury, of which it is itself like the residue and the result, and that when they have been united and worked, they compose a all capable of remaining eternally in the fire, and of resisting its strongest attacks.

Heart resin. gum, or extract of angelica root.
EARTH RESIN. It is sulphur.
DRINKING EARTH RESIN.Sublimated sulfur reduced to a liquor called sulfur oil or balsam.
MINERAL RESIN. Sulfur.
gold resin. Tincture extracted from this metal.

Resolution. In terms of Physics and Chemistry, means disunion of the parts of a mixed body. We find, by resolution, five things in all bodies, but some more abundant in some than in others. 1°. An ethereal body, or spirit substance, called spirit or mercury. 2°. A sulfurous and volatile substance. These two are so so, that they evaporate very easily in the air, if one does not bring many precautions to preserve them; they participate in a lot in Van-Helmont's Gas. 3°. A salt. 4°.Phlegm, or watery part. Finally a land, called Dead Head. These last two substances are like the receptacle of the other three.
resolution. Also means Dissolution, Reduction, of which see the articles.

solve. It is to disunite the parts of a solid body. In terms of Hermetic Chemistry, it is to reduce the water-soluble body, by means of mercury; it is to reincrude it, to make it fall into putrefaction, and dispose it to the generation of the son of the sun. When this term is used for the operation of Medicine of the third order, it means not only to reduce matter to white or to red, and the elixir to philosophical mercury, but to prepare it, sublimate it, calcine it, purify it, to join it, to separate it, to wash it, to distil it, to melt it, to harden it, to triturate it, to insert it, etc., because the same operation does all this in the same vase, with three materials of the same nature.

Resurrect. See resurrection.

Resurrection.The Hermetic Philosophers thus call the passage from black to white in the operation of the Great Work; because black marks putrefaction, which is a sign of death. They also give this name to the transmutation of imperfect metals into gold; for, according to them, lead, iron, etc., are dead metals, which can only be resuscitated and glorified by becoming gold, as the highest degree of their perfection.

Res. Fishing net. The Hermetic Chemists gave this name to their magnet, because it attracts and takes their steel, as a net takes fish. See loving.This net must be understood as the fixation, which stops and fixes the swimming and fluttering parts in the mercurial water, which the Philosophers call their sea. Spaint, that is to say the fixed grain of the gold of the Sages.

Return. Vase of glass, stone, earth, or iron, in the shape of a bottle, the neck of which is curved on the side. It is used to distill without a capital. It is also called Retort.

Streetlight or streetlamp fire. It is a flaming fire which circulates and returns to the matter which produces it, like the flame in an oven for baking bread. The lamppost fire of the Philosophers is the interior fire of matter which circulates in the closed vessel, and hermetically sealed.

Reverberate.It is cooking or making matter circulate in the Philosophical vase.

Revivification. Action by which a mixture is returned to the first state it had before being corrupted by mixtures.

Revive. Return to a disguised mixed race its first state which it had received from nature. The mercury of cinnabar and of the other preparations given to it is revivified, by making it again become a flowing mercury. The metals are revivified, after having reduced them to lime by calcination, or by strong waters. In terms of Hermetic Science, to revivify is to restore life, that is to say, to restore the soul to one's body. See. render.

Rh. Rhapontic.

Rhadamanthe.Son of Jupiter and Europe, was chosen, with Aeaque and Minos, to be Judge of the tenebrous Empire of Pluto. See the Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, Book. 3, c. 14, § 5.

Rhamnusia. Nickname of the Goddess Nemesis.

Rhea or Rhea. One of the great Divinities of the Egyptians, daughter of Heaven and Earth; also had the names of Ops, Cybele and Vesta. She married her brother Saturn, and had Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto, Juno, Ceres and Vesta. But Saturn having learned that one of his children would dethrone him, and having usurped the Empire from his brother Titan, they made a treaty, by which Saturn bound himself to put to death all the male children who were born of him.Saturn, to keep his word, devoured them as Rhea gave birth to them; which threw her into extreme affliction. When she was ready to give birth to Jupiter, she concerted means to save her from her father's cruelty; consequently, after giving birth, she gave the little Jupiter to the Corybantes to Raise, and presented a pebble wrapped in swaddling clothes to Saturn, who devoured him. See. Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, Book. 3, c. 3 and 4.

Rhesus. King of Thrace, came to the aid of the Trojans with a powerful cavalry.Dolon betrayed him to Odysseus and Diomede, who entered the camp where Rhesus was at night, killed him, and carried off his horses before they could drink in the river Xanthe, a condition absolutely required to take the city of Troy. . See the Egyptian and Greek Fables unveiled. Book 6, Fatality 6.

Rhizotomum. Specific drug to radically cure a disease.

Rhodelaeum. Rose oil.

Rhodes. Island of the Mediterranean Sea, in which the Fable says that Cadmus approached from Egypt, that he built there a temple to Neptune, of which he gave the guard to some Phoenicians, and made presents to Minerva, between which was a very beautiful copper vase , very remarkable, and made in the antique style;that this Land was ravaged by serpents. This Fable, according to the explanation of the true chymists, contains in abridged form the whole Great Work; because, says Michel Majer, why this present of a copper vase made in the antique style, if it is not to give us to understand that it is necessary to pay more attention to the material than to the form? And as for the land of Rhodes, it is the true philosophical land, and not any other, all of which would be useless for this work. The serpents spoken of, aren't they the ones almost all the books of the chymists talk about? The whole story of Cadmus, which can be seen in his article, will further elucidate this explanation.
A golden rain fell on the island of Rhodes at the time of Minerva's birth.See neck brace, GOLDEN rain.

Rhododapne or Rhoclodendruin. Oleander.

Rhodomel. Honey rose.

Rhodostagma. Pink water.

Rhoe. Sumach.

Rhoeas. Poppy, wild red poppy.

Rhua. See rhoe.

Rhypticum. Detergent medicine.

Riastel. Salt.

Rich. As much have the poor as the rich, say the Philosophers. Which should not be understood of men, but of metals; that is to say, that the base metals or the imperfect metals have likewise, like gold and silver, that fixed grain and that mercury which the Philosophers seek. They are nearer in gold, silver, and mercury, because gold and silver are indeed more fixed, and mercury is itself a mercury, having also this fixed grain, or else this fire which gives life to metals.
It would therefore be wrong to conclude apropos of the above expressions that poor men possess the material of the work equally as the rich, and that they are in a position to bear the costs and the operations. It requires a great knowledge of nature, which cannot be acquired without study. It is necessary to provide the material and the vases, and not to have the mind occupied with procuring the means of daily subsistence, which in no way suits poor people. When the Philosophers say that matter is base, they consider it in its state of putrefaction and dissolution in water, which is common to everyone. It is also in this sense that they say that it costs nothing, or very little, just like their fire, which is common, that is to say, common to all physical beings. ,

Nothing. The Philosophers have argued for a long time, and will still argue, to determine what is to be understood by Nothing. God created everything from nothing;
the sacred text tells us so. The most probable and common feeling, is drawn from the very etymology of the term; nothing is what has no existence. Some have claimed that this nothingness or non-being is something relative to itself, and nothing relative to created things; almost as the common people call anything empty that is not occupied by a palpable and sensitive body. Others say that this nothing must be understood as the first matter of all things, formless and as if in chaos, before the determination that God gave it to become such and such an existing thing as it is, and that it is in this same matter that all bodies can be reduced.
Most Naturalists seem to think so, Paracelsus among others:
but it must not be taken literally; for he hardly expresses himself thus except when he speaks of the solution of bodies and of their putrefaction; and as the Hermetic Philosophers give the name chaos to the matter of the great work, and say that this matter is that of which everything is composed; it is not surprising that those who do not hear them believed that these Philosophers confused their chaos with the nothing, or the thing from which God created everything.
Many believe that before creation only God existed;
that there was no place, no void, and that God filled everything with his immensity. This is the way sensitive people think;for either we must not admit of God, which is repugnant to common sense, or we must not suppose anything that existed eternally with God; not even the void, since it would be a place, though improperly said, supposed outside the immensity of God; which cannot exist with the idea that we have of its infinite perfections. It is not in consequence of this that some modern physicists admit a vacuum in nature.
When the chymists say they reduce bodies to nothing, we must understand this as the alteration and change they make in the actual configuration of bodies either by solution or calcination.
We must not allow ourselves to be misled by the way of expressing themselves of the Hermetic Philosophers, when they say that their matter costs nothing; they then allude to the state of this matter reduced to water by dissolution. We know that water costs nothing. They say the same of fire, because then they hear of the fire of matter, the same which is common to all the individuals of nature.

Rillus. Ingot mould.

Risigallum or Rosagallum. Species of orpiment with a pale red color.

River. The Philosophers often personified rivers, to form the symbols of the mercurial water of the Sages, and said, like the Poets, that they were daughters of the Ocean. See achelous, perseus.
alkalized river. The Chymists have given this name to the fountains whose water is charged with an alkali salt, and say that this water is impregnated with these salts by passing through naturally calcined stones in the earth. Becher's system on the origin of mineral fountains seems more probable; we can see it in his Physica subterranea.

Dress. Is one of the names that the Philosophers gave to the colors which arise in matter during operations. They therefore said that their King, their Queen changes their robes according to the seasons. Thus
white dress is the white color, which succeeds black, called
dark dress that which appears, or at least must appear in the course of philosophical operations;
because in the first preparation of the raw material, one should not look for these colors.
crimson dress is the red color of sulfur perfectly fixed. This is why the Fable says that Apollo wore a purple robe, to sing on the lyre the victory that Jupiter had won over the Giants.
The Philosophers also call by the name Robe the earthly and coarse parts in which are enclosed the quick gold of the Sages and their mercury;
they therefore say that the garments and robes of their King and their Queen must be stripped, and well purified before putting them in the nuptial bed, because they must enter it pure, naked, and as they are. they came into the world. Basil Valentine.

Dresses. Vinegar.

Robub. Preserves of flowers or fruits.

Rock. The Philosophers have often alluded to the hardness of the rocks to signify the fixity of their matter, and the ancient Sages formed their fables from it, and their metamorphoses of several persons into rocks: such as Atlas, Polydectes, Seryphe and various others,
by the appearance of Medusa's head; that is to say, by the fixative property of the fixed grain or sulfur of the Sages.
They also gave the name Rocher to their vase, by similarity; because their metals are formed there, like common metals, and gold in particular, in rock.

Rohel. Dragon's blood.

King. This name has two different meanings among the Philosophers. It is more commonly understood as sulfur of the Sages, or philosophical gold, by allusion to vulgar gold, called King of metals. But sometimes they understand by the name of King the matter which must first enter into the making of mercury, and which is its first fire, this fixed grain which must overcome the coldness and the volatility of this mercury. Basil Valentine seems to understand it in both senses at the beginning of his twelve Keys. In the sequel he gives the name of King to the perfect sulphur, and even to the powder of projection.We cannot, he says, achieve victory, if the King has not imprinted his strength and his virtue on his water, and if he has not given him a key of his livery or royal color, to be dissolved by it. , and made invisible. Their King is also the same as their Lion. When they speak of it as powder of projection, they say that it is a King who loves his brothers so much, that he gives them his own flesh to eat, and thus makes them all Kings like him, that is to say Gold.

To break up. Dissolve, reduce to powder or water.

Rorella. Plant known as Ros solis.

Rosagallum. See risigallum.

Roacod. Vinegar.

Pink.The Fables say that the flower called rose was consecrated to Venus, because a thorn from a rose bush wounded this Goddess while she was running to the aid of Adonis who was dying, and because her blood dyed this flower red there had been white. This fable is explained in the book. 3, c. 8 and the book. 4, c. 4 of the Fables unveiled. It signifies nothing else than the change of the white color of philosophical matter into red color, through the intermediate yellow called Venus. We even often find in the books of the Philosophers, the rose as a symbol of the colors red and white.
Abraham Jew, in Flamel, feigns a rosebush garnished with white and red roses, planted on the top of a mountain, where the winds blow violently. Thus their white rose is their matter which has reached the white color, and their red rose is their aurific sulphur.
mineral rose is philosophical gold.
rose is sometimes mistaken for tartar, according to Rulland.
rose of life. It is, according to Manget, a liqueur made with brandy and the tincture of very pure gold, extracted by the spirit of salt, the whole then mixed with pearl salt.

Dew. Several Chemists have regarded the dew of the months of May and September as the matter of the Hermetic Work, based no doubt on the fact that several Authors have advanced that the dew was the reservoir of the universal spirit of Nature. François du Soucy, Sieur de Gerzan, praises it so highly in his Treatise entitled: The Project of the Creation of the World, that he seems to want to insinuate that in vain would one want to take another material to make the Hermetic work. Many others seem to share the same sentiment; but when we meditate seriously on the texts of the true Philosophers, in which they speak of dew, we are soon convinced that they speak of it only by similarity, and that theirs is a properly metallic dew, that is to say, say,their mercurial water sublimated into vapors in the vase, and which falls to the bottom in the form of dew or a little rain. Thus when they speak of the dew of the month of May, it is that of the month of May of their Philosophical spring, over which the sign of Gemini of their Zodiac dominates, different from the Zodiac as can be seen in;
the Zodiac article. Philalethes even positively said that their dew is their mercurial water coming out of putrefaction.
dew or celestial dew. Mercury of the Philosophers.
solar dew. See golden rain.

Rota. Colofone.

Spin. See traffic.

Rotengenius. Colofone.

To roast. See cooking.

Wheel.Continuation of the operations of the Hermetic Work. To turn the wheel is to observe the regime of fire. To make the circulation of the wheel is to recommence the operations, either to make the stone, or to multiply it in quality. The elementary wheel of the Sages is the conversion of the Philosophical elements, that is to say, the change from earth to water, then from water to earth; water contains air, and earth contains fire. See conversion.

Red. Term of the Hermetic Art, which signifies the sulfur of the Philosophers.
bloodred. Magisterium reached by firing to the color of purple.

Redness. Same as red.

To blush. It is cooking and digesting the material of the work until it has reached the color of field poppy.

Rust. Color of iron rust that the material takes on before reaching the purple color. This is why the Philosophers gave the name of Mars to this color, the duration of which is, according to them, the time of the reign of this God. This is why Basil Valentine says that Venus gives Mars the royal crown, so that the Sun may take it from her hands.

Rubella.Spiritous and dissolving liquor, suitable for extracting tincture from bodies. Such are the spirit of Venus, and the alkaest of Paracelsus and Van-Helmont, more particularly than all other dissolving menses.

Rubification. Continuation of the Hermetic regime by means of which one manages to make matter pass from the color white to red.

Rubify. Make red. V. rubification.

Rubinus Sulphuris. Sulfur balm.

Ruby. Magisterium with a perfect red.
precious rubies. Spraypowder.

Rumex. Kind of patience whose juice is refreshing, and whose root is given to those who are thirsty to suck. Blanchard.

Ruptorium.Caustic, infernal stone.


Rusangi,
burnt copper.
Rusatagi.

Ruscias. Mercury.

Cunning. Philosophers use trickery to hide the secret of their Art, and fool the ignorant. For this purpose they have affected to explain themselves only by metaphorical terms, by equivocations, enigmas, allegories and fables. They confused in their writings the beginning and the end, and commonly they speak of the first philosophical preparation as if it were indeed the one with which one must first begin, although there is a manual preparation of raw material, of which they do not speak , or only mention it under the term of the sublimation of mercury. It is, however, so necessary that without it one cannot succeed.They give a hundred different names to the same thing, and nothing, says Morien, has so misled those curious about this Science. V.matter. Often they deliberately insert kinds of contradictions, which are not for those who know the facts, but which greatly disgust those who want to study their works. One says that only one thing must be taken, another says that two must necessarily be taken, the other three; and they are right, although they appear to be contrary, because the first hears this one thing from their mercury; the second, of their animated or rebis mercury; and the third, of their three principles contained in this mercury, namely salt, sulfur and mercury, or the spirit, the soul and the body.Their only thing is the first principle of the metals, or their seed; the two things are, says Trevisan, two mercurial substances extracted from the same root; and the three things are the two extremes and the middle which serve to unite them, which they called medium conjungendi tincturas, poculum amoris, etc.
SN Means according to nature.
S. Only means half the weight of the ingredients, indicated above.

S

Sabena or Sabon. The lye from which soap is made.

Sand. Sand fire. See. fire.

Saber. Fire of the Philosophers.

Sactin. Vitriol.

Sacul. Brief.

Sadir. Metal slag.

Saffron. Simply said, and Safran from Mars des Sages. It is the material of the Art obtained by cooking in the saffron color.

Sagani Spiritus. These are the elements.

Sagda or Sagdo. A kind of stony silt that attaches to ships. Pliny, Solinus and Albert the Great say that it has an attractive virtue for wood, like that of the magnet for iron.

Wise. See philosophers.

Sagith and Segith. Vitriol.

Sahab. Mercury.

Saic. Quicksilver.

Seasons. The Philosophers have their four seasons, like the four of the common year; but they are quite different. They understand by seasons the various successive states in which the matter of the Art finds itself during the course of the operations, and these seasons are renewed each Philosophical year, that is to say each time that the operation is reiterated for achieving the perfection of the work. Their winter is the time of dissolution and putrefaction: spring succeeds and lasts since the black color begins to fade, until the white color is perfect: this whiteness and the saffron which follows, form their summer; the red color which comes after, is their autumn. That's why they say winter is the first season of the year,and that the work must begin in winter. Those who recommend beginning in the spring have in view only the material with which the work must be done, and not the beginning of the work of the Artist, since he can do it throughout the course of the vulgar seasons.

Salamarum. Vulgar silver, which some also call salt nitre. salt anathrum. See anathron. salt crystallinus. Cooked salt from human urine.
salt enixum. Salt dissolved in oil. dirty shoots. Decrepit salt. Some take it for rock salt. Planiscampi.
sal gemmee. Rock salt or ground salt, because it comes from mines where it forms naturally in the ground. It has been given the name rock salt, or precious stones, because it is clear and transparent like crystal.
sal peregrinorum. Composition

of nitre salt, fusible salt, rock salt, galangal, mace, cubes, alkali from wine, liqueur from juniper bays.It strengthens the stomach, aids digestion, preserves putrefaction, and prevents those who go to sea from vomiting. Planiscampi.
salt philosophorum. Composition of gold salt, antimony, vitriol, licorice, germander, chicory, valerian, wormwood and common salt, admirable for curing cancers and noli-me-tangere. Planiscampi.
sal practicum. Mixture of nitre and armoniac salt, in equal parts, put in the cellar in a new, unvarnished terrine, suspended or raised above the ground. This mixture resolves into liquor, and attaches itself in the form of salt to the outer surface of the vessel.
sal tabari. Salt alembroth.
salt taberzet. White tartar.

Salamander.Species of lizard that the Ancients believed could live in fire, without being consumed by it. The Hermetic Philosophers took this animal as a symbol of their red-fixed stone, which is why they called it the Salamander who is conceived and who lives in fire. Sometimes they gave this name to their mercury; but more usually to their incombustible sulphur. The Salamander that feeds on fire, and the Phoenix that rises from its ashes, are the two most common symbols of this sulphur.

Salefur. Saffron.

Salis Astriun. Salt oil.

Saliva of the Moon. Mercury of the Philosophers, or the matter from which this mercury is extracted. The ancient Sages represented it in the fable of the Nemean Lion descended from the orb of the Moon. Hercules killed it, and wore its skin for the rest of his life, as proof of his victory. See. lion.
incombustible saliva. Mercury of the Sages.

Salunca. Lavender, Celtic North.

Sallena. Kind of saltpetre. Planiscampi.

Salmacis. Nymph who fell madly in love with Hermaphrodite. She approached him in a fountain, which afterwards took the name of the Nymph;she pressed him, and made him many entreaties to induce him to satisfy his passionate desires; Unable to persuade him, she ran to him to embrace him, and begged the gods to grant her that their two bodies would become one; she was answered. Hermaphrodite also obtained that all those who would bathe in this fountain, would participate in both sexes. See hermaphrodite.
Salmich. Mercury of the Sages, or the matter from which it is drawn.

Salmonée. Father of Tyro, who had Neptune Neleus and Pelias. See these two articles.

Saltabari. Salt alembroth.

Sambac. Jasmine.

Saniech.

Sandarach Groecorum. Burned arsenic, or powdered red stonecrop.

Sanderich. White stone.

Blood. (Sc. Herm.) Many chemists have worked on the blood of animals, taking it for the matter of which the Philosophers make their magisterium. Some of the latter have indeed named it Blood, and Human Blood; but Philalethes says that the meaning of these expressions must be applied to their black matter. By naming Blood their matter, or rather their mercury, they alluded to the blood of animals which carries food to all parts of the body, and which is the principle of their bodily constitution; it is the same with their mercury, which is the base and the principle of the metals.Thus the blood of the little children that Herod causes to be slaughtered in the Hieroglyphs of Jewish Abraham, is an allegory of the humid radical of the metals extracted from the mines of the Philosophers, given under the symbol of children ; because this matter is still raw, and left by Nature in the way of perfection. The Sun and the Moon come to bathe in this blood, since it is the fountain of the Philosophers in which bathe their King and their Queen. Flamel, who foresaw that some would take this allegory literally, took care to warn the Reader, saying that one must be careful not to take human blood as the material of the work, that it would be a folly and an abominable thing.
sheep’s blood. Mercury of the Sages.
animal's blood. Mercurial water, so called because the Philosophers give the name of Lion to their matter, and that it is necessary, they say, to torment the Lion until it gives its blood. Down. Valentine.
latona blood. Dry water extracted from the virgin land of the Sages.
salamander blood. Redness which appears in the receptacle when distilling nitre and vitriol.
Dragon's Blood of the Chymists. Tincture of Antimony.
mercury blood. Tincture of mercury. In terms of Hermetic Science, it is the animated and digested Mercury of the Sages.
Lernaean Hydra blood. Solvent of the Philosophers.
earth blood or mineral sourness. It's the oil of vitriol.
spiritual blood.
green lion’s blood. Mercury of the Sages.

Erymanthian board. Mercury of the Sages. See eurystheus.

Sanguinalis. Plant known as deer's horn.

Sanguinaria. See sanguinalis.

Sanguis Draconis. It is red patience.

Sapphire. Blue colored gemstone. The Philosophers gave the name Sapphire to their mercurial water. See why in the article Celestial Water.

Saphyricum-Anthos, or Sapphire Flower. It is the sapphire reduced to mercurial water, and the moon also reduced to mercury, mingled together;which makes, says Planiscampi, an admirable medicine against diseases of the brain.

Sapo Sapientiœ. Common salt reduced to oil. The Philosophers call their azoth Sapo Sapientiœ, or soap of wisdom, because it washes, cleanses and purifies the laton of all its impurities, that is to say, of blackness.

Sarca. Iron, March.

Sarcion. Pierre rousse, Manget.

Sarcoticum. Ointment suitable for reviving the flesh.

Nature lock. It's looks. airtight airlock. Mercurial water.

Dirty. Salt Water of the Philosophers.

Saturnalia. During the Saturnalia with the Romans, the Mercuriales or Hermeales with the Greeks, the servants took the place of the masters, and the latter served their servants.Many people have never been able to find the reason for such a process, and we should not be surprised. Mythologists are not commonly Hermetic Philosophers, and seek only to give moral, sometimes physical, interpretations to the fable. These festivals were instituted in honor of Saturn, whence the Philosophers extract their mercury, which takes dominion over gold, its superior in all, during the time of the reign of Saturn, that is to say during the time of black color or putrefaction. Then the servant dominates over his master, who then resumes his domination.

Saturn. One of the great gods of the Egyptians, was the son of Heaven and Earth; according to some, of Heaven and Vesta;and according to Plato, in his Timaeus, Saturn was the son of the Ocean and of Thetis. He married Ops or Rhea his sister, and seized the Kingdom of his father, after having mutilated it. Titan, brother of Saturn, to whom, as eldest, belonged the Kingdom, made war on it to sixteen it. However, he ceded it to Saturn, on the condition that he would not keep any male children born to him, so that the crown would fall back to his family. Saturn gladly consented to this condition, because he had learned that one of his sons would dethrone him. Saturn to keep his word, himself devoured all the male children born to him. Ops who was very mortified by it, used a stratagem to keep them.Feeling pregnant and ready to give birth, she provided herself with a pebble, and after having brought Jupiter into the world, she gave him to feed the Corybantes, and substituted her pebble, which she wrapped in swaddling clothes, and presented it to Saturn, which devoured it, without noticing it. Metis then made Saturn take a potion which caused him to return the pebble and the children he had swallowed up. Titan having noticed Rhea's trickery, made war on his brother, seized Saturn and his wife, and put them in prison, where they remained until Jupiter, grown up, delivered them. . Saturn then feared for him the effects of the prediction that had been made to him, and laid ambushes for Jupiter. The latter having discovered them, made war on his father,dethroned him and mutilated him. Saturn retired to Italy in the country Latium, where reigned Janus, who received him very humanely. They ruled jointly, and provided their Subjects with all manner of wealth. See the chemical explanation of this fable, in the book. 3, c. 3 of Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled.
Saturn. Among the vulgar chemists, is lead. The Hermetic Philosophers give the name of Saturn to several things.
The first is the color black, or the matter arrived at this color by dissolution and putrefaction.
The second is common lead, the most imperfect of the metals, and for this reason the furthest removed from the matter of the Great Work. Take good care, says Riplée, of working on the vulgar Saturn, because it says do not eat of the son whose mother is corrupt; and believe me, many people fall into error while working on Saturn. Saturn will always be Saturn, says Avicenna. Rypiee, Philorcii, cap. 1.
The third is Adrop des Sages, or Vitriol azoquée by Raymond Lully.The fourth is common copper, the first of the metals, as Arnaud de Villeneuve asserts in his Miroir de l'Alchymie, disp. 8, vol. 4, from the Chemical Theatre.
Several Philosophers, he says, have practiced their science on the planets; and our first planet is called Venus, the second Saturn, the third Mercury, the fourth Mars, the fifth Jupiter, the sixth the Moon, and the seventh the Sun. Basil Valentine says that the generation of copper immediately follows or holds the first place after Mercury. Down. of rebus Nat. and great. Nat. vs. 4. Nothing, says Paracelsus (Lib. 4, Philos, de Ele-mento Aquœ), has more affinity with minerals than vitriol.Vitriol is last in the separation of minerals, and the generation of metals immediately follows its own, among which copper holds the first place.
The fifth is none other than the philosophical preparation of the philosophical copper, by means of the vegetal menstrual; which led to its being given the name of Vegetable Saturnian Plant, in order to distinguish it from copper before its preparation. But this vegetable menstruation is the Philosophical menstruation.
Many have taken antimony for the lead of the Sages, both because of the praise that several Authors give to this mineral, and because some of them name it or seem to indicate it for the matter from which it is necessary to extract the Mercury from the Philosophers. Artephius calls this matter Antimony of the parts of Saturn, and their mercury Saturnian Antimonial Vinegar. But he then explains himself by saying that he calls this material Antimony, because it has the properties. The greatest number call it the Race of Saturn, and of vegetable Saturnia. But in vain would one seek to substitute mercury extracted from lead for vulgar mercury, it would only be less pure than lead, and for that very reason would be even further removed from the work.It is necessary to find a material which has the property of purifying and fixing the mercury. The Sages, says Philalethe, sought it in the race of Saturn, and found it there, by adding to it a metallic sulfur which it lacked.
Horned Saturn. Name which the Chy-mists gave to lead dissolved in aquafortis, and precipitated with the spirit of salt.
VEGETABLE OR VEGETABLE lead poisoning. Matter, and one of the principal ingredients of the magisterium of the Philosophers. She is, say the Sages, of the race of Saturn. That is why some have called her Venus, Foam of the Red Sea, their Moon and their Female. It is called vegetable, because it vegetates during the operations, and it contains the fruit of the gold which it produces in its time, when it is sown in a suitable ground, and that one applies the required regime of fire, which must be governed in imitation of that of Nature. See Saturn.

Saturnian. (Vinegar) Mercury of the Philosophers.

Satyrs. The Fable says that they were a species of men having two small horns on their heads, and the shape of goats from the belt to the feet;
that they accompanied Bacchus with the Corybantes and the Bacchantes. The Satyrs, having learned of the death of Osiris, whom Typhon had massacred inhumanely, made the shores of the Nile resound with their howls and complaints. So it is the Pan Egyptian God who gave rise to the Satyrs of the Greeks. See what these Monsters mean in the article Osiris.
Flavour. Sensation that sulphurous, saline and mercurial spirits make on the organs of taste. The salts themselves have no taste, and their mordacity should only be attributed to the igneousness imparted to them by a mercurial and volatile sulphur, which is always mixed with them, and which is very difficult to taste. separate from it. The different flavors, bitter, gifted, acid, come only from the difference in the mixture of sulfur with salt; and the more penetrating its flavors, the more mercurial sulphur.

Soap of the Sages. Azoth of the Philosophers, with which they purify, wash and whiten their brass. See azoth and mercury.

Saure. Watercress.

Saxifrage. Crystal pale-dtrin.Planis-campi.
saxifrage is also the name generally given to any medicine capable of dissolving stone and gravel in the kidneys and in the bladder.

Sayrsa. March or iron.

Sbesten. Quicklime. Rullandus.

Scam. River of Phrygia which has its source at Mount Ida. Homer says that the gods call him Xanthe, and men Scamander. The city of Troye would never have been taken if the Greeks had not prevented the Rhesus horses from drinking in this river. See, rhesus.
Scoopt. That is to say, Flame. Dict. Herm.

Scarellum. Feather alum.

Scarta. Orvale, Toutbonne.

Seal or Seel. Matter of the Philosophers in black. The same must be understood by Hermetic Seal. And not the way of sealing the vases with the very material of which they are composed.
The vulgar Hermetic Seal is of three kinds, and is made by melting in the flame of the lamp the neck of the philosophical vase or other, and bringing the edges together so that they are welded together, and prevent the air from leaking. get in or out. The second way consists in plugging the vase with a glass stopper, which takes very tightly in all its circumference; it is then lute with a good putty. The third way is to adapt to the neck of the vase another similar vase, but smaller, and reversed. They are also fought with putty.
seal of seals. The same as Hermetic Seal.
The Seven Seals of Hermes are the secret operations of philosophical work.

Sceb or Seb. Alum.

Scedenigi. Hematite stone.

Seal. See saddle.

Schonam. Salt of the Philosophers.

Sciden. Ceruse.

Hermetic Science. The Adepts or Philosophers say that this science is the key to all the others, because it gives knowledge of all Nature. It consists in learning how to make a remedy suitable for curing all the ills which afflict humanity, for keeping men in vigor and in perfect health as long as the constitution of the human body can permit; to make a powder called powder of projection, which, thrown in proportionate quantity on the metals in fusion, transmutes them into gold or silver, according to the degree of perfection given to it. See panacea, philosopher's stone
, projection powder and alchymy.

Sciron. Famous brigand who attacked passers-by, and made them suffer all imaginable evils.Theseus slew him and threw his body into the sea, where his bones turned to rock. This fable signifies only the dissolution and putrefaction designated by the brigandages, and the death of Sciron is the fixing in stone of the matter of the Philosophers, of which the metamorphosis of the bones of Sciron is the symbol. See the story of Theseus.

Scirona. Autumn dew, following Rullandus.

Scirpus. Common rush.

Scolymus. Artichoke.

Scorax. Olivegum. Rullandus.

Slag. Impurities that separate from minerals and metals during smelting.

Scorit. Sulfur.

Scorodon. Garlic.

Scorodo Prasum.Garlic, leek, rocambole.

Scorpio. Some chemists have given this name to the sulfur of the Philosophers. Eat.

Scriptulus. Scruple, weight used in Medicine. It is the third part of a drama.

Scruples. The weighty third of a big one.

Scylla and Charibde. Fabulous monsters, or rocks of the Mediterranean Sea, against which ships often crash. The Argonauts avoided them only by sending a dove, which served as their guide. See Argonauts, and Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 2, c. 1.

Scytica Radix. Licorice.

Seb. Usually means alum, but sometimes gold. Rulland.In terms of Hermetic Chemistry, it is the material that has reached the color white, called Alum and White Gold.

Sebleinde. Material of the work.

Secacul. Plant called Solomon's Seal.

Secret of Secrets. Art of making the Stone of the Sages, so named both because of the secrecy that the Philosophers keep in this respect, in imitation of the Priests of Egypt, and because of its excellence. One of the reasons the Philosophers give for apologizing for not divulging such a useful secret to those who know it, is that everyone would like to work in it, and would give up other arts and crafts if necessary. to the life. The whole society would be disturbed and upset.
school secrecy. It is particularly the knowledge of the true and next matter of the work, and of its first preparation.

Seden. Philosophical Vase.

Seden and Sedina.Dragon's blood.

saddle. Close the vase, close it hermetically. See seal.
to saddle the Mother in or on the belly of her Child. It is to fix the mercury by means of the philosophical sulphur, which has been formed from it. This operation must be understood as the work of the stone, and that of the elixir. The seal that serves this purpose is a small white circle that manifests at the edges of matter when it begins to leave blackness and settle.

Segax. Dragon's blood.

Segit. Philosophical vitriol.

Lord of the Earth. Lead, according to Eatet.
lord of metals. Saturn;
but the King of metals is gold.
stone lord.Alkali salt.
lord of the celestial houses.
It is the sign which dominates there. See zodiac.


There are generally three kinds of principal salts, the nitrous, the marine, and the vitriolic; some add tartarous to it. The sailor passes for being the principle of others. From this volatilized salt is formed nitre, from nitre tartar, and from cooked and digested tartar vitriol. They further divide the salts into three classes, which they call volatile salt, medium salt, and fixed salt. The first, or the volatile mixed with the volatile sulphur, is properly mercury, or the principle of odors, colors and flavors: the middle salt which is its base, with the fixed salt, which they properly call body: of so that the sulfur and the fixed salt are as in a picture, the canvas all printed, and ready to receive the sketch;the salt and the middle sulfur are the outline itself; and salt with the mercurial or volatile sulphur,
salt. Leafy earth of the Sages, or white stone, which is indeed a salt, but the first being of all salts, without being derived from any particular salt, such as nitre, alum, vitriol, &c.
alkali salt. The Magisterium of the Sages is an Alkali Salt, because it is the basis of all bodies; but in vain to do so would one use soda salt, or some other alkali salt of some plant; for, as Basil Valentine says, the salt of plants is dead salt, which does not enter into the magisterium.
elebrot salt. It is the same as alkali salt, or white magisterium.
salted fuse. Matter of the Sages cooked and perfect in white;it is called Fusible Salt, because it is in fact a salt, and this salt melts like wax when it is put on a sheet of metal reddened in the fire.
salt of metals. Several chemists taking these terms literally, have imagined that the matter of the Philosophers was metals reduced to salt or vitriol, because the Sages give the name of Salt of metals to this matter; but it is necessary to explain these terms of their magisterium to the white, because just as salt is the principle of the vulgar metals, the salt of the Sages is the root and the first matter of the philosophical metals. Indian salt. Rock-salt. red-salt. Red Sulfur of the Philosophers.
anderon salt. It's the nitre.
allocaph.Armonia salt.
hungarian salt. Rock-salt.
bitter salt. Alkali.
Greek salt. Alum.
Indian salt. Mercury of the Sages.
name salt. Rock-salt.
bread salt. Sea or common salt.
crazy salt. Saltpetre.
alocoph salt Armonia salt.
Indian red salt. Anathron.
salt of the wise. Natural armonia salt. But the salt of the Sages or Hermetic Philosophers is their matter which has reached whiteness.
hellish salt. Nitre.
taberzet salt,
crystalline salt
CAPPADOCIA SALT, rock salt.
lucid-salt,
adram salt,
solar salt. Saltarmonia of the Philosophers.
honored salt. Matter of which hermetic mercury is made.
flowery salt. It is mercury itself, or dry water of the Sages. This is why Mary (in her Epistle to Aros) says, take the flowers that grow on the little mountains.
burnt-salt. Material of the black work.
spiritualized salt, or Salt Spirit of the Philosophers. It is their mercury prepared by Hermetic sublimation.
salt peter of the wise. Nitre Philosophical.
EARTH salt,
GLASS SALT, Mercury of the Sages
SEA salt.
salt armonia of the philosophers.
Matter of the work during its sublimation, and in the time it volatilizes the fixed or the sulphur, or the gold of the Sages.
armonia salt. Matter reached the color white; so called because harmony begins to be established between the principles of the work, which during the putrefaction was a chaos full of confusion.
acid salt. Philosophical Mercury.
fixed salt. Sulfur of the Sages.
volatile salt. Hermetic Mercury.
vegetable salt. Tartar salt.
saturn salt. Lead reduced in salt.
universal salt. Mercury of the Sages.

Mixes. Daughter of Cadmus, became mother of Bacchus, for having granted his favors to Jupiter. Juno, disguised as an old woman, and in the guise of her nurse, advised her to ask Jupiter in favor that he come to see her with all his majesty, and in the same way that he presented himself to Juno, his wife, Jupiter y having consented, came to visit him with his lightnings and his thunders. Semele's palace, and Semele herself, were reduced to ashes. Jupiter then ordered Mercury to pull the child from his ashes. See bacchus.

Seed. Put simply, means, in terms of Alchymy, the Sulfur of the Philosophers. But when they say Seed of metals, they mean their mercury, and sometimes their magisterium which has reached the color white.
When the Adepts speak in general of the seed of the vulgar metals, and they instruct how they are formed in the bowels of the earth, the seed of which they speak, is a vapor formed by the union of the elements, carried into the earth with air and water, then sublimated by the central fire to the surface. This vapor becomes corporified and becomes unctuous or viscous, clings, while sublimating, to the sulfur which it carries along with it, and forms more or less perfect metals, according to the greater or lesser purity of the sulfur and of the matrix.See the twelve Treatises of the Cosmopolitan, and the General Physics which is at the beginning of the Treatise of Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled.

sow. It is to cook, to continue the regime of fire. Sow your gold in a leafy white soil, and well prepared; that is to say, change your material from the color white to the color red. The Philosophers have very often taken agriculture as a symbol of the operations of the hermetic art; which made imagine the fable of Triptolemus instructed in agriculture by Ceres, and the circumstances of the life of Osiris and those of Bacchus, or the Fable, say that they taught men the art of sowing and plant. See their articles.

Seminalis. Corrigiole, knotweed.

Sowing. Which is written by S, means half an ounce, half a pound, etc.

Sowing. The same as Seedling.

Semuncia.Half ounce.

Sempervivum Marinum. Aloe.

Senco. Lead.

Sendangi. Hematite stone.

Separation. Effect of the dissolution of the body by its solvent. This separation happens in time as the matter turns black; then begins the separation of the elements. This black changes into vapor; it is the earth that becomes water. This water condenses, falls back on the earth, and whitens it; this whiteness is the air. This whiteness is succeeded by redness, and it is the air that becomes fire.
This separation does not differ from the dissolution of the body and the freezing of the spirit, because these three operations make only one, since it is not done in the Work of solution of the body without freezing of the mind.

Separate the soul from the body. It is to volatilize matter, to make it sublimate.

Sept. (Sc. Herm.) This mysterious number in Sacred Scripture is also in the Great Work. Philosophers often speak of it; they have seven planets, seven kingdoms, seven operations, seven circles, seven metals; they say their work resembles the creation of the world, which was done in seven days. St. Thomas Aquinas says in his Epistle to Brother Raynaug, his friend, that the work is done in three times seven days and one.Jacques Bohom, in his treatise entitled Aquarium Sapientium, offers an enigma on great art, in these terms:
Septem sunt urbes, septem pro more
metalla, Suntque aies septem, septimus est
numerus;
Septem litterulae, septem sunt ordine
verba. Tempora sunt septem, sunt totidemque
loca:
Herbce septem, artes septem, septem-
que lapilli.
Septemcumque tribus divide; cautus
eris Dimidium nemo tune prcecipitare petescet
:
Summa: hoc in number cuncta quiet
valent.
But all these seven circles, kingdoms, operations, are only one and the same continued operation;that is to say, to cook the material in the vase by a regime of fire, conducted according to the rules of the art. In this same operation take place putrefaction, solution, distillation, sublimation, calcination, circulation, and inceration or imbibition, which are seven in number. Some add coagulation and fixation; but they omit distillation and circulation, although the latter is the sole operation of the whole work. Flamel, in his Treatise, explains the seven sayings of the Philosophers in seven chapters. Paracelsus said there were seven planets in the fire, seven metals in the water, seven herbs in the earth, seven Tereniabin in the air, and seven main limbs in the body of man. By Tereniabin he means manna, which the Ancients called Threr.

North. Some chemists have given this name to aquafortis, others to the mercury of the Philosophers, because they say that it is the principle of gold, and that gold comes from the north.

Bury. Some Adepts have so called the glass vase which contains the compost or the matter of the work. But others have given the name of sepulcher to one of the materials which contains the other, as if buried in its bosom;
and more often to the black color which arises during putrefaction, because corruption is a sign of death, and the black color a mark of mourning. Sometimes the term sepulcher has been used to signify the dissolvent of the Sages.

Serapias Orchis.A species of satyrion whose flowers represent some lascivious and very fruitful insect. Blanchard.

Serapinus. gum arabic.

Serapis. One of the great gods of Egypt, the same as Osiris and Apis. See, these two articles.

Serapium. Syrup.

Serex. Sour milk.

Serf, or Servant. Mercury of the Philosophers, which they also called Fugitive Serf, because of its volatility.

Sericiacum. Arsenic.

Sericon. Minimum. Some have called Sericon the material of the work which has reached the color red.

Serinech. Magisterium in white.

Seriola or Seris. Endive.

Seriph.Island where Polydectes reigned, when Danae and Perseus landed there;
it is full of stones and rocks. See polydec. It is said that this quantity of stones comes from the fact that Perseus turned all the inhabitants into stone, showing them the head of Medusa.

Seris. See Seriola. Sernec. Vitriol.

Snake. Nothing is more common than serpents and dragons in the riddles, fables and symbolic figures of Hermetic Science. The two that Juno sent against Hercules, while he was still in the cradle, must be understood as metallic salts, which are called Sun and Moon, brother and sister.They are called serpents, because they are born in the earth, they live there, and they are hidden there in various forms, which cover them like clothes. These serpents were killed by Hercules, which signifies the philosophical mercury, and who reduced them to putrefaction in the vase, which is a kind of death. The name serpent was also given to mercury, because it is flowing like water,
green snake. Mercury of the Sages.
Serpent of the Philosophers. It is also the same mercury, which while circulating in the vase, forms small streams, which meanders like the spirit of wine.
serpents of the Caduceus of Mercury. Are the fixed and the volatile, which fight each other and which are then brought to agreement by fixation.
flying snake. Mercury of the Philosophers, so named because of its volatility.
serpent which devoured the companions of Cadmus, and whom Cadmus slew by piercing it with his spear against a hollow oak tree. It is always the same mercury that the Artist fixes by means of the fire of the Sages, called lance.
march snake. Matter of the work in putrefaction.“The ancient Cabalists, says Flamel, described it in the Metamorphoses under different stories, among others under that of the Serpent of Mars, which had devoured the companions of Cadmus, who killed him by piercing him against a hollow oak. Note this oak tree. »
serpent born from the silt of the earth. Mercury of the Philosophers. See, python.
snake that devours its tail. Was he who was placed in the hand of Saturn, as a symbol of the work, whose end, say the Philosophers, bears witness to the beginning. It is the mercury of the Sages, according to Philalethes. Planiscampi interprets the spirit of vitriol cohobed several times on his dead head. See Saturn.
serpentine.Peat speaks of the serpentine color, or green color, and says that it is a sign of vegetation. Philalethes calls it the desired greenness;
and Raymond Lully says that the material of the work is of green lizard color. This is no doubt the reason why most philosophers have called it vegetable Saturnia.
Serpheta. Stone remover. Planiscampi.

Serpigo. Mousse.

Serriola. Endive.

Sertula Campana. Melilot.

Servant. The Philosophers have given this name to their materials, because they work according to their desires, and because they obey their will. But they have commonly added epithets which designate them. So Fugitive Servant means volatile mercury. Philalethes seems to hear it from matter, or from this same mercury which has reached whiteness.
red serving. Material from which the Philosophers extract their mercury. Keep silent those who lease another tincture than ours, not true, bearing no profit.And those are silent who go saying and sermonizing other sulfur than ours, which is hidden in magnesia, and who want to draw other quicksilver than from the red servant, and other water than ours, which is permanent, which in no way conjoined only to its nature, and does not wet anything else, if not something which is the proper unity of its nature. Berne. Trevisan, Philosophy of Metals.

Sescuncia. An ounce and a half, or twelve drams.

That its. Means the quantity of a weight or measure and a half Sesqwlibra, a pound and a half; sesquiuncia, one and a half ounces; sesquimensis, a month and a half, etc.

Alone. Lead, Saturn. AIDS.







Four scruples.

Sextulo. A drama.

Sexunx. Six ounces, or half a pound, according to the old way of counting the pound of medicine, which consisted of only twelve ounces.

Sezur. Gold.

Sfact. Myrrh oil.

Sibar. Quicksilver.

Sibedata. Swallowgrass. Planiscampi.

Sicilians or Sicilium. Name of a weight weighing half an ounce. Some take it only for the quarter. Blanchard.

Sicyos and Sicys. Cucumber. Sister. Magisterium au blanc, so named, because they also call it their Moon, or Diana, and the Moon is sister to the Sun, as Beja was to Gabritius, or Gabertin.

Name given to marshmallow by some, others give it to orange. Blanchard.

Sief Album. Dry eye drops.

Sielocineticum. Remedy to excites salivation.

Sigalion. God of silence. See Harpocrates.

Sigia or Sigra. Storax.

Silence. Foster father of Bacchus, whom the ancients represented as an old man of small stature, fat and pot-bellied, bald, with erect and pointed ears, barely supporting himself, because he was almost always drunk, most often mounted on a donkey, accompanied by Satyrs and Bacchantes. Midas surprised him one day sleeping near a fountain of wine, tied him with a garland of flowers, and led him to Bacchus, who was very distressed.Bacchus rewarded Midas for this benefit, giving him the ability to turn everything he touched into gold. See bacchus, midas.

Silipit. Copper, brass.

Silo. Earth.

Silphyum. Laserpitium.

Simmitium. Ceruse.
Simple. Zachaire substituted this term for that of ingredients, or materials of the work.

Simus. Gilsa of Paracelsus.

Sinapisis. Armenian bowl.

Otherwise. Amomum.

Sinonia or Sinovia. Is the gluten, or mucilaginous and tartarous substance which petrifies in the joints of the limbs, and forms that lime which one sees issuing from the nodus of gout.

Zion and Sium. Becabumga, according to some; watercress, according to others. Blanchard.

Sipar. Quicksilver.

Sira. Orchid.

Sirens. Sea monsters, which the Fable says have the form of a maiden to the waist, and the lower part resembling that of fish;
having, moreover, a charming voice, singing so melodiously, and playing the musical instruments so admirably, that they attracted to them all who heard them, put them to sleep, and then caused them to perish. Homer talks about it at length in his Odyssey.

Sison. Amomum.
Sisyphus. Son of Aeolus, having detected the love of Jupiter with Aegina, daughter of the river Asope, was condemned in Tartarus to constantly roll a rock from the bottom of a mountain to the top; when he had arrived there, the rock rolled down, and Sisyphus was obliged to begin the same work over again.This unfortunate man is the portrait of bad Artists, who work all their lives without being able to bring the stone to the top of the Hermetic mountain, where the work of the Philosophers ends.

Sitanium. Kind of wheat smaller than ordinary wheat.

Sium. See Zion.

Smalterium. Brief.

Smyrna. Myrrh.

Give us, says Aristeas in the Peat, give us Beja and his brother Gabertin, we will unite them together with an indissoluble bond, so that they can engender a son much more perfect than their parents. The Fable also says that Diana was sister of Phoebus, and that she served as midwife to her mother to bring her brother into the world, because white must always precede red, which is the sun of the Philosophers, and that they are both born of the same mother Latona, or, what is the same thing, of the matter of the Philosophers.

Sister. Mercury of the Sages. See gabertin, incest. Stratification. Action by which one puts different things layer upon layer, or bed upon bed, in a crucible.

Evening (the). The Philosophers thus called their mercury and their magisterium white, because the vapors rise in the evening, and fall back to earth. Likewise their mercury waters his earth, which becomes their fruitful and fertile earth, their leafy earth, in which they sow the fermentative grain of their gold.

Floor. Put simply, means the Sulfur of the Philosophers. In terms of vulgar chemistry, it's gold.

Solate. Quicksilver.

Sun. The great deity of the Egyptians, Phoenicians, Atlanteans, etc.; was honored under various names in different Nations. He was confused almost everywhere with Apollo, and he was given the same genealogy. See Apollo.
Among chemists the Sun is common gold. The Philosophers call their sulphur, their gold, the sun.
The Sun of the Sages, of mercurial source, is the fixed part of the matter of the Great Work, and the Moon is the volatile; these are the two dragons of Flamel. They still call Sun the innate fire in matter. As the volatile and the fixed are drawn from the same mercurial source, the Philosophers say that the Sun is the father, and the Moon the mother of the stone of the Sages.Sometimes they mean it literally when they speak of matter remote from the work, because it is then a question of that vapor which the celestial Sun and Moon seem to form in the air, whence it is carried into the bowels of the earth to form there the seed of metals, which is the proper matter of the Great Work.
The Adepts gave by similarity and by allegory the names of solar tree and lunar tree to the red sulfur, and to the white sulfur which they make to achieve the perfection of their powder of projection. See tree.

Solelasar. Alkali.

Solidity. Solidity is opposed to liquidity, and there are three kinds. The first is consistency, which occurs when the parts of the bodies are close together and adhere to each other like a jelly, or they do not flow; but in such a way that the solution is very easy by the two ordinary agents, water and fire. The second kind of solidity is that of bodies, which are called coagulated. The third is fixation, which happens when the parts of it are bound together very tightly and compactly, like metals and stones. The first kind is that of the soft parts of animals; the second is that of plants; and the third, minerals. Beaker.

Solsequium. Sulfur of the Philosophers.

Solution. Natural or artificial disunity of bodies. The natural is of three kinds, according to the three kingdoms of nature. Putrefaction is the solution of the animal kingdom, fermentation that of the vegetable, and liquefaction that of the mineral. The causes of solution are the same as those of mixture, but whose effects are contrary, because their proportions are different, and rarefaction does in one what condensation does in the other. The solution is further divided into a solution at all, and a solution in the continuum; the first is done in quantity and quality, and the second in quantity only;as when from a mark of silver separates half of them, or when from an ounce of lead one separates some parts, which taken separately, can be regarded as all.
When I said that putrefaction is the true solution of the animal kingdom, I do not exclude the vegetable kingdom from it; but because putrefaction is the beginning of the animal kingdom, and because it is much more violent than that of vegetables, which is properly only a corruption analogous to putrefaction.
The artificial solution is a division of the parts of a body, made by art, like the solutions of metals by strong waters, the calcination by elemental fire, &c.
Many people understand dissolution and resolution as solutions. This is commonly followed by sublimation and distillation, to dissolve the matter remaining at the bottom of the vase.
There are two kinds of solutions, one is cold, the other hot;the first is used for salts, corrosives, calcined bodies, in a word, everything that parts of salt and corrosive is reduced to oil, water or liquor. It is done in the air, or in a damp place, sheltered from rain and dust. Whatever the cold dissolves freezes hot into powder or stone.
The solution, which is made by means of fire, regards fatty and sulphurous bodies. What heat dissolves, cold coagulates. It is worth noting that whatever dissolves in damp cold conceals within it a corrosive fire; on the contrary, everything that is resolved by heat has a softening coldness outside the fire.
The philosophical solution is the conversion of the fixed radical moist into an aqueous body. The cause which produces this solution is the volatile spirit hidden in the first water. When this water has made the perfect solution of the fixed, it is called fountain of life, nature, Diana naked and free.
The Philosophers count only one solution repeated several times in the work; everything consists in dissolving and coagulating. These solutions are nevertheless different depending on the operations.In the first preparation of matter, of which almost no Philosopher has spoken, because they do not regard it as philosophical, there is made a solution of the hard body, and a liquefaction which unites the two bodies into one, separating the slag from one and the other. The body of the one takes only the spirit of the other, without perceptible increase in weight, and the spirits penetrate and unite with the bodies only in the solution. Bodies become subtler, their parts attenuate, and come closer to the nature of the mind. The first philosophical solution separates the mind from the body, and gives it back to him; whence it happens that there is no true solution of the bodies without the coagulation of the spirit.So though the Philosophers speak of solution as a separate and different operation from coagulation, yet it is only the same.
Solution, dissolution and resolution are properly the same thing as subtilization. The means of doing it according to the Art, is a mystery which the Philosophers reveal only to those whom they judge capable of being initiated. It only takes place, they say, in one's own blood, that is, in the very water of which the very body was composed.

sound. Gold, sun.

Bellows. Receive a bellows. It is breaking vases.
Sulfur. Name generally given to all flammable materials used in chemistry, such as common sulphur, bitumens, oils, etc.Sometimes chemists give this same name to substances which are not at all flammable, but only colored without any other reason, particularly in mineral substances, so that we see the word sulfur attributed to many substances which are even very opposed to each other. The name sulfur is given in particular to common sulfur, which appears to be composed of four different substances; namely, earth, salt, a purely fatty or flammable matter, and a little metal. The first three materials are there in nearly equal proportions, and make almost the whole body of common sulphur, when it is supposed to be purified by the sublimation of its superfluous earth; and then it is sulfur flower. Same. of the Acad. of 1703, p. 32.
The chemists admit three kinds of sulphur, which are only the same, modified differently; volatile or mercurial sulphur, medium sulphur, and fixed sulphur. See matter, salt.
sulfur. (Sc. herm.} When the Philosophers speak of their sulfur, it must not be imagined that they are speaking of the common sulfur of which gunpowder and matches are made, nor of any other sulfur separate and distinct from their mercury. Although they say that it is necessary to take a sulphur, a salt and a mercury, these three things are in truth found in their matter, but they are not perceptibly distinct there: their sulfur is artificial, their mercury is artificial. salt. But all that makes but one thing which contains them all three. Philalethes.
When they generally say our sulphur, we must hear them from their stone to white or red; in this case they distinguish them by color. Their red is their mine of celestial fire, says d'Espagnet, their ferment, the active principle of the work, of which mercury is the passive principle. It is not that the mercury does not act also, since it has an internal fire, and that wherever there is fire there is action; but it is compared to the female, who in generation is considered passive.
The Philosophers have given this sulfur an infinity of names, all of which suits that which is male, or performs the office of male in natural generation. It is their gold, which is not actually gold, but who is potentially.
white sulphur.Body composed of the pure essence of metals, which some call quicksilver, conducted from potency to act, and extracted, by the operations of the magisterium, from all the principles of medicine of the first order. Philalethes.
red sulphur. Several chemists have worked on natural sulphur, and mine, called sulphur nativum by the Latins, as being the true matter of the Philosophers; but when they gave it this name, it is in time that it is perfect in red or white. It is then properly the philosophical sulphur; for Raymond Lully among others assures us that the sulfur of the Sages is not sensibly distinguished from their mercury, and their mercury is not made with common sulfur, natural or factitious.
sharp sulfur. (Sc. herm.) It is the same as sulfur red. Rullandus gives the name red sulfur to arsenic.
sulfur of vitriol. It is the soul of this mineral.
black sulfide. Antimony. Planiscampi.
unctuous sulphur. Sulfur of the Philosophers.
narcotic sulfur of vitriol. Extract of vitriol, the process of which is found in Béguin's Chymie. Paracelsus regarded this sulfur as an excellent anodyne, and preferred it to all the others.
Ambrosian sulfur is a red natural sulfur, much transparent, and resembling garnet, but formed in large lumps.
green sulfur. Cinnabar oil. Dict. Herm.
incombustible sulphur.It is that of the Sages.
TRUE sulfur OF the philosophers.
It is the fixed grain of matter, the true internal agent, which acts, digests, cooks its own mercurial matter, in which it is enclosed.
sulfur zarnet. Philosophical sulfur.
occult sulfur. The same as the previous article.
natural sulfur. It's still the same. Some, however, give this name to matter which has reached the color white.
The Author of the Hermetic Dictionary could have been mistaken, when he says that the sulfur of nature is the essential menstruation made with mercury and the spirit of wine seven times rectified, which dissolves the lime of the sun and the moon, or at least who draws the tincture from it, which by easy and occult operations, one restores to gold.The universal sulfur is, according to the same Author, the light from which proceeds all the particular sulfurs.

Spagyric (Philosophy). Science which teaches how to divide bodies, to resolve them, and to separate their principles, by means, either natural or violent. Its object is therefore the alteration, purification, and even the perfection of bodies, that is to say, their generation and their medicine. It is by the solution that one arrives there, and one cannot succeed there, if one is unaware of their construction and their principles, because they are used for this dissolution. One separates the heterogeneous and accidental parts, to have the facility of uniting and intimately joining the homogeneous ones. The Spagyric Philosophy properly speaking is the same as the Hermetic Philosophy.

Spara. Seed of metals.

Sparganium.Aquatic gladiolus. Blanchard.

Spartan and Spartan. Species of broom suitable for making links.

Spatha. Bark, peel of palm fruit.

Spatulafoetida. Stinking iris.

Iron or stone spatula. Material of the work in putrefaction and reached the color black.

Specific Universal. See panacea.

speragus. Asparagus.

Sperm. Seed of individuals in the three kingdoms, animal, vegetable and mineral. In the first, it is a white, moist, unctuous substance, composed of the purest parts of the blood. In vegetables, it is the seed itself, composed of oily and unctuous parts; which made them give the name of sulfur by the chemists. The sperm of metals is what they properly call sulphur. Aristotle says it is a vapour, which is to be understood as an unctuous, sulphurous and mercurial vapour. The Philosophers have called this vapor an ethereal liquor. This vapor is a mineral sulphur, which penetrates the metallic stones and attaches itself to them. The distant principle of this vapor is common sulphur.The mineral sulfur is an unctuous, incombustible humor, and which the Hermetic Philosophers call their Sun and their masculine Seed. Beaker.
Sperm should not be confused with semen, one is the vehicle for the other. The sperm is the generative grain and the principle of things; this is why the Philosophers have given the name of sperm of the metals to sulphur, and that of seed to mercury. The germ in the seeds of plants is the sperm.
mercury sperm. It is the very mercury of the Sages.
female sperm. Quicksilver of the Philosophers.
male sperm. Sulfur of the Sages, or the fixed grain, which develops in the female sperm, and acts on it, to produce the philosophical child, more vigorous and more excellent than its parents.

Sperniolum. Frog spawn.

Sphere.This term is taken, in the works of the Philosophers, in different senses; sometimes for the spheres of the planets, sometimes for the secret furnace. Flamel took it in the latter sense.
sphere of the sun. Quintessence of the Sages, or their mercury, which must be extracted from the rays of the Sun and the Moon with the steel or Philosophical magnet. The expand in which a thing is enclosed is commonly called sphere. It is therefore well to observe that the spheres of the Sun and the Moon extend to all that may contain gold and silver, in fact or in potency.

Sphinx. Fabulous monster born of Typhon and Echidna.He had the head and chest like those of a young girl, the body of a dog, the claws of a lion, the tail of a dragon, and the voice of a human. This monster was hidden in a cave near the city of Thebes, and stopped passers-by to offer them riddles to solve. He devoured those who failed. Oedipus presented himself and solved the one proposed to him. He therefore married the one who had been promised as a reward. See Oedipus.

Spirits. Quicksilver. Planiscampi.

Spis-Glas. Antimony. Down. Valentine.

Splendor. Magisterium in white.

Spodium. Golden ash. Some give this name to the pompholix or gray tuthie.

Sputum Lunse. Hermetic Mercury.

Stagen. See arles crudum.

Stalagmi. See stagen.

Stalticium. See sarcoticum.

Staphyle. Son of Bacchus, had a daughter named Rhéo, who by Apollo had Anye. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 3, c. 14, § 2.

Staphylinos. Parsnip.
Starmar. Vapor of the earth which forms the seed of metals. It is the Mercury of the Philosophers.

Statues. Materials that enter into the composition of the Magisterium of the Sages. Raymond Lully used this term in this sense, no doubt after Hermes, who also gives them the name of Statues, and calls them Gods made by the hands of men. He then took the statues of the Idols, which were the symbols, for the thing itself. Senior, in his Allegory of the Hunt of the Lion, says: "I gather the hands and the feet, and I warm them in the water extracted from the bodies of the statues, white and yellow stones, which fall in times of rain, and which we take care to pick up to cook the head and feet of this Lion. Raymond Lully, whom I have just quoted, expresses himself in almost the same terms, in chapter 4 of its Codicil. “That is why,” he said,you draw this God from the hearts of the statues by a moist bath of water, and by a dry bath of fire. We can see how the statues were hieroglyphs of the great work, in the Traite des Fables Egyptiennes et Grecques unveiles, liv. 1 and book. 3.

Stella Earth. Talc.

Shorthand. Name of one of the Gorgons.

Sterility of Mercury. It resembles that of females, who cannot give birth and conceive without the approach of the male. This is why the Philosophers gave it the name of female, and sulfur that of male.

Steropes. Vulcan blacksmith. See Vulcan.

Stibinm. Chaldean name for antimony, according to Basil Valentine.

Still bus.Antimony.

Stimmi. Antimony.

Stoeb. scabious. Blanchard.

stomach. Scale of iron.

Straax. See arles crudum.

This operation is done in Chemistry, when one wants to calcine or cement a mineral or a metal, with salt or other matter to purify it.

Strophius. Father of Pylades. See. pylade.

Stupio. Tin, Jupiter.

Stymphalides. Birds of such prodigious size and size that they eclipsed the sunlight with their wings. Hercules instructed by Minerva, chased them from the banks of the Stymphalide river, whence they retired to the island of Aretia. The Spagyric Philosophers explain this fable of what happens in the operations of the great work. These birds, they say, represent the spirits of the Philosophical mercury, which ascend and descend in the Philosophical egg. Arcadia signifies the earth which is formed in the vase, and the water which floats is the Lake Stymphalides from which these birds or spirits rise and which seem to eclipse the sun, because matter becomes black during putrefaction;
Hercules, symbol of the fixing and coagulating power of the physical gold enclosed in the vase, or taken for the Artist, kills them with arrows, and chases them away with the noise of the brass drums, which are none other than the metallic vapors of Venus, as may be seen in the article Eurysteus, until they retreat into the island of Aretia, that is, the mer-curial water is dried up, because Aretia has a great analogy with the Latin word aresco, which in French means to dry .
Sometimes they explain these Stymphalid birds from the tincture of antimony; for the Alchymists quite often call the mercurial and arsenical spirits of antimony birds, because of their volatility; and Stymphalid birds, because the vapors of these spirits are dangerous and deadly.Fire, like another Hercules, kill them with its arrows, correcting what is wrong with them. But this explanation is not in conformity with what the Authors say in their Philosophical Treatises, especially since they give the name of antimony to their material, for the sole reason that it has the properties, as Artephius says, and not because it is a true antimony. See the Egyptian and Greek Fables, lib. 5. c. 9.

Styx. Fountain of Arcadia, which falls from a very high rock, and whose water is a mortal poison for all the animals which drink from it. It is attributed to the property of dissolving all sorts of matter, and that no vessel of any metallic material whatsoever can resist its action. The Authors say that it can only be contained in the horn of the foot of a mule or an ass. The Poets claimed that it was one of the rivers of Hell; some made this river the son of the Ocean and of Thetis, and others of Acheron. The gods had so much respect for this river that the oaths and promises they made through it were irrevocable. If anyone broke it, he was deprived of the table of the Gods for a hundred years. See the Egyptian Fables.and Grecq. unveiled, book. 3, c. 6.

Sublimation. (Sc. Herm.) Purification of matter by means of dissolution and reduction into its principles. It does not consist in raising the matter to the top of the vessel, and attaching it there, separated from the caput mortuum and the faeces; but to purify, subtilize and purify matter of all terrestrial and heterogeneous parts, to give it a degree of perfection of which it was deprived, or rather to deliver it from the bonds which held it as if in prison, and prevented it from acting.
Sublimation is the first preparation necessary for matter, both to become mercury and to form sulfur and stone. D'Espagnet says that it is the preparation of which the Philosophers have not spoken, because it is a manual work that anyone can do, even without being instructed in the operations of vulgar chemistry. It is without doubt this preparation of agents, difficult above all else in the world, as Flamel says, but very easy for those who know it.
It is the second degree, and very necessary, through which one must pass in order to achieve the transmutation of bodies. We often hear under the term sublimation, fixation, exaltation and elevation. It even comes very close to distillation; for just as in this the water rises and separates from all the phlegmatic and purely aqueous parts, and leaves the body at the bottom of the vessel, so in sublimation the spiritual separates from the corporeal, the volatile from the fixed in dry bodies, such as minerals. Admirable things are extracted from minerals by means of sublimation. We fix a lot of them, and we make them fit to resist the strongest attacks of fire.To succeed in this, we regrind the sublimated with its faeces, we repeat the sublimation, and this until nothing is sublimated any longer. When everything is fixed, it is taken out of the vase, and exposed to the air or to the cellar, to make an oil, which is then digested over a slow fire to reduce it to stone. These stones have supernatural properties, depending on the mineral from which they are drawn.
Sublimation softens many corrosives by the conjunction of two matters, and renders many gifted things corrosive. Most of these become styptic, austere, bitter. Paracelsus says that the metals sublimated with the salt armoniac resolve into oil when exposed to the air, and harden into stones when this oil is digested in the fire. This sublimation is purely an operation of vulgar chemistry; it should not be confused with the Philosophical sublimation of which we spoke at the beginning of this article.

Sublimatory. (Vessel) It is the egg that contains the material of the work. See egg.

Gorgeous. Many have been deceived by this term which they have taken for the name of the matter of which the Philosophers make their magisterium; but it must be understood of matter having reached the white color which the Adepts call Mercury sublimated, that is to say, purified, exalted. Sometimes this term is applied to dark matter, but very rarely. When we give it this name in this sense, we have regard to the purification, and to the separation which is then made of the coarse and terrestrial parts of the laton of the Philosophers, which the azoth whitens by washing it of its impurities, called by some Philosophers the Refuse of the Dead.
In this sublimation are included all the other operations:
namely, the distillation, assation, cooking, coagulation, putrefaction, calcination, separation and conversion of the elements. Without it, the extraction of principles is impossible.
The Philosophers have symbolically represented this operation by an eagle which kidnaps a toad, by a winged serpent which carries off another without wings, by a dragon which leaves its scale, by the vulture which devours the liver of Prometheus, and by an infinity of fables and allegories whose explanation can be seen in the fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled.
mercurial sublimation. Quicksilver of the Sages reached the white color after putrefaction.

Sublimate. To purify, to cook, to exalt, to perfect the material of the work, to raise it to a degree of perfection which it lacks in order to become more excellent than gold itself, and to have the property of changing imperfect metals into gold. See sublimation.

Submersion. It is the dissolution of matter by putrefaction, because it is black and watery, and the matters merge and submerge into each other. The Philosophers have given this mixture several names which only mean the same thing; intrusion, conjunction, union, complexion, composition, mixture, humation, etc.

Subtlety. Reduction of the material of the work to its principles; which is done by dissolution and putrefaction. It is reduced to mercurial water, and then to subtle powder like the atoms which flutter in the rays of the sun, says Flamel.

Subtle. See the previous article.

Juice. This term commonly signifies a liquor extracted from some vegetable or animal; and as the Mercury of the Philosophers is first of all a kind of liquor, they have given it the name of Suc of their vegetal Saturnian plant, or Lunar Suc, but in vain do we seek in Botany this Saturnian plant and this Lunar, because they are not plants, and the Philosophers speak of them thus only by allegory. It is properly their matter, which, although a principle of vegetation, is not a plant. They named it Saturnian, because this Mercury is said to be the grandson of Saturn; and Lunar, because the Sun is the father of their matter and the Moon is the mother. Often by the term juice they mean their magisterium to the white, and sometimes their matter to the black.
White lily juice. Material of the work reached the color white.
Lunar juice. Hermetic Mercury extracted from the stone known in the chapters of the books, say the Philosophers, and not from the plant called Lunar, or from any other whatsoever, since they expressly recommend not to take any vegetable to do the work, having no analogy with metal. They also gave to this Lunar the names of Venus and vegetable Saturnia; this is why this Lunar Juice is also called:
Saturnia Juice. which is the same thing.
SUC FROM VEGETABLE LIQUEUR.
Some say it is wine, others vinegar, others grape marc. An Author has represented Basil Valentine making a sauce for a tortoise with grapes.
Whitejuice.Quicksilver of the Philosophers.

Sudur. Sugar.

Sweatshirt or Sweatshirt of the Sun. Mercury of the Sages; they have sometimes given this name to their matter in putrefaction.

Suffo. Pigbread, cyclamen.

Area. This name is found in Rullandus, interpreted as egg white.

Superfluous. (Science Herm.) Geber and the other Philosophers who followed him, said that there was in their matter a superfluous part which it was necessary to remove from it. These terms are commonly taken literally, and it is imagined that something must in fact be separated from matter in medicine of the second order; others that absolutely nothing should be removed;and both are right: for these superfluities must be separated in their time;
but the true Sages know that this separation takes place of itself in the medicine of which we speak, and that this kind of superfluity is very useful in the work; which has led the Philalethes to call it very useful superfluous.
This superfluous is an oil or a kind of silt from the body which swims on the menses after the body is dissolved. This silt is absolutely necessary for the conversion of the body into oil; and this conversion is so necessary that one could not succeed in the work without it; because one could not have the principles of Art.

Suppression (Fire of). Is the one made above the vase, or even inside, according to Riplée and Géber.

Sutter. Sugar.

Metal soot. Arsenic.

Sycaminos. Mulberry.

Syce. Fig.

Sylvae Mater. Honeysuckle.

Symar. Green-grey.

Symplegades, or Cyaneas. Are two pitfalls located near the Pont-Euxin, and so close to each other that they seem to touch, which made the Poets say that they collided. It is mentioned in the fable of the conquest of the golden fleece. See,
jason, GOLDEN fleece.

Synacticum. Astringent drug.

Syncriticum. Antispasmodic.

Syrinx. Nymph who always resisted the pursuits of the God Pan, and fled near the river Ladon between the arms of the Naiads, where she was changed into a reed.

Pomegranate syrup.Red stone.
Sirtes. Sandbanks or shoals of the coasts of the Libyan Sea, on the side of Egypt. The Argonauts almost perished there, and were obliged to carry their ship on their shoulders for twelve days. See. Argonautes.

T

Taaut or Thaut. See thot.

Paintings of the Philosophers. These are their books, their allegories, their hieroglyphs, etc.

Tagetes. Tansy.

Tal. Alkali.

Talc of the Philosophers. Stone of the Sages fixed on white. It is in vain that one seeks to make oil of talc with vulgar talc. The Philosophers only speak of theirs, and it is to the latter that we must attribute all the qualities which the books praise so much.

Sieve of the Sages. Hermetic Mercury.
siege of nature. It is the air through which the influences of the stars pass to come to us.

Tamue. Material of the work prepared and cooked in poppy red.

Tamus or Tanus. Coulevrée, bryoine.

Tanech. Pumice.

tantalum. Son of Jupiter and the Nymph Plotus, received the Gods at his table, and served them, among other dishes, his son Pelops. Ceres was the only one who did not recognize him. She tore off a shoulder, which she ate. The gods resuscitated him, and replaced this shoulder with one of ivory. Jupiter punishes Tantalus by condemning him to the Underworld to suffer perpetual hunger and thirst, although in the middle of the water and the fruits come down to his mouth; when he wants to take them, they flee from his hands. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 6, c. 4.

Taraguas. Bezoar. Taraxium. Dandelion.

Targar. Juniper oil.

Dry. Mercury.

Tartar. Tartar.

Tartar. Son of Chaos, a dark place where the wicked were sent to suffer the torments to which they were condemned. See hell. The Tartarus of the Philosophers is the matter of the work in putrefaction. Sometimes they mean by Tartarus the useless and tiring work of bad Artists, and say that they are condemned to Tartarus.

Tartar. (Se. Herm.) Basil Valentine and some other Philosophers have said that tartar dissolves metals; which has given rise to the idea of ​​several chemists to regard it as the matter from which the philosophers make their magisterium. Philalethes, however, says that the term tartar must be explained in the same way as the crow's head;and those who are less versed in this science, know that these expressions signify the matter of black Philosophers.
White tartar, or the salt of tartar of the Sages, is their magisterium which has reached the color white.
marble tartar. These are the stones that form in the human body. They are thus called from the earthly and tartarous matter from which they are formed.

Bull. Quadruped animal of great use for agriculture. The Philosophers have very often given it as the hieroglyph of the matter of the Great Work. The Egyptians therefore had a great deal of veneration for this animal, which the priests presented to the people as the symbol of Osiris, one of their great gods. The Greek Philosophers, instructed by these Priests of what they meant by the bull, invented many fables, in which they introduced this animal, and indicated the hot and solar quality of matter, saying that these bulls threw fire and flame through the mouth and nostrils . Such are they whom Jason overcame and put under the yoke to make them plow the field of Mars, in order to seize by this means the Golden Fleece suspended in the forest of this God.Such was the one which Hercules rid the island of Crete. The feet of both were of bronze. Europa was abducted by a bull, Pasiphae fell in love with a bull; Cadmus followed an ox, and built a city in the place where he stopped. The river Acheloiis changed into a bull to fight Hercules; Protheus took the form of a bull, etc.
The Priests of Egypt carefully fed a black bull with only a white spot, and lodged it in the temple of Vulcan. greatest of their gods. Osiris, of whom this bull was the symbol, signified hidden fire, and had Isis for sister and wife, or a cow, who had Mercury as Counselor and Administrator of the whole Empire during the travels of Osiris her husband, and after her dead.Osiris was himself the symbol of the Sun and Isis was the symbol of the Moon; but of the Sun and the Moon of the Philosophers, and not of the stars which enlighten us, or of the terrestrial stars, gold and silver, which the vulgar chymists call Sun and Moon.
The Egyptians, perfectly instructed in the most hidden secrets of Nature, consequently imagined the signs of the Zodiac, always by allusion to their Hermetic Art, which the Philosophers claim to be the key to all the sciences. They assigned for this purpose the three signs of Aries, Taurus and Gemini for those. who presides over the beginning of the year or of the spring, because they are the beginning of the work.The Philosophers, following the system of the ancient Disciples of Hermes, said for this reason that the work must be begun in the spring, though indeed it can be begun in all seasons. Those who are acquainted with Astrology will easily guess the reasons for this, provided they have also read attentively the books of the Philosophers. See zodiac.
It appears that the Author of the Hermetic Dictionary had not meditated long and seriously on the works of the Philosophers, and combined their reasonings on the fables, when he interprets the bulls which guarded the Golden Fleece, by the vulgar fire maintained in chemical furnaces, the registers of which represent the nostrils of these animals.The furious bull which ravaged the island of Crete, and which had feet of bronze like those which Jason put under the yoke, makes it clear that these allegories or fables cannot be understood of the chemical furnaces, but of the secret furnace of the Philosophers.
Hercules after taking the bull from the island of Crete, led him to Eurystheus, that is, to the greatest fixity, as can be seen in book 5, ch. 1, 7 and 10 of Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled. So long as the mercurial water of the Philosophers dwells in the land of the Sages, signified by Pisia of Crete, that land is ravaged by dissolution, and unable to produce anything; but as soon as Hercules stops the bull, or fixes this water, to lead it to Eurystheus, it becomes proper to vegetation;it can be cultivated to sow philosophical gold.
Tefra. Ash.

Dye. In terms of Hermetic Science, means conducting the regime of fire, administering it to matter to digest it and cook it so that it takes successively the different colors of which the Philosophers mention, and which they call demonstrative signs. It is from there that they were named Dyers.

Dyeing. In terms of chemistry, does not mean the extraction of the simple color from the mixtures, but the essential colors to which are adhered the virtues and properties of the bodies from which these tinctures are extracted. Spagyric art distinguishes several species of tinctures; some are said to be passive, because they are simply extracted, like the tincture of roses; the others are called active, and they are those which serve to extract others; such is that of the magisterium of the Sages, or their mercury. They are further divided into natural dyes and artificial dyes. In these, some are called animal, when they are extracted from animals; metallic, when they are drawn from metals, etc.They are sometimes called oils, spirits, quintessences, according as they partake more or less of the qualities of the things which have these denominations. Eat, Beguin. The true tincture of metals is exalted metallic sulphur. Mercury is called the medium or means suitable for joining and uniting the tinctures. The red stone and the white stone reduced to an elixir or powder of projection, are the only two true principles of the tints of metals; any other tincture is deception, trickery and sophistication. vivid dye. Red stone. BODY ILLUMINATING dye. RED Dye OR Purple Dye is the same as Illuminating Dye. Telamon.
Tincture is the last degree of the transmutation of natural bodies. It brings all imperfect things to perfection. Paracelsus defines tinting as a very noble matter, which tints metallic and human bodies, and changes them into a much more excellent essence and an infinitely more perfect way of being than those they previously enjoyed. It penetrates the bodies and makes them ferment like leaven.
The tincture which transmutes the metals must be fixed, fusible like wax, and incombustible so that, when placed on a blade reddened in the fire, it melts there without smoke, and penetrates there as oil penetrates paper. Same as blasting powder.



Some have, however, taken these expressions to signify the red-hot stone, or the auric sulfur of the Philosophers, because they call it Sun, and the sun is like the principle, or the distributor of light. In vain do the chemists seek to extract tincture from common gold to dress other metals with it; the true tincture of gold consists in its radical sulphur, which is inseparable from the very body of gold, following from Spain! Besides, when the thing would be possible, this tincture could give only what it has, and could only tint a weight of silver equal to that of the gold from which it was extracted; instead of a single speck of philosophical tincture pushed to the point of perfection of which it is susceptible, Thoth or Thaut.



Son of Aeacus and brother of Peleus, was father of Ajax, who was called Telamonian from him. Telamon was one of the Argonauts, and accompanied Hercules when he delivered Hesione from the sea monster's murderous tooth to which she was exposed. Hercules gave it up to this faithful companion. See hesione.
Telemachus. Son of Odysseus and Penelope, was still young when his father left for the Trojan War. During this absence the Lovers of Penelope mistreated Telemachus, who left the paternal house to look for Odysseus. On his return he chased away, with the help of his father, all these importunate lovers. See Ulysses.

Thelephe. Son of Hercules and the Nymph Auge, was exposed in the woods, where a doe nursed him. Those who found him presented him to the King of Mysia, who adopted him and appointed him his successor. Having refused passage to the Greeks who were going to the siege of Troy, he was wounded by an arrow from Achilles. The wound became extremely painful, and finding no remedy, he consulted the Oracle, who told him that the one who had done the wrong would heal it. Having reconciled with Achilles, the latter gave him rust from the iron of his spear; Telephus applied it and was healed.

Telesme. End, perfection, complement.

Temerus. Brigand whom Theseus put to death. See Theseus.

Temeynchum. Gold of the Philosophers, or their magisterium in red.

Temples. It is in Egypt that we must seek the origin of the temples. Herodotus says it formally. This custom of building temples passed from Egypt to the other Nations, by the Colonies which were transported there. One can see in the Author above, the magnificence of the temple of Vulcan in Egypt, which so many Kings wanted to embellish and had great difficulty in completing: it was a great glory if in a long reign a Prince had been able complete a portico . The most famous were that of Jupiter Olympian, that of Apollo at Delphi, made so famous by the oracles who went there; that of the Diana of Ephesus, a masterpiece of art;the Pantheon, work of the magnificence of Agrippa, son-in-law of Augustus; finally that of Belus,
The statues of the gods that were placed there were of gold, ivory or ebony, sometimes composed of these three materials, which is to be noted by the reasons we have deduced in the Treatise on Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled.
When it was a question of building a temple, the place was surrounded with ribbons and crowns, and the Vestal Virgins purified it by washing it with clean pure water. The Pontiff, after having made a solemn sacrifice to the Divinity to whom he was to be dedicated, touched the stone which was to serve first to form the foundation, and the people threw him into it with some coins or some pieces of metal which did not had not yet passed through the crucible. The temples of Vulcan, of Venus his wife, and of Mars were placed at the gates of the cities. Those of Mercury, Apollo, Minerva and the other gods were within the walls. Vitruvius (Book 2, ch. 2) gives reasons for these differences, which have an air of verisimilitude,
Most of the temples were round in shape like the Pantheon, and received light only through a hole or lantern made in the middle of the vault. We notice this form in the temples of the most remote antiquity.
All these things were not done without design; and if the Egyptians, according to St. Chrysostom, were mysterious even in their ways of acting and in their ways of dressing, can we doubt that they had something! prominent object in the shape of their temples? If their so-called Gods and the actions attributed to them are only allegories of the Hermetic Work, will we not be right to think that this round shape of the temple, or of the place where the Gods were placed, was a symbol of the vessel that contains the Hermetic Deities? The Philosophers know well why the temples of Vulcan, Venus and Mars were at the gates of cities. It is even enough to have read their books rather superficially,
Subsequently the temples took another form by the imagination of the Architects, who found the long square more susceptible of the ornaments they imagined; but they almost always retained round or rotunda-shaped the principal place of the interior of the temples; the other parts were supposed only as accompaniments, or as necessary to lodge the people; such are the naves and the side aisles.

Time. The Philosophers seem to disagree among themselves on the duration of the operations required to bring about the end of the Hermetic Work. Some say it takes three years, others seven, others up to twelve; but there are some who reduce this duration to eighteen months, Raymond Lully to fifteen, Trévisan about the same time, and Zachaire says that he began the work on Easter Monday, and made the projection around the same time the following year. But in all these manners of expressing themselves which seem to contradict each other, the Philosophers understand only the same duration of time according to their way of counting it; because their months and their seasons are not those of the vulgar.We need a year, says Riplée, to enjoy the fruits we expect from our labors. An Anonymous explains all these different terms in the following way. As we call a day the interval of time it takes the sun to traverse the sky from the east to the west, the Philosophers have given the name of day to the time that our coction lasts. Those who said it only needed a month had regard to the course of the sun in each celestial sign; and those who speak of a year have in view the four principal colors which occur to matter; because these colors are their four seasons. See seasons. Those who said it only needed a month had regard to the course of the sun in each celestial sign;and those who speak of a year have in view the four principal colors which occur to matter; because these colors are their four seasons. See seasons. Those who said it only needed a month had regard to the course of the sun in each celestial sign; and those who speak of a year have in view the four principal colors which occur to matter; because these colors are their four seasons. See seasons.
Philosophers commonly say that the Great Work is a work of patience; that the boredom caused by the length of the work has repelled many Artists, and that it takes more time than expense to achieve its goal. They add that the black color appears and should appear around the fortieth day, if one has operated well;that this color lasts until the ninetieth day; then the white color takes over, and then the red. But all this must be understood as the work of stone, without including the manual preparation of the agents or material principles of the work. Thus those who speak of a year understand it of a single philosophical preparation, such as that of sulphur; because in every operation the colors they call seasons, must pass successively. Those who mention three years include the operations of sulfur, stone, and that of the elixir. When they say seven, nine, or twelve years, they enclose therein all the operations repeated for multiplication, and give the name of year to each operation. See year, month, reign.

Tenare. Promontory of the southern coast of the Peloponnese; nearby are chasms in the sea, which the Poets have pretended to be the gates of Hell. It is by there that Hercules descended to remove the dog Cerberus, and brought back his friend Theseus. See hell.

Darkness. The Philosophers almost always compare their matter in putrefaction to the darkness of the night, to that of Egypt, and to that which enveloped the confused mass of chaos before the manifestation of light. This is why they sometimes gave the name Darkness to their black matter.
Cymmerian darkness. Matter of the work in putrefaction, also called Black blacker than Black itself.

Terengibil. Mana.

Tereniabin.Mana.

Term. God of fields and bounds. It was depicted in the form of a column, a tree trunk, etc. He was supposed to limit everything, without being limited himself.

Terpsichore. Name of one of the Muses, of which see the article.

Earth. Heavy and porous matter, which together with water composes the globe we inhabit.
The vulgar commonly take for true earth what appears to our eyes, that is to say, the excrement of earth and other elements which enter into the composition of all mixtures subject to death or death. corruption. But in these excrements there is a nucleus, a true ground principle, which cannot be destroyed, which forms the basis of bodies, and which preserves them in their way of being until some accident dissipates the bond. which unites this true earth with its excrement. This earth is found in all mixtures, more abundantly in some than in others; it is this principle which so many Sophists seek in vain, and which they would find without difficulty if they knew Nature. This earth is the virgin land of the Philosophers, and what is to be understood by the element of Earth.
The Hermetic Philosophers give the name of earth to the mine which contains the matter from which they extract their mercury; and then, in the operations, to the very matter from which this mercury was extracted. They still give this same name of earth to their fixed mercury; and it is in this last sense that Hermes must be understood when he says, in his Emerald Tablet:
he will have the force of forces when he is reduced to earth. they then call it Water which does not wet the hands; because this earth was first water, and will become liquid again each time it is mixed with the water of which it was composed.
Adamic or Adamite land. It is the material from which the Hermetic mercury must be extracted.
leafy white earth.
heavenly land. Moon of the Sages.
damned land. Useless earth, faeces of a material that has been purified. The name of Damned Earth is also given to what remains at the bottom of the vase after the most subtle has been drawn from it by distillation or sublimation.
leaf earth. Hermès gave this name to the matter of the work in putrefaction; but his proper name, says Flamel, is the Laton or Laton that one must whiten.
land of Spain. Vitriol.
land of philosophers. It is their sulfur.
golden land. Litharge of gold.
fruitful land or fertile land. Stone reached white.
fetid earth.Sulfur sublimated. In terms of Hermetic Science, it is the sulfur of the Sages in putrefaction.
leafy earth. Simply said,
faithful land. Moon of the Philosophers.
faithful land. Philosophical money.
fruitful land. Magisterium in white.
clay. Eraser of the Sages.
loam. See. matter.
mercurial earth. Material from which the Philosophers extract their mercury. This earth is not natural or artificial cinnabar; but nevertheless, a mineral and metallic earth.
black land. See black powder.
potential earth. Magisterium in white.
stinky earth. See. fetid earth.
remaining land. Artwork material set to white color.
Red earth. Red Sulfur of the Sages. This name was given to the bol armene, and to the orpiment.
Holy Land. vitrified antimony.
Samian land. Quicksilver sublimated with talc.
Saracen land. E-mail. Planiscampi.
solar earth. Material of the work fixed in red, also called Sun of the Sages, or gold mine. Some have called Solar Earth lapis lazuli.
sulphurous earth. Matter of the Sages in putrefaction.
virgin land. This term is said of the mercury of the Sages fixed in the earth by philosophical firing, and from the material from which this mercury itself must be extracted, called for this Dry Water, which does not wet the hands, and which does not attach only to what is of its own nature. There is in the center of the earth a virgin earth, from which we make our mercury. Raym.Lully.

Theresa. Mustard.

Head of the Raven. Matter of the work in putrefaction.
dragon's head. It is the mercurial spirit of matter, or the volatile part which dissolves the fixed; this is why the Philosophers said that the Dragon devours its tail.
dead head. These are the faeces which remain at the bottom of the curcurbite, or the retorte, after the distillation or the sublimation of the spirits.
red head. The Philosophers have said that what has black feet, a white body, and a red head, is the magisterium. That is to say, the Work begins with the color black, then passes to white, and ends with red.In each operation the red which marks the perfection of the sulphur, of the stone and of the elixir, has engaged the Philosophers to say of Apollo and of the other feigned personages of the fables, which are the symbols of this sulphur, of this stone or of this elixir, that they had red or golden blond hair, such as Pyrrhus, son of Achilles, etc., or that they were dressed in the color of purple, like Apollo when he sang of the victory of Jupiter over the Giants. Avicenna has turned this riddle of the red head in another way. The thing, he said, with the red head, black eyes and white feet is the magisterium.Some philosophers seem to have wanted to explain this red head of the very matter of which the magisterium is made, on what others have said that it is necessary to extract the mercury from the red servant, and that the custom is to call the head the beginning of a thing; then it would be necessary to say that Avicenna would have had in view only the work in white.

Tethys. Daughter of Heaven and of Vesta, sister of Saturn, wife of Neptune, mother of all the Nymphs and of the rivers, according to Hesiod. Others call her daughter of Heaven and Earth, and woman of the Ocean. Jupiter having been bound and bound by the other gods, Tethys, with the help of Egeon, set him free.Tethys is the mercurial water of the Philosophers, which loosens by dissolving, and sets free by volatilizing the Jupiter of the Sages, of which see the article.

Tetrapharmacum. Medicine consisting of four ingredients, like Basilisk ointment.

Tetrobolon. Weight of four sugared almonds.

Teucrium. Plant known as Chamcedis or Small Oak.

Tevos. Material of the work pushed to white.

Thabritis. Jupiter of the Philosophers.

Thalia. This name was given to one of the Graces, to the Nymph mother of the Gods Palices, and to one of the nine Muses.

Thamar. Fruit of the palm tree. Blanchard.

Thaumas. Father of Iris, messenger of Juno.

Thaut. See Thoth.

Theja or Thea. Mother of the Sun and the Moon, signifies only the matter from which the white sulfur or the red sulfur of the Philosophers is made. V. latona.

Thélesphore. One of the Gods of Medicine, son of Aesculapius, and brother of Panacea, Jaso and Higyea. See, Aesculapius.

Thelima. Perfect red stone.

Thelypteris. Fern.

Themianthus. Gold.

Theodamas. Father of Hylas, was defeated by Hercules, who took his son away. V.hylas.

Thereniabin. See. tereniabin.

Theriac. (Science Herm.) Some Philosophers have given this name to the fixed body of the magisterium, as opposed to the name of Venom which others have given to this same body; because if it is not united with the volatile mercury at the proper hour of the birth of the mercurial water, this body spoils the whole work, and if it is joined to it at the right time, it perfects it.But the most commonly used sense in which the term Theriac must be taken is that the Philosophers have thus named their perfect magisterium, because it is the most excellent remedy of Nature and of Art, to cure so many venoms than other diseases of the human body and metals.

Therion mineral.

Thermanticum. Medication that heats up.

Therme. Bath. The Philosophers have given the name of Therme to their mercurial water, because they say that it is the bath where their King and their Queen bathe.

Philosophical thermometer. Natural heat of the mixed ones.
Theseus. Son of Aegeus and Ethra, had the happiness of preserving himself from the poison that Medea, his stepmother wanted him to take. The Athenians, obliged by treaty made with Minos, King of Crete, to send him every year seven young Athenians to fight the Minotaur locked up in the labyrinth, decided by lot which seven would be sent. The lot fell on Theseus.Before leaving, Aegean advised him to put on white sails on his return, in case he returned victorious, instead of the black sails that were put on when he left. Theseus promised, embarked, and landed on the island of Crete. There he gained the good graces of Ariadne, daughter of Minos. She asked Daedalus the way out of the labyrinth, and he gave her a ball of thread, which she gave to Theseus. Armed with this platoon, Theseus entered the labyrinth, fought the Minotaur and killed him. He had defiled his platoon as soon as he entered, and only had the trouble of following his line and reassembling his platoon to get out. Ariadne, charmed to see him again, consented to go with him, and Theseus took him away.He then abandoned her on the island of Naxo. See. ariadne.
Aegeus, seeing the time approaching for the return of the ship which had transported the seven Athenians to Crete, had gone to wait for it on the seashore. Theseus had forgotten to change his sails, following the promise he had made to his father. . Aegeus, seeing them black, believed his son perished, and in despair threw himself into the sea.
Theseus proposed Hercules as a model, and bound a close friendship with this Hero. He braved, like him, all sorts of dangers, and took part in many of his exploits. He first killed the bull of Gère in the plain of Marathon, defeated a furious boar which ravaged the countryside, purged the country of an infinity of thieves and brigands, waged war on the Amazons, took away their Queen Hippolite, whom he married, and had a son of the same name; sided with the Lapiths against the Centaurs, and finally descended into the Underworld with Pyrithous to remove Proserpina. Hercules, his friend, having also gone there to take Cerberus, found Theseus there and brought him back to the abode of the living. Some place Theseus among the Argonauts.Some say he was killed by Lycomede, others that he died of a fall.
Theseus represents the Mercury of the Philosophers, called for this reason the good friend of Hercules, symbol of the Artist. All the expeditions attributed to him are the effects of mercury during the course of the operations required for the perfection of the work. It was therefore necessary to place him among the Argonauts, and even among the principal ones. He died indeed by the hands of Lycomede, and also lost his life by a fall; but in two different circumstances of the work. The first is that of dissolution, called Death, Tomb, Sepulchre. The second is that of fixing; because the volatilization being called Life, the fixation which marks rest is also called Death. See the Egyptian Fables.and Greeks unveiled, book. 3, c. 14, § 5 and Book. 5, ch. 22.

Thesmophore.

Thespiades. Nickname of the Muses.

Thespius. Son of Erichteus, King of Athens, had fifty daughters, whom Hercules still a child enjoyed in a single night, and had fifty sons. The Alchymists understand by Thespius the crude and indigestible matter of the Philosophers, of which fifty parts, regarded as his daughters, mixed in the vase with a single part of prepared Philosophical mercury, each produce a male, that is to say, acquire by the operation of mercury on them, a multiplicative virtue capable of perfecting each an equal weight of other matter. This looks at the multiplication of the Philosopher's Stone.

Thesprotia. Land of Epirus, which Mythologists have sometimes taken for the Underworld.

Thetis or Thetys. Daughter of Nérée Marine God, and of Doris. Jupiter loved her passionately; but he did not approach her, because he had learned that if she saw a God, the son who would be born of her would be more valiant and more powerful than his father. Jupiter accordingly married her to Peleus, and invited the whole Celestial Court to the nuptials which took place there. Discord alone was not called there. and the ruin of the Trojan Empire was a consequence of his revenge, as may be seen in the articles of Paris and Achilles; and more at length in Book 6 of Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled.

Thimi Venetiani. Absynth.

Thion. Sulfur of the Philosophers in red.

Thisma. Mine vein.

Thita. Magisterium of the Sages in its crimson colored binding.

Thorarch. See. thion.

Thoas. Son of Ariadne and Bacchus, became King of the island of Lemnos, and had Hypsiphile as a daughter. The women of this island having conspired together to kill all the men, because they saw themselves despised, Hypsiphile was the only one who did not carry out this dreadful project: she saved her father. See hypsiphile, and the second book, chap. 1 of Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled.

You dont have. Egyptian doctor, whose wife named Polydamna, presented Helen with a remedy, among other things, which had the property of making people forget all kinds of grievance. Homer, Odyssey, book. 4.

God of the Egyptians, is none other than Mercury, or Hermes, that is to say the mercury of the Hermetic Philosophers. A philosopher of the same name took the surname of Trismegistus, and invented all the Egyptian Fables, from which were imitated all the ancient fictions of the Greeks. See, hermes, mercury.

Thyestes. Son of Pelops and Hippo-damie, father of Aegisthus, and brother of Atreus. See Atreus, Orestes, Aegisthus.

Thyone. Name of Semele, when she was numbered among the Goddesses.

Thyrsus. Type of armor worn by Bacchus and the Bacchantes.

Tcalibar. Sea-foam. It is the foam of the red sea, of which Flamel speaks, to enigmatically indicate the material of the Work.

Tiercelet. Chemical composition of the Charlatans who call themselves scholars in the Hermetic Art, with which they trick those credulous enough to entrust them with their purse.

Tifacum, or tifacoum. Mercury of the Philosophers.

Tifarum,

Tifasum, Hermetic Sulphur.

Tifatum.

Tiffarom. Quicksilver.

Tiffatam or Timpabar. Vivid sulfur.

Tin. Sulfur.

Tincar or Tincar. Mercury of the Sages cooked and digested in white. Tinckar also means borax and verdigris.

Tingent. Property required of the Philosopher's Stone, or their projection powder.It must be tingent, that is to say capable of giving to imperfect metals the fixed and permanent color and tint of gold or silver, according to the degree of perfection to which it has been pushed.

Tiresias. Famous diviner, son of Evore and Cariclo. Hesiod relates that Tirerias had changed sex for having killed a female serpent which had just mated on Mount Cyllene, or the Mount of Mercury, because this God had come into the world there. The same Author adds that he became a man again after seven years, after having struck with his wand a male snake which also came out of the coupling. Tiresias then became blind, for having watched Diana naked in the bath, others say because he had decided for the sentiment of Jupiter against Juno, who were in dispute as to which of the man or the woman found more pleasure in marriage. Jupiter, to compensate him for the loss of his bodily eyes, gave him knowledge of the present and the future.
Tiresias signifies nothing other than the matter of the work changed into mercurial water, which the Philosophers call their female; which is done after the union of two serpents, such as those of the caduceus of Mercury. It takes seven operations of the work, to make from this mercurial water the sulfur called male; it is Tiresias who resumes his first form. The blindness which occurs to him for having seen Diana naked in the bath, is the black color which occurs to matter in putrefaction in the second work; because it is the same blindness as that of Phineus, of which see the article. Both predicted the future, because the color black is the first color and the first demonstrative sign of the Work, which announces that one has operated well,that we are on the true path which leads to the perfection of the work, and predicts its happy success. It was not possible for Tiresias not to see Diana naked in the bath, since he himself is this bath. Happy and a thousand times happy, says a Philosopher, he who saw Diana naked in the bath; that is to say, which managed to give by cooking, the white color to the matter contained in the vase. See. diane.When Homer says that Odysseus invoked the shadow of Tiresias, it is because the Odyssey is only a description of the errors of the bad Artists, who take the shadow for reality, despite the good instructions given to them by the Philosophers in their books, such as those of Circe to Odysseus, so she told him to sacrifice a black ram to Tiresias in particular, and a good cow to everyone else in general. The cow or the bull, and the ram, are precisely the two hieroglyphic animals of the ingredients which must compose the work, and the ram is in particular the symbol of mercury, as the bull was of Osiris, under the names of 'Apis and Serapis. It would take too long to deduce all these instructions here;it will suffice to say that Circe particularly recommended Ulysses not to land on the island of the Sun before having descended into Hell, the tenebrous abode of Pluto, which comes back perfectly to what the Philosophers say, that he who does not does not see the black color appearing first on the material in the vase, must believe that he is in error, that he has pushed the fire too far, and burned the flowers from the compost; which is indicated more especially by the color red, delivered from the philosophical sun.

Tirfiat or Tirsiat. Armonia salt.

Tisiphone. One of the three Infernal Furies. See furies.

Titaia. See titia.

Titan. Son of Heaven and Earth, or of Vesta, and eldest brother of Saturn, ceded to him his right to the Empire, on condition that he would raise none of the male children given to him by Ops or his sister Rhea. and his wife, so that the Crown should revert to his children. Titan having learned that Rhea had withdrawn Jupiter from the murderous tooth of Saturn, he declared war on him, and kept him in prison until Jupiter, grown up, withdrew him, and entirely defeated Titan and his sons. See Jupiter, Saturn, and the Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, Book. 3, c.3 and 4.

Titanos. Burnt plaster. Titar. Borax.

Titea. Woman of Uranus or Heaven, became mother of the Titans. It is properly the Philosophical earth, reduced to mud by dissolution. See. earth.

Tithon. Son of Laomedon, King of Troy, was of such perfect beauty, that Aurora fell in love with him, kidnapped him, and had a son named Memnon, who brought troops to the aid of Priam, while the Greeks were making the seat of the city ​​of Troye, capital of his Kingdom. See memnon.
Tithye. Son of Jupiter and the Nymph Elare, became a Giant of prodigious grandeur.Jupiter, to save his mother pregnant with him, from the pursuits of the jealous Juno, hid her in the earth, in the bowels of which she gave birth to Tithye. She perished in labor, and the Earth took care of the newborn. When he grew up, he had the temerity to attack Latona's honor. Apollo and Diana his children avenged the affront he had wanted to make to their mother, and made him die with arrows, and rush to the Underworld, where he was condemned to be constantly devoured by a vulture. The mass of its body was so enormous that, lying down, it covered about nine acres of ground.

Tiepoleme. Son of Hercules and Astioche, joined the Greeks against the Trojans. He led nine ships with him, and perished by the hand of Sarpedon during the siege of Ilium.

Tmeticum. Mitigating drug.

Tmole. Son of the God Mars and the Nymph Theogenes, was passionate about hunting. While he was in this exercise, he saw one of the. companions of Diana, who was called Arriphe. The great beauty of this Nymph made an impression on Tmole's heart; he fell in love with her, and wasted no time in letting her know his passion. Arriphe, in order not to fall into the hands of Tmole, decided to save himself in the Temple of Diana, where Tmole followed her, and did her violence.Arriphé, unable to survive this affront, took his own life. urine or children's urine. A great number of Chemists, thinking that human urine was the true matter from which the Adepts make their mercury, have chemically worked the urine, and made it pass through all the operations of the Art. From there came the invention of artificial sal ammonia, the volatile spirit of urine, and urine phosphorus. Raymond Lully contributed not a little to this error, by the recipe for an operation on urine inserted in his secret recipes, as well as Géber and several other Philosophers who have often spoken of urine and urine of children, when they dealt with their matter. But Philalethes fixed the idea that should be applied to these expressions,
Apollo having accepted the challenge of Pan, who thought he could play the flute better than Apollo his lyre, Tmole and Midas were chosen as judges:
Tmole decided for Apollo, and Midas awarded the victory to Pan. The gods then avenged on Tmole the insult done to Arriphe; they raised up a bull, which carried off Tmole, threw him on stakes, the points of which made him expire in the most burning pains. He was buried on the mountain which has since borne his name. From this mountain issued the Pactolus river, whose waters rolled gold spangles, since Midas, while bathing there, left there the fatal property which he had received from Bacchus, to change into gold all that he would touch. See the Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, Book. 2, c.5 and Book. 3, c. 12.

Golden Fleece. The fable tells that Jason with the Argonauts exposed themselves to an infinity of dangers, to put themselves in possession of a Golden Fleece which Phrixus consecrated to Mercury, and which he hung in the forest of Mars, near the city of Colchos, where Aères, son of the Sun, reigned. Medea, daughter of this King, favored Jason in his enterprise, and taught him the means of overcoming all the obstacles which opposed the execution of his plan. As this whole Fable is explained at great length in the first chapter of the second Book of Egypt Fables. and Greek unveiled, I refer the Reader to them. I will only say that this fleece is the symbol of the matter of the Great Work;Jason's works are an allegory of the operations and signs required to arrive at his perfection,

Tomb. The Philosophers often used the tombs to form allegories on the putrefaction of the material of the work. They said consequently, that it was necessary to take the ground of the tombs, that it is necessary to put the King in the tomb, to reduce it in ashes, and to make it resuscitate. Flamel and Basil Valentine alluded to it more than once. They also took the tomb for the vase. See sepulchre.

Topaz. Gemstone of golden yellow color; which gave the name of topaz to the material of the Hermetic Work which has reached the saffron color.

Tophus. Gypseous and white matter, resembling slaked lime, and which forms especially in the joints of the bones of the body of those who are subject to violent attacks of gout.

topical. Medication applied to the skin, such as plasters.

Tordylium. Seseli of Crete.

Tori. Magnifying glass, growth against nature, which occurs on plants and trees.

Roasting. See digestion.

Tortoise. The Hermetic Philosophers have used the tortoise as a symbol of the material of the Art, because it is hidden under a very hard scale, from which it must be pulled out to make use of it. One of them represented Basil Valentin making a sauce with grape juice on a tortoise, to signify the manner of extracting the mercury of the Sages from his mine, and their auric grain which must animate this mercury. This is why the Fable attributes to this winged God the invention of the Musical instrument called the Turtle. The manner in which Mercury went about it, the place where he found this animal, and the things he used there, are very remarkable. Mercury, says Homer (Hymn in honor of this God) Mercury was looking for Apollo's oxen;passing over the steep edge of a air, he found there a tortoise, which procured him infinite riches. She ate grass, and walked very slowly. Mercury, this very useful son of Jupiter, could not contain his joy on seeing her, and said: I will be careful not to despise a sign, a symbol so useful for me. I salute you, amiable nature, you are such a happy omen for me. How, being of the shellfish race, do you live on these mountains? I will carry you home, and you will be very necessary to me there. It is better that I make something good out of you, than if you stay out to harm someone, for you are by yourself a very dangerous poison while you live, and you will become something good after your dead.could not contain his joy on seeing her, and said: I will be careful not to despise a sign, a symbol so useful for me. I salute you, amiable nature, you are such a happy omen for me. How, being of the shellfish race, do you live on these mountains? I will carry you home, and you will be very necessary to me there. It is better that I make something good out of you, than if you stay out to harm someone, for you are by yourself a very dangerous poison while you live, and you will become something good after your dead. could not contain his joy on seeing her, and said: I will be careful not to despise a sign, a symbol so useful for me. I salute you, amiable nature, you are such a happy omen for me.How, being of the shellfish race, do you live on these mountains? I will carry you home, and you will be very necessary to me there. It is better that I make something good out of you, than if you stay out to harm someone, for you are by yourself a very dangerous poison while you live, and you will become something good after your dead. and you will be very necessary to me there. It is better that I make something good out of you, than if you stay out to harm someone, for you are by yourself a very dangerous poison while you live, and you will become something good after your dead. and you will be very necessary to me there.It is better that I make something good out of you, than if you stay out to harm someone, for you are by yourself a very dangerous poison while you live, and you will become something good after your dead.
Mercury therefore carried the tortoise home; and after having put it to death with iron, he sought in his mind how he would put it to use, since with it he was to have infinite riches. He covered the scale with oxhide, after stretching and tying the turtle's skin with reeds; he fitted seven strings made of sheep's gut. He then found a way to steal the oxen of the Gods, and led them away by making them walk backwards, so that no one could know the path he had taken.
The evil which Mercury says of the tortoise before it is dead and prepared, and the usefulness which it must be after its preparation, agree very well with what the Philosophers say of their matter. It is one of the great poisons before its preparation, and the most excellent remedy after it is prepared, says Morien. With it Mercury procured infinite riches, such as those given by the Philosopher's Stone. Are not oxhide and sheep's intestines the materials from which the mercury of the Philosophers is drawn, since the Cosmopolitan says that it is drawn from the rays of the Sun and the Moon, by means of the magnet of the Sages? , which is found in Aries' belly. With this mercury it is easy to steal the oxen of the Sun.Several Eastern Philosophers said that the tortoise bore the characteristic sign of Saturn; and however little the books of the Hermetic Chymists have been read, there is not a reader who does not conclude that it is necessary to take a matter of the race of Saturn, for the first matter of the work.

Toruscula. resin. Tosarthrus. See Aesculapius.

Round. Some Philosophers have given the name of Tower to their furnace. The fable says that Danae was shut up by her father Acrise in a tower of brass, to save her from the pursuit of those who would seek her in marriage because he had learned from the Oracle that the child who would be born of his daughter, would kill him.Jupiter changed into golden rain, and having slipped through the roof into the tower, obtained the favors of Danae, who conceived Perseus. See Danae.
diaphanous turn. Glass vase in which we enclose the material to make the work.

Turn around. It is to make matter circulate in the vase.

All things. Name that Basil Valentine gave to the work of the Stone of the Sages. She brings, he says, to divine men all wisdom and all happiness, and by her own name she is called All things. Now whoever is curious to know what it is that all things in all things, let him make great wings on the earth, and press it so that it rises on high, and flies over all the mountains, until 'in the firmament, and while he cut off her wings with the force of fire, so that she would fall into the Red Sea, and drown there. Then let him burn the sea, and dry up its waters with fire and air, so that the earth may be reborn; then verily he will have all things in all things.

toxicum. Poison, venom.It is one of the names given to the material of the Great Work, because indeed it is a very dangerous poison before its preparation, and becomes a remedy for all evils after it is prepared. They also called their mercurial water toxicum, because it dissolves the Philosophical metals, and reduces them to their first matter, what they call killing, putting in the tomb.

Trachilium. Gauntleted.

Trachsar. Metal still in its mine.

tragedy. Fraxinella.

Tragoceros. Aloe.

Transmutation. (Phys.) Change or alteration of the form of a body, so that it no longer resembles the one it had before, and that it has acquired another way of being, both interior and exterior: a another color, another virtue, another property , as when metal has become glass by the force of fire; wood, coal; clay, brick; skin, glue; laundry, paper, etc. All transmutation is done by degrees; seven are commonly counted, and the others which the chymists have added are reduced to these seven, which are calcination, sublimation, solution, putrefaction, distillation, coagulation and tincture. Paracelsus. Those who deny metallic transmutation, and who even regard it as impossible, are either bad physicists,or pay little attention to what nature operates at every moment before their eyes, and in themselves. Will nature therefore find it more impossible to make silver or gold with a matter which was before lead or mercury, than she will find in forming wheat, a rose, a fruit, with a material, which before was hay, grass, or simply rainwater ? or to form bones, muscles, nerves in an animal, with a matter which, before being such, had been wheat, grapes, grass or other food? which before was hay, grass, or simply rainwater? or to form bones, muscles, nerves in an animal, with a matter which, before being such, had been wheat, grapes, grass or other food? which before was hay, grass, or simply rainwater?or to form bones, muscles, nerves in an animal, with a matter which, before being such, had been wheat, grapes, grass or other food?
Metallic transmutation suffers far fewer difficulties. The parts of metals, whatever they may be, are much more homogeneous with each other than are those of animals with those of vegetables. The constituent principles of metals being the same in all, it is only a question, to make gold with lead, of linking the principle parts of lead with the same bond which unites those of gold, by separating the impure. This link exists; the aided nature of the Art manifests it, and one must not judge that the transmutation of imperfect metals into gold is impossible or ignored, because false chemists only perform sophistical transmutations. The metempsychosis of the ancient philosophers was none other than the transmutations of nature, taken in their true physical sense.

Transudation. Term of chemistry, which is said of waters or spirits, when in distillation they fall drop by drop into the receptacle. The Philosophers have alluded to it, by employing this term to express the vapors which rise from matter at the top of the vase, and fall back in drops on the earth which is at the bottom. See dew.

Transverse. Which is wrong. Some Hermetic Chemists used this term in this sense, when they said that the bad Artists, whom they call deceivers, sophisticators, are not in the true way of the Sages; that theirs are transverse, that is to say erroneous, and they express thus to mark the difference from that which they follow in the operations of the work, and which they call for that linear, straight.

traumatic.

Thirteenth. Sulfur of the Sages in red.

Tripod. Circle placed on three feet to support some vase. The Hermetic Philosophers say that the vase which contains the material of the work must be placed on a tripod, so that it is at a distance from the heat and the flame, sufficient to feel it without being struck by it. These expressions are commonly taken literally; but are we right? Wouldn't this be an allegory taken from the three principles that make up the material of the Work, as from three feet, on which these three principles, reduced to a single whole, form the circle that remains there? We have the right to conclude it from what several philosophers call this tripod, our tripod, mysterious tripod.One of them even seems to want to explain it, when he says: our three principles, sulphur, salt and mercury,
Jason, before leaving for the conquest of the Golden Fleece, provided himself with a tripod, which he presented to a Triton who appeared to him when he found himself engaged in Lake Tritonide. This Triton placed the tripod in a temple. I explained what this tripod could be in chap. first of the second book of Egyptian and Greek Fables unveiled.
It is appropriate to remark here that one saw few temples where i) there was not a tripod, especially in those of Apollo. The Mythologists not seeing precisely the use of them, were right not to put them among the instruments used in the sacrifices. They contented themselves with saying that they were no doubt sometimes used to support sacred vessels.There were even votive tripods, which Princes or individuals consecrated in the temples of Apollo. Herodotus speaks in his book 9. of a golden tripod, which the Greeks victorious over the Persians sent to Delphi: "Before dividing the spoils of the enemies, says this Author, the Greeks sequestrated the silver and and took a tenth for the God revered at Delphi, and they made of it a golden tripod , which they consecrated to him, and which is still seen on a bronze serpent with three heads. , formed by these three heads of serpents. Pausanias also says (in Phoc.) that this same tripod was supported by a brazen dragon.Could one better indicate the three principles which are the basis of gold, or of the Philosophical Apollo, to whom they were dedicated?
A number of these antique tripods are found in the cabinets of the Curieux; we see them in all sorts of shapes, and even quite singular ones; most are of brass or bronze. The assignment of giving the feet the form of serpents seems to allude more particularly indicative of the principles of the Work, to which the Philosophers ordinarily give the names of serpents and dragons. As the Gods of Homer were Hermetic Gods, it is not surprising that he speaks of tripods which went by themselves to the assembly of the Gods;
therefore they were the work of Vulcan.

Incomparable treasure.It is the projection powder, source of all goods, since it provides infinite wealth, and a long life without infirmities, to enjoy it. Some Philosophers have called the magisterium to the white incomparable treasure, as well as the perfect sulfur to the red. The first, because the Artist who has succeeded in pushing the work to the white, can no longer be mistaken, and is assured of success. Whiten the laton, and tear up your books, say the Adepts, so that your hearts will no longer be tyrannized by anxieties and sorrows. D'Espagnet says that he who has found the red sulphur, their mine of celestial fire, has in his possession an inestimable treasure, which he must keep very preciously.

Philosophical triangle.It is the matter of the work during the course of the operations of the elixir. It is called Triangle, because it is composed of three principles, salt, sulfur and mercury, which make only one matter and one single homogeneous body, as the three angles of a triangle make only one figure. The Sages say that this triangle is threefold. The first is that which is composed of the three aforesaid principles; the second is of a soul, which is the sulfur of a spirit, or mercury, and of a body, which is salt. The third is made of the sun, the moon and the mercury of the Sages. This triangle worked and prepared philosophically, forms the circle or the gold of the Sages, whose character is the circle.

Tricalibar.Foam of the sea, or matter of the stone of the Philosophers.

Triceps. Nickname of Mercury. The Poets named it three-headed Mercury, because they were speaking after the Hermetic Philosophers, who say that Mercury is composed of three principles, sulphur, salt and mercury; which forms the mercury of the Sages.

Triceum. Wild or autumn honey.

tricor. Gold.

Trident. The Mythologists have been very embarrassed to find the reason which made Neptune give the trident. Some have said that as he was the God of the waters, it was to distinguish those of the sea, the gifted water, and that of the ponds, which participates in the two others.M. l'Abbé Banier, to cut it short, preferred simply to say that the trident was the scepter of most kings. If they had paid attention to the fact that the Fable says that Mercury, still a child, stole Neptune's trident, the first would have met with great difficulty in their explanation, and the second would not have dared to advance his, since Mercury was neither born nor raised. in the States which the Abbé Banier assigns to Neptune. The Hermetic Philosophers say that this trident is the symbol of the three principles of the work, who are united in the Mercury of the Sages from his very birth. It is for the same reason that the Fable also says that this little winged and thieving God stole the tools of Vulcan, the arrows of Apollo, and the belt of Venus.See the Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, Book. 3, c. 7 and c. 14, § 1.

Let's go out. Weight of four ounces.

Trieterides. Festivals in honor of Bacchus. See the Egyptian and Greek Fables, lib. 4, c. 1.

Trigias. Tartar, wine faces.

Triobolam. Weight of a half-dragma.

Fiddle. Matter of the Sages, composed of three principles.

Tripolium. Sea snail.

Triptolemus. Son of Eleusis, was born precisely at the time that his father received Ceres in his home, who was looking for his daughter Proserpina, kidnapped by Pluto. She offered to be his nurse; Eleusis accepted him, Ceres fed him ambrosia during the day, and hid him under fire during the night, without the father knowing about it. Eleusis, seeing that her son was making surprising progress, wanted to find out the cause; he spied on Ceres, and caught her in the act. This angry Goddess put the father to death; and after having instructed Triptolemus in all that concerns the art of Agriculture, she made him mount a chariot drawn by two dragons, and sent him through all the earth to teach the art of cultivating it to its inhabitants.See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 4, ch; 2.

Trismegistus. Surname of Mercury or Hermes, which means three times great; because he was great Philosopher, great Priest, and great King, say Historians and Mythologists;
but rather, as he says himself in his Emerald Tablet, because he had the three parts of the wisdom or Philosophy of the universal world. See hermes.

Triton. Marine god, son of Neptune and Amphitrite, or of the Nymph Salacia, or finally, according to others, of Ocean and Tethis. The Poets have claimed that it always accompanied Neptune, with a kind of trumpet formed from a sea conch. He was also in the retinue of Venus when she was born from the foam of the sea, and was carried to the island where she was afterwards so revered. It was to Triton that Jason made a present of a bronze tripod, so that this marine God would show him the means of getting rid of Lake Tritonide, in which he had entered. See the Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, Book. 2, ch; 1.

Grinding. Action by which a body is reduced to powder.
trituration. (Science herm.) When the Philosophers say that bodies must be triturated, they do not mean a trituration done in a mortar or on marble, but a dissolution of the parts of the material of the magisterium, which comes of itself in the vase, with the help of fire, and by putrefaction. See the reason for it in the composed article.

triturate. See grind.

Troile. Son of Priam. One of the fatalities of Troye was that this city would not be taken as long as Troue was alive. He had the temerity to measure himself against Achilles, who put him to death. See the Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, Book. 6, c. 5, Fatality 6.

Third. Sulfur of the Philosophers digested and cooked until the color red. It is called the third, because red is the third of the principal colors which the material of the work assumes during the course of the operations.

Tronus and Tronosia. Names which some Naturalists have given to a species of manna found in spring and summer on the leaves of trees. She is Channel, gifted, slimy, and smells good; the leaves of the white rose bush are sometimes all covered with it.

Tros. King of Troy, son of Erichto-nius, had for son Ilus, Ganimede and Assaracus. Tros gave its name to the city of Troye, which was previously called Dardania, after its founder Dardanus. See Book 6 of Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled.

Troy. Famous city of Phrygia, founded by Dardanus, and built by Apollo, Vulcan and Neptune, in the time of Laomedon. Priam who succeeded Laomedon, had a son named Paris, who having been appointed by the Gods as arbiter of the dispute between Juno, Minerva and Venus, on the occasion of the golden apple thrown by Discord on the table of the feast of the marriage of Peleus and Thetis, adjudged this apple to Venus, and thereby incurred the disgrace of the two other Goddesses. Venus, as a reward, procured for him the beautiful Helen, wife of Menelaus, whom Paris kidnapped. This abduction was the cause of the war that the Greeks waged on Priam, and of the famous siege that the city of Troy maintained for nearly ten years before surrender.This seat is a pure allegory of the operations of the Hermetic Work, as can be seen by the explanations that we have given in the sixth book of the Egyptian and Greek Fables unveiled. Basil Valentine used the same allegory in his Treatise of Vitriol; he speaks of Hector, Achilles, etc.

Trunoibin. Mana. Tuberose. Oriental hyacinth.

Kill. Has two meanings in the Hermetic Philosophers; it is taken to dissolve, and to make it fall into putrefaction. This is how Hercules and Theseus killed the so-called monsters and brigands of the Fable. We also hear it from the fixation of the volatile, because killing, binding and fixing are the same thing.Flamel used the term slay in these two senses, when he supposed two dragons, one winged, ie the volatile part, and the other wingless, or the fixed one, which mutually kill each other . The volatile begins by dissolving the fixed, and the fixed in turn kills the volatile, fixing it with it.

Tombaba. Vivid sulfur. Tumble. Earth.

Turbith Mineral. Is a yellow precipitation of Mercury.
Turiones. New shoot of. trees.

Turrita, Turritis. Species of watercress. Blanchard.

Tursies. Armonia salt.

Tusiasi. Vivid sulfur.

Tydeus. Father of Diomede, and son of Oeneus, died at Thebes.See diomede.

Typha. Reed, mass of rush.
Typhoon or Typhoea. Was son) of Tartarus and Earth, according to Hesiod, and of Juno alone, according to Homer. This Goddess, says the latter, indignant that Jupiter had given birth to Minerva without knowing a wife, assembled the Gods, and showed them her grievance. She then struck the earth with her hand; and having collected the dangerous and harmful vapors which rose from it, it gave existence to Typhon. His size was so enormous that with one hand he touched the East, and with the other the West; his feet being resting on the earth, his head touching the stars, his eyes were hot coals, and he was vomiting flames through his mouth and nostrils;its body was covered with feathers intermingled with serpents, and its feet were shaped like the tail of a dragon. He joined the other Giants, to fight and dethrone the Gods, and impressed them with such terror, that they decided to flee to Egypt, where, to avoid falling into his hands, they deceived him, each taking the form of an animal. But finally Apollo fired so many arrows at him that, after having exhausted all those in his quiver, he succeeded in taking his life. This Typhoon is the same as Python.
In Egypt it was said that Typhon was the brother of Osiris, that on his return from his journey to India, Typhon laid ambushes for him and massacred him; that Isis picked up the scattered limbs of her husband, and that with the aid of Horus their son, she avenged his death by that of Typhon, and reigned in peace. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 1, ch. 3 and 6; book. 3, c. 12.

Tyriac. See theriac.

Tyrian (color). It is the color of purple, so called because the shell with which it was once made was fished near Tyre, a very ancient city in Phenicia. Followers call the magisterium red, Tyrian Color.

Drawn.Daughter of Salmonée, had two children of Neptune, one named Pélias, the other Nélée, of which see the articles.

U

Uffituffe. Smell of the mercury of the Sages, as strong and as disagreeable as that of sepulchers and tombs.

Ulissipona. Plant known as Serpentaire.

Ulrash. Dragon's blood.

Ulva. Sea-leaf.

Odysseus. King of the isles of Ithaca and Dulichia, son of Laertes and Antichia, was an eloquent, fine, cunning, artful, prudent and knowledgeable Prince.
He contributed more than any other to the taking of Troye. He married Penelope, and had a son named Telemachus. Odysseus loved Penelope so passionately, that he counterfeited the fool not to part with her when he was invited by the Greeks to accompany them to the siege of Troy.Palamede discovered his feint, and forced him to leave with the others. Odysseus avenged himself on Palamedes, by supposing him to have intrigues with the Trojans, and had him stoned. See palamede. Ulysses began by discovering Achilles disguised as a woman, and hidden at the Court of Lycomede, he took him with him. See achilles. He urged Philoctetes to come to the siege and bring there the arrows of Hercules, which could not be dispensed with. He slew Rhesus and took his horses, he took away the Palladium with Diomede, and the ashes of Laomedon,
After taking Troy, Odysseus killed Orsilochus, son of Idomeneus, and had Polixene sacrificed to the ghosts of Achilles, and caused Astianax to be thrown from the top of a tower.
Odysseus then parted from the other Greek Princes, and set sail to return to Ithaca; a storm threw him towards the coasts of Sicily, where Polyphemus devoured six of his soldiers. Odysseus found a way to approach him while he slept, and gouged out his eye with a hot brand. From there, after having used all his skill to get out of the cave of this famous Cyclops, he went to see Aeolus, King of the winds, who presented him with a skin in which all the winds were contained, except the Zephyr. Odysseus was therefore not beaten until his companions had the imprudence to open the skin; the free winds blew so harshly that they drove his vessel back to the island of Aeolus, which refused to repeat the same favour.Continuing on his way, he landed at the port of Listrigons, inhuman peoples who devoured several of his companions. Odysseus left very quickly and headed for the island where Circe was staying. This Enchantress transformed several of those who accompanied our Hero into pigs. Odysseus had recourse to Mercury, who gave him a remedy to compel Circe to return the human form to those whom she had metamorphosed.
Circe granted her favors to Odysseus, who had two children. There he consulted Tiresias, and for that reason descended into Hell, taking the advice and the means indicated to him by Circe. See Circe.
Ulysses, according to Homer, also landed with Calypso, daughter of the Ocean and Tethys.Calypso reigned in the island of Ogygia, and received this Hero perfectly well: she retained him for seven years and had several children. Mercury had meddled in this affair, as he usually did with all the loves of the gods. Homer's description of Mercury on this occasion is worth reporting.
Jupiter, says this Author, spoke to Mercury and sent him to Calypso, at the solicitation of Minerva, to induce this Nymph Goddess to give Ulysses a good welcome, and that he might return safe and sound to his country. Mercury made this message with pleasure. He fastened to his shoes his golden heels, by means of which he flew over land and sea with the wind. He also took his caduceus with which he turns the minds of men as he pleases, and puts them to sleep or wakes them up at his whim. From the sky he came down to the sea holding his wand in his hand, and was carried there on the waves very easily.
Mercury finally landed on the island of Calypso, and went to the cavern in which this Nymph dwelt. He found it there, and a great fire lit in his hearth.There she worked on the web, singing melodiously, and weaving gold into the web she was weaving. The surroundings of this cavern were charming for the abundance of evergreen trees, flowers with which the meadows were enameled, and vines laden with grapes.
The description of this enchanted stay is comparable to that of Nysa, see the article. The speeches and the conversation that Mercury and Calypso held together would be too long, we can see them in the book. 5, from the Odyssey.
Leaving the island of Calypso, Ulysses arrived in the country of the Phaeacians who inhabited the island of Corcyra, and met Nausicaa, daughter of Alcinoiis, King of this island; she had come to see the washing done; she welcomed Odysseus very well and introduced him to his father. His Subjects lived in luxury and abundance; dancing, music and joy accompanied all the feasts. The gardens of Alcinoiis were superb, and everything in the palace was of unequaled magnificence. This place of delights was apparently reserved for him to make him forget all the dangers he had run through the encounter with the Sirens and the pitfalls of Scylla and Carybdis.He set out from there on a ship provided by Alcinoiis, and finally arrived at Ithaca, where, having hidden himself with Eumeus, one of his servants, he took steps to get rid of those who importunately courted Penelope, his faithful wife, and who dissipated all his property in spite of her. He got rid of all, and reigned peacefully, when his son Telegonus, whom he had had by Circe, arrived at Ithaca. Unaware of who he was, Odysseus opposed his descent, and Telegonus defending himself, gave him a spear thrust, from which he died according to the prediction of Tiresias.
I have passed many features of the story of this Hero: we can see them in Homer's Odyssey. I explained the main circumstances in the book. 6 of Fables, ch. 5, fat. 1;it can be used. I will only say that Odysseus is the symbol of the Artist Philosopher in the description of the Trojan War, and the symbol of those who seek the stone without being Adepts, in the Odyssey.

Umbilicus Marini. Bean. of sea.

Umbilicus Terrse. Cyclamen.

Umo. Tin.

Unedo. Medlar.
Unicorni Mineralis. Red sigilated earth.

Union. Volatilization of the body and coagulation of the spirit; which is done by the same operation. The Philosophers called it Union of Earth and Water. This operation is done by putrefaction. Then the elements are confused, the water contains the air, and the earth contains the fire, the two are only one whole called Hylé or Chaos. This union of earth and water is also made in the fixation of the volatile.
union of minds. It is dry water.
union of enemies. It is the fixation of the volatile mercurial water with the fixed sulfur of the Philosophers.

Unique. Mercury of the Sages.

Unite the Elements. It is cooking the material.

Almost.Quicksilver.

Urans. See coelus, sky.

Urina Taxi. Scale water, or dissolved scale.
Urina Vini. Vinegar.

Urinated. (Se. Herm.) Secret Furnace of the Philosophers, which Flamel says he could never have found, had not Jewish Abraham painted it with his proportioned fire, in which much of the secret consists.

Urinalis Herba. Linear.

Mericardium urine. Water enclosed in the pericardium.
urine OF ANGRY YOUNG PEOPLE.
Mercury of the Philosophers, according to Artephius.

urine is also a measure of the Ancients. It contained forty pounds of wine, or thirty-five pounds of oil.

Uritur. Cinnabar. Rullandus.

Usfida. Gold slag.

Ueifer,
Sulphur.
Usifur.

Usrub. Lead, Saturn.

V

Vaccaria. Plant called Percefeuille, also called Vaccaria, because the cows like it very much.

Vessel. The Philosophers have often given the name vessel to their solvent, and have also called it the vase of the Sages.
vessel of nature. We hear it first of the air, which receives the fire, and transmits it to the water; secondly, the water which is the receptacle of the seeds, and carries them into the earth; thirdly, the earth, which is the matrix in which the seeds are embodied and developed. When it comes to the proper formation of metals, the vessel or the matrix is ​​the rock. But when it is a question of the Work, the vessel means sometimes the matter which contains mercury, sometimes mercury itself.
hermes vessel. It is the land of the Philosophers, which contains and hides their fire. Mary, the Prophetess, says in her Dialogue with Aros that the vessel of Hermes is none other than the measure of the Philosophical fire.
vessel. Ship. That of the Argonauts was composed of the speaking oaks of the forest of Dodona. They said that of Theseus was immortal or incorruptible. Homer gives the epithet of black to almost all the vessels of the Greeks, and distinguishes that of Ulysses from all the others. See the explanation of what concerns these ships in the book. 2, c. 1; book. 5, ch. 22 and book. 6 of Egyptian and Greek Fables unveiled.
double vessel. It is that of art, and that of nature. See vase.
triple vessel. It is the secret furnace of the Philosophers. Some have interpreted it from the furnace which contains the vase, which they say is triple, taking Flamel literally, like the Trevisan. The latter, in. speaking of the fountain where the King comes to bathe, attracted by the water, says that it is closed and enclosed by three enclosures, so that the animals cannot approach it. But all this is allegorical, and the triple vessel should not be explained by the Trevisan's cold-guard furnace, since they all say that only one material, one vessel and one regime of fire are needed.

Steam. The Philosophers say that the first matter of metals is a vapor which is corporified and specified in metal, by the action of sulfur with which it unites in the bowels of the earth. And as they called the white magisterium the first matter of their metals, they also gave it the name of vapour. By this same term they sometimes mean their mercury during the time of volatilization, because it then sublimates into vapours, to fall back in the form of dew or rain on the earth which is at the bottom of the vase, both to whiten it and to fertilize her.

Go Diploma. Vessel of double glass, or very thick.
go fictional. Earth vessel, without varnish.

Vase.Vessel in which we put the material of the work, so that it cooks there, is digested there, and is perfected there. This vase must be of glass, as the material most suitable for retaining the subtle, volatile and metallic spirits of the philosophical compost. It is not of this vase that the Hermetic Chemists have made a mystery, and which they have enveloped under the veil of allegories, fables and enigmas. The secret vessel of the Philosophers is their water, or mercury, and not the glass vessel which contains matter. This is why they say that if the Philosophers had ignored the quality and the quantity of the vase, they would never have come to the end of the Work. Our water, says Philalethes, is our fire;in it consists all the secret of our vase, and the structure of our secret furnace is founded on the, composition of this water. In his knowledge are hidden our fires, our weights and our diets.
vase. Philalethes and several others distinguish two of them; one containing, and the other contained, and this one is also containing. This last is properly the Philosophical vessel; they call it aludel unvarnished, but of earth. This vase is the receptacle of all the tinctures, and, considering the stone, it must contain twenty-four full glasses of Florence, neither more nor less. Philalethes adds that this number of twenty-four must be divided into two, that is to say twelve after the marriage. All the Philosophers have well recommended to their pupils, or children of science, as they call them, to study and know the nature of this vase, because it is the root and the principle of all the magisterium.It must therefore be distinguished from the stove and the container vase, because Albert the Great said that the container spawns the content. Hali says speaking of this contained vase: take our egg, strike it with a sword of fire, receive its soul, that is its lut. And Avicenna says: our stone, or mercury, must be placed in two known vessels.
The Brahmans of India showed Apollonius of Thyana a vase filled with a flame the color of lead, and this flame did not pass the edges of the vase. See the Hermetic Treatise at the head of the Egyptian and Greek Fables unveiled.

Vaatier. Saffron. Vau. Red Sulfur of the Sages.

vulnerability. Very voracious bird of prey, resembling the nature of an eagle. The Ancients had consecrated the vulture to Mars and Juno. Apollo was called Vulturius, or Apollo of the Vultures. The Fable represents us Prometheus tied to a rock of Mount Caucasus, and torn by a vulture, for having stolen fire from heaven. These allegories allude to the igneous, hot and volatile mercurial water, which in dissolving the fixed, called mine of celestial fire by some Philosophers, seems to devour it. See Prometheus. Hermes made the same allusion when he said: I am the vulture perched at the top of the mountain, which cries incessantly; help me, I will help you.The same Author adds: I am white from black, lemon from white, and red from lemon, to indicate the successive colors of the work.
wingless flying vulture. Mercury of the Philosophers.
The vulture that flies in the air, and the toad that walks on the ground, are the volatile and the fixed, of which we make the stone of the Sages.

Ubidrugal. Matter in perfect putrefaction.

Vegetable. When the Philosophers use this term, they do not intend to speak of any plant or other vegetable matter; and it is not necessary to confuse a vegetable matter or which vegetates, with a vegetable matter, or which has a vegetative virtue. This is why they do not say that their saturnia is vegetable, but vegetable, and they call it that, following the explanation of several of them, because it has a vegetable soul, which cooks it, digests it, and leads it to the desired perfection. They all even recommend not to take anything vegetable to do the work. Thus the plants called lunar are not those mentioned in the Hermetic Books. It seems that they only alluded to vegetables,because of the greenness or green color which occurs at a certain time to the material of the work; what also caused him to be named Green Lion is Riplée's explanation.
Raymond Lully says however that it is necessary to acuate, or to make more active, more penetrating, their mercury with plants; he even names several such as celandine, etc. But we must take care not to hear it literally, since it says in the Theory of its Old Testament: when you have extracted your matter from the earth, do not mix in it any powder, any water, or any foreign thing, and who does. would not be of his nature. But everyone knows that plants are not mineral and metallic in nature. The Philosophers, however, have sometimes given wine the name of great vegetable; but the white wine and the red wine of Raymond Lully are the menstruation of the Sages, and not the vulgar white and red wines.

Vein.Red Stone or Sulfur of the Sages.
vein of venus. Verbena.

Come. Mercury.
Venom. The Hermetic Philosophers say their stone is deadly venom and poison. What should not be understood from the stone, perfect, since they claim on the contrary that it is the universal medicine; but they thus speak of the matter which is used to make the stone, and when it has reached black, because then it is putrefied, that all corruption of matter is a mortal poison.
Several Philosophers have also given the name Venom to their mercury, because it dissolves all the bodies with which it is put into digestion. They also say that it is a deadly poison before its preparation, and that it becomes theriac or counterpoison to all evils after it is prepared.
venom is also the name given to the body of matter of the Philosophers, which must be joined with the mercurial water at the proper hour of its birth. See leaven.
This name of venom was given to him, firstly, because if, as Zachaire says, we do not join him to his mercurial water at the moment of his birth, he will do in the magisterium what the venom does in our bodies, and will make all operation unnecessary. Secondly, because it removes the life of mercury water, that is to say, its volatility, and the mercury is only fixed by its means. Which explains these terms of Flamel: when our matter has come to an end, it is joined with its deadly venom. Rofinus says this venom is of great price. Haly, Morien and the others speak of it in the same sense.
venom of the living. Mercury of the Sages, so named because it kills and reduces to putrefaction the metals of the Philosophers, called live, to distinguish them from vulgar metals.
venom of the dyers. Projection powder, so called because it fixes and tints volatile metals to gold.
igneous venom. Mercury in putrefaction.

Wind. Air agitated. Hermes said the wind carried him in his belly; Raymond Lully explained it from the sulfur contained in quicksilver. He therefore took the wind for the Mercury of the Sages.
whitewind. Silver-lively and lively Philosophers.
belly wind. Some chemists have explained it from matter in putrefaction;others sulfur, for the reason given in the article Wind.
citrus wind. Sulfur.
eastwind. Red stone.
redwind. Orchid.
double-wind. Basil Valentine (sixth Key) calls it Vulturnus, or South-South-East, and says that we first need this double wind, and then a single wind which is called Eurus or East Wind. , which he also calls from the Midi. After they blow, the air will turn into water. All this indicates the volatilization of the matter which rises in vapors to the top of the vase, where they condense, and fall back in rain. What made it call Vent du Midi is because the wind that blows from that side almost always gives us rain.
north wind (the) is contrary to the extraction of the universal menses. These expressions allude to the dew of May and September, which does not fall when the north wind blows. The Philosophers mean by these expressions that the cold would be contrary to the operations, which led the Trevisan to give the furnace the name of Garde-froidure. Flamel has preserved for us the emblematic figures of Jewish Abraham, among which we see a rosebush planted at the foot of an oak, and violently shaken by the aquilon. We know in general that fermentation excites a dilation of the air enclosed in the vase, and this dilation causes a violent wind, which often breaks the vessels and the bottles. Champagne beer and wine are very sensitive examples.

Belly. The Alchymists say that the Philosophical child must be nourished in the womb of its mother. By the belly they mean sometimes the Philosophical vase or egg, and sometimes the mercury which has absorbed the sulphur, or the sulfur which has absorbed the mercury; for the one being supposed the male and the other the female, when they have been conjoined in the egg, a corruption takes place, from which is born a metaphorical generation of a child who must be nourished;
not by adding matter to it, which would ruin the work; but giving the fire the required regime.
The Philosophers also say that the child must be put back or returned to its mother's womb, that is to say, the fixed must be dissolved in the volatile from which it originated.
The wind carried it in its belly, is an expression which means that the fixed grain, the sulphur, was first contained in the volatile or the mercury, called wind because of its volatility.
aries belly. Some interpret it as iron, and consequently think that iron or steel is the material of the Great Work; the others imagine that the belly of Aries is the beginning of the month of April, and that the material of the work must be taken from the dew collected in this belly of Aries. But the Cosmopolitan, who almost first spoke of them, says that their matter is a magnet which is found in the belly of Aries, by means of which magnet the pontic water is extracted from the rays of the Sun and the Moon. He says, in another place, that the name of this magnet is steel, that these two names only signify the same thing;but (there is another steel, he adds, which resembles the first, which nature itself has created. He who will know how to draw it from the rays of the sun by an admirable artifice,
belly of the horse. The vulgar chemists hear these terms from the hot manure of a horse, which gives a gifted heat proper to digestions and putrefactions; but the Hermetic Chemists say it of the very matter of their Art, while it is black or in putrefaction. As this black color is the first in the work, they said that the heat of the horse's belly is the first fire, or the first degree of fire required for the work.

Venus. Goddess of pleasures and mother of Love, was daughter, according to Homer, of Jupiter and Dione; and, according to the most common opinion, she was born from the mutilated parts of Cœlus, mixed with the foam of the sea. A marine conch served her as a cradle, and the Zephyrs carried her to the island of Cyprus, where she was raised by the Nymphs. Although the most beautiful of the Goddesses, and always accompanied by the Graces, she was married to Vulcan, the ugliest of the Gods; but also she complained bitterly of it, and was very unfaithful to him.
Mars courted her, and Vulcan, informed by the Sun, of the good understanding that reigned between his wife and the God of war, made an imperceptible chain of iron, which it was not possible to get rid of when one was caught in it. ; it lay back on the bed of Venus, and when Mars wanted to approach it, they found themselves seized there.
Vulcan, who was lying in wait, having discovered them, cried so loudly that he summoned all the gods to his cries in his brazen house, and exposed the two captives to their laughter. I will keep them thus bound, said Vulcan, until the father gives me back all that I gave him to have his cheeky daughter. Neptune, who excites earthquakes, came there; Mercury, that useful God, was there; as well as Apollo, this King who darts an arrow so well. Modesty prevented the Goddesses from going there; but all the Gods who give wealth to men, stood at the entrance, and admired the handiwork of Vulcan. One of them then said: sooner or later we get caught when we hurt;who would have believed that Vulcan, that lame man who walks so slowly, would have reached and taken Mars, the most skilful of Olympus? Apollo for his part said to Mercury:
Mercury, son of Jupiter, Messenger of the Gods, source of wealth, you would not be sorry to see yourself thus taken from Venus the golden. No really, Mercury replied, though all the Gods and Goddesses should see me there and laugh about it. It is thus that all the immortal Gods mocked, and even Neptune; but he nevertheless besought from Vulcan the deliverance of Mars, and promised to pay for him, in case he fled without doing so. Vulcan therefore yielded to his prayer, and having broken the enchanted net. Mars fled to Thrace, and Venus to Paphos in the island of Cyprus. Homer, Odys. book. 8.
From this trade was born Anteros or Counter-love, some say Cupid.
Venus also dealt with Mercury, there came Hermaphrodite. She also passionately loved Adonis and Anchyses. From the latter she had Aeneas. In the dispute between Juno, Pallas and Venus, about the golden apple thrown by Discord in the middle of the wedding feast of Peleus and Thétys, Paris chosen as arbiter, awarded the apple to Venus, who provided her with the means of kidnapping Helen, wife of Menelaus, recognized as the most beautiful of her sex. This abduction caused the Trojan War, in which Venus sided with the Trojans, and was wounded by Diomedes, in the same fight in which he also wounded Mars. The Egyptians counted Venus among their great gods.Among the flowers, the rose was consecrated particularly to Venus, because this flower had been dyed with the blood of this Goddess, one of her thorns had wounded when she ran to Adonis' aid. The myrtle was also dedicated to him, because this shrub likes itself on the water's edge. The doves were particularly consecrated to her, and they are commonly called the birds of Venus; they were attached to his cart.
Father Hardouin gave an explanation of the adultery of Venus and Mars that is as spiritual as it is singular (Apol. d'Hom. p. 200). M. l'Abbé Banier makes fun of it, like that of Paléphate. To do so with reason, he should have given a better one; but in his system it was not possible. Neither he nor the other Mythologists can succeed until they have recourse to the source of fables, that is, to Hermetic Philosophy. Even vulgar chymists know that Venus is united with a fire which is also found in Mars, and that they have so much analogy of nature that Mars can be made Venus;it is therefore not surprising that there is a mutual love between them, it is even this fire or Vulcan which unites them and which forms the bond or the chain in which it entangles them. The Sun or gold discovered their trade; because this fire, this fixed grain which is found in Mars and Venus, is of the very nature of the Sun. And if Mercury aspires to the fate of Mars, it is because it lacks what this warrior God abounds with; this is the real reason which induced Homer to introduce Apollo or the gold of the Philosophers, as making this reproach to Mercury. Mars and Venus cannot be untied except by the prayer of Neptune, or of water, because this separation can only be done by dissolution in water, by means of the same internal fire called Vulcan.The epithets which Homer gives to the actor and spectator Gods are sufficient to prove the truth of my explanation. He says of Mars that he used a golden brake; he calls Venus golden, Mercury, source of wealth and Neptune, the one who excites earthquakes. The earthquake it excites is none other than fermentation. Homer does more; he designates the cause of Vulcan's alliance with Venus, saying that his house, the very one where the gods assembled, the one where Venus confronted her husband, was a house of bronze. We find the explanation of the other features of the fable of Venus in the book. 3, c. 8, from Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled.We find the explanation of the other features of the fable of Venus in the book. 3, c. 8, from Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled. We find the explanation of the other features of the fable of Venus in the book. 3, c. 8, from Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled.

Vera Lilium. Mixture of mercury sublimated with the spelter.

Vergilies. Name of the Pleiades. This name is also given to new spring plants.

Truth. The Ancients looked upon Truth as a Goddess, daughter of Saturn. Philostratus in the image of Amphiaraus, represents the Truth as a young Virgin, covered with a habit whose whiteness is that of snow.Democritus said that the Truth was hidden in the bottom of a well. TEA. Hermetic philosophers explain this well of allegories, fables and riddles in which the truth of Hermetic science and its operations are buried as in the darkness of a very deep well, from which it is very difficult to draw it.

Glass. Hard, dry, brittle, transparent matter, formed from the incorruptible radical humidity of the mixtures, by the violence of the fire, which separates the heterogeneous and combustible parts.
Many have imagined that the glass, or the material from which it is made, was that which the Philosophers employ to make their stone; because glass is a very fixed material, and everything is reduced to glass by a long and violent action of fire. This, however, is not the idea that must be applied to the term glass, when it is found in the works of the Philosophers; although Raymond Lully, questioned on what a Philosopher was, replied: he is the one who knows how to make glass. This learned man meant, like the other Adepts, their magisterium to white, which is a clear, shiny matter, and having the brilliance of glass. This is the interpretation of Philalethes in his treatise entitled: Enarratio methodica trium Medicinarum Gebri, pag. 39.
pharaoh's glass, or malleable glass. The Sages have often said that they had the secret of making glass malleable, by means of their elixir. History teaches us that a man was punished with death for having presented a vase to a Roman Emperor. The Philosophers will not expose themselves to a similar danger. Besides, they must be explained from their stone to white. Some hear it even from projection powder, because it is incorruptible, and resists like glass to the action of the liveliest fire, without being altered or volatilized.
glass of the philosophers. Sometimes refers to the vessel in which the work is done.
philosophical glass that has power over all things. It is the powder of projection, which changes all metals into its nature, and makes impressions on all individuals of the three kingdoms, curing them of their infirmities. It combines with everything, dissolves in all sorts of liquors, and penetrates the hardest and most compact bodies. As a small world, it acts on the stars themselves;
and as a universal magnet, it pumps out its purest influences, to communicate them to the bodies with which it is mixed. It acts even on the spirits, of which it develops the faculties, and makes them capable of penetrating into the most hidden secrets of the sanctuary of Nature. Raym. Lully.

Aquarius. Zodiac signs.The Hermetic Chemists take it as a symbol of dissolution and distillation. See. zodiac.

Verto. Weight weighing a quarteron, or the fourth part of a pound.

Virtue of Heaven. Fire implanted and inseparable from the material of the work, which, activated by another fire, produces the sulfur of the Philosophers, called Mine of celestial fire.
primary virtual. The Hermetic Chemists gave this name to their mercury, and not to the vulgar mercury;
because theirs contains the virtues and properties of things superior and inferior, and is their basis and principle.

Vesica AEnea. Cucurbite of copper.

Vesaicaria Distillaloria. See the previous article.

Vesta. Was daughter of Saturn, according to Homer, who for reasons known to the Philosophers, united her with Mercury in a common Hymn. This Goddess was, like Vulcan, the personified symbol of fire. To indicate that the fire that she represented was perpetual and inextinguishable, Vestal Virgins were established in charge of maintaining a pure fire in the temple of the Goddess. These Vestal Virgins had, for this reason, to be virgins, and the Romans had those buried alive who, through negligence, had allowed the sacred fire entrusted to their care to be extinguished, or who had allowed their virginity to be violated. See the Egyptian Fables. and Grecq. unveiled, book. 3, c. 4 and book. 4, c.5.

Vestals. Young virgins, established in Rome, and consecrated to the service of the temple of the Goddess Vesta. See jacket.
Dark Jacket. Material of the black work.

Mount Vesuvius. Mountain of the Kingdom of Naples. She vomits fire from time to time, and smoke constantly comes out of it. The Philosophers gave the names of Vesuvius and Etna, another volcano, to the material of their work, because it contains a natural fire, which manifests itself when one knows how to develop it and put it in a state of action.

To put on the purple doublet, the royal mantle, the white shirt, the dark jacket, are expressions which mean only to cook, to digest the material of the work until it takes on the colors of which the Philosophers speak. The dark jacket is the black color, the white shirt is the white color, the royal coat and the purple doublet are the red color. The latter is the one taken by Apollo to sing the victory won by the Gods over the Giants. See, the ninth Key of Basil Valentine.

Meat of the Heart, Mercury of the Philosophers, principle of metals and which serves them as food. It is particularly that of the Hermetic metals, because it nourishes them in the vessel, strengthens them and leads them to perfection.
meat of the dead that brings them back to life.It is the mercury of the Sages, which kills the living, and gives life to the dead; that is to say, which dissolves and putrefies the Philosophical metals, called live to distinguish them from those of the vulgar, and renders those of the vulgar metals of the Philosophers, consequently living metals.

Victory (win). It is cooking the material of the work until it has acquired the color white. Such is the victory that Jupiter won over the Giants. But to sing the victory is to push the cooking to the color of purple. See purple.

Vicunirae. Bezoart.

Life. The Philosophers say that their metals have life, and that those of the vulgar are dead. They also call Life and Resurrection the white color which comes to matter after the black color. They also give life to their mercury, and say that life must be united with death, so that the dead kill the living, and they rise together. The Philosophers also add that it is necessary to join life to life, that is to say, of the two mercurial substances of the Trevisan, to make only one of them to compose the double mercury.
To call the dead back to life is to volatilize the fixed; and to take life from live is to fix the volatile. The Fable gave these properties to Mercury. So life is the mercury, and death is the sulfur of the Sages.See Avicennae declaratio lapidis Physici,

Elder of the Philosophers. These terms have two meanings. This Old Man is commonly taken for the sulfur of the Sages; but when we consider mercury as the principle of the metals, we call it the Old Man.
The rejuvenated Old Man is the sulfur or gold of the Philosophers reincrusted and reduced to its first matter, or in mercury from which it was made. V. resuscitate, Aesculapius. It is in this sense that we must understand the Philosophers, when they speak of the rejuvenation produced by the water of the fountain of Youth, and the fables when it is a question of what Medea did to give back to Eson all the vigor of a young man. Vinum Hippocraticum. Wine in which sugar and aromatics have been mixed. Vinum Medicatum.

Virgin. Moon or mercurial water of the Philosophers after she had been purified of the impure and arsenical sulfurs to which she had been wedded in her mine. Before this purification, she is called the Prostitute Woman. The Adepts gave this Virgin the name of Beja; and the Author of the Secret Work of Hermetic Philosophy says, that without infringing on her virginity, she was able to contract a spiritual love before uniting herself in marriage with her brother Gabritius, because this spiritual love does not has rendered her only whiter, purer , more lively, and more proper to the object of marriage.Take therefore, he adds (Can. 58), a winged virgin, very pure and very clean, imbued and animated with the spiritual seed of the first male, and nevertheless virgin though she has conceived;
you will know her by her ruddy cheeks; join her to a second male, without fear of adultery; she will conceive again by the bodily seed of the second, and will finally give birth to a Hermaphrodite child, who will be the source of a race of very powerful Kings.
They again called this winged maiden Eagle, and the second male Lion. See these two articles.
Virgo is also the name of one of the signs of the Zodiac. See zodiac.

Vineyard of the Sages. Material from which the Hermetic Chemists extract their mercury.

Wine. Raymond Lulle, Jean de Roquetaillade, known as De Rupe Scissa, spoke a lot about red wine and white wine as the principle and matter of the Philosophical quintessence. However, they should not be taken literally; for although one can draw a very good quintessence from wine or tartar, it would be useless to work them to extract the dissolvent of the Philosophers. They only spoke of them thus by similarity; and Paracelsus says that those who cannot find the Philosophers' alkaest or their mercury, have only to work to volatilize the tartar, and that they will at least find something useful. Several explain what I have just reported from Paracelsus, from his large or small circulation.The wine of the Sages is their menstruation or universal solvent, and the vine from which it comes, is a vine that has only one root, but many shoots coming out of it; and just as a sap has several branches which produce grapes, but some of which by accident do not acquire as perfect a maturity as the others, the sap which produces the Philosophical grapes is subject to accidents which prevent Your maturity. of a few and leave them in verjuice. They all have the same root as nurse, but the sap could not be digested equally. And just as a mixture of good fermented wine and verjuice would make a sort of vinegar dissolving many of nature's mixtures, so with verjuice and the good wine of the Philosophers one makes their dissolving vinegar, or vinegar very sour.but several offspring coming out of it; and just as a sap has several branches which produce grapes, but some of which by accident do not acquire as perfect a maturity as the others, the sap which produces the Philosophical grapes is subject to accidents which prevent Your maturity. of a few and leave them in verjuice. They all have the same root as nurse, but the sap could not be digested equally. And just as a mixture of good fermented wine and verjuice would make a sort of vinegar dissolving many of nature's mixtures, so with verjuice and the good wine of the Philosophers one makes their dissolving vinegar, or vinegar very sour. but several offspring coming out of it;and just as a sap has several branches which produce grapes, but some of which by accident do not acquire as perfect a maturity as the others, the sap which produces the Philosophical grapes is subject to accidents which prevent Your maturity. of a few and leave them in verjuice. They all have the same root as nurse, but the sap could not be digested equally. And just as a mixture of good fermented wine and verjuice would make a sort of vinegar dissolving many of nature's mixtures, so with verjuice and the good wine of the Philosophers one makes their dissolving vinegar, or vinegar very sour.but some of which by accident do not acquire as perfect a maturity as the others, the sap which produces the Philosophical grapes is subject to accidents which prevent the maturity of some and leave them in verjuice. They all have the same root as nurse, but the sap could not be digested equally. And just as a mixture of good fermented wine and verjuice would make a sort of vinegar dissolving many of nature's mixtures, so with verjuice and the good wine of the Philosophers one makes their dissolving vinegar, or vinegar very sour. but some of which by accident do not acquire as perfect a maturity as the others, the sap which produces the Philosophical grapes is subject to accidents which prevent the maturity of some and leave them in verjuice.They all have the same root as nurse, but the sap could not be digested equally. And just as a mixture of good fermented wine and verjuice would make a sort of vinegar dissolving many of nature's mixtures, so with verjuice and the good wine of the Philosophers one makes their dissolving vinegar, or vinegar very sour.

Vinegar. Mercurial water of the Sages, or their universal solvent, their virgin's milk, their pontic water; it is nature's vinegar, but composed of different things from the same root.
saturnian antimonial vinegar. Material of the magisterium prepared to be put in the vase, and digested according to the philosophical regime. Take, says Artephius, raw gold, beaten into leaves, or into blades, or let it be calcined by mercury, and put it in our Saturnian antimonial vinegar, and armoniacal salt, and put the whole in a vase. of glass.
mountain vinegar. The same as vinegar simply said, but called mountain vinegar, because the Hermetic Chemists give the name mountain to the metals. See mountain.
VERY SOUR vinegar OR vinegar
rectified. Is, according to the Chymists, vinegar distilled several times and cohobed each time on its faeces. It becomes so violent and of such an igneous nature, that some have claimed that it dissolves stones and metals; but it is not a radical dissolution like that of the Mercury of the Philosophers; it is of the nature of that of etchings, which produce only a division of parts, and which do not reduce the metals to their first principle; what the very sour vinegar of the Philosophers, that is to say their mercury, does.

Twenty one. It is necessary to be Adept to know the reason that the Philosophers had to give the name of twenty-one to their magisterium to the white;and to explain it here would be to violate part of the secrecy which is so strongly recommended to them;
so they say nothing about it in their works, and Philalethes has contented himself with telling us, as if by grace, that the Philosophers understand by twenty-one the same thing as sulphur, and a root of the Art, or the salt of metals ; which amounts to their matter cooked and digested to white bet.

Vinum Contractum,

Vinum Correctum, Vinum Essencificatum
rectified spirit of wine, Vinum Aiccolisatum. Vinum Caprinum. Goat urinates. Vinum Eastatum. Wine in which plants have been digested, infused and macerated, such as absinthe wine, etc. Vinum Cos. It is excellent wine, and has all the following qualities required by the School of Saleme. Vina probantur odors, sapores, nito-re, colors.


Wine in which medicinal drugs have been infused, such as cinchona wine.

Viper. Matter of the Philosophers in putrefaction, so named because it is then one of the most violent and most active poisons there is; this is why the Philosophers say that their matter is a great poison before its preparation, and a sovereign remedy after it is prepared, just like the viper. Philalethes also very expressly recommends being on your guard when working with this material, and protecting your eyes, nose and ears. Volatilization. See sublimation. Volatilize. To make a volatile thing fixed as it was. All the Art consists in volatilizing the fixed, and in fixing the volatile. Will.
viper of rexa. Material of the work reached the color black. Take Rexa's Viper, cut off its head; that is to say, add Flamel, take away its blackness.

Virago. See. Eve.

Viriditas Solis. The vulgar chemists give this name to the oil of salt;
and the Philosophers to the matter from which they extract their celestial water.

Visit hidden things. Solvent of the Sages, which penetrates the hardest bodies, and extracts from them the tincture which they hide and contain.

Visqualens. Guy, a species of shrub that grows on trees.

Vitrification. Cooking the stone to the red.

Vitriol.There is little matter which has exercised the chymists so much as common vitriol. They took it for the matter of the magisterium of the Philosophers; and it must be confessed that nothing was more apt to deceive those who take the words of the Sages literally. They have, moreover, been so full of praise for this mineral salt, that it is very difficult not to fall into the trap they set for the ignorant, at least in appearance, since they all warn that one must not not stop at the words , but at the meaning they hide. They therefore came up with the following riddle, in which the initial letters of each word put together are Vitriolum. Visitabis interiora terrœ, rectificando invents occultum lapidem, veram medicinam.Some, instead of occultum lapidem, have put oleum Umpidum. All the work and its material are, they say, contained in these words. But as this term vitriol is equivocal, and can be understood as all vitriols, both natural and artificial, extracted from pyrites, minerals, vitriolic waters or metals, the chymists were wrong to apply it in particular to Roman vitriol, or to that of Hungary , of which the first participle of Mars, and the second of Venus. It's true that Rupe Scissa says take the Roman; but if it had to be used as the material of stone, would he have called it by its proper name? Knowing that they conceal the proper name of the matter almost more carefully than all the rest, one is on one's guard against the apparent ingenuity of these Authors.contained in these words. But as this term vitriol is equivocal, and can be understood as all vitriols, both natural and artificial, extracted from pyrites, minerals, vitriolic waters or metals, the chymists were wrong to apply it in particular to Roman vitriol, or to that of Hungary , of which the first participle of Mars, and the second of Venus. 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Planiscampi has explained this kind of Logogriph Visitabis, etc., from the vitriol of gold made with the oil of Saturn;others have heard it from the vitriol of money made by the same means. The first, says this Author, is used to work with red, and the second with white. If to these two vitriols joined together in due proportion, we add the mercury of gold, and the whole passed through the fire of true chymists, we will make it, he says, similar in virtue, in power and richness to this magnificent Prince whom many seek and few find.
Speaking of the crystals of tin or vitriol of Jupiter, Planiscampi observes that being mixed with that of mercury and reduced to oil, this oil renders the vegetable solar sulphur. Roger Bacon, who had observed the same thing, was so astonished that he began his Treatise, which has the title, Mirror of the seven chapters, with the name of Jupiter, and each chapter has for its beginning one of the letters of this name put in logogriph like that of Vitriolum. They are: In Verbis Prœsentibus Inverties Terminum Exquisitum Rei. It would be no less wrong to regard this preparation as an introduction to the work of the Philosophers;although the last letters of each word which ends each chapter, being united, composes the word Stannum: favor, projectromS, deleT, totA, tameN, bitumenN, nutU, œtrnuM.

We must not therefore amuse ourselves with all these traps that the Philosophers set for the ignorant, and for those whom the love of wealth tyrannizes enough to make them risk the real goods of which they are in possession, to run after mountains of gold that we promise them. Those who want to penetrate into the hidden meaning of these words, Visitabis, etc., must study Nature and its processes, combine them with what the Hermetic Authors say, and then see if what they say about the matter of the work can agree with what Nature employs for seed of metals, not precisely like remote seed, but near, and from which matter one must extract it.Then be well convinced, both by daily experience and by what the Philosophers say, that one should not take the two extremes, but the environment which participates in both. As to make a man, one would not succeed by taking a head, an arm and the other members of a perfect man, nor the first remote seed which is in the elements, the plants and the animals which are used for its food, but man's own seed worked into himself by nature. We would succeed just as badly if, to make bread, we took grain of wheat as it is, or bread already cooked and perfect. It is neither, but flour, which is made of grain, and worked for this effect. the plants and the animals which serve for his food, but the own seed of the man worked in himself by nature.We would succeed just as badly if, to make bread, we took grain of wheat as it is, or bread already cooked and perfect. It is neither, but flour, which is made of grain, and worked for this effect. the plants and the animals which serve for his food, but the own seed of the man worked in himself by nature. We would succeed just as badly if, to make bread, we took grain of wheat as it is, or bread already cooked and perfect. It is neither, but flour, which is made of grain, and worked for this effect.

The Philosophers assert that one cannot speak more clearly of the matter and operations of the Work than Hermes did in his Emerald Tablet, in these terms: “
This is true, and without lying, what is below is like what is above. By this one has and does the wonders of the work of one thing. And as everything is made of one by the mediation of one, so all things are made by conjunction. The Sun is the father, and the Moon the mother. The wind carried it in its belly. The Earth is its nurse, the mother of all perfection. His power is perfect if he is changed into earth. Separate the earth from the fire, and the subtle from the gross with caution and wisdom. He ascends from earth to heaven, and descends from heaven to earth.He thereby receives the virtue and efficacy of higher and lower things. By this means you will have the glory of everything. You will chase away the darkness, all darkness and all blindness; for it is the force of forces which overcomes all forces, and which penetrates the hardest and most solid bodies. In this way the world has been made, and the surprising conjunctions and admirable effects which it produces. This is the path and the way to do all these wonders. This is what made me give the name of Hermes Trismegistus, or thrice great, having the three parts of the wisdom or philosophy of the universal world. That's all I have to say about the solar work. »This is what made me give the name of Hermes Trismegistus, or thrice great, having the three parts of the wisdom or philosophy of the universal world. That's all I have to say about the solar work. This is what made me give the name of Hermes Trismegistus, or thrice great, having the three parts of the wisdom or philosophy of the universal world. That's all I have to say about the solar work.

To accompany this Emerald Table, a chemical emblem enclosed in a double circle has been added. Between the two circumferences are written the words that I brought back, Visitabis, etc. On one side we see the Sun, below the character of Mars, and below Mars that of Saturn.On the other side is the Moon, below Venus and then Jupiter. In the middle is a cup into which fall a ray of the Sun and a ray of the Moon; and under the foot of this cup is placed, as if for support, the astronomical character of Mercury. Below all these characters are on one side a Lion and on the other a double-headed Eagle, like that of the arms of the Empire. One marks the fixed and the other the volatile. The amateurs of this Science will be able to make their reflections on it.
It may be said in general that the green Vitriol of the Philosophers is their raw matter, their white Vitriol is their magisterium to the white, and their red Vitriol, or their Colcotar, is their perfect sulfur to the red.

Vitriola Metallica. Metal salts.

vitriolum novum. White vitriol.

Vitriolum Liquefactum. Liquid vitriol, or vitriolic water from the mines that cannot crystallize. Planiscampi.

Vitrum hyacinthinum. Antimony glass.

Vitrum Philosophorum. Alembic, or the glass vase that contains the material of the work.

Vittelum Poli. Alum.

Invigoration. Volatilization of fixed matter, using mercury.

Invigorate.To give life. See life.


Voarchadumie. Liberal art endowed with the virtue of occult science. This is what is otherwise called the Cabalistic Science of Metals. Jean-Augustin Pantheus, Venetian priest, made a treatise of it, which can be found in the second volume of the Théâtre Chymique. He says that this Art does not have avarice for its object, that it is possible, true, necessary; but that it should only be communicated to the children of the Sages. He gives three definitions. We reported the first, here are the others.This Art is like a secret regimen which clearly demonstrates and shows the disposition, illumination, conversion, constriction, retention, metallization, purification, multiplication, and proportion of natural bodies, and of this species of smoothness unknown to the vulgar, which causes the adhesion of the different parts of these bodies to each other: which explains the invisible bonds of the soul and the body, the hidden and the hiding thing, the dense and the rare, the divine and the human, the form and the matter, the fixed and the volatile, the metals and the stones, the hard and the soft, the pure and the impure, the simple and the mixed;all by an artifice instituted by Almighty God, by means of fire, air, water, earth, or under the great Arcanum of the four Hebrew letters lamed, kuph, cadic and samech, which mean in the Voarchadumie the same as zain, nun, mem and iod. the fixed and the volatile, the metals and the stones, the hard and the soft, the pure and the impure, the simple and the mixed; all by an artifice instituted by Almighty God, by means of fire, air, water, earth, or under the great Arcanum of the four Hebrew letters lamed, kuph, cadic and samech, which mean in the Voarchadumie the same as zain, nun, mem and iod. the fixed and the volatile, the metals and the stones, the hard and the soft, the pure and the impure, the simple and the mixed;all by an artifice instituted by Almighty God, by means of fire, air, water, earth, or under the great Arcanum of the four Hebrew letters lamed, kuph, cadic and samech, which mean in the Voarchadumie the same as zain, nun, mem and iod.
The third definition is such. The Voarchadumie is a Gold Vein Art, which provides a substance full of extractive metallic virtue. This Art also explains what is the intrinsic fixed form, and the natural yellow color of gold, its heterogeneous, combustible, volatile parts, which the Art can lead to perfection.He then defines the material of this work, a heavy, corporeal, fixed, fusible, ducible, dyed, rarefied and hidden substance of quicksilver or mercury and an incombustible metallic sulphur, reduced and transmuted into real gold by means of carburizing.
Our Author derives the term Voarchadumia from the Chaldean and Hebrew languages, and composes it from Voarch, a Chaldean word which in French signifies Gold, and from Mea to adumot, Hebrew words which mean two red things; that is to say, of two perfect cementations.

Sails, or Sails of Jason's ship. The Fable says that these veils were black; and as this fable of the operations of the Great Work is commonly explained, the Philosophers have given the name of Veil to their black matter; because it is no more possible to succeed in the magisterium, if one does not first pass the matter through darkness, or if, as Raymond Lully says, one does not send it back to its native country, which is Egypt, that it would be possible to cross the seas with a ship that had no sails.

Flying. Quicksilver.

Volatile. Who flies, who rises above. which sublimates itself at the top of the vase in distillation, or which evaporates by the action of common fire, or of the innate fire in matter, the cause of fermentation. It is said to be volatile in comparison with birds.
The Philosophers generally call their mercury or mercurial water volatile at the beginning of the work, by comparison with the volatility of vulgar mercury. This volatility caused them to name this mercury by all the names of volatile things, such as those of Eagle, Vulture, Flying Dragon, Air, Water, and an infinity of other names that are found widespread in this Dictionary, particularly in the entry Subject .

Volatile. The birds bring us the material of the stone. These expressions of the Philosophers have deceived many Chemists, who taking the terms literally, have believed that volatile meant bird; but the Adepts only bet by similarities, and give the name of birds to the ships which bring us gold from the Indies. Michel Majer explains it in this sense in the book. 6 of the Symbols of his Table of Gold, page 270. The real Pantaur, he says, contains the seminal virtue of gold, which is the father of the work, and the real philosophical gold.Anyone looking for this stone has no need to go to India to look for it in the hollows of the mountains, the birds bring it to us from that country, not the small birds, but the biggest ones, and even the vessels whose sails serve as wings. The Voyages of Osiris, of Bacchus, of Neoptolemus, are symbols of the Hermetic work. See the articles of these Divinities, and the Fables Egypt. and Grecq. unveiled. Wamas. Vinegar of the Philosophers. Vulcan. Son of Jupiter and Juno, had hardly seen the light of day when his father threw him from heaven to earth, because he found him too ugly and too deformed.


Sulfur of the Sages, or their bright gold.

Vomiting. Black Matter of the Philosophers, because then it is in putrefaction, because putrefaction develops and separates the good from the bad, because it manifests what was hidden, and finally because the Fable says that Saturn vomits up the stone that he had devoured instead of Jupiter , and that in the operation of the magisterium black is lead, or the Saturn of the Philosophers, to which succeeds the whitish gray which they call Jupiter.

Traveler. Mercury of the Philosophers, so named because the Fable says that Mercury was the Messenger of the Gods.


He fell into the sea, where Thetis with silver feet, daughter of the old man Nereus, received him, and entrusted his education to his sisters (Homer). Vulcan grown up, made his stay on the island of Lemnos. He married Venus, or one of the Graces.
Cicero counts several Vulcans. The first was, he says, son of Heaven; the second from the Nile; the Egyptians who looked upon him as one of their great gods, the first among them, and their tutelary god, called him Opas; the third was the son of Jupiter and Juno, or of Juno alone, according to Hesiod; the fourth was the son of Menalius.
The Greeks looked upon Vulcan as the God of Blacksmiths, and Blacksmith himself.This is the idea given by Diodorus of Sicily, when he says that this God is the first Author of works of iron, bronze and gold, in a word, of all fusible materials.
All the works of this God were masterpieces, such as the palace of the Sun, the golden chair with springs which he sent to Juno to avenge herself on her, and in which this Goddess found herself caught like in a trebuchet, the belt of Venus , the imperceptible chain in which he arrested this Goddess in the time she was with Mars, the necklace of Hermione, the arms of Achilles and those of Aeneas, the crown of Ariadne, the famous brazen dog that Jupiter gave to Europe; Pandora, that woman who caused so much evil to the earth;the brazen cymbals which he presented to Minerva, who gave them to Hercules to chase the birds from Lake Stymphalus; finally his own house of brass.
The Egyptians are the ones who honored this God with more feelings of grandeur and magnificence. They erected a superb temple to him at Memphis, and a colossal statue seventy-five feet high. The Kings of Egypt were taken for a long time from the number of Priests who served this temple. The Apis beef was fed there with great care. See apis. The lion was dedicated to him.
It is not surprising that Vulcan has been regarded as the God of those who work with metals, since he is the very fire which forms them in the bowels of the earth.The masterpieces attributed to him are purely fabulous works which indicate the qualities of this God, and the very way of representing him with a blue cap is quite remarkable. Wouldn't it be for the same reason that Neptune was given a kind of blue coat? Vulcan is the fire of the Hermetic Philosophers; that is why Hermes and the Egyptians held him in such great veneration. See the explanation of the fables invented about him, in the Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled, book. 1, sect. 3, c. 1 and book. 3, c. 11.

X

X. We find the X in some Authors to designate an ounce.

Xanthus. Proof of the Troad, otherwise known as Scamander.The ancients said that the water of this river had the property of giving the golden color to the fleece of sheep who drank from it.

Xenechdon. Paracelsus gave this name to a preservative against the plague, which he composed of arsenic, dittam, toads and several simples. It is worn as an amulet. Rullandus.

Xenexton. See xenechdon.

Xeromirum. Desiccant ointment.

Xiphidium. Glayeul.

Xiphium. Glayeul.

Xir. Material of the work in black, or in putrefaction.

Xissium. Vinegar.

Xistan. Verdigris powder.

Xoloch Copalli. Copalgum.

Xylagium. Holywood.

Xyloaloes. Aloewood.

Xylobalsamum. Wood from the tree that bears the balm.

Xylocassia. Cinnamonwood.

Y

Yalos. Glass.

Yaria or Jaria. Green-grey.

Yarim. Green-grey.

Ycar. Philosophical Medicine.

Ydens. Mercury.

Ydricium. Quicksilver.

Hydroceum. Mercury of the Sages.

Yeldie. Material of the Hermetic Work. This term also sometimes means mercury.

Yelion. Glass.

Yercia. Black pitch, or the material of the work in putrefaction.

Yesir. Land of the Wise.Take care not to put too much mercury on the earth, when you imbibe it: make sure that it is only covered with it, and do not let the mercury float two or three fingers, as some say, because the land would be flooded and submerged; but when Yesir is simply soaked, put it in your vase, which you will seal hermetically. Cl. Whelks.

Eyes. The Fable says that Argus had a hundred eyes, and that Juno carried them on the tail of the peacock, after Mercury had killed Argus by order of Jupiter, who wanted to get rid of this importunate guardian, which Juno had given to Io. These eyes of the peacock's tail are the colors of the Iris which appear on the matter of the work during the course of the operations. See. Argus.
fish eyes.The Philosophers compare to the eyes of fish certain species of sulphurous bubbles which rise above the matter of the work; which led them to say that it was necessary to stretch nets and catch the Echeneis fish which swims in the philosophical sea. Some Adepts have said that the matter then resembled fatty broth, on which float stars of fat: they have therefore named the matter in this state, Brodium saginatum.

Yfir. Mercury of the Philosophers reduced to impalpable powder, like atoms which flutter in the rays of the sun.

Ygropissos. Bitumen.

Yharit. Matter of the work arrived at the color white, which the Philosophers call their money.

YIe. See hyle.

yliastric. See.cagastrum.

Yliastrum. First material from which the sulphur, salt and mercury of the Sages were made.

Yn, Yomo, Verdigris.

Yos.

Yridis. Orchid.

Yris. Iron, March.

Ysir. Stone of the Sages, and the mercury from which it is made.

Z

Z. Formerly meant half an ounce; but some also used it for a fat.

Zaaph. Stone of the Philosophers, or their sulfur having reached red. It is so named because of its hot and dry quality.

Zaddah. Antimony.

Zafaram. Burned iron filings in a copper vase.

Zaffram. Ocher, mineral earth that participates in iron.

Zahau. Magisterium in red.

Zaibac. Mercury.

Zaibar. Quicksilver. Paracelsus.

Zaidir. Venus, and her verdigris.

Zambac. Jasmine.

Zancres. Orchid.

Zandarit. Mean substance which participates in the body and the spirit, that is to say, the volatile and the fixed. Artephius explains it from the magisterium to the white, and says it's the same as Corsufle and Cambar.

Zaras. Gold.

Zarca. Jupiter, pewter.
Zarfa. Tin.

Zarfrahor. Mercury of the Philosophers.

Zame. Orpiment of the Sages.

Zamec or Zarneck. Sulfur of the Philosophers.

Zarnic. Orchid.

Zarsrabar. Quicksilver.

Zatanea. Agnus castus flowers.

Zaucher. Orchid.

Zauhîron. Oriental saffron.

Zazar. Sugar.

Zebd. Butter.

Zebed. Human excrement.

Zeblicium. Serpentine Stone.

Zec. Tragacanth gum.

Zeco. Tragacanth.

Zefr. Pitch.

Zegi. Vitriol.

Zeherech Aickas. Green-grey.

Zeida. Mercury.
Zelotum. Mercurial stone.

Zelus. Son of Pallas and Styx, was retained by Jupiter, as a reward for his mother having helped Jupiter against the Giants. This God also rendered great honors to this Goddess, showered her with gifts, and wanted her name to be used in the inviolable oath of the Gods.

Zemasarum. Cinnabar.

Zemech. Pierre Lazul.

Zengifer. Cinnabar.

Zenic.Mercury of the Philosophers.

Zephyr. Windchild of the Gods. It is the white stone.

Zerachar. Mercury.

Thank you. Vitriol.

Zericum. Arsenic.

Zerifari. Whey.

Zerna. Mousse.

Zernic. Ornament of the Philosophers.

Zerobilem. Zodiac.

Zerumbeth. Well.

Zetes. Son of Antiope and Jupiter, and brother of Amphion. See amphion.

Zethes or Zethus. Son of Borée and brother of Cajaïs, was one of the Argonauts, and worked with his brother to deliver Phyneus from the Harpies who tormented him relentlessly. See the Fables unveiled, book. 2, c. 1.

Zibach. Magisterium in white.

Zihutum. Mercury.

Zimar. Green-grey.

Zimax.Arabian green vitriol, from which bronze is made. Planiscampi.

Zimen. Vitriol.

Zinc. See zinc.

Zingar. Green-grey.

Zingifur. Cinnabar.

Ziniar. Green-grey.

Ziniat. Leaven, leaven.

Zinc. Metallic mineral, or mixture of several unripe metals, four in number, but which have the appearance of copper. Planiscampi. Common zink is a species of white antimony, which whitens pewter and yellows red copper. It is with him that we do the similar. A few do it with the tuthie. Several Chemists have worked on zinc, because they believed it to be the material of the Great Work.The Unveiled Chemistry of Deloque and the works of Respour are proof of this. They imagined that it was necessary to reduce the zink in flowers, then insalt and in hot water, and fix it with nitre. La Chymie has done some great things with zink.

zipar. Rhubarb.

Zit. Red Sulfur of the Philosophers.

Zithum. Beer.

Ziva. Stone of the Sages in white.

Zizipha or Zizypha. Jujube.

Ziziphus or Zizyphus. Jujube.

Zodiac. Circle imagined in the sky, and which we suppose posed obliquely between the two parts of the world. It is cut at oblique angles of twenty-three and a half degrees by the Equator at the beginning of the signs of Aries and Libra.The Zodiac divides the World obliquely with respect to the Equator, into two equal parts, one of which is called northern, in which are the northern signs; the other part is called southern, and it contains the southern signs.
The obliqueness of the Zodiac and the slanting course of the Sun contribute to produce the varying temperature of the seasons. They serve for the generation of living things ascending towards our Zenith, and for corruption descending towards the Nadir. The first three occupy the three months of spring, the next three those of summer, Libra, Scorpio and Sagittarius are found in autumn, and the last three in winter. The first six are northern, and the last six southern. The first six are also called ascendants, because the Sun from the first degree of Capricorn to the end of Gemini, rises and approaches our Zenith, or central point; and the six others descend, because the Sun, in passing through it, moves away from our Zenith.
The Zodiac is usually divided into twelve equal parts which are called Signs, the sequence of which is counted from west to. east, beginning at the point where the Sun, advancing by its own motion, passes from the southern part of the globe to the northern part. It is the first degree of the first sign of spring called Aries or Aries. These twelve signs occupy the twelve months of the year, and the Sun enters all the months in one of these signs, whose names are Aries or Aries, Taurus or Taurus, Gemini or Gemini, Crayfish or Cancer, Leo or Leo, Virgo or Virgo , Libra or Bilance, Scorpio or Scorpius, Sagittarius or Sagittarius, Capricorn or Capricornus, Aquarius or Aquarius.


The Astrologers say that when a planet is in some of these signs, it has more virtue, that its influences are more effective, and this sign is called exaltation; the opposite sign is called deaction or fall, as if the planet lost something of its virtue. So when the Sun is in Aries, it is in its exaltation, and Libra is its dejection. Taurus is the exaltation of the Moon, and Scorpio its fall. Leo is the exaltation of Mercury, and Aquarius its dejection: Virgo is also the exaltation of Mercury and Pisces its fall, because except the Sun and the Moon, each planet has two signs of exaltation and two of dejection, as they also have two houses .
The proper house of the Sun is Leo, that of the Moon is Crayfish. Those of Mercury are Gemini and Virgo: Capricorn and Aquarius are those of Saturn, of which Libra and Scorpio are exaltation, and Aries and Taurus fall. Jupiter has for houses Pisces and Sagittarius, for exaltation the Crayfish, and for dejection Capricorn. The houses of Mars are Scorpio and Aries, its exaltation is Capricorn, and its fall is Crayfish. Venus has for house Taurus and Libra, for exaltation Aquarius and Pisces, and for dejection Leo and Virgo.
These signs also have qualities relative to those of the elements. Three are fiery or hot, namely Aries, Leo and Sagittarius; three aerial, Gemini, Libra and Aquarius; three watery, Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces; three terrestrials, Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn.
There are also six masculine and diurnal ones, which are Aries, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Sagittarius and Aquarius; and six nocturnal feminines, namely Taurus, Crayfish, Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn and Pisces.
The Egyptians, who had observed the stars and measured their course, divided the year into months and seasons, adjusting it to the course of the sun, and the months to that of the moon, and divided the sky into twelve parts, each of which they gave the name of an animal. Lucien (Treatise on Judicial Astrology) adds that the Egyptians revered the ox Apis in memory of the celestial Bull, and that in the Oracle which was devoted to him, one drew the predictions of the nature of this sign, like the Africans of that of Aries, in memory of Jupiter Ammon whom they adored under this figure.
The Egyptians therefore thought they recognized some similar qualities, some analogy in these signs and the animals which represented them; this was undoubtedly what had also given them reason to invent the fable of the metamorphosis of the Gods into animals, to avoid falling into the hands of Typhon. . . Duxque gregis made Jupiter,
unde, recurvis;
Nunc quoque trainer Libys
and cum Cornibus Ammon.
Diane had taken the form of a cat. Feast soror Phoebii; Bacchus that of a goat, Preies Semeleia ca-pro; Juno that of a white cow, Nivea Satumia vacca; Mercury hid under that of the ibis, Cyllenius ibidis alis;Venus under that of a fish, Pisce Venus latuit, or, as Manilius says (Astr. l. 4): Inseruitque suos squammosis piscibus igneous.
These hot, cold, watery or dry qualities were therefore the reasons which induced the Egyptians to give the planets and the signs of the Zodiac the names of animals, and called these constellations houses or places in which the planets made their temporary stay during their course . .
When Hermes or his Disciples had observed the same analogy between the Planets and the signs, or at least had imagined the same qualities in Venus and Taurus, for example, they assigned Taurus for house to Venus, Aries for that of Mars, Gemini for that of Mercury, Leo for that of the Sun, Cancer for that of the Moon, and so on.
The Philosopher Disciples of Hermes have had regard to all these observations, and have conformed to them in their reasonings on the seven terrestrial planets, or the seven metals. They have compared them to the celestial planets, and have given them a course which forms the philosophical year.
Paracelsus says that we must make Saturn go through all the spheres of the others. Basil Valentine says in the 6th Key: "Remark that you must raise the celestial Balance, and that you put in the left side the Aries, the Bull, the Crayfish, the Scorpio and the Capricorn, and in the right side Gemini, Sagittarius, Aquarius, Pisces and Virgo; make the Golden Lion throw itself into the bosom of the Virgin, and make that side of the Scales weigh more than the other. Finally, that the twelve signs of the Leo Zodiac making their constellations with the seven Governors of the Universe, all look upon each other with good eyes, and that after all the colors have passed, the true conjunction takes place, and the marriage, so that the highest is made the lowest, and the lowest the highest. "
Several Hermetic Chemists have said that the Work must be begun in the spring, by the course of the Sun in the signs of Aries, Taurus and Gemini; others in winter, by Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces. It is that some in expressing themselves thus, have had regard to the material which it is necessary to take to make the Work, and the others to the first operations. The Cosmopolitan says that their mercury is drawn from the belly of Aries, by means of their steel, which in another place he calls magnet; and adds that there is a second steel similar to the first, created by Nature itself: whoever knows how to extract it from the rays of the Sun and the Moon, will find what so many people are looking for.
One of their hieroglyphs represents Aidas carrying on his shoulders the sphere of the World, on which is marked a part of the Zodiac, which contains the six signs of which I spoke above, and the figure of the Sun between the signs of Pisces and Aries , and the Moon is there placed between Aquarius and Pisces. The Cosmopolitan, together with the other Philosophers and Astrologers, place the planets differently from the Astronomers. These put Saturn highest, then Jupiter descending, then Mars, the Sun, Mercury, Venus and the Moon. “In order that you may better conceive how the metals combine and give their seed, observe the Heavens and the spheres of the planets, says the Cosmopolitan, (Tract. 9). See that Saturn is the highest, Jupiter succeeds it, then Mars, then the Sun, Venus,Mercury and the Moon. Consider that the virtues of the Planets do not rise, but descend; and experience teaches us that from Venus we do not make Mars, but from Mars Venus, because the latter has its lower sphere. In the same way Jupiter is easily changed into Mercury, because Jupiter is the second in descending from Heaven, and Mercury the second in ascending from Earth; Saturn is the highest, and the Moon the lowest. The Sun being in the middle, blends with all the other planets, but it can never be perfected by the lower ones. Know then that there is a great correspondence between Saturn and the Moon, in the middle of which the Sun is placed;that there is also a lot of analogy between Jupiter and Mercury, as well as between Mars and Venus, because the Sun is also between these planets. » Consider that the virtues of the Planets do not rise, but descend; and experience teaches us that from Venus we do not make Mars, but from Mars Venus, because the latter has its lower sphere. In the same way Jupiter is easily changed into Mercury, because Jupiter is the second in descending from Heaven, and Mercury the second in ascending from Earth; Saturn is the highest, and the Moon the lowest. The Sun being in the middle, blends with all the other planets, but it can never be perfected by the lower ones.Know then that there is a great correspondence between Saturn and the Moon, in the middle of which the Sun is placed; that there is also a lot of analogy between Jupiter and Mercury, as well as between Mars and Venus, because the Sun is also between these planets. » Consider that the virtues of the Planets do not rise, but descend; and experience teaches us that from Venus we do not make Mars, but from Mars Venus, because the latter has its lower sphere. In the same way Jupiter is easily changed into Mercury, because Jupiter is the second in descending from Heaven, and Mercury the second in ascending from Earth; Saturn is the highest, and the Moon the lowest.The Sun being in the middle, blends with all the other planets, but it can never be perfected by the lower ones. Know then that there is a great correspondence between Saturn and the Moon, in the middle of which the Sun is placed; that there is also a lot of analogy between Jupiter and Mercury, as well as between Mars and Venus, because the Sun is also between these planets. » but go down; and experience teaches us that from Venus we do not make Mars, but from Mars Venus, because the latter has its lower sphere. In the same way Jupiter is easily changed into Mercury, because Jupiter is the second in descending from Heaven, and Mercury the second in ascending from Earth; Saturn is the highest, and the Moon the lowest.The Sun being in the middle, blends with all the other planets, but it can never be perfected by the lower ones. Know then that there is a great correspondence between Saturn and the Moon, in the middle of which the Sun is placed; that there is also a lot of analogy between Jupiter and Mercury, as well as between Mars and Venus, because the Sun is also between these planets. » but go down; and experience teaches us that from Venus we do not make Mars, but from Mars Venus, because the latter has its lower sphere. In the same way Jupiter is easily changed into Mercury, because Jupiter is the second in descending from Heaven, and Mercury the second in ascending from Earth; Saturn is the highest, and the Moon the lowest.The Sun being in the middle, blends with all the other planets, but it can never be perfected by the lower ones. Know then that there is a great correspondence between Saturn and the Moon, in the middle of which the Sun is placed; that there is also a lot of analogy between Jupiter and Mercury, as well as between Mars and Venus, because the Sun is also between these planets. because this has its lower sphere. In the same way Jupiter is easily changed into Mercury, because Jupiter is the second in descending from Heaven, and Mercury the second in ascending from Earth; Saturn is the highest, and the Moon the lowest. The Sun being in the middle, blends with all the other planets, but it can never be perfected by the lower ones.Know then that there is a great correspondence between Saturn and the Moon, in the middle of which the Sun is placed; that there is also a lot of analogy between Jupiter and Mercury, as well as between Mars and Venus, because the Sun is also between these planets. because this has its lower sphere. In the same way Jupiter is easily changed into Mercury, because Jupiter is the second in descending from Heaven, and Mercury the second in ascending from Earth; Saturn is the highest, and the Moon the lowest. The Sun being in the middle, blends with all the other planets, but it can never be perfected by the lower ones. Know then that there is a great correspondence between Saturn and the Moon, in the middle of which the Sun is placed;that there is also a lot of analogy between Jupiter and Mercury, as well as between Mars and Venus, because the Sun is also between these planets. and Mercury the second rising from the Earth; Saturn is the highest, and the Moon the lowest. The Sun being in the middle, blends with all the other planets, but it can never be perfected by the lower ones. Know then that there is a great correspondence between Saturn and the Moon, in the middle of which the Sun is placed; that there is also a lot of analogy between Jupiter and Mercury, as well as between Mars and Venus, because the Sun is also between these planets. and Mercury the second rising from the Earth; Saturn is the highest, and the Moon the lowest.The Sun being in the middle, blends with all the other planets, but it can never be perfected by the lower ones. Know then that there is a great correspondence between Saturn and the Moon, in the middle of which the Sun is placed; that there is also a lot of analogy between Jupiter and Mercury, as well as between Mars and Venus, because the Sun is also between these planets. in the middle of which the Sun is placed; that there is also a lot of analogy between Jupiter and Mercury, as well as between Mars and Venus, because the Sun is also between these planets. in the middle of which the Sun is placed;that there is also a lot of analogy between Jupiter and Mercury, as well as between Mars and Venus, because the Sun is also between these planets. »
The Anonymous who joined a hieroglyphic figure to the Emerald Table of Hermes, placed the planets a little differently; he did not have in view to present their course, but only their relative position. He placed above and on the same line the Sun and the Moon; below the Sun, Mars and Saturn; on the other side under the Moon, Venus and then Jupiter, and Mercury in the middle of all.
We see by what we have said so far, that the Zodiac of the Philosophers is not the same as the celestial Zodiac, although the first has a great relation by its qualities with the second.The signs of the Philosophers are the operations of the work that must be gone through to reach their autumn, the last season of their year, because it is that in which they reap the fruits of their labors. See seasons. These aerial, aqueous, hot and earthly qualities are the different states in which their matter is found during the course of operations. The aerial marks volatilization, the humid or aqueous dissolution, the terrestrial and the igneous fixation. The dissolution and putrefaction of their gold is their winter; meanwhile their Sun picked in the spring, runs through the signs of Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces.From there he passes into the other signs always retrograding, in each season, so that at the end he finds himself in the place of his exaltation from which he started, and then in his own house, which is the Lion wears gold, as Basil Valentine said. This is the reason why this Author said that it should be put in the Scales, and thrown into the bosom of the Virgin, making this side of the Scales weigh more than the other, it is that is, that the fixed outweighs the volatile. All airy and watery signs are volatile, and both hot and earthy signs are fixed. The air of the Philosophers is hidden in their water, and their fire in their earth. Whoever wants to study Hermetic Philosophy,must therefore be the object of his meditations on the Zodiac of the Philosophers, observe very seriously the relative qualities of their planets and their signs; see how they differ and how they resemble each other, why one finds its exaltation in a sign that serves as the other's home, and where this can come from; why a planet has been placed in one sign rather than another, and finally what relationship have these signs with the Philosophical seasons, and the correspondence of the planets relatively to their position, both in the signs, of the Zodiac, and in the Sky of which speaks the Cosmopolitan. why one finds its exaltation in a sign which serves as a house for the other, and whence it may come;why a planet has been placed in one sign rather than another, and finally what relationship have these signs with the Philosophical seasons, and the correspondence of the planets relatively to their position, both in the signs, of the Zodiac, and in the Sky of which speaks the Cosmopolitan. why one finds its exaltation in a sign which serves as a house for the other, and whence it may come; why a planet has been placed in one sign rather than another, and finally what relationship have these signs with the Philosophical seasons, and the correspondence of the planets relatively to their position, both in the signs, of the Zodiac, and in the Sky of which speaks the Cosmopolitan.

Zopissa. Pitch.

Zoraba. Vitriol.

Zorumbeth or Zerubeth. Is a species of Zedoary which has a round root.

Zoticon. Magisterium of the Philosophers pushed to perfect white.

Zub or Zubd. Butter.

Zuccaiar or Zuccar. Agnus castus flowers.

Zumec. Sulfur of the Philosophers in red.

Zumelazuli. Magisterium reached the redness of poppy.

Zunzifar. Cinnabar.

Zuniter or Zitter and Zuviter. Marcasite.

Zymar. Green-grey.