Dictionary - Alchemy: Parapsychology Dictionary On Alchemy
Alchemy: An ancient "psuedo-science" commonly recalled for experiments to transmute base metals into gold, the formulation ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Alchemy: Craft Witchcraft Dictionary On Alchemy
ALCHEMY: 1) Science of transmuting metals. 2)transmutation of Inner Self to a higher more Spiritual plane.   (See also: ALCH...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Alchemy: Paganism Pagan Dictionary On Alchemy
ALCHEMY: A branch of High Magick developed in the Middle Ages which sought to magickally and/or chemically turn base metals into gold....   » Read the article

Dictionary - Plant Alchemy: Alternative Health Dictionary On Plant Alchemy
plant alchemy (spagyrics): A form of herbalism based on astrologic and alchemic (parachemical) principles. One of the major goals of a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Alchemy: New Age Spiritual Dictionary On Alchemy
alchemy The chemistry of the Middle Ages, the chief aim of which was to change the baser elements into gold   (See also: Alch...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Alchemy: Magickal Traditions Dictionary On Alchemy
ALCHEMY (from the Greek, chemeia, "chemistry", the Arabic, al kimya, "the chemistry", or the Egyption, khemeia, &q...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Alchemy: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Alchemy
Alchemy (from Arab al-kimiya from al the + kimiya philosopher's stone from Greek chyma fluid)   The art of divine magic under a c...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Alchemy: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Alchemy
ALCHEMY Chemistry is the child of the Alchemists. It's the legacy of "the puffers," those charlatan imitators who tried to f...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Alchemy: Kundalini Yoga Dictionary On Alchemy
Alchemy: A method or power of transmutation; seemingly miraculous change of one thing into another.     (See also: Alche...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Alchemy: Spiritual Dictionary On Alchemy
Alchemy: Alchemy is the art and science of transformation. This is not an easily understood art, because the primal medium of alchemic...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Alchemy: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Alchemy
Alchemy ; in Arabic Ul-Khemi, is, as the name suggests, the chemistry of nature. Ui-Khemi or Al-Kimia, however, is only an Arabianized...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Alchemy: Spiritual Dictionary On Alchemy
Alchemy: The word alchemy is an Arabic term comprised of the article "al" and the noun "khemi.” The later word re...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Alchemy: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Alchemy
Alchemy In its original, literal meaning, )an ancient form of physics which, during the middle ages, was used by practitioners to mak...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Lesser Kan & Li: Alternative Health Dictionary On Lesser Kan & Li
Lesser Kan & Li (Sexual Alchemy): Form of meditation whose theory posits chi, core energy channels, higher energy bodies, and inte...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dhatu-vada: Sanskrit Hinduism Dictionary On Dhatu-vada
dhatu-vada: "Essence Way". alchemy.   (See also: dhatu-vada , Hinduism, Hinduism Dictionary, Sanskrit Dictionary, ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Saksaksalim: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Saksaksalim
SAKSAKSALIM The 25th Tunnel (also called The Zigzagging) is the distorted alchemy in which two great beasts are engaged in battle, the...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Rasa: Sanskrit Hinduism Dictionary On Rasa
rasa: The elixir in alchemy. "Liquid". "mercury". Sense of taste. dance of krishna and the gopis.   (See ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Alkahest: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Alkahest
Alkahest (Arab.). The universal solvent in Alchemy (see "Alchemy "); but in mysticism, the Higher Self, the union with which...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Lapis: Wiccan Pagan Dictionary On Lapis
LAPIS - (Lapis philosophorum) the stone or philosopher’s stone of alchemy the agent of transmutation of base metals into gold. (...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tamas: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Tamas
TAMAS: The mineral nature characterized by heaviness, inertia,  indifference, inactivity, and delusion. (Salt, in alchemy.) &nb...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Rajas: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Rajas
RAJAS: The vegetal nature shown by movability. (Sulphur, in alchemy.)   (See also: RAJAS , Magick, Mysticism, Mysticism Diction...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sattvas: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Sattvas
SATTVAS: The animal nature as lit by balance, harmony, luminosity. The  guna of transcendence. (In alchemy: mercury.)   (S...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mercury: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Mercury
MERCURY Alchemical mercury is the universal aspect of a substance, as distinguished from its individual character (sulphur). For insta...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Asch Metzareph: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Asch Metzareph
Asch Metzareph (Hebrew, Jewish). The Cleansing Fire, a Kabbalistic treatise, treating of Alchemy and the relation between the metals a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Adamic Earth: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Adamic Earth
Adamic Earth (Alch.). Called the "true oil of gold" or the "primal element" in Alchemy. It is but one remove from ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Lapis Philosophorum: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Lapis Philosophorum
Lapis philosophorum (Latin). The "Philosopher’s stone"; a mystic term in alchemy, having quite a different meaning fro...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Balahala: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Balahala
Balahala The fifth degree in the inferior Egyptian Mysteries; instruction in alchemy under the tuition of Horus was the principal feat...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Occult: Magickal Traditions Dictionary On Occult
OCCULT ("hidden, concealed"): Secret, esoteric; term used for magick and other esoteric arts and sciences, such as astrology...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hansa, Kalahamsa: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Hansa, Kalahamsa
HANSA (KALAHAMSA) White goose or swan, vehicle of the Asvins. Corresponds in the West to the pelican of alchemy.     (See ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sankhya: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Sankhya
SANKHYA The ancient Hindu philosophy which exerted the strongest influence on Buddhism. Created by Kapila in 600 B.C., it reveals how ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mater: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Mater
Mater (Latin) Mother; used in the categories of alchemy as one of the triad flamma, natura, mater; corresponding to sulphur, mercury, ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mysterium Magnum: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Mysterium Magnum
Mysterium Magnum (Latin). "The great Mystery", a term used in Alchemy in connection with the fabrication of the "Philos...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Magnum Opus: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Magnum Opus
Magnum Opus (Latin) The great work; in medieval and modern times an alchemical term for the making of the philosopher's stone and the ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Bacon, Roger: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Bacon, Roger
Bacon, Roger (1214?-1294) English philosopher and natural scientists, Franciscan monk who experimented with alchemy and optics and was...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Athenagoras: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Athenagoras
Athenagoras Second century Christian apologist and philosopher, said to have been influenced by Ammonius Saccus and to have been "...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spiritus: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Spiritus
Spiritus (Latin) Breath, air, spirit; in medieval European alchemy it corresponds with fire and sulfur in the triad of sulfur, mercury...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Adamic Earth, Adam's Earth: Theosophy Dictionary On Adamic Earth, Adam's Earth
Adamic Earth or Adam's Earth The "original matter" of alchemy; undifferentiated matter on our plane. Called the true oil of ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Alchemists: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Alchemists
Alchemists; From Al and Chemi, fire, or the god and patriarch, Kham, also, the name of Egypt.   The Rosicrucians of the middle a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Occultist: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Occultist
Occultist. One who studies the various branches of occult science. The term is used by the French Kabbalists (See Eliphas Lévi&...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Magnum Opus: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Magnum Opus
Magnum Opus (Latin). In Alchemy the final completion, the "Great Labour" or Grand Œuvre; the production of the "Ph...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Bono, Peter: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Bono, Peter
Bono, Peter. A Lombardian; a great adept in the Hermetic Science, who travelled to Persia to study Alchemy. Returning from his voyage ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Gold: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Gold
Gold The king of metal, symbol of perfection, durability, and purity; of the real sun, the great masculine principle, the Father, the ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Gokard: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Gokard
Gold The king of metal, symbol of perfection, durability, and purity; of the real sun, the great masculine principle, the Father, the ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Shadow Sound Therapy: Alternative Health Dictionary On Shadow Sound Therapy
shadow sound therapy (c) (SST, shadow therapy): Modality developed by Elide M. Solomont, Ph.D., composer, Jungian psychotherapist, sou...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Phosphorus, Phosphoros: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Phosphorus, Phosphoros
Phosphorus phosphoros (Greek) Light-bringing; equivalent of Latin Lucifer (the morning star; a torchbearer, e.g., Hecate, a form of th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ens: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Ens
Ens (Latin) (from esse to be, being)   According to scholastic philosophy, being in the most abstract sense, not necessarily exis...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Eclectic Magick: Pagan Denominations Dictionary On Eclectic Magick
ECLECTIC MAGICK: A form of Ceremonial Magick which  is Magick that calls upon the aid of beneficent spirits  and is based up...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Wizardry: Pagan Denominations Dictionary On Wizardry
WIZARDRY (Middle English, wis, “wise”): A term used in various periods of history for magicians, sorcerers or witches and ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Eclectic Magick: Magickal Traditions Dictionary On Eclectic Magick
ECLECTIC MAGICK: A form of Ceremonial Magick which is Magick that calls upon the aid of beneficent spirits and is based upon a blend o...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sun And Moon: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Sun And Moon
SUN AND MOON For the magician, the Self and the World are the same thing. When we try to separate them we get the errors of Science an...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hebdomad: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Hebdomad
HEBDOMAD (The sphere of the Demiurge, lower than the Ogdoad.) Seven divides perfectly into the elemental quaternity from the 28 days o...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Roger Bacon: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon. A Franciscan monk, famous as an adept in Alchemy and Magic Arts. Lived in the thirteenth century in England. He believed ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - U - Letter U: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On U - Letter U
U - Letter U . - The twenty-first letter of the Latin alphabet, which has no equivalent in Hebrew. As a number, however, it is conside...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Cremer, John: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Cremer, John
Cremer, John. An eminent scholar who for over thirty years studied Hermetic philosophy in pursuance of its practical secrets, while he...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Busardier: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Busardier
Busardier. A Hermetic philosopher born in Bohemia who is credited with having made a genuine powder of projection. He left the bulk of...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Charnook, Thomas: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Charnook, Thomas
Charnook, Thomas. A great alchemist of the sixteenth century; a surgeon who lived and practiced near Salisbury, studying the art in so...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Trismegistus: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Trismegistus
Trismegistus (Greek) Thrice greatest; a title given to the mysterious personage after whom the Hermetic philosophy is named. In Egypt,...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sulfur, Sulphur: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Sulfur, Sulphur
Sulfur, Sulphur In European medieval alchemy, a cosmic element of which the mineral sulfur was regarded as a manifestation or correspo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tetramorph: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Tetramorph
TETRAMORPH Chayoth Ha-Qadesh: "Animals of the Sacred Place." The four-beasted figure surrounding the Wheel of Fortune (Man, ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - South, Mary Anne: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On South, Mary Anne
SOUTH, MARY ANNE Born in England, 1817. By marriage, became Mrs. Mary Anne Atwood. Author of A Suggestive Inquiry into the Hermetic My...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Solvent: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Solvent
Solvent The universal solvent is an alchemical expression equivalent to the Philosopher's Stone and the Universal Agent of medieval al...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Moyst Principle: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Moyst Principle
Moyst Principle In the Egyptian Hermetic book, the Divine Pymander, the Moist Principle is the great deep; in ancient literature often...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tomaso Campanella: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Tomaso Campanella
Tomaso Campanella. A Calabrese, born in 1568, who, from his childhood exhibited strange powers, and gave himself up during his whole l...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Chemistry: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Chemistry
Chemistry (from Greek chemeia)   An ancient art or science relating to the extraction of medicinal juices from plants, or of meta...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dhatu-vada: Tantra Tantric Dictionary On Dhatu-vada
Dhatu-Vada: Dhatu-Vada. "Essence Way". Alchemy.   (See also: Dhatu-Vada , Tantra, Tantra Dictionary, Body Mind an...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Transmutation: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Transmutation
Transmutation Generally the transmutation of inferior metals into gold, although the reverse process properly falls under the same ter...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dragon: Wiccan Pagan Dictionary On Dragon
DRAGON (lung, Chinese, rong, Vietnamese, ryu, Japanese, naga, Sanskrit) - 1. great beneficent being in Far East mythology which guard...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hermetic Order Of The Golden Dawn: Pagan Denominations Dictionary On Hermetic Order Of The Golden Dawn
HERMETIC ORDER OF THE GOLDEN DAWN: Founded in 1888 by Dr. William Wynn Westcott, Samuel Liddle MacGregor Mathers and Dr. W.R. Woodman ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hermetic Order Of The Golden Dawn: Magickal Traditions Dictionary On Hermetic Order Of The Golden Dawn
HERMETIC ORDER OF THE GOLDEN DAWN: A Ceremonial Magick Order founded in 1888 by Dr. William Wynn Westcott, Samuel Liddle MacGregor Mat...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hermes Trismegistus: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Hermes Trismegistus
Hermes Trismegistus (Ancient Greek). The "thrice great Hermes", the Egyptian. The mythical personage after whom the Hermetic...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Atom, Atomos: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Atom, Atomos
Atom atomos (Greek) Indivisible, individual, a unit; among the Greek Atomists what in theosophy is called a monad. Atomic theories of ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Rasa: Tantra Tantric Dictionary On Rasa
Rasa: Rasa. The elixir in Alchemy. "Liquid". "Mercury". Sense of taste. Dance of Krishna and the Gopis.  ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Paracelsus: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Paracelsus
PARACELSUS  The famous 16th Century physician and alchemist who taught the maxim, "As above, so below." Born in Einsied...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ceremonial Magick: Pagan Denominations Dictionary On Ceremonial Magick
CEREMONIAL MAGICK:  Magick that calls upon the aid of beneficent spirits and is akin to religion. Ceremonial Magick is based upon...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ritual Magick: Pagan Denominations Dictionary On Ritual Magick
RITUAL MAGICK:  Magick that calls upon the aid of beneficent spirits and is akin to religion. Ritual Magick is based upon a blend...   » Read the article

Dictionary -  high Magick: Pagan Denominations Dictionary On  high Magick
 HIGH MAGICK: Magick that calls upon the aid of beneficent spirits and is akin to religion. It is called theurgy, from theourgia ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Theurgic Magick, Theurgy: Pagan Denominations Dictionary On Theurgic Magick, Theurgy
THEURGIC MAGICK, THEURGY (Greek, theourgia, "working things pertaining to the gods"):  Magick that calls upon the aid o...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ceremonial Magick: Magickal Traditions Dictionary On Ceremonial Magick
CEREMONIAL MAGICK: Magick that calls upon the aid of beneficent spirits and is akin to religion. Ceremonial Magick is based upon a ble...   » Read the article

Dictionary - High Magick: Magickal Traditions Dictionary On High Magick
HIGH MAGICK: Magick that calls upon the aid of beneficent spirits and is akin to religion. It is called theurgy, from theourgia "...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ritual Magick: Magickal Traditions Dictionary On Ritual Magick
RITUAL MAGICK: Magick that calls upon the aid of beneficent spirits and is akin to religion. Ritual Magick is based upon a blend of do...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Theurgic Magick, Theurgy: Magickal Traditions Dictionary On Theurgic Magick, Theurgy
THEURGIC MAGICK, THEURGY (Greek, theourgia, "working things pertaining to the gods"): Magick that calls upon the aid of bene...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Egypt: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Egypt
EGYPT It is in Egypt that we encounter the roots of the entire Western tradition, including the Hermetic arts. If you would unravel th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Homunculus: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Homunculus
HOMUNCULUS A "little man" (less than a foot high) artificially created. The magician's sperm, along with other materials suc...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Smaragdine Tablet, Emerald Tablet: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Smaragdine Tablet, Emerald Tablet
Smaragdine Tablet The emerald tablet, alleged mystically to be of the Egyptian Hermes or Thoth, on which was inscribed, according to t...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Astral Light: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Astral Light
Astral Light (Occult) The invisible region that surrounds our globe, as it does every other, and corresponding as the second Principle...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dervish: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Dervish
Dervish (Persian) Driyosh (Pahlavi) Drighu (Avestan) (from Pers darvish seeking doors from dar a door; i.e., those who seek from door ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Medicine: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Medicine
Medicine As the healing art, medicine is as old as thinking man. Before the latent fires of mind were lighted in the third root-race, ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Neoplatonism: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Neoplatonism
NEOPLATONISM By the 3rd Century A.D., an eclectic occultism composed of Neoplatonism and Qabalah seriously rivalled Christianity. All ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Elements: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Elements
ELEMENTS The four principles of reality. They derive their nature from the phases of the Moon (Waxing, Full, Waning, Disappearing) and...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Swastika, Svastika: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Swastika, Svastika
Swastika svastika (Sanskrit) An auspicious or lucky object; especially applied to the mystic symbol -- a cross with four equal arms, t...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Salt: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Salt
Salt Used in alchemy for a fundamental principle of nature, a member of the triad mercury, sulphur, and salt, corresponding to spirit,...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mercury: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Mercury
Mercury For the Latin god,   See HERMES   Also the closest visible planet to the sun. Irregularities discovered in its orbit...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Urdhva-reta: Kundalini Yoga Dictionary On Urdhva-reta
Urdhva-reta: Upward refinement of the juice-current of life, the body's inherent capacity of "inner alchemy", or what is lo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Atlanteans: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Atlanteans
Atlanteans The various peoples which flourished during long ages, on the fourth great continent, called Atlantis by theosophists; the ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Fire: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Fire
Fire Fire has been venerated in all ages as the symbol of spirit as opposed to matter. Its essence or substance is spirit; with essent...   » Read the article

Dictionary - The Emperor And The Star: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On The Emperor And The Star
THE EMPEROR AND THE STAR These are Crowley's two greatest mysteries. We need to study them in tandem, because Crowley insists that the...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Qliphoth, Qlippoth: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Qliphoth, Qlippoth
QLIPHOTH/QLIPPOTH Lit. "shells" (singular: qliphah). Shades of the dead whose names appear in the books of Dyzan or Thoth, o...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dream Counseling: Alternative Health Dictionary On Dream Counseling
dream counseling: A form of dreamwork that involves dream telepathy and interpreting dream learnings through alchemy.   (See al...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Alchemy Dream Symbol: Dreams Interpretation Dictionary - Alchemy
Alchemy Dream Symbols: A desire for change. A period of transformation, perhaps spiritual. Expecting too much from too little.   ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Gold Dream Symbol: Dreams Interpretation Dictionary - Gold
Gold Dream Symbols: in alchemy gold is the color for God; new life or beginnings; your true self   (Source: Myths - Dreams - Symb...   » Read the article