Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Alchemy was a series of practices that combined philosophical, magical, and chemical experimentation. One goal of European alchemists was to create what was known as the Philosopher’s Stone , a substance that when heated and combined with a non precious metal like copper or iron (known as the “base”) would turn into gold.
The filius philosophorum (Latin for "the philosophers' child", i.e. made by the true students of philosophy) is a symbol in alchemy. In some texts it is equated with the philosopher's stone ( lapis philosophorum ), but in others it assumes its own symbolic meanings.
Lapis solaris (Bologna stone) – barium sulfide – 1603, Vincenzo Cascariolo. Lead fume – lead oxide, found in flues at lead smelters. Lime/quicklime (burnt lime)/calx viva/unslaked lime – calcium oxide, formed by calcining limestone; Slaked lime – calcium hydroxide. Ca(OH) 2; Marcasite – a mineral; iron disulfide.
Rebis from Theoria Philosophiae Hermeticae (1617) by Heinrich Nollius. The Rebis (from the Latin res bina, meaning dual or double matter) is the end product of the alchemical magnum opus or great work.
In his commentary, Jung equates the homunculus with the Philosopher's Stone, and the "inner person" in parallel with Christ. [5]: 102 In Islamic alchemy, takwin (Arabic: تكوين) was a goal of certain Muslim alchemists, and is frequently found in writings of the Jabirian corpus.
Azoth was believed to be the essential agent of transformation in alchemy. It is the name given by ancient alchemists to mercury, which they believed to be the animating spirit hidden in all matter that makes transmutation possible. The word comes from the Arabic al-zā'būq which means "mercury".
The Angelicall Stone is a concept in alchemy. According to Elias Ashmole the stone was the goal above all goals for the alchemist. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In his prologue to the Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum , he states:
'A Short Summary Tract: Of the Great Stone of the Ancients') is a widely reproduced alchemical book attributed to Basil Valentine. It was first published in 1599 by Johann Thölde who is likely the book's true author. [1] It is presented as a sequence of alchemical operations encoded allegorically in words, to which images have been added.