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Alchemy works translations and commentaries as well as presentations of hidden evidences in myths, art, nature and science history.

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  • Hammer, symbol for Dry way Mastery;
  • Hand, hold in hand, to purify;
  • Heart, varied meanings: Secret Fire, breathing movements of Secret Fire, Magnet, Philosophers Stone;
  • Hebdomas Hebdomadum; see week of the weeks;
  • Helmet, symbol of alembic’s cap;
  • Hermaphrodite, see Rebis and Marriage;
  • Hermes Vessel, see Vas Hermetis;
  • Hermetic Bird, volatile Mercurius;
  • Hexagon, see Sigillum Salomonis, fixation;
  • Hexagon-Circle, see Solve et Coagula, volatilization of Mercurius Philosophorum;
  • Hyle, Spirit, Mercurius, First Indefinite Matter, see Ύλην ;
  • Hole, slip one’s hand in the hole, Vessel, to put the Mercurius in a vessel;
  • Homunculus, literally “tiny man”, term coined by Paracelsus meaning either Quintessence of a man or incarnation of a Spirit;
  • Horizon, Mercurius Philosophorum;
  • Horned Animal, Earth, Fixation, Calcination;
  • Horny Moon, see Horny Silver;
  • Horny Silver, silver chloride;
  • Horse, allegory for Immortality;
  • Horns of Pan, Primitive Mercurius and/or Putrefaction;
  • Humidum Radicalis or Radical Humidum or Humide Radical, or Radical Humid, Secret Fire as the flowing Spirit of Life;
  • Hungarian Vitriol, iron sulphide;

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