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  • Ram, varied meanings: horned animal symbol for fixed Mercurius or Sulphur or earth, Springtime, Mercurius universalis, Mercurius Sideribus;
  • Realgar, Mercurius Philosophorum;
  • Raimbow, Peacock Tail;
  • Rebis, latin for “two things”, some argue it is Mercurius Philosophorum others Mercurius Duplicatus, others again Mercurius Philosophorum plus a metal to be dissolved, Marriage at large;
  • Rectifying, is again distilling spirits, to make them more subtle and extolling their virtues;
  • Red Earth, see Red Perfect or Adam;
  • Red Glass, Philosophers Stone when in glass;
  • Red Perfect,  in greek means to complete, to accomplish, ultimate Red Sulphur, red Sulphur in powdery form;
  • Redness, Sulphur and Soul;
  • Reducing, is giving back to metals calx the metallic form they had before;
  • Regulus, some argue a metal extracted from its ore, others Mercurius Philosophorum in metallurgic dry ways;
  • Resonance, action between two or more Mercurii;
  • Resurrection, extraction and fixation;
  • Red Rose, Ultimate Perfect Red Sulphur;
  • Regulus, see King, a metal was formerly called the regulus of the ore from which it was reduced;
  • Reverberation, is reducing bodies to calx by strong fire around the area;
  • Revitalizing, is contrary to Mortification;
  • Rod-Wand, as in Moses biblical tale a rod is used to made a spring of water out of a rock, Volatilization in preliminary works, many meanings from latin Radius and greek ράβδος, that’s to say wheel spoke, spur of a cock, master in geometry and mathematics, shuttle for looms, light ray, gold ingot and leg radius;
  • Rose, red synonym of Perfect Red Sulphur, white of White Sulphur;
  • Rose in the valley, to be, to be found in the bottom of the vessel;
  • Rose starts to open when Lilium Artis fades, whiteness is changing color turning to orange-red;
  • Rosycross, Immortal Master;
  • Rota, latin for Wheel: rotations of colors in Main Work, see also Ouroboros;
  • Rotation, sequence of colors in Main Work;
  • Royal Garment, to reach perfect Red;
  • Ruins, Tradition;
  • Rule of three, every allegory and symbol stands for at least three different concepts;
  • Rust, varied meanings: Calcination, Calcinated Metallic Gold, Mars Dye, Magnet;

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