A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Z Greek Terms
- Sacrifice, some argue it is Fixation others extraction of Soul/Sulphur from body/Salt;
- Saffron, Golden, according to Lemery is fulminating gold;
- Salamander, according to chemists is a spirit of nitre out of the Saltpeter distillation by means of very hot fire, to alchemists it is the product of reiterated volatilizations, also a symbol of a skillful operation of fire in the Last Work;
- Salamander Blood, according to chemists is the red vapor of spirit of nitre, to alchemists it is the perfect Redness from Salamander, or from a skillful operation of fire;
- Salarmeniac, see Sal Armeniacum;
- Salmiac, english for Sal Ammoniacum;
- Salt Alkali, when referred to one of the threefold salts can also signify “foundation of all the bodies”, a substance is not strictly of alkaline origin, but the future foundation of our Stone (as we will need at least a small amount of “alkaline” texture for a certain hardening final phase);
- Salt Ammoniacum, Ammonium Chloride;
- Sal Armeniacum, according to ancient chemists a volatile salt extracted from urine, see also Sal Armoniacum ;
- Sal Armoniac Lemery, volatile salt extracted from urine salts;
- Sal Armoniac Flowers of Lemery, volatilized and/or sublimated salts out of sal armoniac;
- Sal Armoniacum, according to ancient chemists a volatile salt extracted from urine, Mercurius at large and specifically a spirit when separating from its body, to Hollandus Sal Armoniacum is extracted from vegetables;
- Sal Armoniacum Philosophorum, Mercurius Philosophorum;
- Sal Circulatum, Mercurius Philosophorum, Universal Disolvent;
- Sal Circulatum Maius, Mercurius Philosophorum from mineral reign;
- Sal Circulatum Minus, Mercurius Philosophorum from vegetal reign;
- Sal Gemmae, rock salt;
- Saltpeter, some argue being chemical saltpeter others Mercurius Philosophorum;
- Sal Sapientiae, latin for Salt of the Knowledge, Mercurius Philosophorum when the philosophical matter comes from crushing and melting of crystals, specially in the texture of a wax;
- Sal Saturni, see Saturnus Salts;
- Salt, Mercurius Philosophorum, Azoth;
- Salts-two, Mercurius Duplicatus;
- Salts-threefold, Mercurius Duplicatus plus addition of another Mercurius Philosophorum to unify;
- Salt Volatile, see Volatile Salt;
- Saturation, see Unification;
- Saturn, varied meanings: Mercurius Crudus, Primitive Mercurius, Mercurius, Mercurius Philosophorum, Soul to be extracted, Materia Tertia, chemical Lead, earth, blackness;
- Saturn Belly, Primitive Mercurius;
- Saturn Cinders, see Saturn Salts;
- Saturn Salts, some argue the chemical residual salts or Materia Tertia, others Mercurius Philosophorum;
- Saviour, Secret Fire;
- Scala Transmutationis, latin for stairs of transmutations, ancient alchemical works layout;
- Scarab, see Heart;
- Scent, so that my garden makes dropping its scents, symbol of the accomplishment of the second degree of fire;
- Sea of the Wise, some argue it is Secret Fire/Mercurius, others Mercurius Sideribus from Stars;
- Secret Fire, varied meanings: Ineffable Substance from the Stars, Suns and extracted from raw matter, Mercurius;
- Secretum Artis, latin for secret of the art: making volatile fixed, see also Calcination and Volatilization;
- Seed, varied meanings: reduction to Secret Fire/Mercurius, unity of alchemical substance extremely abundant with Secret Fire, single component of Mercurius Duplicatus;
- Serpens, the latin way to hide the number seven;
- Serpent, varied meanings; Primitive Mercurius, Mercurius in its dissolving function, Mercurius in its fixing function, Secret Fire extracted from matter, Mercurius Philosophorum, Spirit of Life, Unripe Sulphur, Mercurius Sideribus, Mercurius Universalis, also a way to hide the number seven;
- Servant, Mercurius Philosphorum set apart for particular use;
- Shadow, to be in the, to be found in the heart of the mountains, in dark places;
- Shadow, to be in the, to be found in the inner of mountains, in dark places;
- Sheep, follow the footsteps of, you should look for the element Earth, to obtain a salt;
- Sigillum Hermetis, Mercurius Philosophorum;
- Sigillum Salomonis, some argue the Mercurius Philosophorum out of a volatile fixation, others the ultimate fixation of Perfect Red;
- Signatures; Some argue they are weights others External Influences, others the right period od day and solar-lunar year;
- Silver, varied meanings: metallic silver, Moon, Woman, Mercurius, Female Mercurius, White Sulphur;
- Skin, see Spirit of Life;
- Sky, volatile:
- Sky Terrestrial, according to W. Lavinius the fixation of volatile;
- Skull, see also OMO, in metallic Alchemy Red Sulphur-perfect red, in human Alchemy the area between eyes involved in immortality practices;
- Sleepiness, Mercurius condition before being extracted;
- Smoothing, the most solid mixed, either vegetables or animals and minerals to better open them and facilitate their dissolution;
- Snow, color reached by Mercurius inside vessel;
- Soak, see Immersion and Washing and Tinging property;
- Sol, latin for Sun;
- Solidification, fix, harden, make solid;
- Solution, varied meanings: to free from impurities in the preparatory work, to dissolve, Putrefaction-Fermentation-Digestion-Circulation-Extraction are involved, the third level of Scala Transmutationis, before Main Work, Conjuntion or Coitus;
- Solve et Coagula, varied meanings: all the chemical and alchemical processes in the preparatory and Main Work, one is dissolving and other is sublimating, see also volatilization and calcination, Magnetization through Fixed-Volatile, passage from solid to liquid-gaseous and back;
- Soul, varied meanings: Sulphur, the denser Spirit, Mercurius out of the second Putrefaction;
- Soul of the Universe, varied meanings: Secret Fire from Universe, psyche of the universe or denser part;
- Sowing, dissolving Gold in Mercurius Philosophorum;
- Spear-wooden, see stick-piercing;
- Sperm, single component of Mercurius Duplicatus;
- Spider, Soul-Sulphur;
- Spindle, symbol of spinning, Terrestrial Secret Fire, Earth;
- Spirit, Chemical meaning: A spirit in ancient chemistry is sometimes a liquid, sometimes a sublimate or flowers. In fact it is the final product of a salt volatilization. Alchemical meanings: Mercurius/Secret Fire from Cosmos, Mercurius out of first Putrefaction in the vessel, the final product of a reiterated salt volatilization ;
- Spirit of Life, Secret Fire, Mercurius, keeps things alive and extracts Sulphur;
- Spirit of Philosophical Wine, Mercurius Philosophorum out of wine distillation, not mere Brandy, tartar involved;
- Spiritual Elixir, Mercurius;
- Spiritualizing, is reducing compact bodies in spirits;
- Spiritus Albus, latin for White Spirit, it has been indifferently used for white after first and second putrefaction;
- Spiritus Combustibilis, latin for combustible spirit, some argue being products of distillation, others Secret Fire;
- Spiritus Magneticus Universalis, see Mercurius Universalis;
- Spiritus Vini, Mercurius from wine distillation, phonetically can be translated as Divine Spirit;
- Spiritus Vitae, latin for Spirit of Life;
- Spiritus Vini Lulliani, see Spirit of Philosophical Wine;
- Spiritus Universalis Magneticus, see Mercurius Univeralis;
- Sponge, texture featuring Mercurius Philosophorum;
- Spoke, see Rod;
- Spring, see Fountain;
- Square, see Embodiment, Dry, Quadrangular;
- Starry Fingerprint, see External Influences;
- Star, varied meanings: appearing of Mercurius, white Sulphur and the star in the cosmos where Secret Fire comes from;
- Star, six pointed: union of a downward triangle and an upward triangle, or dissolution and sublimation triangles, Mercurius Philosophorum, Philosophers Stone;
- Starry Regulus, strange starry formations in dry way;
- Stars, a phenomenon inside the vessel during Main Work;
- Steel, see Sword;
- Stellar Matter, Mercurius Sideribus;
- Stibium, varied meanings: the metal antimony, a gold marcasite ( metallic zinc), Mercurius Philosophorum at large;
- Stick-Baton, thrashing tool allegory for alchemical Solve et Coagula;
- Stick, piercing tool used in the metallurgic dry way;
- Stoned Serpent, Primitive Mercurius;
- Stratifying, is done by placing a portion of some powder, or corrosive matter at the bottom of a crucible or the vessel calcinatorium or over any part of the material to cement it.
- Subjectum Crudum, see Materia Tertia;
- Sublimation, some argue chemical letting exhale and raise a dry body others coming out of Secret Fire from Raw matter. Sublim, in latin, does not mean to sublime or pass from solid to gaseous form, but instead to raise, to lift, to elevate;
- Sulphur, varied meanings: a denser Mercurius, Materia Prima, in Solve et Coagula is the sublimating or raising or coagulating actions, Fixed matter, Male Mercurius, Gold, the Mercurius Duplicatus component with metallic gold inside, Soul, Redness, Philosophers Stone, sometimes Mercurius Sideribus, synonym for Sun, ancient chemists believed it to be the greasy matter-sulphur forming minerals together with the humid matter-mercurius, furthermore they called sulphur the dry fumes and mercurius the humid ones ;
- Sulphur Combustible, spagyric substance;
- Sulphur Living or Soufre Vif, term neglected by alchemists, was often (been) used by iatro-chemists to define the alchemical sulphur, or even arsenic, since they sometimes called sulphur some combustibile oils, alchemically can be a synonymous for Red Sulphur;
- Sulphur Philosophorum, Perfect Sulphur in the end of Main Work;
- Sulphur White, white before the red in main Woks, unripe, Moon;
- Sun, varied meanings: when opposite to Moon is the Fixing, Active, Sublimating action. In Mercurius Duplicatus it is Male Mercurius. Sulphur. Active. Hot. Mercurius Philosophorum with a metal inside. Astronomical sun. Secret Fire from astronomical sun. New alchemical Body. Union of Soul and Spirit of Life. Soul. Alchemical Light. Macrocosm. Element Fire in tabula Smaragdina;
- Sun in Earth, varied meanings: Mercurius, Sulphur and Philosophers Stone;
- Sun Path, see Ecliptic;
- Sun Rising, varied meanings: appearing of Mercurius, of White Sulphur, of Red Sulphur and the very natural day time before dawn;
- Syngeneia, see Marriage;
- Swan of Basilius, strange squeaks in metallurgic dry way;
- Sword, that which stirs the Mercurius, Sulphur, sometimes Male Mercurius Philosophorum;