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
- Wake up, do not, keep the matter out of fire during preparatory works;
- War, some argue Metamorphosis or transmutations of Secret Fire/Mercurius inside vessel others the difficult interaction between voletile and fixed;
- Washing, varied meanings: grey phase from black to white, Distillation, raising and laying down, tinging property, Immersion;
- Water, varied meanings: Mercurius. Everything that can flows, Volatile fumes inside vessels or whatever can flow according to alchemists (not chemists, see Air). An element denser than air and less dense than Earth ;
- Water which doesn’t wet Hands, Secret Fire, Mercurius Philosophorum, see Sal Sapientiae;
- Waters from Sky, Secret Fire coming down from Olympos, Cosmos, Ouranos;
- Water of Life, Brandy according to chemists, Mercurius according to alchemists ;
- Waxy Mercurius, see Enamel;
- Week of the Weeks, the Spring week during which Nature and man work together during the last cooking, in latin Hebdomas Hebdomadum;
- Well, Mercurius Extracted from raw Matter, but also a real well;
- Well-Tower, some argue Philosophers Stone, others a strange building;
- Wheel, various meanings: six-spoked: some argue the symbol of both astronomical Sun and Moon, others Secret Fire working ( see also Rota), eight-spoked: the partitions of year;
- Wheel Spoke, see Rod;
- Whiteness, Mercurius, light out of darkness, White Sulphur;
- White Star, Mercurius getting out of Black;
- White Stone, Philosophers Stone from White Sulphur, Silver;
- White Sulphur, some argue it is white appearing after Mercurius Duplicatus union and putrefaction in Main Work, others Mercurius Philosophorum;
- Wind, varied meanings: sublimation, calcination with air injections, Volatilization of Mercurius, Dry Mercurius, White Sulphur, Mercurius Sideribus, Mercurius Universalis, Mercurius/Spirit of Life and Sulphur/Soul around each other in Embodiment/Magisterium Corpi. The element Water, or flowing, in Tabula Smaragdina;
- Wind-North, to let rise, some argue to protect from hot fire, just allow the first degree of fire, others to let the matter dry (north winds are dry);
- Wind-South, comes and blows across one’s garden, some argues to gently cook the matter at a degree not superior to south wind, second degree of fire, others mean to let the matter get humid ( south winds bring humidity);
- Wineyard, don’t look after the, to be dissolved into grapes juice
( alcohol or vinegar); - Winter passed, the four months ( of philosophy) in the main work, when one says: see, the winter has passed, the rain has gone; meaning: the darkness has disappeared because the spring has arrived, and in our land we hear the chant of the Dove (whiteness).
- Withheld, to be, to become fire resistant like salamander;
- Woman, see Moon;
- Woman, naked: volatile Mercurius;
- Womb, see also Grave, place for the alchemical embryo to develop;
- Women Turning into Men, Mercurius into Mercurius Phillosophorum and White into Red;
- Wool, some Dry Ways Mercurius Philosophorum;
- Wrench, see Hammer;