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AAKHU ORBS
A class of ancient Egyptian and Dogon energetic beings whose role is to communicate between domains of energy. The Dogon term for these is Ogo. - Waters of Life-Ancient Symbology of Life Energy published 2022 -Laird Scranton
ACTHNA*
An invisible, subterrestial fire, being the matrix from which bituminous** substances take their origin, and sometimes producing volcanic eruptions. It is a certain state of the "soul" of the earth, a mixture of astral and material elements, perhaps of an electric or magnetic character.
-[ a footnote states:It is an element in the life of the "great snake" Vasuki, that according to Hindu mythology encircles the world and by whose movements earthquakes may be produced.] source- Franz Hartman from the book Paracelsus published 1896-
*remember that Paracelsus created terms that may not have become part of modern languages
A black viscous mixture of hydrocarbons obtained naturally or as a residue from petroleum distillation. It is used for road surfacing and roofing.- source mac dictionary app
ADROP, AZANE or AZAR
source Franz Hartman -book Paracelsus published 1896
"The Philosophers Stone" not a stone in the ususal sense of the word but an allegorical expression, meaning the principle of wisdom which the philosopher who has obtained it by practical experience may fully rely on.
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AKASHA : A'KÂSA.
"In Sanskrit and Indian cultures, Akash is an all-encompassing medium that underlies all things and becomes all things. It is real, but so subtle that it cannot be perceived until it becomes the many things that populate the manifest world. Our bodily senses do not register Akasha, but we can reach it through spiritual practice." source: Ervin Laszlo 1932- -Science and the Akashic Field. 2004
...to " see in events what is not perceptible to the senses, that part which time cannot destroy. [One] penetrates from transitory to nontransitory history. It is a fact that this history is written in other characters than is ordinary history. ...called the Akasha Chronicle". -source: Rudolf Steiner. 1861-1925. -Cosmic Memory published in U.S. 1959
A'KÂSA.-An Eastern term. The Living primordial substance, corresponding to the conception of some form of cosmic ether pervading the solar system. Everything visible is, so to say,condensed A'k&sa, having become visible by changing its supraethereal state into a concentrated and tangible form, and everything in nature may be resolved again into A'kisa, and be made invisible, by changing the attractive power that held its atoms together into repulsion; but there is a tendency in the atoms that have once constituted a form, to rush together again in the previous order, and reproduce the same form; and a form may therefore, by making use of this law, be apparently destroyed
and then reproduced. This tendency rests in the character of the form preserved in the Astral Light. -source Franz Hartman -book Paracelsus published 1896
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ALCAHEST
An element which dissolves all metals, and by which all terrestial bodies may be reduced into their Ens primum, or original matter (A'kasa) of which they are formed. It is a power.[ ] capable of changing the polarity of [ ] molecules and there by to dissolve them. -source Franz Hartman -book Paracelsus published 1896
********And there is a modern day video game called by this name.
ALCHEMY
The medieval science that led to the modern science of chemistry. Today nuclear science, physics, has evolved so far that many will say that the old alchemists understood far more than credited.
"A science by which things may not only be decomposed and recomposed (as is done in chemistry), but by which their essential nature may be changed and raised higher, or be transmuted into each other. Chemistry deals with dead matter alone, but Alchemy uses life as a factor." -Franz Hartmann The Life and Doctrines of Paracelsus published 1891
"For nearly everyone, alchemy is the science of "making gold" and nothing more. For some, it is a fantasy; for others, a mysterious science of fascinating discovery. There are also the "spiritually minded" who consider alchemy to be a psychospiritual science of transforming consciousness, ..." -R.A Schwaller de Lubicz Sacred Science
"The art and science of transforming substances, situations, or living things to perfect them." -Dennis William Hauck The Complete Idiot's Guide to Alchemy
"It is known, indeed, that it [alchemy] has an ancient ancestry. But not until the fall of the Roman Empire does it emerge into the light of valid history. This much, however, can be inferred, that the art properly called " alchemy " arose in the second or third century of the Christian era, and that it resulted from a union of the practical art of the Egyptians with the philosophy of the Greeks, and with the mysticism which found its home in Alexandria. -John Edward Mercer Alchemy, It's Science and Romance
The procedures of medieval alchemy were often religious in character. They represented a kind of religious ritual intended to symbolize the belief that man was eternally and immutably integrated in a hierarchically organized cosmic order; the transmutation of the lesser metals served as a tangible illustration of a profound inner experience. This was considered not merely as a chemical process, but also as a mystical process, of which the alchemist, in the role of mediator, was a part, and in which he strove to release his own divine "spark of light" imprisoned in his material body. - Jolande Jacobi PARACELSUS Selected Writings
ANIMA
The soul. In Paracelsus this term is largely identified with the "sidereal body". But he also uses it to designate everything similar to the breath, all refined, volatile matter, as well as the specifically effective part of a medicine, its essence. - Jolande Jacobi PARACELSUS Selected Writings
This is also a Jungian term and his use of it will be added here as well. Many aspects of Jung's work were centered on alchemy.
ANTHROPOSOPHY:
"..a discipline of research as well as a path of knowledge, service, personal growth, and social engagement. Introduced and developed by Rudolf Steiner, [see People glossary page] it is concerned with all aspects of human life, spirit and humanity's future evolution and well being." -source: -Anthroposophical Society in America website
ANTIMONY
The element, used as an occult alchemistic remedy; the name also designates symbolically a specific stage in the process of transmutation. - Jolande Jacobi PARACELSUS Selected Writings
ANTIQUITIES
Antiquity is a word coming from Latin or Old French and was meant to convey things of old, former civilizations, the olden days, the ancient past.
ARCANE
understood only by very few; mysterious or secret
ARCANUM (Arcana -plural)
Paracelsus calls arcana all so called "secret medicines," whose efficacy is manifested in the secret virtues inherent in the various herbs, minerals, metals, etc. - Jolande Jacobi PARACELSUS Selected Writings
ASTROLOGY
Astrology is compounded of two Greek words : Astron, a star, and Logos, discourse or reason; and literally implies the doctrine and law of the stars.- source BROUGHTON'S MONTHLY PLANET READER. April 1860
ASTRAL LIGHT
A universal and living ethereal element, still more ethereal and highly organised
than the A'kâsa. The astral light is universal, the A'kâsa is only cosmic, only pertaining to our solar system. It is, at the same time, an element and a power containing the character of all things. It is the storehouse of memory for the great world, the Macrocosm, and also the memory storehouse for the Microcosm of the human, from which we may recollect past events. It exists uniformly..., yet it is more dense and active around certain objects on account of their molecular activity, especially around the brain and spinal cord of human beings which are surrounded by it as by an aura of light. It is this aura around the nerve cell and nerve tubes by which a man is enabled to catch impressions made upon the astral aura of the comos, and thereby to "read in the Astral Light."
ATOM
An atom is part of the unseen world that makes up all the visible material stuff and things called matter. Different types of matter like shoes, or dirt, or water, are created from different types of atoms. Originally an atom was thought to be the smallest particle of matter.- But ... not so.
Atoms are made up of the even smaller unseen mysterious world of particles. Now it is said that Inside an atom there is a group of sub-atomic particles. Sub meaning below or beneath the surface of the atom, sub atom ic . In this subatomic space is a nucleus, the center so to speak. And within the boundary of the nucleus live the proton and the neutron, two of the subatomic particles. The third is called the electron but it lives outside the boundary of the nucleus.
It is fun to imagine that the earth and the moon are within a nucleus, and the sun is the electron . It makes your head spin, and funny enough, that is the name of the game is played out and the subatomic level- spin. Only not a circular spin, more about angles and momentum.... it gets complicated and starts to look something like this S= h √ s (s+1)
So in an oversimplifed version it all works like this.
1. Matter- that stuff that takes up space and can be seen, touched, tasted, heard
2. Molecules- a group of atoms held together by a force of electrical charge
3. Atoms- particles of matter, all the invisible pieces
4. Subatomic particles- particles of the atom, such as the electrons
Fun Fact- ATOMS is a term derived from a Greek word atomos meaning indivisible.
AUTOMATON:
| source: Dictionary- year 1929 |
that which posesses the power of spontaneous movement without consciousness; a machine that performs a function according to a predetermined set of coded instructions, especially one capable of a range of programmed responses to different circumstances.
simple etymology- autos -self, of or by oneself; mntos, men- [think MIND MENTAL] automa, automata, automatic, automat-ion...