II. EXPLANATIONS OF TERMS USED BY 

 PARACELSUS. 



Including some other Terms frequently used by Writers on 

 Occultism. 



'* Since the days of the unlucky mediaeval philosophers, the last to write 

 upon these secret doctrines of which they were the depositaries, few 

 men have dared to brave persecution and prejudice by placing their 

 knowledge upon record. And these few have never as a rule written 

 for the public, but only for those of their own and succeeding times 

 who possessed the key to their jargon. The multitude, not under- 

 standing them or their doctrines, have been accustomed to look upon 

 them as either charlatans or dreamers." — H. P. BlAVATSKY : his 

 Unveiled, vol. i. 



Abessi, or Rebis. — Refuse ; dead matter ; excrementitious sub- 

 stances. 



Adech, — The inner (spiritual) man ; the lord of thought and 

 imagination, forming subjectively all things in his mind, which 

 the exterior (material) man may objectively reproduce. Either 

 of the two acts according to liis nature, the invisible in an 

 invisible, and the visible one in a visible manner, but both act 

 correspondingly. The outer man may act what the inner man 

 thinks, but thinking is acting in the sphere of thought, and 

 the products of thought are transcendentally substantial, even 

 if they are not thrown into objectivity on the material plane. 

 The inner man is and does what he desires and thinks. Whether 

 or not his good or evil thoughts and intentions find expression 

 on the material plane is of less importance to his own spiritual 

 development than to others who may be affected by his acts, but 

 less by his thoughts. 



Admisural. — Earth (literally and allegorically). 



Adrop, Azane, or Azar. — "The Philosopher's Stone." This is not 



a stone in the usual sense of that term, but an allegorical 



expression, meaning the principle of wisdom on which the 



philosopher who has obtained it by practical experience (not 



39 



