EXPLANATIONS OF TERMS 3« 



solid visible, material and earthly gold. The two former are, so 

 to say, the spirit and soul of the latter, and by employing the 

 spiritual powers of the soul we may induce changes in them 

 that may become visible in the objective state. Certain external 

 manipulations may assist the powers of the soul in their work ; 

 but without the possession of the latter the former will be 

 perfectly useless. Alchemical processes can therefore only be 

 successfully undertaken by one who is an Alchemist by birth or 

 by education. Everything being of a threefold nature, there is 

 a threefold aspect of Alchemy. In its higher aspect it teaches 

 the regeueration of the spiritual man, the purification of the 

 mind, thought, and will, the ennobling of all the faculties of the 

 soul. In its lowest aspect it deals with physical substances, and 

 as it leaves the realm of the living soul, and steps down to 

 hard matter, it ends in the science of modern chemistry of the 

 present day. 



Algol. — The substance of a body free from all earthly matter ; its 

 ethereal or astral form. 



Aluech. — The pure spiritual body (the Atma). 



Anatomy. — The knowledge of the parts of which a thing is com- 

 posed ; not merely of its physical organs and limbs, but of its 

 elements and principles. Thus the knowledge of the sevenfold con- 

 stitution of the univei-se embraces the anatomy of the Macrocosm. 



Aniadus. — The spiritual activity of things. 



Aniaddm. — The spiritual (re-born) man ; the activity of man's 

 spirit in his mortal body ; the Seat of Spiritual Consciousness. 



Aniada. — The activities that are caused by astral influences, celes- 

 tial powers ; the activity of imagination and phantasy. 



Anyodei. — The spiritual life ; the subjective state into which the 

 higher essence of the soul enters after death, and after having 

 lost its grosser parts in Kama-loca. It corresponds to the con- 

 ception of Devachan. 



Aquastor. — A being created by the power of the imagination — 1.«., 

 by a concentration of thought upon the A'kasa by which an 

 ethereal form may be created (Elementals, Succubi and Incubi, 

 Vampires, &c.). Such imaginary but nevertheless real forms 

 may obtain life from the person by whose imagination they are 

 created, and under certain circumstances they may even become 

 visible and tangible. 



Archates, or Archalles. — The element of the mineral kingdom. 



Archaeus. — The formative power of Nature, which divides the 

 elements and forms them into organic parts. It is the principle 

 of life ; the power which contains the essence of life and charac- 

 ter of everything. 



Ares. — The spiritual principle ; the cause of the specific character 

 of each thing. 



