Cicero - Self Initiation into the Golden Dawn Tradition_Part 01

TheZelator Grade 141
AQUA PERMANENS: The "Imperishable or Enduring Water." The Mercury of
the Philosophers. Sol and Luna dissolved and united.
AQUA VITAE: Alcohol. Feminine secretions.
AQUILA PHILOSOPHORUM: The "Eagle of the Philosophers." The Mercury of
metals described as a "metallic nature reduced to its First Matter."
ARCHAEUS: The hidden essence in the First Matter which must be drawn out.
ARGENT VIVE: "Secret Fire," Philosopher's Mercury; also called "living silver,"
the universal solvent of all metals.
ATTENUATED: Made thin.
AUR (Hebrew): Light.
AZOTH: The Universal Medicine to which all things are related, containing
within itself all other medicines. It is also the term for the Mercury of any
metallic body. Also considered as a living Spirit. The Quintessence. Water
of Spirit.
AURUM ALBUM: White gold.
BAETYLUS: A living Stone containing a Spirit.
BALSAMUM VITAE (The Balsam of Life): Acombination of natural heat and
radical moisture. In mystical Alchemy it symbolizes compassion, love and
revitalization.
BASILISK: Acreature with the bodyof a serpent or dragon and the head and claws
of a rooster. Symbolizes a dual nature or conflicting Elemental nature.
BAT:Androgyny. Double-natured.
BATH OF VENUS: Vagina.
BATHING: Purification through cleansing.
BEAR: The Nigredo of the First Matter.
BEE:Soul. Purity. Rebirth.
BEHEADING: Understanding which is forced on the Soul by nature through trial
and suffering. Separation which surmounts the physical body.
BENNU: The Egyptian Phoenix. A symbol of the Philosopher's Stone.
BLACKDRAGON: Death, putrefaction, decay.
BLOOD: Spirit.
BLOOD OF THE RED LION: Masculine fluid.
BOOK: Universe.
BOW: Male and female combination. Crescent of Luna as the feminine, the issuing
of the arrow as the masculine.
BREATH: Life-essence.
CADUCEUS: The power of transformation. Union of Opposites.
CAPUT MORTEM: The Tail end of the matter. Waste product.
CAUDA PAVONIS: The tail of the peacock.
CAULDRON (Kettle, cup or chalice): Fertility.The Womb. Transforming Power.
CHAIN: That which binds.
CHAOS: The Void. The fourfold division of the First Matter.
CHILD: Potential.
CHMO: Fermentation.
CHOL:Sand.