Page 57 - A critical exposition of Jung's theory of alchemy
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Glossary       Base substance, Chaos
               Undifferentiated substance.
Prima Materia  Blackening
Massa Confusa  Whitening
Nigredo        Reddening
Albedo         Separation of joined parts.
Rubedo         Separation of opposites
Separatio      Joining
               Causing to die, to torture or mortify
Coniunctio     Allowing to putrefy, to ferment, emit bubbles
Mortificatio   and foul gases
Putrefactio    Calcination (burning to ash)
               Dissolution, to dissolve
Calcinatio     Coagulation, to make solid
Solutio        Volatilisation, turning into air
Coagulatio     Throwing the Philosopher's Stone onto the substance to be
Sublimatio     transformed, usually while the substance is melted.
Proiectio      Multiplying the Gold you have obtained.
               Inner dialogue
Multiplicatio  Imaginal potentizing
Medatatio      Stone, usually the Philosopher's Stone
Imaginatio     or Lapis Philosophorum
Lapis

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