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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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