Art and operations

Maintain the weight

teneant pondus

The phrase occurs in Mercury’s instruction to add air to air so that both become one.

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A New Light of Alchemy

Michael Sendivogius · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
maintain the weight

Meaning

Phrase.

The phrase occurs in Mercury’s instruction to add air to air so that both become one. Weight belongs to the enigmatic sequence with warm fire and seasons, but the dialogue supplies no numerical amount or fully specified materials. Its lexical role is a requirement of measure or maintained proportion inside the utterance, not a licence to invent practical parameters that the source omits.

Places to read

  1. Dialogue of Mercury, the Alchemist and Nature · Passage 12Latinut sint ambo unum et teneant pondus.