From the book
A New Light of Alchemy
Michael Sendivogius · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- 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
- Dialogue of Mercury, the Alchemist and Nature · Passage 12Latinut sint ambo unum et teneant pondus.