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Lexicon
Terms from the books in the Diotimos library, with definitions, translation notes, and links to their passages.
4,850 entries across 24 collectionsTerms beginning with H
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Heating devices
Seneca names dracones, translated coiled heaters, and miliaria, water-boilers.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Heaven
Ouranos names heaven, the surrounding celestial region or structure.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Centuries of Meditations+1 book
Heaven and hell
Ciel and enfer are spatial words with religious and literary uses.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Heaven as giver teacher and object of contemplation
Ouranos is heaven or sky, and Ouranos the same word presented as the god Heaven.
Epinomis
Hedgehog bristles
B83 gives hedgehogs sharp-pointed bristles standing on their backs.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Height
Hypsos is height.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Heir and inheritance
An heir receives an estate or possession by a recognised relation to its giver or predecessor.
Centuries of Meditations
Hell
Hell names the state of punishment and separation from blessed enjoyment.
Centuries of Meditations
Hellebore
The exclamation “O heads deserving of hellebore” answers the inference that every material Khunrath has worked upon must therefore be his Magnesia.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Helleborism
Helleborism is treatment with hellebore, particularly its use as a purgative.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Help
Boētheia is help or assistance; boēthos a helper.
Epinomis · Lysis+1 book
Hemisphere
Hēmisphairion is half of a sphere.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Hemlock
Kōneion means hemlock.
Lysis
Hera
The epic form Hērē is accompanied in B 6 by pheresbios, rendered “life-bearing.”
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Heracles and the Heraclids
Heracles is the heroic ancestor assigned to the Spartan royal line; Heraclids are his descendants and the family from which the kings are supposed to be born.
Alcibiades I
Heraclitus and Spencer
Heraclitus and Herbert Spencer are joined by the author as successive expressions of one underlying wisdom.
The Kybalion
Herbal
An Herbal or Herball is a book describing plants and their properties.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Hercules and the labours
Hercules is the conquering solar or sulfurous spirit whose labors represent the work's difficult operations.
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I
Herder
The named reading source for an analogy among flowering plants, birds, and human beings after the season of reproduction or passion.
The Green Notebook
Here, there, and the Antipodes
Hic is here; illic and ibi there.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Hermaea
Hermaea is the festival being celebrated at the wrestling-school.
Lysis
Hermaphrodite
Hermaphroditic describes the Son of the great World as bearing complementary principles within one subject.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Hermes and the Emerald Table
Hermes is a named witness at several different points, and the Emerald Table is explicitly named once.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Hermes and the Hermetic books
Hermes names an authority of sacred learning; Hermetic identifies teachings, books, or practitioners placed within that field.
Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry
Hermes Trismegistus
Mercurius Trismegistus is the Latin form of Hermes Trismegistus, the sage to whom Hermetic writings were traditionally attributed.
Centuries of Meditations · The Kybalion+1 book
Hermetic philosophy
Hermetic philosophy is the system the book associates with Hermes and presents through its seven principles.
The Kybalion
Hermetic theologians and the Magi
Mercuriales theologi names the theologians associated by Ficino with Mercury or Hermes; magi names an attributed body of religious-philosophical authorities.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Herms and Hermes
Ἑρμῆς is Hermes, and the same name can designate a Herm, the stone monument representing him.
Hipparchus
Hero
Hērōs is a hero, including a recipient of religious observance distinct from ordinary living humans.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Herod and the Magi
Herod and the Wise distinguish the ends of an inquiry whose outward diligence may look the same.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Herod and the massacre emblem
Herod’s massacre emblem presents a king, suffering mothers, children, soldiers, and a blood-filled bath.
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I
Heroical love
Heroical love is Burton’s historical category for erotic passion treated in relation to melancholy.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Hesiod
Hēsiodos is the poet whose statement about work Critias cites.
Charmides
Hesitation
Okneō means hesitate, shrink from doing something.
Lysis
Hidden
Kryptos is hidden or concealed.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Centuries of Meditations+1 book
Hidden masters
Hidden masters are teachers or superiors whose guidance is asserted while their identities, locations, or full activities remain concealed.
Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry
Books in the Lexicon
October 2026
Plato’s Alcibiades I Lexicon
Alcibiades I · Plato
176 entries · 701 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Plato’s Alcibiades II Lexicon
Alcibiades II · Plato
94 entries · 290 subsidiary terms
Diotimos Editions · 2026
Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry Lexicon
Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry · R. Swinburne Clymer
131 entries · 495 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Traherne Lexicon
Centuries of Meditations · Thomas Traherne
471 entries · 0 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Plato’s Charmides Lexicon
Charmides · Plato
173 entries · 777 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Empedocles Lexicon
Empedocles, Volumes I–II · Empedocles of Acragas
490 entries · 0 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Plato’s Epinomis Lexicon
Epinomis · Plato
77 entries · 1,061 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Flatland Literary Lexicon
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions · Edwin A. Abbott
85 entries · 476 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Khunrath Lexicon
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum · Heinrich Khunrath
326 entries · 0 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Plato’s Hipparchus Lexicon
Hipparchus · Plato
90 entries · 291 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Baudelaire Literary Lexicon
Intimate Journals · Charles Baudelaire
80 entries · 323 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Plato’s Lysis Lexicon
Lysis · Plato
239 entries · 0 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I Lexicon
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I · Marsilio Ficino
231 entries · 1,313 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II Lexicon
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II · Marsilio Ficino
148 entries · 1,398 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Plato’s Minos Lexicon
Minos · Plato
54 entries · 506 subsidiary terms
October 2026
René Literary Lexicon
René · François-René de Chateaubriand
81 entries · 275 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Stobaeus Lexicon
Stobaeus, Volume I · John Stobaeus
610 entries · 85 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy Lexicon
The Anatomy of Melancholy · Robert Burton
295 entries · 6,097 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Guérin Lexicon
The Green Notebook · Maurice de Guérin
165 entries · 0 subsidiary terms
Diotimos Editions · 2026
The Kybalion Lexicon
The Kybalion · Three Initiates
92 entries · 347 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Plato’s Lovers Lexicon
The Lovers · Plato
83 entries · 361 subsidiary terms
Diotimos Editions · 2026
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I Lexicon
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I · Attributed to Abraham the Jew
138 entries · 541 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Joubert Lexicon
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Joseph Joubert
459 entries · 110 subsidiary terms
October 2026
Plato’s Theages Lexicon
Theages · Plato
62 entries · 510 subsidiary terms