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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
73–108 of 141
Hidden mover and magnet
Trahere draws; rapere seizes or carries rapidly; revocare calls back.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Hierarchy and development
Hierarchy is the ordering of degrees from gross matter toward spirit.
The Kybalion
Hierobotanum and mineral powers
The passage names a herb and several stones, then gives distinct operative verbs: bewitching, strengthening, blunting, stopping, calming, and repelling.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Hierophant
A hierophant is an instructor or revealer of sacred matters.
Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry
High and sharp
Oxys describes sharpness and, in musical contexts, a high pitch.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Higher beings
Kreittona genē means higher or superior kinds.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Highest good of Nature
The highest good of Nature is the Philosophers' Stone as attained through the help of Art.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Hinge and center
Cardo is a hinge, pivot, or axis; centrum the center; punctum a point; lineae rays or lines related to it.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Hipparchus
Ἵππαρχος is the personal name Hipparchus.
Hipparchus
Hippias and tyranny
Ἱππίας is Hippias, Hipparchus’ brother.
Hipparchus
Hippolyte La Morvonnais
The poet and host at Le Val, identified in the historical editor’s note as the author of La Thébaïde des Grèves.
The Green Notebook
Hippolytus
Hippolytus is the named witness whose refutation places accounts of Greek philosophy within a religious polemic.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Hippothales
Hippothales is the young man in love with Lysis.
Lysis
Hiram Abiff
Hiram Abiff is the builder whose legendary death and the resulting loss of the Word organize a central Masonic drama in the book.
Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry
Historical, physical, and theosophical proof
The recurring triad gathers ways of investigating and confirming the matter.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
History
Histoire may be a written representation of an era or a person’s own course of events from which experience is drawn.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Holiness
Holiness names a life set in right relation to God and conformed to his goodness.
Centuries of Meditations
Hollow
Koilos is hollow or concave.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Holy speech
Hosios concerns what is holy or religiously right.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity, named also Holy Ghost and Comforter.
Centuries of Meditations
Homeland and exile
Patrie is the homeland as an object of attachment, distinct from any merely geographical pays.
René
Homely
Homely means plain, unadorned, humble or familiar, with its local object deciding the value.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Homer
Homērōi is the dative of Homer, the poet appealed to as an authority at 161a.
Charmides · Alcibiades I+4 books
Homogeneous parts
Homoiomerēs means having parts like the whole or like one another in the relevant respect.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Honesty
Honnête often means morally honorable or socially decent here, rather than merely truthful or financially honest.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · The Anatomy of Melancholy
Honey libations
Spondai are libations, poured offerings.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Honey, whiteness and the wall
Mel, encountered as mellis, is honey; guttula is a small drop.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Honor
Timē is honor or esteem, including the recognition paid to a god.
Stobaeus, Volume I · The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II+2 books
Honour, fame and worth
Timē is honour; being honoured and loving honour concern public valuation.
Alcibiades I · Hipparchus
Hope
Elpis is hope or expectation.
Stobaeus, Volume I · The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II+2 books
Hope and despair
Espérance and espoir can designate religious trust, an anticipated future, or the smallest surviving possibility of relief.
The Green Notebook
Hope happiness and the opening limit
Elpis is hope or expectation.
Epinomis
Hoplite fighting
Ὁπλιτική names armed or hoplite fighting as a learned subject.
Alcibiades I
Horizon
The horizon is the apparent boundary and enclosing reach of a view, not necessarily a barrier that can be reached.
The Green Notebook
Horn-coloured Firestone
Horn-coloured firestone is a descriptive material-name reported on page 34.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Horse-breeding
Hippotrophia means horse-breeding or maintaining horses.
Lysis
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