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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 M
145–180 of 193
Moon and stars
Moon and stars supply points of nocturnal light, in contrast to the sun’s wider illumination.
The Green Notebook
Moral concord and the robber
Moral concord is agreement of the soul’s activities with reason.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Moral law
Moral law is the universal ethical order the quoted account considers discoverable through reason.
Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry
Morality
Morale names the field or discipline of conduct, as well as a moral teaching.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Mordreux
The family household where Guérin spends three weeks around the turn of 1834.
The Green Notebook
More and less
Μᾶλλον and ἧττον mean more and less in degree: more human, more properly a gain, or doing something to a greater degree.
Hipparchus
More-than-perfection
More-than-perfection names the condition beyond ordinary natural perfection that enables the Stone’s extraordinary effects.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Morienus
Morienus is named in a brief marginal saying excluding something other from the work.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Mortal
Thnētos marks liability to death and can also designate a mortal being.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Mortal limits
Broteiē mētis is mortal intelligence or resourcefulness.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Moses
Moses is the scriptural leader of Israel.
Centuries of Meditations
Moses and biblical patriarchs
Moses and the patriarchs furnish scriptural figures through whom the book explains sacred law, transmission, reverence, oaths, and spiritual ascent.
Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry
Moses and first creation
The first two chapters of the first book of Moses are introduced at pp. 43–44 as a source from which the first matter of the great material World could be demonstrated.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Moses, the brazen serpent and the oak cross
Moses’ healing serpent becomes a figure of the passage from poison to medicine; the oak cross also receives an operative interpretation.
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I
Mother
Mētēr is mother.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Mother and Womb
The mother or mother’s body is the pri-material medium that makes true corruption and new generation possible.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Mother principle
The Mother principle is a symbolic account of productive, sustaining divine life.
Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry
Motion
Kinēsis is broader than movement from one place to another.
Stobaeus, Volume I · Centuries of Meditations+3 books
Motion and frequency
Motion is change of position or state; vibration is the recurrent movement through which the book explains a universal scale of differences.
The Kybalion
Motion toward good and toward its contrary
Agathos is good, aristos best, and phlauros poor or inferior; the local contrast need not make every use of phlauros a synonym of extreme moral wickedness.
Epinomis
Mountain
Oros, mountain, must be distinguished from horos, boundary or definition, by its breathing and context.
Stobaeus, Volume I · The Green Notebook
Mountain cleft
Diasphax designates a cleft or opening; emphraxas means blocking it and apoteichisas walling it off.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Mountebank
Mountebanks and Quacksalvers are disparaging names for sellers of dubious remedies or pretended healers.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Mourning
Mourning is the work by which a living relationship changes after death.
The Green Notebook
Mouth
Stoma is the mouth and can more broadly mean an opening.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Movement
Mouvement ranges from change of place to an impulse, mental activity, and a movement of eloquence.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Movement and Immobility
Kinō evokes movement, while Astemphēs means unshaken or immovable.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Movement and section
A section is the figure formed where a plane or other lower-dimensional region intersects a body.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Moving cause
The phrase is a “source” or “principle of motion”; the related causal forms occur in Aristotle’s assessment of Empedocles.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Mule sterility
The heading comes from the edition’s explanation of Aristotle’s context for B92.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I · Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Muleteer
Oreokomos means muleteer; the person who tends and manages the mules.
Lysis
Multiplication
Multiplication names the production of further fruits of the prepared metal’s own kind.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum · The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I
Multiplicity
Plēthos denotes a multitude or plurality.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Murder and bloodshed
Phonos names killing or bloodshed and, by extension, the blood associated with slaughter.
Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Muse
The goddesses whose name supplies the clue to identifying the craft of music, song and stepping in time.
Alcibiades I · Empedocles’ Complete Fragments, Volume I
Music
Kitharizein is to play the lyre or kithara, and kitharistēs the associated teacher or player.
Charmides · Alcibiades I+7 books
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