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Lexicon
Terms from the books in the Diotimos library, with definitions, translation notes, and links to their passages.
7,826 entries across 28 collectionsEntries
397–432 of 5,781
Augustine and Christian proximity
Aureliana is an adjective referring back to Aurelius Augustine in the preceding unit.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume I
Aurora
Aurora is the Philosophers' dawn, used in two primary marginal warnings about corporeal mercuries.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Aurum potabile
“aurum potabile” literally means drinkable gold.
The Anatomy of Melancholy · The Sophic Hydrolith, Water Stone of the Wise
Auspicious in speech
Εὔφημος describes what is associated with favourable or auspicious utterance.
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Auspicious speech
Euphēmia is auspicious or good-omened speech, including the restraint or silence required to prevent ill-omened words in worship.
Alcibiades II · Hipparchus
Austere composition
Ἁρμονία here is an arrangement or mode of verbal composition, not automatically the cosmic harmony of a physical theory.
Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Austere taste
Austēros can describe an austere, dry, or rough taste.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Authenticity of books
A book's authority is conditional upon its agreement with the appropriate ground of truth.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Author
Auteur usually names an originating writer, but can extend to a progenitor; écrivain specifically concerns writing.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II
Author and characters
The literary creator and the imagined character form an analogy for THE ALL and the universe.
The Kybalion
Author of the Rosarium maius
This catalogue designation means the author of the greater Rosarium.
The Sophic Hydrolith, Water Stone of the Wise
Authority
Autorité concerns the weight of a person, office or tradition in directing judgment.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Centuries of Meditations+1 book
Authority and testimony
Authority identifies a speaker or tradition; testimony supplies a reported observation or achievement.
Candida Phoenix Philosophica · The Sophic Hydrolith, Water Stone of the Wise
Authorship and attribution
Authorship asks who composed the dialogue; attribution is its transmission under Plato’s name.
Alcibiades I · Alcibiades II+1 book
Autobiography and Self-Examination
To lay the heart bare is to promise access to inward life.
Intimate Journals
Autopsy
Autopsy here means the full beholding or disclosure of the mysteries, rather than a medical examination of a dead body.
Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry
Autumn
Autumn is registered through mist, earlier darkness, pale woodland colour, and leaves beginning to fall.
The Green Notebook · René
Autumnal
At XXIX.14 μετοπωρινά qualifies the beds or union in which Persephone becomes a bride through seizure.
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Avenger
Zeus-Daimon is invoked as an avenging power beside wandering and universal kingship at LXXIII.3.
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Avenger or punisher
The Erinyes and Eumenides are punitive powers (LXIX.7; LXX.5), while Dike bears down as an avenger on the unjust (LXII.4).
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Avert
Nereus is asked to avert earthquakes at XXIII.7 and, in contrast, to send benefits to initiates.
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Avicenna
Avicenna is invoked both as a transmitter of a disputed Aristotle saying and as a witness to the truth found by returning to natural principles.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Avicenna
Avicenna serves several different authorising functions.
The Sophic Hydrolith, Water Stone of the Wise
Avicenna’s imagined adult
Ficta means imagined or devised in this thought experiment, not necessarily deceitful.
Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Awaken and kindle
Awakening and kindling describe a power being brought into activity, not created by the human worker from nothing.
The Sophic Hydrolith, Water Stone of the Wise
Awakening
Awakening is a passage from sleep or inattention into active awareness.
Centuries of Meditations
Awareness and apprehension
Antilēpsis is apprehension or taking cognizance of something.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Axiom
An axiom declares what appears most true and can guide demonstration.
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volumes I–II · Candida Phoenix Philosophica
Axiom and maxim
An axiom is a principle or general proposition used as a standard in argument; axiome and axiomes are ordinary printed forms.
The Anatomy of Melancholy · The Kybalion
Axis
Axōn is an axle or axis.
Stobaeus, Volume I
Azazel and the cabalistic witnesses
Azazel appears in the Latin threat on p. 147 as the subdelegate of avenging IEHOVAH.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Azoth
Azoth names the philosophical Mercury in its pri-material catholic use, especially as purified, living mercurial matter.
Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum · The Sophic Hydrolith, Water Stone of the Wise
Azoth
Azoth appears as a name attached to the vegetable position in the preliminary chain diagram.
The Golden Chain of Homer
B. T.
B. T. is an unexplained closing siglum in the Second Response printed in 1661.
The Sophic Hydrolith, Water Stone of the Wise
Babbling and self-deprecation
Ληρεῖν is to talk nonsense, and λῆρος is nonsense or trash; φαῦλος is ordinary, and so poor, and a ζητητής is one who seeks.
Charmides
Babel
Babel evokes the biblical association of human building with confusion.
Centuries of Meditations
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
Diotimos Editions · 2026
Candida Phoenix Philosophica Lexicon
Candida Phoenix Philosophica · Anonymous
155 entries · 478 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
377 entries · 6,929 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
Diotimos Editions · 2026
The Golden Chain of Homer Lexicon
The Golden Chain of Homer · Anonymous (traditionally attributed to Anton Joseph Kirchweger)
125 entries · 0 subsidiary terms
Diotimos Editions · 2026
The Orphic Hymns Lexicon
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns · Attributed to Orpheus
1,958 entries · 276 subsidiary terms
Diotimos Editions · 2026
The Sophic Hydrolith Lexicon
The Sophic Hydrolith, Water Stone of the Wise · Anonymous and companion authors
656 entries · 430 subsidiary terms