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.SATURN --- Horned Saturn --- A name which chemists have applied to Lead when dissolved inAquafortis and precipitated with Spirit of Salt.SATURNIAN --- The Mercury of the Philosophers.SAURE --- Fresh Water-cress.SAVOUR --- That sensation which Sulphureous, Mercurial, and Saline Spirits occasion in theorgans of taste.The varieties of Salt in themselves possess no savour, and their sharp or acrid natureis to be attributed to the igneous quality which is communicated to them by a Volatile andMercurial Sulphur which is invariably combined with them, and is exceedingly difficult to separate.The different savours must be entirely attributed to the proportion in which the said Sulphurcombines with the Salts; it is bitter, sweet, or acid, in strict correspondence with this proportion; themore penetrating the savour the greater is the quantity of Mercurial Sulphur.SAYRSA --- A name of Mars --- i.e., of Iron.SCAOPTEZE --- Flame.SCARELLUM --- Feathery Alum.SCARTEA --- The plant Orval, or Clery.SCHONAM --- Salt of the Philosophers.SCIRPUS --- A Reed.SCOLYMUS --- Artichoke.SCORODON --- Garlic.SCORPION --- A term which certain chemists have applied to the Stone of the Philosophers.SCRIPTULUM --- A Scruple, a Weight used in Medicine; it is the Third Part of a Drachm.SCYTHE OF SATURN --- An expression made use of by the Philosophers in reference to theFixed Part of the Matter of the Work which fixes the volatility of the Mercury of the Sages.SCYTICA RADIX --- Liquorice. SEASONS --- The Philosophers have their four Seasons, corresponding to the four divisions of thevulgar year, but they differ materially from these.They understand by the term Seasons thedifferent states through which the Matter of the Art passes during the course of the operations, andthese Seasons are renewed throughout each philosophical year-that is to say, each time that anoperation is reiterated to arrive at the perfection of the Work.Their Winter is the period ofDissolution and of Putrefaction.Spring succeeds, and it endures from the time that the Black colourbegins to vanish until the moment when the White has become perfect.The period of the WhiteColour and of the Saffron which follows it constitutes the Summer of the Work, while the ensuingRed colour is the Autumn of the Sages.It is for this reason that they say Winter is the first season ofthe year, and the Work must be begun in the Winter.Those who recommend beginning in Springhave in view only the Matter with which the Work must be performed, and not the commencementof the labour of the Artist, since he can perform that during any of the vulgar seasons.SEBLEINDE --- The Matter of the Work.SECRET OF THE SCHOOL --- This expression possesses a special application to the true andintimate Matter of the Work, and to its first preparation.SEDEN, or SEDINA --- Dragon's Blood.SEMEN, or SEED --- When simply so called, signifies, in the terminology of Alchemy, theSulphur of the Philosophers.But when they speak of the seed of metals the reference is made totheir Mercury, and sometimes to their Magistery when it has attained to the Red Stage.When,however, the Adepts discourse in a more general manner of the Seed of Metals, i.e., of the vulgarmetals, and when they give instruction as to the manner of its formation in the bowels of the earth,the Seed of which they then speak is a Vapour formed by the union of the elements, carried downinto the earth by the air and water, but afterwards sublimed back again to the surface by theoperation of the central fire.This vapour becomes corporified, and either of an unctuous or viscousquality; it adheres in its sublimations to the Sulphur which it carries away with it, and forms moreor less perfect metals according to the greater or lesser purity of the Sulphur and the Matter.SIEVE OF NATURE --- The Air.SIEVE OF THE SAGES --- Hermetic Mercury.SIEVE (Hermetic) --- Mercurial Water.SIMILITUDES --- Celestial Appearances.SOW --- To Sow is to Cook, i.e., to Continue the Regimen of the Fire.The Philosophers say: Sowyour Gold in a white and foliated earth which has been well prepared --- that is to say, Elaborateyour Matter from the White to the Red colour.SEMINALIS --- Knob-grass, Centinodia.SEMIS --- For which S is commonly used as a sign or symbol, signifies a Half-ounce, a Half-pound, etc.SENTISSIS --- The same as Semis.SEMMOCIA --- A Half-ounce. SENCO --- Lead.SEVEN --- This is the Mysterious Number of Holy Scripture, and it is that also of the Great Work.The Philosophers speak of Seven Planets, Seven Kingdoms, Seven Operations, Seven Circles,Seven Metals.They say that their work resembles the creation of the world, which wasaccomplished in seven days.St.Thomas Aquinas in his Epistle to Brother Raynang, his friend, saysthat the work is performed in three times seven days and one day.SEPULCHRE --- This name has been applied by one of the Adepts to the Glass Vase whichcontains the Compost or Matter of the Work; but the same name has been applied by others to acertain Matter which contains another Matter as if entombed in its breast.It is also given to theBlack colour which appears during the period of putrefaction, because corruption is a sign of death,and black is a symbol of mourning.Sometimes the term Sepulchre has been used to signify theDissolvent of the Sages.SERAPIAS ORCHIS --- A Species of Ragwort, the Flowers of which resemble some very fertileInsect.SERAPINUS --- Gum Arabic.SERAPINUS --- Syrup.SERF --- The Mercury of the Philosophers.Vide Servus Fugitivus in Rulandus.The term issignificant of the Volatile Quality.SERINECH --- The Magistery at the White Stage.SERIOLA or SERIS --- Endive.SERNEC --- Vitriol.SERPENT of MARS --- The Mercury of the Philosophers.SERPIGO --- Moss.SERRIOLA --- Endive.SERTULA CAMPANA --- Sweet Trefoil.SERVANT --- This name is applied by the Philosophers to their Matters because they workaccording to the desires of the Adepts and yield obedience to their will
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