Azoth



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Azoth was considered to be a 'universal medicine' or 'universal solvent' sought in Mercury.

The term was considered by occultist Aleister Crowley to represent a unity of beginning and ending by tying together the first and last letters of the alphabets of antiquity; A/Alpha/Alef (first character of Roman, Greek & Hebrew), Z (final character in Latin), O as Omega (final character in Greek) and Th as Tau (final character in Hebrew). In this way permeation and totality of beginning and end was symbolised to consider the supreme wholeness and thus the universal synthesis of opposites as a 'cancellation' (i.e. solvent) or cohesion (i.e. medicine), and in such a way is similar to the philosophical "absolute" of Hegel's dialectic. Crowley further made reference in his works referring to Azoth as "the fluid."

References

  • Crowley, Aleister. 777 And Other Qabalistic Writings of Aleister Crowley. York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser, 1977. ISBN 0-87728-670-1. 
 
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