Athanor

Athanor
According to Philostratus in his Life of Apollonius, athanor is an occult hill, surrounded by mist except on its southern side which is clear.

IV The Athanor of Regeneration
Frances Yates in The Rosicrucian Enlightenment says that Rosicrucianism was the continuation of the earlier hermetic-kabbalistic tradition which reached a new level by assimilating the doctrines and symbols of alchemy.

(6} Dans l'athanor ainsi que dans le Tohau-Bahou génésiaque. (G. de G.}.
{7) Cf. Plutarque, de Iside et Osiride,, § XXIX (G. de G.).
(8) Il faut lire évidemment: Thaumatopoetica, choses merveilleuses, étonnantes (G. de G.).

" Moreover, the Hierophant proclaims: "Zelator is further the title of the assistant of an Alkhemist who must keep the Fire burning in the Athanor or Alkhemical Furnace.

The Rose itself lies upon the four-armed Cross of Nature, symbolic of the physical elements which the adept has to transmute into pure gold in the athanor of his heart.

" The triangular altar is Athanor, a self-feeding digesting furnace used by the alchemists, but the word may be divided into two. The first part then means immortality and the second, the four quarters of the heavens.

See also: Philo, Alchemy, Spirit, Elements, Occult