Athanor
Athanor is a fire ritual tool in the Hermetic Western tradition, traditionally made of clay, brick and iron. It is used for alchemy, patience and transformation. It is aligned to the solar plexus chakra and root chakra.
Tradition · Hermetic Western
A note on this entry
The athanor is the slow, self-feeding furnace of the alchemists: the fire that must not be hurried.
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Practice
- Magical Uses
- AlchemyPatienceTransformationCooking
Details
- Traditional Material
- ClayBrickIron
- Keywords
- Slow firePatienceThe long work
- Associated Deities
- HephaestusPtah
- Cleansing
- FireSaltSmoke
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