tincture: 1. a medicine made by dissolving a drug in alcohol
2. a slight trace of something.
3. [Heraldry] any of the conventional colors (including the metals and stains, and often the furs) used in coats of arms.
拉丁语 tinctura，本意染色，后有染剂之意，在炼金文本中描述变色过程，变色可谓是炼金核心步骤。可作“红染”“白染”。
故在透特中译作“染剂”。 作者: Nemo 时间: 2018-1-30 14:47 Hierophant
a person, especially a priest in ancient Greece, who interprets sacred mysteries or esoteric principles.
late 17th century: via late Latin from Greek hierophantēs, from hieros ‘sacred’ + phainein ‘show, reveal.’
"expounder of sacred mysteries," 1670s, from Late Latin hierophantes, from Greek hierophantes "one who teaches the rites of sacrifice and worship," literally "one who shows sacred things," from hieros "sacred," from PIE root *eis-, forming words denoting passion (see ire) + phainein "to reveal, bring to light" (from PIE root *bha- (1) "to shine"). In modern use, "expounder of esoteric doctrines," from 1822.
常见的翻译“教皇”似乎比较看图意会了。作者: Nemo 时间: 2018-4-9 08:41
As above, so below,
As within, so Without,
as the universe so the soul,
which is also a principle of Hermes Trismegistus