Azoth
In the alchemists' view of the world, Azoth is the preliminary stage to the legendary philosopher's stone or the purely spiritual substance detached from matter from which one wants to crystallize the philosopher's stone.
The French occultist Éliphas Lévi called the world soul Azoth, imagining it to be something like an etheric substance . In his opinion Azoth should be polar and separated them into Od and Ob, a positive and a negative light (whereby the terms Azoth, light and God are often equivalent in Lévi), which one should be able to influence through appropriate magical acts. In his studies of the tarot and the Kabbalah , Lévi Azoth assigned the world and the Hebrew letter Taw to the tarot card , and referred to Azoth as the name of the realized God.
literature
- Éliphas Lévi : Transcendental Magic . Dogma and Ritual , Ludwig Verlag, Munich, 2000, ISBN 3-7787-7171-X .
