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Clarification   Listen
noun
Clarification  n.  
1.
The act or process of making clear or transparent, by freeing visible impurities; as, the clarification of wine.
2.
The act of freeing from obscurities. "The clarification of men's ideas."





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"Clarification" Quotes from Famous Books



... 1909, p. 169 ff.) In the laws of the grand lodge "Indissolubilis" (17th and 18th centuries) there are found as doctrinal symbols of the three grades, the alchemistic symbols of salt (rectification, clarification), of quicksilver (illumination), and of sulphur (unification, tincture), used in a way that corresponds to the stages of realization of the "Great Work." The M. H. d. C. G., 1909, p. 173 ff. remarks that we should probably regard it only as an accident, if there are not found, ...
— Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts • Herbert Silberer


Words linked to "Clarification" :   improvement, elucidation, illumination


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