Editing Philosopher's stone (section)

===Names===
Numerous synonyms were used to make oblique reference to the stone, such as "white stone" (''calculus albus'', identified with the ''calculus candidus'' of Revelation 2:17 which was taken as a symbol of the glory of heaven<ref>{{Cite book |last=Salomon |first=Glass |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/717819681 |title=Philologia sacra : qua totius Vet. et Novi Testamenti Scripturae tum stylus et litteratura, tum sensus et genuinae interpretationis ratio et doctrina libris V expenditur ac traditur |date=1743 |publisher=J. Fred. Gleditschius |oclc=717819681 |access-date=19 November 2021 |archive-date=16 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230316063551/https://worldcat.org/title/717819681 |url-status=live }}</ref>), ''[[vitriol]]'' (as expressed in the [[backronym]] ''Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem''), also ''lapis noster'', ''lapis occultus'', ''in water at the box'', and numerous oblique, mystical or mythological references such as ''[[Adam]], Aer, Animal, Alkahest, Antidotus, [[Antimony|Antimonium]], Aqua benedicta, Aqua volans per aeram, [[wikt:arcanum|Arcanum]], Atramentum, Autumnus, Basilicus, Brutorum cor, Bufo, Capillus, Capistrum auri, Carbones, [[Cerberus]], [[Chaos (cosmogony)|Chaos]], Cinis cineris, [[Crocus]], Dominus philosophorum, Divine quintessence, Draco elixir, Filius ignis, Fimus, Folium, Frater, Granum, Granum frumenti, Haematites, Hepar, Herba, Herbalis, [[Kimia]], Lac, Melancholia, Ovum philosophorum, Panacea salutifera, [[Pandora]], [[Phoenix (mythology)|Phoenix]], Philosophic mercury, Pyrites, Radices arboris solares, Regina, Rex regum, Sal metallorum, Salvator terrenus, Talcum, Thesaurus, Ventus hermetis''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Schneider |first=W. |title=Lexikon alchemistisch-pharmazeutischer Symbole |publisher=Weinheim |year=1962}}</ref> Many of the medieval allegories of Christ were adopted for the ''lapis'', and the Christ and the Stone were indeed taken as identical in a mystical sense. The name of "Stone" or ''lapis'' itself is informed by early Christian allegory, such as [[Priscillian]] (4th century), who stated,

{{blockquote|''Unicornis est Deus, nobis petra Christus, nobis lapis angularis Jesus, nobis hominum homo Christus'' (One-horned is God, Christ the rock to us, Jesus the cornerstone to us, Christ the man of men to us.)<ref>{{Cite book |title=Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum |location=t. XVIII |page=24}} as cited in {{Cite book |first=C. G. |last=Jung |title=Roots of Consciousness}}</ref>}}

In some texts, it is simply called "stone", or our stone, or in the case of [[Thomas Norton (alchemist)|Thomas Norton's]] Ordinal, "oure delycious stone".<ref>Line 744 in Thomas Norton's The Ordinal of Alchemy by John Rediry. The Early English Text Society no. 272.</ref> The stone was frequently praised and referred to in such terms.

It may be noted that the Latin expression {{transliteration|la|lapis philosophorum}}, as well as the Arabic {{transliteration|ar|ḥajar al-falāsifa}} from which the Latin derives, both employ the plural form of the word for ''philosopher''. Thus a literal translation would be ''philosophers' stone'' rather than ''philosopher's stone''.<ref>As used, for example, by {{harvnb|Principe|2013}} ({{transliteration|la|passim}}, see the pages referenced in the index, p. 278).</ref>