Orphic egg
English
Noun
Orphic egg (plural Orphic eggs)
- A ovoid vessel formerly used by alchemists for sublimation; an aludel.
- 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 130:
- The vessel used for containing the necessary substances was egg-shaped; the matrix, or Orphic egg, which is found at the base of all initiations.