Grasp the essence of the Art before your bunsen beak.

As a beginner you'll rush on labware, on protocols and recipes, you are eager to create tinctures and different products and most importantly, to test them in order to have results.

You want to express your creativity and your inner genius in your practical work with what (the little) you know. But, you have no experience yet, you don't even know how these products will work, some keys are obviously missing. Of course they miss because they are not found in books, or you can have them by an initiator. (and I wonder why it's always a kind of "101"- a lot of stuff on this blog, very important 'details' and informations, coming out of my practical experience in the lab was exclusive and new, and I wonder why, if all the authors have been actually working in the lab, why then, they don't express all this knowledge in their books, rarely, very rarely old authors speak about the inner contact with the matter in the flask, the contacted "archetypes"/beasts, the feelings and experience you can have in such situation, as if, a whole side of Alchemy was hidden or only existing as symbols in engravings, but it is a far more vast Science).

It is important to grasp the essence of the Art before being a technician in Alchemy. You technique is just a mirror of what you have inside yourself. At the beginning you have nothing personal (as experience and philosophy) in you, what you have can come from others via books, teachers, conferences, blogs ... but all this must be checked in the reality, and must pass the test of truth : Matter Never Lies. This is why Alchemy is one of the most concrete and palpable spiritual path. If the Matter shows you the Truth, if you don't see it, it is because of your inner chaotic vision. You cannot grasp a message when you don't understand the language, and when you are not able to decipher it.

Here are the two main problems : How to make the matter speak, how to understand what it says. Both depends of what you understand of the Art. Both can be solved by the Hermetical Vision or the True Understanding of Nature.

All this takes time & work, also a lot of engagement, dedication and energy are needed by the neophyte in order to have some advancement in this Art.

In order for you make matter speak, you need to open it, to make it evolve, and for this you need to know the Fires. Once you master the different Fires, you can witness changes. And then you can try to understand what Nature is trying to tell you. We can really touch cosmical concepts with that.

Empty techniques will yield nothing philosophical. You need to act philosophically in the Lab, and to make a conjunction of Lab, and Oratory in order to really have a Laboratory work. Only one will give nothing, both complete each other and are the complete philosophy. Alone they give nothing striking, but together they will generate a deeper impact on your psyche. And this is important.

Not all that shines is Gold, not all that is red is the Stone. Fool’s Gold is not just a pyrite, but an important principle. Discrimination can only be done by the mind’s eye, and not by the physical eye. Only the essence of the Art will give you this understanding of the real level of a production you have. Alchemical Science encompass a lot of levels of powers, from the simple extraction to the multi cycle evolved Pure Spiritus Mundi upon itself, which is the highest level of Stone. Between them you have a variety of productions, more or less powerful. Only the knowledge of the levels can give you a reference point for what you get.

Being an Artist is being a philosophical technician, with this Wild, Wise and Wide Vision of Nature in yourself, in a communion with the process you launch. You are just an agent of Nature, an applier of the Fires.

Matter never lies because it is an impossibility. Matter is the engraving of signatures, cycles, energies, process, evolutions, forces... and will express it as they are, directly under a language of forms. This is how God.ess speaks down here. The imprint, or fingerprint of Life is directly stamped into shapes and events, qualities of the matter. You see it or not. Having the Hermetic Vision is having access to this level of language. At first you find the language, and then you can speak it. The matter is the body of God.ess, as such, it is a precise vehicle of principles, the tables of laws were engraved into the rock, the laws are engraved into matter, this is the same thing. You can see specific things in the lab, and you can, will and should, broaden your vision by encompassing everything that is. You can decipher the whole creation. You can clearly find the Ariane's string into the labyrinth. Explaining this Vision in the detail would take a whole book, and one should have a strong stomach to digest all the principles and complexities of such language...but to the brave heart, everything is possible !

Some people are like Mercury.

Being an Alchemist is *always* a problem in regard to other categories of persons in this society - it surely always was after all, we know the story of the poor Edward Kelly, alias Edward Talbot (the medium of John Dee). (Take a look at his biography here) A lot of wandering Alchemists were present in Europe during the golden age of Alchemy (15 - 18th cent). Some, very powerful, like Lascaris, were lways moving, changing place and identity. Not every 50 years, after rejuvenation, but each time they felt "something". Which was very often. Some were established and with social rank (like Gualdi, but this one two disappeared suddenly, and reappeared some time after coming from a foreign country under the name of Prince Hualtazob).

Some people are like Mercury. They play a role of menstrum and you are the subject of their extraction. They will try to get out of you all your sap, all you that you know, everything and even more.

Some people would pay you, some would try to read in your mind while you're asleep, some would try to be close to you, and kind/manipulative in order to extract you some process, in the worse cases some would threaten you, some would threaten your familly and friends, would kidnapp you, would torture you (some black magus can do that easily at distance), and some would kill your familly by a way or another - astral mafia. Some Alchemists had nocturnes visits of high demons for example. I imagine it is the game.

What I know is that some succeeding alchemists, or even advanced one are under a Big Brother Eye (more like a Sauron's one ...), a French Alchemist died several years ago, and some people runned into his house in order to take his production, unknown people, coming out of "nowhere"... fortunately one of his friend came before and took the most important things.

This is not paranoïa. Alchemists are not psychotic.

This mafia is a real problem for those who don't know how to protect themselve, but we can perfetly blind them. We can see their action clearly. They want what we produce because it is Power, and everything they are not able to create. They want it because they do not deserve it. And because they do not deserve it, such Power is in their hand totally out of control, which will, by the end, destroy the owner. It is an intelligent Power, you have to Master (domesticate it) totally, otherwise, at such level, it will kill you, or push yourself to kill yourself. If you don't even know what to do with it, all its potentilities, all the applications, and how to handle it ... don't !

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Je suis désolé pour mes lecteurs français qui ne lisent pas l'anglais, l'inspiration (et donc l'expiration sur ce blog) me vient en anglais, et je n'ai absolument pas l'espace-temps nécessaire à la traduction des articles en ce moment, un jour probablement, je les laisse aux malencontreux et distordants soins de notre ami Google traduction ... en espérant que vous saurez vous en contenter pour l'instant ! Mes amitiés.

Notes sur les médecines spagyriques.

Il y a plus d'une chose qu'on doit comprendre vis à vis des médecines spagyriques.

Premièrement, l'effet de signature. Une plante, une gemme, un métal ou un produit animal, pour exister dans notre monde de dualité doit porter une signature ou une singularité propre, du coup, elle est réduite dans son action à son propre monde, à ses propres qualités.

N'attendez pas un effet sur la sphère martienne avec un élixir lunaire. C'est de la pure logique.

De plus, la manière de préparer la médecine va énormément influencer son pouvoir. Plus la qualité est raffinée, élevée, haussée, plus son effet va avoir un impact profond et spirituel sur les corps. L'idée est que plus une substance est élevée plus elle sera pénétrante dans les corps qu'elle va toucher, afin d'y infuser son pouvoir, c'est un ingrès énergétique et non plus un ingrès matériel comme en archimie. Nous renouvellons l'electro-magnétisme d'un corps entier en le touchant à sa racine, et non pas dans ses plans inférieurs, du coup, nous devons savoir que pour effectuer un rééquilibrage, il faut aller toucher la structure la plus élevée, qui va ainsi aller agir sur les plans inférieurs et plus denses d'une structure.

La question est donc : et la Pierre Philosophale alors ? Comment peut elle guérir toutes les maladies ? Et bien c'est qu'elle est Universelle dans sa signature et à la place la plus haute en qualité, voilà tout. Du coup, je vous donne une précieuse indication pour savoir d'où tirer la substance nécessaire à sa génération !

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There are more than one thing to know about spageric medicines.

First of all, the signature effect. A plant, a gem, a metal or an animal product, in order to exist in our world of duality, need to bring a signature or a proper singularity, and then, is limited in its action to its own world, to its own qualities.

Do not wait an effect upon the martian sphere with a lunar elixir ... it's pure logic.

Moreover, the way of preparation of the medicine will tremendously influence its power. More the quality is raffined, highten, elevated, more the effect will have a profound & spiritual impact upon the bodies. The idea is, more a substance is high, more it will be penetrating into the bodies it will touch, in order to infuse its power, it is an energetical ingres and not a material one alike in archemy.We renew the whole electro-magnetism of a body by touching in at its root, and not via the inferior plans, and thus, we need to know that in order to create a reequilibrium, we need to touch the highest structure, that will then act upon the inferior and denser plans of a structure.

The question is : and the Philosopher Stone ? How can it heal all the illnesses ? It's because it is Universal in its signature and at the highest possible place in quality - that's all. Here then, I give you a very important indicitaion in order to know from where to take the necessary substance to its generation !

Hermetischer Triumph-Bogen auf zweyen Wunder-Säulen der grossen und kleinen Welt bevestiget

Cette première page est d'une grande richesse. Nous pouvons considérer que ces gravures de l'époque sont comme des photographies de ce qui se déroulait dans les laboratoires. On y retrouve les "équations hermétiques" sortes de mathématiques d'énergies et de substances, dont les opérations ne comportent pas uniquement que la soustraction, la multiplication, la division, etc, mais aussi la coagulation, congélation (qui n'est pas congeler), la sublimation, la circulation, la cohobation, la putréfaction, la distillation, etc. Ces pratiques et procédues pouvaient s'écrire de manière linéaires (ce qu'il m'arrive de faire) à base uniquement de symboles et de produits/sommes.

Il me serait impossible de donner l'ensemble des opérations qui y sont décrites, tant par le sceau du secret que par leur abondance. Cependant de grands symboles s'y retrouvent.

Depuis le haut : à gauche nous avons, perché sur notre antimoine et un petit chapiteau, un corbeau, symbole du nigredo, premier régime au noir, de l'autre côté, dans une équivalente posture, un cygne, symbole de du troisième régime au blanc ou albedo. Entre les deux, un pont, dont la partie supérieure concerne les planètes, et le second, en dessous, leurs domiciles diurnes et nocturnes. On remarquera que Saturne est au centre, tout en haut, et ce n'est pas pour rien, les deux luminaires sont également répartis à ses côtés, en toute logique.

Le Paon et le Phoenix ne sont pas représentés, car qui sait faire le noir obtient le vert, et qui sait avoir le blanc, obtient le rouge. L'auteur prend donc un petit raccourci, probablement faute de place, et dans le souci de donner l'essentiel.

Dans la colonne de gauche on voit en haut : la fixation de l'esprit mercuriel et soufré. En dessous, la circulation de la matière, puis dans la troisième sa distillation, dans la quatrième, sa digestion, dans la dernière, la séparation des principes : un soufre et un mercure volatil, (probablement obtenus après les "aigles" = phase de distillation), et un sel précipité (remarquez le symbole inversé sous le signe du sel).

Il semble que le reste des opérations ne soient pas données car étant assez logiques pour celui qui connait sa table des lois ...

Dans la seconde colonne, nous voyons qu'il y a maintenant conjonction soli lunaire, ce n'est pas n'importe quelle conjonction. Procédé en humide peut être démontré ici, et qui se poursuit en sec en dessous, peut être pour toutes les opérations à bases métalliques et dérivées, encore qu'il puisse s'agir de la fabrication de la minière perpétuelle d'or ou d'argent, dont on n'en dira pas plus ici.

Divers pots semblant contenir des métaux ... en dessous (seconde étagère) du sel, de l'or précipité en chaux peut être (bien que son symbole soit différent ...) et du sel d'urine peut être ...

En dessous un four avec les ustensiles pour travailler en voie sèche, pinces, pelle, cône de coulée.

Dans la dernière fenêtre, le soleil, la lune ou or et argent (peut être philosophiques), le soufre et le mercure ensemble (rien à voir donc avec un ethiops minéral). Le même four de forge en dessous.

Au centre en haut, la couronne, symbole de l'achèvement du grand œuvre et d'encore bien d'autres choses dont nous ne soufflerons pas un mot ... Les armoiries portent deux côtés, un masculin à gauche, et un féminin à droite. On a la version commune soleil et lune, et en dessous, la version philosophique avec soufre et mercure, les deux séparés par l'élément dominant, que l'on peut lire plutôt comme grande polarité masculine et féminine.

Les chaines nous montrent que tout cela est relié et est un tout uni.

En dessous les deux principes alcali et acidus dans le centre de l'étoile de David, avec en bas le symbole du vitriol, celui du soleil et de la lune et du soufre et du mercure.

La sphère terrestre de droite porte les symboles de l'antimoine, du vitriol, de l'or, de la line du sel et du nitre, et de vénus. Ce ne sont pas ici des métaux ou des sels métalliques, mais des principes exprimés dans leur généralité, sous forme de "lois générales" ou mieux, de principes. Il s'agit, comme c'est dit : du microcosme.

De l'autre la sphère porte les mots de macrocosme, d'astral, de végétal, de minéral, d'animal, en bref, des différents règnes d'existence dont l'hermétisme traite.

Le pavage est noir et blanc, probablement d'inspiration maçonne ... mais aussi pour démontrer l'équilibre entre les polarités dans le macro et microcosme.

Une table de symboles permettant d'avoir d'un coup d'oeil une liste pour les signatures planétaires.

La cinquième colonne avec les symbole nous dit (de haut en bas) : antimoine, nitre, sel d'urine ou urine, soufre, vitriol, marcassite, cinabre, sel de mer, sel de tartre, sel ammoniac, magnétite et arsenic.

Sorry for english readers.

Antimoine.

Nous avons ici une extraction d'antimoine, la densité de son huile étant plus faible que le menstrum qui l'extrait, la fait remonter en surface.

We have here an extraction of antimony, its density is lesser than the menstrum that extract it, and makes it rise on the surface.

Ici une réaction curieuse, après l'ajout de Spiritus Vini, nous avons une fumée qui se dégage de la teinture d'antimoine.

Here we have a curious reaction, after the adding of Spiritus Vini a smoke rise out of the antimny tincture.

Ici l'antimoine fond doucement à la chaleur du feu de bois, et nous donne son huile qui se change en caput.

Here antimony melt slowly at the wood fire's heat, and gives its oil that changes into a caput.

Caput is often represented as a "hat" in alchemical engravings and representations, caput in latin means head, and Kaput in german means dead, so it is a dead head.

Le caput est souvent représenté par un "chapeau", dans les gravures et peintures alchimiques, caput en latin veut dire tête, et kaput en allemand veut dire mort, c'est donc la tête morte.

Ignorance and greed

There is, of course, a lack of knowledge of Nature's Laws in the Art of Alchemy today (Science, the servant, like in Fairy tales, play now the role of false Princess, and stole the crown of Alchemy), that's not new, almost all the tradition were lost in two centuries, some peices being still under the eye of people, but not recognised, are waiting for an alchemized eye to contemplate their beauty and secrets.

A lot of people imagine that they will find in paper "lessons" what is needed to be learned, glad of their little experiments, with their brand new apparatus, they decide to open website and to sell products. They call that 'Alchemy', and it's just in fact, spagerics. But, "alchemy" is better for business since the word is used in Harry Potter Books... they all claim now to be big lab, making "Spagerics", or "Paracelsus' drugs" etc etc, and they never, never speak about the true goal of this art, and science. As lab they only understand technique, the science part "take that, grind it, extract it, filter it under vacuum, put the label and put online" (and no circulation of the tincture since electricity is not cheap)... that's so dead.

Dead products are also sold to people that understand nothing about all this stuff. Some "metallic elixirs" white and clear as pure water, containing nothing more than maybe alcohol or dew is sold. A tincture of silver, looking like a tincture of gold ? Both clear as water ... is that normal ? Of course, no. There is nothing in the flask. Metals dead for nothing. They are of course, de bona fide, because themselves never saw in their life the true colour of a metal, they imagine that they can have the soul of a metal without colouring the menstrum... magic trick. Not funny.

It would not be a problem if the tinctures they sell where not made after a "fermentation" of the product...inducing a process of putrefaction in a product will lead to a dead Sulphur, dead, I mean, "giver of death", Sulphur can only give what it has, of course, they don't know, do they have a brain, I wonder... the third problem is that they use improper products in order to make their tinctures. As they don't understand laws, they don't understand cycle and the effect of cycle upon matter and the composition of matter. Some guy selling "tinctures" were in fact caught selling coloured sugar water ... spagerics is not a placebo effect, it's not even a physical effect, it is, before everything, an energetic effect, a living effect. These productions must be alive.

For example, do you know you should not ingest obsidian tincture ? Do you know why ?

I let you find the answer.

Spiritual Initiation in Alchemy

We are talking here about True Alchemy, not particular Alchemy (and this is also different from Archemy or Science of Particulars).

Some of us have the goal, in Alchemy, to have Enlightenment, and for this we must have the Stone, which is only a way to produce this State. But we have to be aware that the Spiritual Initiation via Alchemical Path is very very uncommon and rare. It's far less uncommon in Zen, Advaita, Yoga, etc where far far more people reach these states of Being. This simply comes from the fact that Alchemy is an almost lost Science. We have only few rare initiates in this planet that knows the secrets of True Alchemy, and true disciples are rare.

Alchemy is one of the hardest ways to "get there". People imagine that since they have the technique of some process they will easily have the Stone, it is absolutely not the case at all, sometime they strive for nothing valuable, and they imagine that they finally have the Stone (because they have seen few colours, and it looks like a red stony matter), and are disappointed, most part of the time, the story end ... in a dead end, full of frustration and despair, and worse, in poisoning himself and others like in some "orders" where the 'Stone' is given by the guru to the disciples... True Alchemy is clearly revealed nowhere in texts. It's all hints, allegories and images, symbols, and it is needed to have a key to open the process and a real faculty to read between the lines and to decipher the symbolic code used centuries before.
If you want enlightenment via Alchemy, I invite you to revise your spiritual motivations profoundly concerning the possible fulfilling of this goal with this Art. One person upon a billion, even less, can reach enlightenment via Alchemy. It's far more direct by other paths, those who walk these paths of Material realization have a very special quality of soul, requiring a lot of Hermes in it. This is why oratory is required (which must be made of astrologia, theurgia, and study of symbols, texts, meditation (zen like) and also the different laws of Nature), and of course and practical side made with the laboratory, both are one and complete each other.
Most part of process revealed today are part of the said "particular Alchemy". Nothing Universal is involved, but these paths can lead to interesting medicines, transmutations, learning about the process, qualities of matter, laws of Nature, and mastery of inner archetypes, also balancing inner energies etc, and attaining minors states of initiation or purification. These paths are for example the Antimony path of Bacstrom, of "Flamel" as they call it in the PON, involving silver, gold, mercury and antimony (Flamel Path is not at all the path described here), or the Roger's Caro Cinnabar Path, all the different Alkhaests Paths also, the Golden Water Path or Via Antiqua, etc.

Alchemy has a lot of ramifications, like the roots of our old oak. And it is a complex subject.
I want to thanks all my friends in the Art for their support, help, contributions. Thank you my friends !!

MENSTRUUM is any liquor that serves for the extracting of the essence of anything.

 (The Art of Distillation of John French)

Spiritus Vini, tartarification.

The Science of Menstra is ONE BIG BASIS that's one should know imperatively if one want to do anything in Spagery, Archemy or Alchemy. Otherwise, nothing can happen !

A Menstrum can be dry or wet, composed of volatile part, or fixe part, it can be entirely fixe, or entirely volatile, it can be deliquescent, or not. It can be easely made, or extracted, or with a lot of work. It can be an alcaline substance, or it can be an acid substance. It can even, by time, extract his own sulfur !

With that you can Ex-tract, pull out of the body, its blood, its force, its oil, its sulfury part, the Soul. This is the vampire, blood sucker.

A menstrum can be mineral/metallic, from salts, from vegetables, or animals/humans. They all have their forces and weakness.

A mentrum is a key to unlock the doors of matter. It is a very great thing indeed, because you can make wonders with it.

What's new with gold dissolution.

The solution of gold stood for two days at room temperature, and began to turn brown, it made a kind of "oily" nature in the bottom, now it is black with a red and gold crown because of the Sulfur.

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I'm sorry, the rest of the process will be kept 'sub-rosa'.

Heinrich Khunrath's Athanor

Heinrich Khunrath'sAthanor !

(Here it is, see !)

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Huginus a Barma.

We see that both Athanors are the same models, with little differences, but both were under un curtain. We can see that this furnace is quite large and tall ! Almost 2 meters...