July 08, 2010

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.

Plants and Vinegar evolution




The result of the vinegar and the different plants circulated during a month. I notices no effect upon me after the intakes for several days.
The colour is a nice orange/pink, salmon, surely due to the rose I've added to it.

Cobalt evolution

A little photo to show how cobalt's colour under acetum is when in thin layer. A very nice pink.
Maybe like Pink Quartz this metal acts upon the Heart's Level.

June 28, 2010

To speak like an Alchemist ...

What is it to speak like an Alchemist ?

Do you have only to speak in riddles ? "Make the Doves of Diana", or in an incomprehensible language ? "The first mercury is of the Philosophical Mercury, both are one, but are different, because of the animation and the acuation of this Duenech, in order to have the key, to the palace of the king, after seven eagles"... well, just a quick example.

No, speaking like an Alchemist, it is speaking the language of Nature, it is a practical application of what you understand from Her, and first you have to read Her, and deeply understand her, breaking the limits of your vision, mostly made in the fog of "culture". Speaking like an Alchemist is in silence, in the Labor of the Laboratory, acting, waiting, seeing, being grateful, humble, respectful, and present, that's all. And after that, you eat alchemically, you sleep, discuss, travel, etc Alchemically, once it is really deeply integrated. Not an "easy" task at all.

People can talk and talk,on and on about Alchemy, doing nothing respectful in the lab, staying in the chair in front of the computer, do they speak Alchemically, or do they speak about the speach of the Alchemists ? The later of course.

Alchemy is not chemystry at all, it is another dimension, Sacred.

As I stated before (in the Black Opus article) an "Alchemyst" (for "mystic", and not an "Alche-'mist'") by his own work in the lab gain a responsability upon the matter that he works. Respect and humility, are very important.

One should not dabble ! You have to know where you go first ! And if you don't exactly know, just know from where you matter just comes, and where it should go, and deduce the step to do. If you come from Black, then you know you have to go to White.

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'.

June 24, 2010

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...

June 21, 2010

Gold ...

Some little works again about gold.

I put my Alkaest and 5 gold leaves for the "test" (well, I already know how it will react, so, it's not really a test, just some fun with a new Alkaest). 6 minutes after ... at a low temperature (around 60°C maybe, I don't know, it was on the first level of my hot plate so ...) I had not even the time to take photos of the evolution (doing something else). But I knew it would occur so quickly.


We can see here the gold falling appart ...and bubbling, after loosing it's colour.
Gold is like silver when it's colour is extracted.

This is a funny and amazing process, gold is vanishing ... litterally, into this mercury (all potable ! what a great thing), yes funny because you see a such difficult thing (it is considered as such generally) occuring in front of your eyes so quickly. And the second thing, is that it is easely done. Of course you have to prepare your alkaest before etc, but even that is an easy and relatively (if you make lab alchemy, this relatively mean something precise lol) quick task.


We Can see here the body of gold.

I think I can saturate the Mercury wilth gold, until it dissolves nothing more.