Antimony Dry Way

I practiced a little the Antimony Dry Way of Mr Burensteinas.

Some photos :

A piece of antimony, an ingot of 99 % purity.

A regulus broken in the vertical sense.

In the horizontal sense now.

Home made tools. An evening for each.

 

The Regulus and the radiance in it (this one is not "updated").

 

The same regulus, I underlined the star and the cave.

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Broken in two.

I witnessed several changes in the directions of the crystallizations, also in the colours that can show the regulus (in the star).

L'Hermetisme dans la vie de Swift et ses Voyages - Eugène Canseliet

       This little book is now quite rare, I had the luck to get one . The author treats about the green language in Lilliput and other related subjects. The complete title is :

       "L'Hermetisme dans la vie de Swift et ses Voyages".

        I decided to deliver here the very curious, rich, and unknowned drawings, from this book.

         They are like that, in the text, with explanation at all.

         This author was very knowledgable, and loved the "bird language", for example, "FAIRE TAIRE", can be read as FER TERRE (Iron and Earth = 'antimony').

Copyright, Fata Morgana 1983.

Put the FAIRE TAIRE upside down and you can see that another angle is always interesting !

What do we have now ... Venus and Mars, Copper and Iron, united !

          Both were on a sea or bath, maybe their union make them "float", or makes them appear on the top of the Bath.
        And the Star makes me think about the Divine Dove, coming from above and diving into the Sea.

Angélique et le Roy

This is a french film of 1966.

For the little story, an Alchemist is present and ... I really would like to have such a retort lol !!

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I my opinion, it is a 5 liters retort... now you know what I would like for Christmas !

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Gold again

Gold's Oil is denser than Spiritus vini.

Tincture of Mars

The salmiac sublimed with Mars oxide.

Under alcohol.

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Cobalt finally

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Cobalt's tincture should be carefully distilled. But it cannot be condensed very much, in fact it makes a precipitation of the Sulfur, into a violet cloud (very nice to witness). So, if you make a Tincture out of Cobalt, do not extract too much of it, just extract it when needed.

Finally, here end my lab adventure with Cobalt, a very nice moment to spend with this matter. its energy is sweet, colours are inhabitual and great to see.

Now it needs to be circulated a little in order to rise the planes.

Here is a Cobalto Calcite.

We perfectly see the colour of the Soul of the Cobalt.

This is not always the case, that one can deduce the "colour" of a metal by the associated gem. Like manganese, that is of a brown/orange colour, and amethyst which is also a manganese gem, but its colour is violet. Wonders of Nature ...

Resources

http://www.hermetik.ch/eidolon/bilder/bilder_index.htm

Some nice images and also a german lexicon of alchemical terms.