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Fundamentals of Alchemy, Wisdom Ancient
[ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]//-->AlchemiaThis is a long page, but the three texts below are wellworth the read, I have some ending comments that I wishto share. These examples are of the Beginning stages ofour Art. The first is a famous tract entitled the Secret Book.Written in the sixteenth century by someone namedArtephius, who claims that at the time of his little tract hehad lived about a thousand years (do remember that theStone does not give eternal physical life, for one mustpass through the three stages of life at some point, butcleanses the body of disease and fortifies it so one mightlive much longer than expected). This secret book is oneof the most revealing texts explaining the entire processand the first process both at the same time. It is clear,concise and to the point. Note however that there isapparently no order or explanations as to which stage andsubstance he is writing about. It is left entirely up to the"clever young Philosopher" to discover. As wePhilosophers progress and read more and more of thegreat texts, it becomes clearer and more precise (all of thetrue texts agreeing with one another albeit with differentanalogies and allegories). One begins to see themessuddenly arising apparently out of nowhere, a burst of newenlightenment arises and what was hidden before,becomes clear. The second text was written by JohnPontanus who also claimed to find the Stone, and his textis to the point of one substance: the Sophic Fire or Secretfire. This is the one substance that has been ignored bymost of the other philosophers. I say ignored because theywould say something about it (and do describe it much asthese two texts) in the middle of explaining somethingcompletely different; as if it were a matter of little or noimportance.Before we begin, there are a few questions that I think weneed to ponder about pertaining to Alchemy and itspractices. Here are some that I've had: Why can't Natureattain perfection on her own, why do we need to help Herthrough our Art? At what point do plants and minerals(animals for that matter) die after removing them from theground or mine? What is the Seed of gold and how do weget it? Why would one even want to live for so long, is it anoble thing or is it selfishness in fear of death or othershady reasons? How can we as Alchemists help our fellowcreatures (animals, vegetables and minerals) continue andgrow in their own paths. How intimate can I know the threecycles of Nature and how far can I delve into the "layers"of the Three. Do the four Elements exist conceptually ordo they have a true vibratory existence that we canperceive, if not with scientific equipment at least with ourphysical, mental or spiritual faculties? Will I ever knowNature well enough to bring about the completion of someif not all of the Works of the Masters? Why am I evendoing this and are my actions true and follow according tomy perceptions and observations of Nature? So I thinkone last thought and ponder upon the depths of reality andperception..."In order to manifest anything, we must first knowintimately and exactly what it is that we wish tomanifest."The Secret BookAntimony is a mineral participating of saturnine parts, andhas in all respects the nature thereof. This saturnineantimony agrees with sol, and contains in itself argentvive, in which no metal is swallowed up, except gold, andgold is truly swallowed up by this antimonial argent vive.Without this argent vive, no metal whatsoever can bewhitened; it whitens laton, i.e. gold; reduces a perfect bodyinto its prima materia, or first matter, viz. into sulphur andargent vive, of a white colour, outshining a looking glass. Itdissolves, I say the perfect body, which is so in its ownnature; for this water is friendly and agreeable with themetals, whitening sol, because it contains in itself white orpure argent vive. And from both these you may draw agreat Arcanum, viz. A water of saturnine antimony,mercurial and white; to the end that it may whiten sol, notburning, but dissolving, and afterwards congealing to theconsistence or likeness of white cream. Therefore, saiththe philosopher, this water makes the body to be volatile;because after it has dissolved in it, and infrigidated, itascends above and swims upon the surface of the water.Take saith he, crude leaf gold, calcined with mercury, andput it into our vinegar, made of saturnine antimony,mercurial, and Sal ammoniac, in a broad glass vessel, fourinches high or more. Put it into a gentle heat, and in ashort time you will see elevated a liquor, as it were oilswimming atop, much like a scum. Gather this with aspoon or feather dipping it in; and in doing so often times aday until nothing more arises; evaporate the water with agentle heat, i.e. the superfluous humidity of the vinegre,and there will remain the quintessence, potestates orpowers of gold in the form of a white oil incombustible. Inthis oil, philosophers have placed their greatest secrets; itis exceeding sweet and of great virtue for easing the painsof wounds. The whole, then, of this antimonial secret is,that we know how to extract or draw forth argent vive, outof the body of Magnesia, not burning, and this is antimony,and a mercurial sublimate. That is, you must extract aliving and incombustible water, and then congeal, orcoagulate it with the perfect body of sol, i.e. fine gold,without alloy; which is done by dissolving it into a maturewhite substance the consistency of cream and madethoroughly white. But first this sol by putrefaction andresolution in this water, looses all its light and brightness,and will grow dark and black. Afterwards, it will ascendabove the water, and by little and little will swim upon it ina substance of a white colour. And this is the whitening ofred laton to sublimate it philosophically, and to reduce itinto its first matter; viz. into a white incombustible sulphurand a fixed argent vive. Thus the perfect body of sol,resumes life in this water; it is revived, inspired, grows,and is multiplied in its kind, as all other things are.For in this water, it so happens, that the body iscompounded of two bodies, viz. sol and Luna; is puffedup, swells, putrefies, is raised up, and does increase bythe receiving from the animated nature and substance.Our water, or vinegar as aforementioned, is the vinegar ofthe mountains, i.e. of sol and Luna; and therefore it ismixed with gold and silver, and sticks close to themperpetually; and the body receives from this water a whitetincture, and shines with inestimable brightness. Who soknows how to convert, or change the body into a medicinalwhite gold, may easily, by the same white gold, change allimperfect metals into the best or finest silver. And thiswhite gold is called b the philosophers "luna albaphilosophorum, argentum vivum, album fixum, aurumalchymiae, fumus albus" and therefore without this ourantimonial vinegar the stone of the philosophers cannot bemade. The reason, is because in our vinegar there is adouble substance of argentum vivum, the one fromantimony, and the other from mercury sublimated, it doesgive a double weight and substance of fixed argent vive,and also augments therein the native colour, weight,substance and tincture thereof.Our dissolving water therefore carries with it a greattincture and a great melting or dissolving. When it feels theheat of the vulgar fire (if there being in it the pure and finebodies of sol or Luna), it immediately melts them, andconverts them into its white substance such as itself, andgives to the body colour, weight, and tincture. In it also is apower of liquefying or melting all things that can be melted [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
