The Matters of the Great Alchemical Work

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The Matters of the Great Alchemical WorkThroughout the passing of time, a lot has been written about the matters used in the GreatWork. In accordance with what we have read in the great works of classical and contemporary

Masters in each of the alchemical ways, a different and specific matter is used.

There are artists that affirm that the matter of the Great Work is one and universal withoutspecifying what the matter is, nor do they give us the least of indications that would permitthe investigators of the Art to recognize this matter. For that reason, we find these statementscloudy.

The reading of the alchemical texts of the great Masters written in symbolic language allowsfor diverse types of interpretations according with ones knowledge. Unfortunately, in manycases, not always corresponding to what the Masters wanted to express in their writings. Onthe contrary, some very well known alchemical books from time to time were written in a

clear language. It is only ignorance of the most elementary principles that governed thedifferent alchemical operations written about at the time that allowed one to make such rudeerrors of interpretation.

Those who read that interpretation without the necessary knowledge in order to evaluate it,such as beginners who are in their first steps in the study of the alchemy, unavoidably keepmisunderstanding the idea of what the matters are that are used in the different alchemicalworks as well as of the Modus operandi.

Not only do we refer to the matters, which are a very important part in an alchemical work,but also to the related ways of most well known alchemists.

We are not in the XVII or XVIII centuries when writing books on alchemy was in fashion,and when the authors were hidden under a motto that few knew. Example of this is the vastamount of attractive books written at that time. Their content is lacking of teachings, being forthat reason money spent out.

Nowadays, to write a book on alchemy under a well-known motto, imply responsibility by theauthor, because a reader can compare with original works and easily perceive anyinaccuracies. However the beginner in the study of the Art will not much hesitate to believewhat they read because they trust that one who writes a book on alchemy knows precisely

what he is speaking of.

However this is not always so, for at times we find in the writings of certain modern authors,texts lacking in their essence and doubtful descriptions without basing them on the originaltexts.

Following this short introduction we are going to point out which are the main alchemicalways practiced by our classical and contemporary Masters as well as the matters employed inthem.

Dry way. The matter of the dry way is, par excellence, the antimony or stibnite. The old

alchemists in order to distinguish the mineral from the metallic antimony called the latter


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regulus. For that reason, when we talk about the antimony we want to designate their mineral,that is to say, the stibnite.

Some artists affirm that the dry way is done from the glass of antimony. We are not of thesame opinion because this statement doesn't have consistency and only those who don't know

the magisterial work of Basil Valentine, "Le Char Triomphal de l'Antimoine", Retz, Paris,1977, will make such statement.

The glass of antimony whose preparation is minutely described in the page 163 of this book,besides being used to make the stone of fire, is used also for the preparation of the tincture ofantimony. The preparation of the stone of fire has nothing in relation, neither comes close to,with the dry way of the antimony and it is hardly considered as being the "matter".

Lets see the cause of our disagreement. From the glass of this mineral, the mercury of theantimony is not extracted because the mercury of this mineral is the martial starry regulushighly purified.

The preparation of the glass of antimony is not so simple as to place the antimony powderedin a hearth, fuse it and so convert it in glass.

The preparation of the glass of antimony requires much experience and one will not arrive at acanonical glass if one isn't observing and practicing. And, so that you are not left to hesitationas to how much is our disagreement we are going to describe its canonical preparation.

In first place, grind the stibnite powdered very fine and pass it through a sieve of 60 lines forcentimeter. The very fine powdered mineral is calcined with very strong fire in an ironrecipient or clay refractory in order to extract from it all the chemical sulphur. Only after thisoperation is the oxide fused in a hearth with the respective cover, in a gas oven with verystrong fire.

After it is well liquefied it is poured over a copper sheet or over a marble stone. If the glasswas well prepared, and this operation is not within everyones reach, we will have a redcolour very alive looking and transparent in front of a very strong light like the solar light. Wehave already prepared kilograms of this glass of antimony, for this reason we are able todescribe with total knowledge their preparation.

Glass of antimony.


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The glass of antimony is soluble in spirit of vinegar with which one could extract theirtincture.

For that reason it is not the matter of the dry way but this is the matter for the preparation ofthe stone of fire with which, on the contrary of what some artists affirm, one could make some

transmutations as the Master says in the page 237 of the same book:

Considering the proposed point that with the antimony, the stone of fire could be prepared,and it is said that this healthy stone cures some particular infections not only in man but aswell in metals.

And in the page 238:

The tincture of this stone of fire is not universal like that of the philosophers, which isprepared of the essence of the sun, and is still less universal as to all the other stones.

And in order to conclude in the page 249:

In a word, this stone, as a particular tincture, transmutes all the metals into very pure goldand better than that of the mines of the Peru. It is a medicine for all the illnesses which mancould suffer.

In short, the stone of fire, is a transmuting "stone" resulting from a "particular" made throughthe dry and humid path, and is not the dry way of the antimony.

For that reason, where it is said that the dry way from the antimony is done with their glass,alchemically it doesn't have any consistency, by which they who don't know the Art will becompelled to complete error.

The dry way properly said is done it with the stibnite as it is described in all detail by EugeneCanseliet in his "L'Alchimie Expliquee Sur Ses Textes Classiques", Jean-Jacques Pauvert,Paris, 1972.

But then, who was Eugne Canseliet? Canseliet was Fulcanellis disciple. Fulcanelli was thenom de plume of the painter Jean-Julien Champagne.


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Jean-Julien Champagne

"The Dwellings of the Philosophers"was written by Jean-Julien Champagne with elementstaken from Pierre Dujols'files who was a bookseller. He was a big alchemist and had adisciple that worked with him in the laboratory.

Pierre Dujols was an erudite and the author of the first ever comments to the "Hypotypose" (acomment of"Mutus Liber") under the Magophon nom de plume.

Eugne Canseliet published the book"Les Demeures Philosophales"as a disciple ofFulcanelli. If Canseliet followed the dry way of the antimony and was at the same time aFulcanellis disciple to whom he would work then his Masters path was obviously also a dryway. "Fulcanelli devoil"Genevire Dubois, Editions Dervy, Paris, 1992.

Concerning this way, in "The Dwellings of the Philosophers", the authors (Champagne andDujols) describe other ways of such an amalgam, that are almost impossible to distinguishwhen they refer to the dry way or to the wet way. This has resulted because the descriptionsgiven do not have a sequence. Even an expert artist will have difficulty in making thedistinction.

There are artists that say that Fulcanelli doesn't refer to the dry way from the antimony and

that he neither describes it.Lets see, then, the detailed description that Fulcanelli makes of the mineral related to the dryway in "The Dwellings of the Philosophers", Square & Janes, Corp. editors, 1973:

All ores, through the hermetic voice, rendered homage to it with their name. It is also calledBlack Dragon, covered with scales, venomous serpent, daughter of Saturn and the most

beloved of its children. This primal substance has seen its evolution interrupted by theinterposition and penetration of filthy combustible sulphur, which coats its pure mercury,holds it back, and coagulates it. And, though it is entirely volatile, this primitive mercury,materialized by the drying action of the arsenical sulphur, takes the shape of a solid, black

dense, fibrous, brittle, crushable mass rendered, by its lack of utility, vile, abject, and


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despicable in the eyes of man. Yet in this subject - poor relative of the metal family - theenlightened artist finds everything that he needs to begin and perfect his Great Work.

For this reason they symbolically depicted their matter in its first being as the image of theworld that contained in itself the materials of our hermetic globe, or microcosm, assembled

without order, without form, without rhythm or measure.

Let us see, then, the meaning of this description:

All ores, through the hermetic voice, rendered homage to it with their name.

Those who know well "Le Char Triomphal de LAntimoine"of Basil Valentine, willremember the picture on page 64 Frontispiece du"Char Triomphal de LAntimoine",wherethe alchemical planets (metals or minerals) symbolically represented, Saturn, Mars, Venus,Mercury and the Moon, pull a wagon lead by Vulcan. This wagon is used to carry theantimony, pictured by a lady that bears on her womb the antimonys spagyrical symbol, i.e., a

cruciferous globe, thus paying it and homage.

It is also called Black Dragon, covered with scales, venomous serpent, daughter of

Saturn

Some of the names by which antimony is known are Black Dragon, Grey Wolf, and mostcommonly offspring of Saturn.

In the "Tabla Redonda de los Alquimistas"by Manuel Algora Corbi, Luiz Carcamo, editor,Madrid, 1980, "La Medula de La Alquimia", Eirenaeus Philalethes, page 307, one could read:

The substance that we took first is a mineral, familiar to the mercury, that cooks a rawsulphur in the earth; vile visible, but glorious inwardly, the son of Saturn. What more do youneed? Conceive it correctly because this is our first matter.

It is colour of sable, with silver veins that appears mingled in the body, whose sparklingshade stains the connate sulphur. It is completely volatile and nothing fixed, but taken in theirnative crudeness purges all superfluity of the sun.

The Fulcanelli attributed characteristics to the antimony are confirmed in this text.
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Black dragon

Our mineral, being son of Saturn, has characteristics very similar to those of its ancestor. It iscolour of sable (sable in heraldry, corresponds to the black) with silver veins and their shine isstained connate sulphur. It is all volatile and purges every superfluity of the Sun. It is fibrous,

brittle, and at that time was of little utility beyond its medicinal use.

This means in current language that it is a mineral of black colour with silver veins, volatile,friable, whose shine is stained chemical connate for sulphur and that purges all the

superfluities from the Sun or gold.

These physiochemical characteristics correspond to those of antimony that is, as we know, asulphide. It was with the antimony, that the old alchemists purified the Sun or gold as one cansee in the First Key of Basil Valentine.

For this reason they symbolically depicted their matter in its first being as the image ofthe world that contained in itself the materials of our hermetic globe

In the First Image of the book"Speculum Veritatis",which means in English "Mirror of the

Truth", Philalethes describes symbolically the First Work of his way, that is, the preparationof the martial starry regulus that we explained in detail in our website at Terravista, Planeta(with links to the matters) and in our book"La Gran Obra Alqumica", Mirach Editorial, S.L.,Villaviciosa de Odn, Madrid, 1999, page 15. You will see there a lame man with a tick legrepresenting Vulcan, giving to two old men (alchemists) a cruciferous globe that is thespagyrical symbol for antimony like any expert alchemist knows. But like this globe has a starin its center, it represents, for that reason, the martial starry regulus.

If any analogy exists with the word "mirror", cut or break the martial starry regulus traverselyafter the mercurial purification's and you will verify that it crystallizes in similar layers likethose of the mica, as brilliant as the more refined silver and like a mirror. For that reason

many artists call it "mirror of the Art".
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But we won't limit ourselves hardly to these texts in order to demonstrate to you thatFulcanelli describes unmistakably the antimony.

In the "Oeuvres"book- Nicholas Flamel, Courier Livre du, Paris, 1989, page 196, says:

Try, in the first place, to take the first-born of Saturn that has nothing to do with the vulgar,nine parts, of the sable of steel of the warrior God, 4 parts.

Philalethes in the "Open Entrance to the Closed Palace of the King", section XI, "Of theInvention of the Perfect Magistery", nr. VII, says:

Afterwards, they were interested in an offspring of Saturn, and they tested its action overgold; it having the power to free the gold from its impurities...

Flamel is talking about the antimony that, together with the warrior god Mars and the suitablesalts will make the martial regulus, required to begin his work as in the Philalethes' amalgam

path.

What is Fulcanelli talking about anyway? From what weve described, youll be able to seethat the Master talks about the antimony.

The preparation of the antimony regulus is not as simple as melting it with a proper heat andmoulding it, as some artist's claim.

This, alchemically speaking, would be as claiming that a car is built with four wheels andlittle else!

Statements like these denote a lack of knowledge of the writings of the XVII century, as the"Trait de la Chymie", Christophle Glaser, Paris, 1663, page 174, where the preparation of theantimonys martial regulus is described in detail. Also Lemery, in his "Cours de Chymie",Paris, MDCCLVI, on page 272, describes the same operation!

The starry martial regulus is not made simply after the fusion of antimony and moulding on astainless steel mould.

In order to make a good canonical martial regulus one needs a suitable gas oven, where onecan reach a temperature near 1000 centigrade, a good mineral ore and his metallic acolyte

Mars, as also the indispensable melting salts. These and the "hand work" required that only anexpert artist has, are the requirements to proceed with the work.

The first preparatory operation of the dry path is calledAssation. It is ignored by most and isonly done when preparing a canonical work. Next comes thePurge, which consists in the

purification of the mineral of its siliceous refuse in a refractory clay crucible, in the aforesaidoven. Then follows the Separation which, as its name explains, consists in separating theregulus from the antimony by use of its acolyte Mars and the suitable salts. When the metalreaches a proper temperature and is melted, it is poured into a stainless steel conic mould.After slowly cooling, the Caput is separated according to Art. From this Caput the

philosophical sulphur will be extracted.


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Then follows theMercurial Purification's in order to purify the regulus with the suitable saltsuntil the star shows up, and also to extract the vitriol or Green lion. We then proceed to the

Eagles, i.e., and the sublimation of the alchemical sulphur and mercury that will have as resulttheRemora. Finally, the latter will be cooked with the respective salt or secret fire and as aresult of this operation we will at last have thePhilosophical Stone. It was at this point that

Canseliet failed, due to the poor "external" conditions.

Martial regulus

This path takes more than just a few days to accomplish. Only a greatly expert alchemist will

succeed, at least until the Eagles, corresponding to the Second Work. We have gone this farourselves, so we may speak based on personal experience.

This is the time when the Artist needs the knowledge to make use of the cosmic radiationdepicted on the fourth tablet of the Mutus Liber, as well of the polarized light emissions fromthe moon since its first quarter until the full moon.

The Amalgam path. This was the path followed by Philalethes and Flamel. One can find itsdescription both on "An Open Entrance to the Closed Palace of the King"by Philalethes, aswell as on Flamels "Brevire"or"Testament".

A summary of Philalethes' path can be found on "Concerning the Discovery of the PerfectMagistery", chapter XI, which I highly recommend you to read attentively.

On nr. X, XI and XII is said:

The heavens were indeed temporarily clouded over, but after a copious downpour of rain,serenity was restored.

Mercury emerged in a hermaphroditic state. Then they placed it in the fire; in a short timethey succeeded in coagulating it, and in its coagulation they found the Sun and the Moon in amost pure state.


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...And when they placed gold therein, the fixed was volatilized, the hard softened, thecoagulated dissolved, to the amazement of Nature herself.

In our opinion, this excerpt describes Philalethes' other path which is a wet path, neverthelessrequiring the martial regulus in order to prepare the philosophical mercury.

This mercury, when cooked in a closed vesselper se becomes Sun or Moon, i.e.,philosophical Sulphur that by adding up of new mercury will enable you to proceed with yourwork.

But instead of cooking the mercuryper se in order to transform it in sulphur, one can add to itmetallic gold and continue the work as explained by the Master.

This is our understanding of Philalethes' nr. X-XIII.

On "The Marrow of Alchemy", the Master allegorically describes the preparation of the

philosophical mercury and the way to his complete path. It is also described on a little treatisecalled "Experiments".

The preparation of this philosophical mercury is done through the amalgamation of themartial regulus turned into Solar or Lunar regulus by melting it with one of these noblemetals. Only this way one will be able to amalgamate it with the common mercury. Thisamalgam is then distilled on a steel retort up to seven times. Philalethes calls each one ofthese distillations an "Eagle". One should take care as not to confuse these with the onesdescribed in our other text titled "The Eagles".

This little treatise called "Experiments"can be found in the aforesaid book"La TablaRedonda de Los Alquimistas", page 299, as well as in our Website at Terravista, in aportuguese translation.

We have a facsimile of these two little treatises written in ancient English that serve as acomplement to Philalethes' main book"An Open Entrance to the Closed Palace of the King".These are a precious aid in order to understand the Masters work. In our Website atTerravista you will find a portuguese translation of the original of the aforesaid treatise"Experiments"as well as a text about Philalethes' work.

The Albertus Magnus' Work"El Compuesto de los Compuestos"(The Composite of

Composites), described in the book"Siete Textos de Alquimia", anonymous author, EditorialKier, Buenos Aires, 1978, pages 18-45 as also as in "Le Compos des Composs", Arch,Milano, has a different beginning despite being also an amalgam path. It starts with thesublimation of Mercury as you can also see in our website Terravista, under the texts titled"Mercury Sublimation", "The Eagles", "Our Gold" and "O Composto dos Compostos". It has

been translated into portuguese.

Wet Path. The wet path, considered by the Masters as being the noblest of them all, employsas first matter the cinnabar and the vitriol. The majority of the wet paths are usually lengthyin time, but Kamala Jnanas way, as incredible it might seem, takes only 28 days.


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Red Dragon

These two paths are completely distinct. The cinnabar path is described with great detail inthe book"Dictionaire de Philosophie Alchimique", Kamala Jnana, ditions G. Charlet,Argentire (H.S) France, 1961. In our Websites at Terravista and Geocities, you can findsome writings on this path with links to the actual matters, not only the first matter but thesecret fire as well.

Because of this, some artists have accused us of being excessively charitable, due to theuniqueness of a clear representation of these matters on the international network and in many

languages. We do not agree. Kamala Jnanas path will at first sight seem extremely simple butisn't so. In practice, we have found unsurpassable difficulties, despite our lengthy experiencein Alchemy. Not only us, but also other expert artists have found the same difficulties. Wewill continue without weakening to strive with our brothers for the resolution of this problem.

Another wet path commonly known is the Vitriol Path. This is described in Basil Valentines"Le Dernier Testament"Retz, Paris, Troisme Livre.

Natural Vitriol


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In our book"A Grande Obra Alqumica"we describe this path with great detail. But as not toleave any doubt let us now quote some passages from the Masters text, on page 234,referring to the matter:

Now, you must know that such soul or golden sulphur, like salt and spirit, is found stronger

and most virtuous in Mars and Venus, and in Vitriol as well, as also Mars and Venus byretrogressions can be taken back to a most virtuous and effective vitriol. On such a metallicvitriol one finds all the three principles under heaven, which are mercury, sulphur and salt,and each one of them can be particularly extracted with little work and time, as you will seewhen I proceed to narrate a short story of a mineral vitriol, beautiful and of a high degree, thatcan be found in Hungary.

And on page 238:

When you have found such a high grade mineral that is clean and pure, called vitriol, praythen to God to give you intelligence and wisdom to proceed with your work. And after its

calcination, put it in a strong closed retort. Have it distilled, firstly under a moderate fire andthen a strong one. Have the white spirit distil like snow that comes in the form of a terribleexhalation or wind, until it comes no more and every thing has been spit out. Observe that inthis wind or white spirit all the three principles are contained... And because of this there is noneed at all to look for these principles in the precious things.

At the end of the Troisme Livre, on page 262, Basil Valentine, when talking to the blowers,says: Oh, eternal God! What do these people think, being so much blind and foolish? Ah!Its an easy task, even for a child. One thing springs from another, as one can easily cookgood bread from good wheat. But the world is blind and it will remain so until the end oftimes. Being so, I refrain from writing any further and commend you to the Sovereign.

Rubellus Petrinus

Zleitosti z ohromn alchemick prceSkrz prochzen asu, hodn byl psan o zleitostech uvanch v Great Worku. V souladu s

co my mme st v ohromnch pracch z klasick a souasn Masters v kadm zalchemickch cest, rzn a specifick vc je uvan.

Tam jsou umlci kte potvrdit , e vc ohromn prce jsou jedni a univerzln bez bl uritjakou vc jsou, ani dlaj, e oni daj nm nejmn daj kter by povolily vyetovatele zumn poznat tuto vc. Z toho dvodu, my najdeme tyto sdlen zamraen.

ten alchemickch text z ohromn Masters napsan formlnm jazykem pot srznorodmi druhy vklad podle se znalost. Bohuel, v mnoha ppadech, ne vdykorespondenn jak Masters chce vyjdit v jejich spisech. Naopak, njak velmi dobeznm alchemick knihy as od asu byly napsan jasnm jazykem. To je jen neznalost

nejvce zkladnch princip kter zen rzn alchemick operace psan o tehdy kterdovolily jedny udlat takov hrub chyby z vkladu.


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Ti, kdo etli e vklad bez nezbytn znalosti za elem ohodnotit to, jako zatenci ktejsou v jejich prvnch krocch v studiu alchymie, nevyhnuteln pokrauje v nedorozumnpedstavy o tom, co zleitosti jsou kter jsou pouvny v rznch alchemickch pracchstejn jako pracovnch postup .

Nejen my odkeme na zleitosti, kter jsou velmi dleit podl v alchemick prci, aletak do souvisejcch zpsob nejvce dobe znmch alchymist.

My nejsme v XVII nebo XVIII stalet pi psan knih o alchymii byla v md, a kdy autoi byliskryt pod heslem kter mlo vdlo. Pkladem toho je obrovsk mnostv poutavch knih

psanch v t dob . Jejich obsah je nedostatek uen, jsouc z toho dvodu penze strvily .

V nynj dob, pst knihu o alchymii pod znmm heslem, znamenejte zodpovdnostautorem, protoe ten me srovnat s pvodnmi dly a snadno si povimnout njaknepesnosti. Nicmn zatenk v studiu Art nemnoho nebude vhat vit co oni tou protoeoni v e jeden kter pe knihu o alchymii pesn v co on mluv .

Nicmn toto nen vdy tak, msty protoe my nalezneme v spisech z jistch modernchautor, text majcho nedostatku jejich esence a pochybnch popis bez zkladu jim na

pvodnch textech.

Nsledujc tento krtk vod my se chystme upozornit kter jsou hlavn alchemick cestyzkuebn n klasick a souasn Masters stejn jako zleitosti zamstnan v sob.

Such cesta. Vc such cesty je, vyloen , antimon nebo antimonit. Sta alchymist zaelem rozliovat minerl z kovovho antimonu nazval pozdj hvzdy. Z toho dvodu, kdymy mluvme o antimonu my chceme oznait jejich minerl, to jest, antimonit.

Njak umlci potvrd , e such cesta je udlan z sklenice antimonu. My nejsme stejnhonzoru protoe toto sdlen nem konzistenci a jen ti, kdo neznaj autoritativn prci BasilValentine, "Le Char Triomphal de l'Antimoine", Retz, Pa, 1977, udl takov sdlen.

Sklenice z antimonu jeho pprava je kadou minutu popsan v strnkovm 163 tto knihch,krom bytosti pouit pro vrobu kamene ohn, je uvan tak pro ppravu vtakuantimonu. Pprava kamene ohn nem nic ve vztahu, dn pibl se, se suchm zpsobemantimonu a to je st povaovan za bt "vc".

Podvejme se pina naeho nesouhlasu. Ze sklenice z tohoto minerlu, rtu antimonu nenvytaen protoe rtu tohoto minerlu je vlen hvzdn hvzda vysoce itn.

Pprava sklenice z antimonu nen tak jednoduch pokud se te umstit antimon prkovanv ohniti, pojistka to a tak pemn to v sklenici.

Pprava sklenice z antimonu vyaduje moc zkuenosti a jeden nepijede do kanonicksklenice jestli jedna nen pozorujc a praxe. A, abyste jste ne zanechan k vhn jak moc jen nesouhlas, kter chystme se popisovat jeho kanonickou ppravu.

V prv ad, melte antimonit prkovan velmi jemn a prchod to skrz sto 60 linek pro

centimetr. Velmi jemn prkovan minerl je h s velmi silnm ohnm v eleznmpjemci nebo jlu tvrdojnm za elem extrahovat z toho vichni chemit sirn. Jen po


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tomto operaci je kyslink splynut v ohniti s pslunm krytem, v peic plynov troub svelmi silnm ohnm.

Pot je dobe zkapalnn to je lit pes mdn plech nebo pes mramorov kmen. Jestlisklenice byla dobe pipraven, a tato operace nen uvnit kadho dosahu, my budeme mt

ervenou barvu velmi na ivu dvajc se a prhledn ped velmi silnm svtlem mlo rdslunen svtlo. My jsme ji pipravovali kilogramy z tto sklenice z antimonu, pro tentodvod my jsme schopni popisovat s celkovou znalost jejich pprava.

Sklenice z antimonu.

Sklenice z antimonu je rozpustn v duchu octa s kter mohl vythnout jejich vtaek.

Z toho dvodu to nen vc such cesty ale toto je dvod pro pprava kamene ohn se kterm,naopak toho, co njak umlci potvrd, jeden mohli udlat njak zmny jak Master k vstrnkovm 237 ze stejn knihy:

Considering navrhovan bod kter s antimonem, kmen ohn by mohl byl pipraven, a kse, e tento zdrav kmen vyl njak zvltn infekce nejen v mui ale tak v kovech.

A v strnkovm 238:

The vtaek tohoto kamene ohn nen univerzln jako to filozof, kte jsou pipraven zesence slunce, a je jet mn univerzln pokud se te vech dal kameny.

A za elem zakonit v strnkovm 249:

In slovo, tento kmen, jak zvltn vtaek, pemuje vechny kovy do velmi istho zlata alep ne to zdroj Peru. To je lk pro vechny nemoci kter mu mohl trpt.

Zkrtka, kmen ohn, je pemujc "kmen" vyplvajc z A "zvltn" udlan skrz suchoua vlhkou cestu, a nen such zpsob antimonu.

Z toho dvodu, kde k se, e such cesta z antimonu je udlan s jejich sklenic, alchemickto nem dnou konzistenci, kterm oni kter nezn Art bude nucen k dokonit chybu.


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Such cesta podn ekla je udlan to s antimonit jak to je popsan ve vechny podrobn odEven Canseliet v jeho "L'Alchimie Expliquee Sur Ses Textes Classiques", Jean - JacquesPauvert, Pa, 1972.

Ale pak, kdo byl Even Canseliet? Canseliet byl Fulcanelli k. Fulcanelli byl pseudonym

literrn male Jean - Julien Champagne.

Jean Julien Champagne

" obydl z filozof"byl napsan Jean - Julien Champagne s elementy vzatmi z PierreDujols'files kter byl knihkupec. On byl velk alchymista a ml ka kter pracoval s nm vlaboratoi.

Pierre Dujols byl uen a autor prvnho vbec kdy komentuje "Hypotypose " ( koment"Mutus Liber") pod Magophon pseudonymem literrnm.

Even Canseliet publikoval knihu "Lesov Demeures Philosophales"jak k Fulcanelli. JestliCanseliet nsledoval such zpsob antimonu a byl zrove Fulcanelli k komu on by mohl

pracovat pak jeho Master cesta byla zejm tak such cesta. "Fulcanelli zbavit znlosti"Geneviere Dubois, vydn Dervy, Pa, 1992.

Vztahujc se k takto, v " obydl z filozof", autoi (ampask a Dujols) popisuje dalzpsoby takovho amalgm, kter jsou tm nemon rozliovat kdy oni odke na suchoucestu nebo do mokr cesty. Toto skonil protoe popisy dan nemaj sekvenci. Dokonceodborn umlec bude mt pot v dlajc rozdl.

Tam jsou umlci kte ct e Fulcanelli neodkou na suchou cestu z antimonu a e on dnpopisuj to.

Podvejme se, pak, podrobn popis kter Fulcanelli dl minerlu souvisejcho do suchhovchodu " obydl z filozof", nmst & Jane, Corp. vydavatel, 1973:

vechny rudy, skrz neprodyn hlas, holdovalo to s jejich jmnem. To je tak nazvanBlack Dragon, pokryt stupnicemi, jedovat had, dcera Saturnu a nejvce milovan z jeho


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dt. Tato pvodn substance vidla jeho vvoj peruen zprostedkovnm a penetrac oplzlholav sirn, kter kabty jeho ist rtu, zadruje to, a sraz se to. A, akoli to je zcelanestl, tato primitivn rtu, zhmotnila se suic akc arznov sirn, bere tvar pevn, ernhust, vlknit, kehk, makav masa poskytnutho, tm nedostatku utility, hanebn, bdn, aopovrenhodn podle sudku mue. Jet v tomto pedmtu - chud pbuzn kovov rodiny

- osvcen umlec nalz vechno, co on potebuje zat a zdokonalit jeho Great Work.

For tento dvod oni symbolicky zobrazen jejich vc v jeho prvn jsouc jak obraz svtakter obsaen v sm materilech z na neprodyn zemkoule, nebo mikrokosmos,shromdit bez objednvky, bez formy, bez rytmu nebo mry.

Nechejte ns podvej se, pak, vznam tohoto popisu:

All rudy, skrz neprodyn hlas, holdovalo to s jejich jmnem.

Ti kdo zn dobe "Leova posluhovaka Triomphal de L'Antimoine"Basil Valentine, si bude

pamatovat kino na strnkovm 64 ozdobch v prel du "posluhovaka Triomphal deL'Antimoine", kde alchemick planety (kovy nebo minerly) symbolicky reprezentovan,Saturn, Mars, Venue, Merkur a Msc, thnte vozov veden od Vulcana. Tento nkladnvz je uvan pro nst antimon, zobrazen dmou kter dolh na jej lno antimonspagyrical symbol, i.e., A nesouc ke zemkoule , tak placen toho a slib vrnosti.

It je tak nazvan Black Dragon, pokryt stupnicemi, jedovat had, dcera Saturn

Nkter z jmen kterm antimon je znm jsou Black Dragon, vlk americk, a nejbnjipotomstvo Saturnu.

V "Tabla Redonda de los Alquimistas"od Manuela Algora Corbi, Luiz Carcamo, editor,Madrid, 1980, "La Medula de La Alquimia", Eirenaeus Philalethes, strnkov 307, jedenmohlo by se st:

The substance kterou my jsme vzali poprv je minerl, dvrn znm do rtuti, kter vasyrov sirn v zemi; hanebn viditeln, ale skvl uvnit, syn Saturnu. Co jet vy

potebujete? Pojmte to sprvn protoe toto je nae prvn vc.

It je barva sobola, se stbrnmi lami kter jev se pomchan v tle, jeho jiskiv stnpin se vrozen sirn. To je pln nestl a nic upevnilo, ale pijat v jejich domorod

syrovosti oiuje vechny nadbytek slunce.

Fulcanelli pipsan charakteristick rysy k antimonu jsou potvrzen v tomto textu.
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N minerl, bt syn Saturnu, m charakteristick rysy velmi podobn tm z jeho pedka. Toje barva sobola (sobola v heraldice, odpovd ernochm) se stbrnmi lami a jejich svit jezbarven vrozen sirn. To je ve nestl a oiuje kad nadbytek Slunce. To je vlknit,kehk, a v t dob byla mal utility mimo jeho liv pouit.

Toto znamen v aktulnm jazyce e to je minerl ern barvy se stbrnmi lami, nestl,drobiv, jeho svit je zbarven chemick vrozen pro sirn a to oiuje vechny nadbytky ze

Slunce nebo zlata.

Tyto fyzikln chemick charakteristick rysy odpovdaj tm antimonu kter je, jak my v,sulfid. To bylo s antimonem, , e sta alchymist itn Slunce nebo zlato jak jeden mevidt ve First Key Basil Valentine.

For tento dvod oni symbolicky zobrazen jejich vc v jeho prvn jsouc jak obrazsvta kter obsaen v sm materilech z naeho neprodyn globe

V prvnm obrazu knihy "zrctko Veritatis", co znamen v anglitin "zrcadlo pravdy",

Philalethes popisuje symbolicky prvn prci jeho cesty, to je , pprava vlench hvzdnchhvzd kter my jsme vysvtlili podrobn v naem websajtu v Terravista, Planeta (se spojenmik zleitostem) a v na knize "La Gran Obra Alqumica", Mirach vydavatelsk, S.L.,Villaviciosa de Odon, Madrid, 1999, strnkov 15. Vy budete vidt tam chabho mue seznamnkovou nohou reprezentujc Vulcan, dvajc k dvma starm mum (alchymist) Anesouc ke zemkoule to je spagyrical symbol pro antimon jako njak odbornalchymista vm. Ale mt rd tuto zemkouli m hvzdu v jeho centru, to reprezentuje, z tohodvodu, vlen hvzdn hvzdy .

Jestli njak obdoba existuje se slovnm "zrcadlem", ete nebo rozbijte vlen hvzdnhvzdy pn po rtuov oist- ovo a vy ovte e to krystaluje v podobnch vrstvch jako

ti slda, tak brilantn jak vce rafinovan stbro a m rd zrcadlo. Z toho dvodu mnohaumlc nazvaj to "zrcadlem Art".
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Ale my budeme neomezme sebe st tmto texty za elem demonstrovat vm e Fulcanellipopisuje neomyln antimon.

V "Oeuvres"knin Nicholas Flamel, kurrv Livre du, Pa, 1989, strnkov 196, k:

Try, v prvn ad, vzt prvorozen Saturnu kter nem nic spolenho s hrubmi, devtistmi, sobola oceli vlenickho Boha, 4 st.

Philalethes v "otevete vstup k zavenmu palci krle", st XI, " Invention PerfectMagistery", slo. VII, k:

Afterwards, oni zajmali se o potomstvo Saturnu , a oni testovali jeho akci pes zlato; to mslu uvolnit zlato z jeho neistot...

Flamel mluv o antimonu kter, spolen s vlenickm bom Marsem a vhodn soli udlajvlen hvzdy, poadovan zat jeho prci jak v Philalethes' amalgm cesta.

Co je Fulcanelli hovoc o v kadm ppad? Z toho co my jsme popsali, vy budete schopenpodvej se , e Master mluv o antimon .

Pprava antimonu hvzdy nebude tak jednoduch tak tajc to s dnm teplem a lisovnmplastickch hmotem to, jak njak umleck poadavek.

Toto, alchemick mluven, by bylo tak poadavek e auto je postaven s tymi koly a u jenmlo!

Sdlen jako tyto zna nedostatek znalosti spis z XVII stolet, jak"Traite de la Chymie",Christophle Glaser, Pa, 1663, strnkov 174, kde pprava antimonu vlen hvzdy jsou

popsan v detailu. Tak Lemery, v jeho "Cours de Chymie", Pa, MDCCLVI, na strnkov272, popisuje stejnou operaci!

Hvzdn vlen hvzdy nen udlan jednodue po taven antimonu a hnten na bezposkvrny ocel formuje.

K tomu, aby udlal dobr kanonick vlen hvzdy jedny potebuje vhodnou peicplynovou troubu, kde jeden me doshnout teploty blzk 1000o Celsiv teplomr, dobrminerln ruda a jeho kovov ministrant Mars, tak jak nepostradateln tajc soli. Tyto a

"run prce" poadovala aby jen odborn umlec m, jsou poadavky postupovat s prac.

Prvn ppravn operace such cesty je nazvanAssation . To je ignorovan nejvce a jeudlan pi pprav kanonick prce. Pt jde Oistit, kter spov v oist minerlu z

jeho kemiitho odpadu v tvrdojnm antukovm tyglku, v uveden peci. Pak nsledujeOdlouenkter, jak jej jmno vysvtluje, spov v oddlovn hvzdy z antimonu pouitm

jeho ministranta Mars a vhodn soli. Kdy kov dosahuje dnou teplotu a je roztaven, to jelit do bez poskvrny ocelov kuelov forma. Po pomalu chlazen, Caput je oddlen podleArt. Z toto Caput filozofick sirn bude vytaen.

Pak nsledujeRtuov oista- ovo za elem istit hvzdy s vhodnmi solemi dokud hvzda

se uke, a tak vythnout H2SO4 nebo Green lev. My pak pejdeme kOrli , i.e., a sublimacealchemick sirn a rtu kter bude m jak vyplvat ttovec lodn. Nakonec, pozdj bt


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vaen s pslunou sol nebo tajemstv stl a nsledkem tto operace my budeme nakonecmmeFilozofick kmen . To bylo v tomto bod e Canseliet selhal, kvli chudm "externm"

podmnkm.

Vlen hvzdy

Tato cesta bere vc ne jen nkolik dn vykonat. Jen velmi odborn alchymista uspje,pinejmenm dokud Eagles, odpovdajc k druh Work. My jsme li toto daleko my sami,tak meme mluvit zaloen na osobn zkuenosti.

Toto je as kdy Artist potebuje znalost pout kosmickho zen zobrazenho na tvrttabletce Mutus Liber, tak polarizovanch vyzaovn svtel z Msce od t doby, co to prvntvrtina dokud plnk.

Amalgm cesta. Toto byla cesta nsledovan Philalethes a Flamel. Jeden me najt jehopopis oba na " oteven vstup k zavenmu palci krle"od Philalethes, stejn jako na Flamel-ovo "Breviere"nebo "zv".

Pehled Philalethes' cesty me bt nalezen na "vztahujc se k Discovery perfektnMagistery", kapitola XI, kterou j vysoce doporuuji, e Vm st pozorn.

Na sle. X, XI a XII pr:

The nebe byla vskutku doasn se zathnula, ale po bohatm lijku det, jasnost bylaobnoven.

Mercury se objevil v hermafrodickm sttu. Pak oni umstili to v ohni; zakrtko oni uspli vsren to, a v jeho koagulaci oni nali Slunce a Msc nejvce istm sttem.

...A kdy oni umstili zlato v tom, fixovan byl tkat, tvrd nakypen, koagulovatrozputn, do asu Nature sebe.

V naem nzoru, tento vatek popisuje Philalethes' dal cesta kter je mokr cesta, nicmnpoadujc vlen hvzdy za elem pipravovat filozofickou rtu.


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Tato rtu, kdy vaen v uzaven ndobsamo o sobstv se Sluncem nebo Mscem, i.e.,filozofick Sulphur kter stajc z nov rtuti umon vm postupovat s va prac.

Ale namsto vaen rtusamo o sobza elem transformovat to v sirn, jeden me pidat ktomu kovov zlato a pokrauje prci jak vysvtlen Master.

Toto n rozumt Philalethes' slo. X- XIII.

Na " morek alchymie", Master alegorick popisuje ppravu filozofick rtuti a cesty do jehopln cesty. To je tak popisovan na malm pojednn nazvanm "experimenty".

Pprava tto filozofick rtuti je udlan skrz splynut vlench hvzd zmnnch na Solarnebo Lunar hvzdy tavenm to s jednm z tchto vzcn kovy. Jen takto jeden bude schopnslouit to s bnou rtut. Toto amalgm je pak destilovan na ocelov oplatit stejnm asedmkrt . Philalethes vol kad jeden z tchto destilace "orel". Jeden by ml starat se o tom,e ne- nesplst tyto s jednm popsan v naem dalm textu titulovanm " Eagles".

Toto mal pojednn nazvan "experimenty"me bt nalezen v uveden knize "La TablaRedonda de Losov Alquimistas", strnkov 299, stejn jako v n Website v Terravista, vportugalskm pekladu.

My mme fax tchto dvou malch pojednn napsanch starovkou anglitinou kter slouitjak doplnk Philalethes' hlavn kniha " oteven vstup k zavenmu palci krle". Toto jsoudrahocenn pomoc za elem rozumt Master prce. V n Website v Terravista vy najdete

portugalsk peklad originlu uvedenho pojednn "experimenty"stejn jako text oPhilalethes' prci.

Albertus Magnusova pracuje "El Compuesto de los Compuestos"( Sloen ze smsic ),popsan v knize "Siete Textos de Alquimia", anonymn autor, vydavatelsk Kier, BuenosAires, 1978, strnky 18 - 45 tak tak jako v "Le Compos des Composes", Arche, Milano, mrzn zatek navzdory bytosti tak amalgm cesta. To zan se sublimac Merkura jak vymete tak vidt v naem websajtu Terravista, pod texty titulovan "Merkur Sublimation", "Eagles", "nae zlato" a "O Composto dlat Compostos". To bylo peloen do portugalsk.

Mokr cesta. Mokr cesta, povaovan Masters tak bt nejvzneenj je vechny, jak poprvzleet rumlka a H2SO4 . Vtina mokrch cest jsou obvykle dlouh vas, ale KamalaJnana cesta, jak neuviteln mohla se to zd, bere jen 28 dny.


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erven drak

Tyto dv cesty jsou pln zeteln. Rumlkov cesta je popisovan s ohromnm detailem vknize "Dictionaire de Philosophie Alchimique", Kamala Jnana, Editions G. Charlet,Argentiere (H.S) Francie, 1961. V n Websites v Terravista a Geocities, vy mete najtnjak spisy na tto cest se spojenmi k aktulnm zleitostem, nejen prvn vci aletajemstv ohn tak.

Kvli tomu, njak umlci obvinili ns bytosti nadmrn dobroinn, kvli jedinenosti zitelnho zobrazen tchto zleitost na mezinrodn sti a v mnoha jazycch. My

nesouhlasme. Kamala Jnana cesta bude na prvn pohled se zd extrmn jednoduch ale nentak. V praxi, my jsme nali nepekonateln pote, navzdory na dlouh zkuenosti sAlchemy. Nejen ns, ale tak dal odborn umlci nali stejn pote. My budeme pokraovat

bez oslaben snait se s naimi bratry pro rozhodnut tohoto problmu.

Dal mokr cesta obvykle znm je H2SO4 cesta . Toto je popsan v Basil Valentine- ovo"Le Dernier zv"Retz, Pa, Troiseme Livre.

Pirozen H2SO4


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V na knize " velk Obra Alqumica"my popisujeme tuto cestu s ohromnm detailem. Ale ene- neopustit dnou pochybnost nechat ns nyn citovat njak pase z Master text, nastrnkov 234, odkazujc na vc:

Now, muste vdt e takov due nebo zlat sirn, jako sl a duch, je nalezen silnj a

nejvce ctnostn v Marsu a Venui, a v H2SO4 tak, jak tak Mars a Venue zptnmipohyby mohou bt vzat zpt do nejvce ctnostn a efektivn H2SO4. Na takov kovovH2SO4 jeden nalz vechny ti principy pod nebem, kter jsou rtu, sirn a sl, a kad

jeden z nich me bt zvlt vytaen s malou prac a asem, jak budete se podvej kdy jpejdu k namluvit povdku minerln H2SO4, krsn a vysokho stupn, kter me btnalezen v Maarsku.

A na strnkovm 238:

When vy jste nali takov vysok rovov minerl kter je ist a ist, nazvan H2SO4,pak modl se k Bohu dt vm inteligenci a moudrost postupovat s va prac. A pot kalcinace,

d to v siln zaven oplat stejnm. Mjte to destilovan, za prv pod mrnm ohnm apotom siln jeden. Mt lakov benzin destilovat jako snh kter jde ve form hrozn exhalacenebo vtru, do t doby, ne pichz u ne a kad vc byla hloubka re ven. Sledujte e vtomto vtru nebo lakov benzin vichni ti principy jsou obsaen... A kvli tomuto nen tamdn poteba vbec hledat tyto principy v drahocennch vcech.

Na konci Troiseme Livre, na strnkov 262, Basil Valentine, pi mluven k vtlanmventiltorm, k: Oh, vn Bh! Co tyto lidi mysl, jsouc tak moc slep a poetilou? Och!To je snadn kol, dokonce pro dt. Jedna vc pochz z dal, jak jeden me snadno vaitdobr chlb z dobr penice. Ale svt je slep a to zstane tak do konce asu. Bytost tak, jzdrm se psan jet dle a doporuit vy Sovereign.

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