Philosophical Assation in dry way

Here, the physics must help chemistry, in an action that is intimate and reciprocal and that justify that, live-to-live the one and other, the alchemy benefits from all preeminence.

That one only, that does not have test, cannot know, either same evaluate, the all-powerful virtue, of an igneous sustenance, equal or soft, by a long time exempted. In narrow report with this repeated observation to the laboratory, add that our metallic sulphide, pulverized with a lot of care and put in a glass balloon of some two litres, constitute there nevertheless a mass that is too dense again, so that his volume and its parts artificially must not be relaxed and aired. The artist knows then the service that the sieve is fit to him to return, so that it obtains by him, the necessary gravel then that it separates this one, after it at length will have assured his office.

If this is only we returned ourselves guilty of a notorious disclosure, at least test the feeling for us, that we committed a real distortion has the traditional discipline, in this beginning of the philosophical process. Do we regret our insubordination? We do not think it, in front of the current fort of not involved curiosity that, to the profit of the Hermes science, develops since several years and do not stop increasing itself.

The operation itself not remainder less elementary, although very delicate and claiming a lot of care and attention. This is with her, we said it, that the alchemist between already in the Great Work, in a sort of assation. That requires the degree, enough low of the said heat of the manure or hen brooding his eggs, as well as the constant help of the thermometer.

Previously, the artist had laborious prepared his mineral matter, giving some to him, not the ordinary procedure, a bigger wealth than she did not possess, which than is been his quality with leaving the mine.

In Alchimie Expliquée Sur Ses Texts Classiques, Eugène Canseliet, pages 148 - 150

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One will have therefore understood the difference between the archemy and the Alchemy. In the archemic domain, that is to say chemical arts, an assation has little of direction. Since the operator does not imply itself himself that to the level of a « Master' work » - but of which illusion itself does it act then? The manipulation consists of return the shapeless Subject on the chemical level.

Each one knows, for little that it is curious of the modern stammering in mineralogy by which means one can commonly make a sulphide amorphous. Let us describe the vulgar process that, underline it immediately and without turning, is not of any philosophical value.

The archemy, more evolved, will use the father Basil Valentine Mountains' vinegar has who is well more close to alchemical reality, and will work the subject in closed vase, as the laboratory assistants would do it. In these wet cases, the reaction would be connected with:

Partly while using of hydrochloric acid. The separations to iron are then so much more facilitated than sulphide it is transformed in protochlorine but nothing is not here Art.

Let us examine, if you want it well, which is the situation of the applicant in front of the work. The assessment is simple: it is enough for you to listen to your heart with attention and mental silence, with the threshold of the Philosopher's stone, to observe how much you are stripped, exiled. In this situation, one also knows that any will to appear in front of Science is swept a such wisp of straw, like if, at the bottom of its infinite mercy, the Lady required initially the detachment of us, i.e. the amorphous state.

With the image of the metal reign, in which the rough subject is already singular, we must accompany its first degradation in any raw material by ours: depersonalization of the ego. When well even we would like the opposite, I say to you that the assation can be carried out only by this examination which, to be philosophical, requires a deep interior adhesion. It is to repeat how much the pangs ego, upon the departure, is put at hard test, and the subtlest selfishness made amorphous, inoperative. Indispensable condition of the entry, the latter does not put up with compromise. In clear terms, it is not even useful to be exerted with the chitchat to know what is the ego and what is the call. I make whole confidence with the one and the other in you to inform you about their identity.

To the picture of the metallic reign, in which one the crude subject is already singular, we must accompany his first degradation in all first matter of the ours: the depersonalisation of the ego. When very even would want the opposite for us, I say you that the assation can be taken only by this, examination which to be philosophical, demand a deep inner adhesion. This is to repeat how much the afflictions of the me, as early as the departure, are put to rough test, and the most subtle egoism amorphous, inoperatives. Condition « sine qua non » of the entry, this last one does not suit itself any compromise. In clear terms, it is not even useful to exercise itself to the « small talk » to know what is the ego and what is the call. I do entire confidence to the one and to the other in you to inform you on their identity.

That notifies, implicitly, that the assation is kingdom of called. That which is withdrawn by pure scorn from this command will be, at best, archemist. Our matter is not in this relative art.

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Adopt therefore the sacred clause of your unconditional membership to the filiation and, by this postulant of sovereign importance, presume of your place to the threshold of the assation, that of which you carry the effective responsibility

The day of Carnival, to return the Subject in the state of its any raw material, favourable with the union of March and double salt, it is to propose what Nature intimates to him within its prolixity, of its generation. The plan, on which our sulphide reproduces, by its menstrue solvent, is reached by offering the requirements to him, which frees it from its metal aspect. «To reassign the red dark», or lilac, or the brown bright one, is to dispose the crystalline arrangement of the matter in another manner. It remains always the Subject, but its crystalline identity, by the new orientation of its internal layout of its sulphur, carries it on the level of a primitive semi-metal. It becomes hydrated compost whose initial state is characterized by its dry solution. Indeed, sulphur, otherwise glossy, frees metal while coming out like a bad eruptive fever and, then, March the warrior, also prepared to him but with stings, links with it with a perfect propensity. Vulcan then operates separation by restoring innate fixed Sulphur and with the germinative destiny in the caput mortem for, later, if God wants it, you gratifier of Remore.

It goes without saying that the mercurial purifications are, at the proper time, happy and beneficial; the salt glass, completely freed from rough sulphur, becomes the vital staging of the forces of in top, with the place, as that is the case without assation, to optionally block the Universal Spirit the random one, which often enamels the stochastic appearances of star of magi, is considerably reduced. Those, which suffered with the purifications, know now that this very first initiatory phase is the backbone of the philosophical Epiphany. In that, the question of double salt is also canonical, but we will have perhaps the leisure to return there in other places.

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The hesitant results in title qualifier are it, often, because of the haste, which leads to the insanity, hastens which almost always merges with the heat of the first working years. The postulant, more bolder than wise, more exalted than obeying, projects itself and him only, in his gestures, the disordered states resulting from the clean will which will make sterile its attempts. Far, the perspicacity of the free will of the initial call.

Upon the departure, the dry assation, short or wet, carries a terrible and quasi-final blow to it through, which meets at all. This is why the envious ones occur from there conceitedly. On their premises, the fever burns more at the laboratory than external fire for, sometimes, leaving the neighbourhoods of the athanor encumbered of a terrible cafarnaum. One remembers that it is necessary to practise an assation, because it was heard and, feverishly, here that agitation neuropath gains, a few evenings per week, « the alchemist ».

Others, which is placed readily under obedience and which already lived what is previously depicts, call with the charity of the Master to show them how to implement this preliminary philosophical exercise. On a side like this one, the intimate contact with the matter remains absent. Consequently, only authentic teaching consists in training the disciple in the single direction of the communion with the Subject.

The assation, in addition to some technical details, is the vital meeting. From this union, the artist cannot wound any more nor to force the purged mine of his gangue, because the least blow carried to the latter is felt by him like a tear carried to itself. And, if God, by his infinite mercy, wanted thus in the advance of the Philosopher's stone, it is without any doubt to save the frightening tomb of the illusions to us or well, according to the gasoline of the desire, to direct us towards the plays of the small science, towards the foolish one.

The only councils that I then to lavish to you, by my Fathers, which is those resemble more to reveal you conditions, which to lose you in technical mixtures. Indeed, just like our sulphide, if you show to good provisions to be opposite the call to the assation the latter will be allowed. In the contrary case, if you render yourselves to want «to make a success of this operation, »you will lock up your being in a whole of fixed particularisms, which will be opposed to the saint exercise.

However, there is no doubt that the best of the conditions than it is wise to teach to you is that, firstly, to go down to the mines.

In the so marvellous galleries where saw the mother of metals, which is held there? What operates Nature within the ground?

The water streams, the vein is often hot, the atmosphere is sour with the sense of smell; one palpates, by all fibres his being; the mineral life is propagated at the slow rate/rhythm of the fabulous clock of this reign

In this place, you collect. Close the eyes and open your spirit. There are no more gallery, more woodwork, more light, more yourself. You here reduced, by love, dissolution of the fixities of ego, with a tiny animal of a negligible dimension, such an ant; as by enchantment, you see, you hear are friendly mineral life.

Did you never think initatiquement of the kind? It is the first sign which exemption Providence, that which informs you that the hour of the assation approaches for you.

Nothing then separates you from metals, of this world strange and attractive, forgets men; reverentially your premiums not are impressed of admiration, astonishment, abandonment. You see as sees the mine; you listen to his breath, you test his soft heat, you surprise the mischievous spirit, which runs, furtive. You receive. Alchemy is your nature. It remote is not abstracted, of another world, to seek. It is in you, around, palpitating beautiful, splendid, and luminous. The rhythm of its life two, regular, powerful, erudite, is balanced and pure

Far, identification, imagination, the fable. This is why it is so delicate to report these remarks, for that which is not challenged comprises as a imitator, a plagiarist, in sterile monkey, precisely in these places from which the kind comes out of question «how one makes a assation? »On the contrary, when you are invited by the Lady to the awakening of the crowned compost, you are the solution even, for this listening to dissolve you, you reduces.

The little seams of underground water, in the black, under a light pressure, infiltrate in the mesh of the Subject, of which they express the vinegar of the mountains. This last is born from itself, hydrogen, furtive and very volatile, by circulation. It transforms little by little sulphide, not in its chemical formulation, but in its major heart: crystal.

Closed will be obviously your balloons, for a time, that of the decomposition of water resulting from the hydration of washings of the powder, itself finely crushed, bequeathed by the purged mine. Water becomes sharp, borrowing from the Subject a tiny share of its coarse sulphur to generate of it the spirit, itself inviting the sulphurous vapour, that the modern one would name « hydrogen sulphurous », to reduce the initial air, to extend the any raw material under the conditions favourable to its transformation.

This digestion depends in its duration on the size on your grains and of the quality of haste dedicates; many reactions can be blocked by a presence arsenical, siliceous, leaden or different. After the precondition treatment to the dew it is with crushing that you lay out the cosmic clock responsible for the period during which you supervise attentively. Do not wait that we look further into this chapter, where the sieve determines almost all. It would be illusory it would be you to draw aside from the direct intervention. All then I only to precisely advise you; I will not seize you the handles to carry out the operation in your place.

You will examine with enthusiasm and will await patiently the appearance of this hydrogenated savour which feels, for little that you already breathe this gas. The calcination of iron in a tube, on which passes a vaporous water heavy shower, informs very exactly. It is necessary that the odour be marked. You will maintain it a few days, during which I engage you with the chant and the humiliating tasks.

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The digestion carried out, here that it is advisable to drain out the celestial water that the Subject refuses, but without supporting the winds that would destroy your effort. At this point in time you will replace your stoppers ground with emery by absorbent cotton, and at the same temperature, which also depends in its rank on qualities previously stated - between 45º and 65Cº-, you will let these spongy obstructions carry out their task, until what you do not observe any more, with the small manual lamp, moisture on the walls of your vessels, but of the crystals. However, pay attention for not to completely dehydrate your powder, which must keep its powdery form, earthy. Especially that heat does not drop at all on the contrary, to increase Vulcan very slightly - what is facilitated by some tubes being able to stop itself as it will be suitable -, is the gesture which saves. But prudence, not more than ten degrees. That the patience is your virtue.

Here now the sulphide in its very perfect balance. Seal using lute with emery, and you will be elucidated. Several indices make it possible to recognize, in addition to the colour, the validity of a philosophical assation. Odour of compost, marked; but, especially, per hour of separations, the moon beating its full, our ground becomes alive: in the presence of its male and proportion saline required, here which warms up to more be able the fingers on it... When plunged in + (crucible), with the Vulcan help the combat between natures is a ballet which shows what is Science, already.