#spagyrics

Hello, good morning.

It began as a way to take ownership of the place I lived in by doing the things that I otherwise couldn't do before. I left my parents' house when I was 14, so for most of my life I didn't have a stable or spatious enough place to do anything that required any sort of permanence. Growing plants was, for me, one of the ways to reclaim that once I managed. I merely approached it in a more interesting way.

Rambles about it under the cut...

At last, the Alkahest of Iron Citrate. It is sufficiently powerful to volatilize the fixed salts of iron, and probably a number of other fixed salts.

The black Earth here will be dried, ground, calcined, ground some more, calcined some more, and alchemically calcined with bespoke strong mineral acids before reintroduction of the Earth to the Alkahest.

Alchemy is essentially a game of recognizing living matters, killing them, and finessing that fugitive life force into a simpler, 'thinner' host matter. The alchemist is the nurse, the undertaker, the funeral director, and the resurrector of matter.

The Alkahest, like the Eagle, carries the body of iron with it over the still head. Iron is the Eagle's food, and they become one essence.

When the Alkahest has utterly consumed the body of iron, it is then called Our Mercury. Philosophic Mercury. The Water of Life.

It is then useful for producing Third Order Alchemical Sulphurs of metals. They are incomparable precious sacraments, ingested by the drop, in order to achieve higher and deeper levels of mystical consciousness.

I have ingested all sorts of Alchemical Sulphurs, and those made by Our Mercury are the best.

The Sulphur of Tin prepared by dissolving tin oxide (Cream of Tin) in Philosophic Mercury and then distilling it off, will transmute hot copper metal into the finest silver.

The Sulphur of Iron tinges higher than that of gold, allegedly, according to Thomas Vaughan. I have been studying his works rather deeply.

A friend of mine has prepared the Sulphur of Copper, and he claims it is the best smelling most fragrant of the metallic oils - like perfume!

Common mercury Hg will dissolve in Our Mercury too, rendering a transmutation agent. I would be most cautious before ingesting such a substance however, since Hg is a pernicious toxin.

Part two. Once the frankincense is powdered, I dissolved it into two parts everclear and boiled it (not shown). Then I filtered the dissolved frankincense resin.

Please be carful if you ever do this, everclear is highly flammable —especially when boiling. Do this in a waterbath and not with a direct open flame. This needs to be done in a well ventilated area—preferably outside, and make sure vapors do not collect. Be sure you are well prepared to put out a fire should things go wrong.

I placed the dried and ground yarrow, lavender, and lemon balm into a flask and then covered it in grape seed oil. You can use any oil to make herbal oils and salves. However, I highly recommend grape seed oil it is a very light oil and it has high amounts of vitamin E — a preservative. I then poured the frankincense resin alcohol extract into it as well. I placed this flask into a hot water bath to extract the herbs.

Please do not do the hot extraction method if you do not have the proper equipment/facilities. You can use your stove to heat a waterbath. Never place and alchohol-oil mixture into an oven, vapors will build and can cause a flash fire. You can make herbal oils and alchohol-oil extractions in a few weeks by letting it sit in a warm area away from light.

Some herbalists cringe at the hot extraction method because it can and does destroy/evaporates some compounds within the plants, and thereby destroy some herbal properties. It really depends on what herbs you use and what you are wanting them to do. If you notice the thermometer, the alcohol in the oil and the waterbath regulate the temperature of the oil. Here you can see it reads 76c (168f) at this temperature minimal damage is done compounds in the plants— basically the equivalent of steeping an herbal tea, but in oil. If you had the water boiling, the oil would only reach 100c (212f) if you boiled all of the alchohol off. I kept the waterbath below boiling and alchohol boils at 78c (I am at a higher elevation so it is actually closer to 76c). Essentially, I boiled most of the alchohol off, but I leave some for the antiseptic properties when it is placed on the skin.

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Spagyric: Dream Blend

So, I got this spagyric from Man of Letters (Keyth) a while ago & only recently began using it correctly (full dropper as opposed to a droplet). For me, I don’t dream much in the middle of the night, but more so just before waking up. The dreams I’ve been receiving are insanely vivid and beg to be decoded!

10/10 recommend