As a good number of us surely know, alchemist Paracelsus when writing of his elemental spirits (undines, gnomes, salamanders, sylphs) would sometimes refer to them as sagani. And the one issue I keep running into when searching the word is nobody knows the definitive etymological meaning, and I don't trust whatever the AI prompts give.

If anyone is able to help out with this little dilemma, I'd really appreciate it.

Behold the real Green Dragon! Fermented Urine Prime, it comes from the earth. Smells like sulphur. Nothing foreign or alien added. This was after a kiln calcination at 1400F! When you add 7x or more distilled mercury it turns Osiris green just like the Egyptian god.

In many modern documents the volatilization of salts in the preparation of spagyric Elixirs seems to just be about digesting the salts of the plant in its tincture for a while and then distilling the whole.

Later gathering the salts left at the bottom of the boiling flask, calcining them and again pouring the distillate over it, maceration, distillation etc. a number of times in order to volatilize them.

But when reading the Golden Chain of Homer, they talk a lot about using an Acidum medium to make the salts volatile in steps. Using vinegar concretely ---- first mixing the salts with vinegar and later with the volatile part of the elixir. And only then you will be able to make them volatile.

Does somebody have experience using vinegar in this case for this purpose?

I'm curious what everyone has to say about "Gold" having 2 symbols when no others do?

Jade🪨㊗️🇨🇳 gemstones soaked in water/H20 is the coolest ❄️ gemstone to close pores rubbed after a hygienic steam face press from a wool🔥 wash cloth soaked with green tea= tannic acid +spearment=methyl acid + cinnamon=cinnameldahyde+ lemon peels= salycylic acid

How do you verify information when you are taught things that cannot be found in books? Obviously, the information makes so much sense, and my heart verifies that what I am learning is true. But, is it fallacious to want to verify what I know in books. Is this knowledge purposely left out in books? I'm being vague on purpose, but I wonder if anyone can speak with their experiences when their heart teaches them things not found in books.

Do y'all ever use liquor bottles, or whatever is on hand, as a normal part of your setup?

The order of zodiac signs here is not in traditional order. What is the order of zodiac signs here? How would you interpret it?

And what about the symbols below each zodiac sign?

mercury_>sulphur_>iron_>lithium_>nitre amalgym

its a contemplation.
could produce a unique element. perhaps the philosophers stone.

even metaphorically speaking or spiritual in terms, i believe this is a useful draw on what the stone could have been in times beyond ours.

i've read the turbae philosophorum, emerald tablets, divine pymander, studied elixers from the jesuits, and some paracelsus and other natable names like starky, i just believe once its led too far away from its truer sources the methods get lost.

i've studied alchemy for over 30 years, jung in some notes and others just basic chymistry, i believe in some divinity in nature and that some magical component is at play. i've only experienced a true magical element once and it was a small blob of waxen philosophers stone made in ways i could not yet comprehend in my youth.

i have not tested this theory other than philosophically and through exchange.

Babes agreed to get me a water bath😁😍. Filled 6 pots with our antimony (sure Jan, lol). Got a decent gas mask because this isn’t the first time I’ve experienced the truly sublime, mind altering, SOUL RENDING aromas of a well prepared prime.

Now, my only question: I know there’s a difference between wet vs dry heat, does anyone know if it’ll make a big difference in time or quality of the final chaos? I have a trick up my sleeves for rectifying slow primes btw (sunlight).

Has anyone done this? I didn't know these existed until today, and I like to ponder how tools like this could be used alchemically

Behold the Green Lyon

Awhile back I was really into finding out more about Jabir’s work but all of the original manuscripts were in Arabic. After so much digging the only thing I could find was a German translation of one of his books I believe was called the secret of secret’s. So i had to go from Arabic to German and finally to English. I did this all on my phone and screenshot every page of the book, highlighted it and used deepl to translate the German text. It took forever and only got half way through until I gave up. Was it worth it? Honestly yeah. I learned a good amount of stuff like the cure of leprosy back then was viper venom and other medical treatments using alchemy. But yeah I would love to know how far other people would go for the translations of their favorite alchemist.

Hellauu! :)

Was just standing in front of some of my workings and thought it kind of looks cool now as I gathered some stuff over the time haha. Mostly experiments with crystals and salts; and also some distilled products. Feel free to ask if you have questions! :))

Solve et coagula!

Look alchemy related, idk.

From Nosferatu 1922

hi! i'm new in the alchemy community, and i would like to gain knowledge about transmutating circles. But no matter how much i search, all the articles are about fullmetal alchemist.. could someone recommend me pdf's or articles about the matter? also, are they a part of operative or spiritual alchemy? thanks!

Hi everyone!

I recently released a solo piano EP inspired by medieval alchemical symbolism. Each track explores a different stage of the alchemical process which ancient alchemists talked about aiming to transform raw matter. It's a piano-only project I recorded in a theater on a Yamaha grand piano.

I'm gradually releasing music videos for each track on YouTube as well. The EP is available on all major streaming platforms.

Hope you guys enjoy the journey through it as much as I enjoyed putting it together!

“AS LONG as subject is centred in a phenomenal object, and thinks and speaks therefrom, subject is identified with that object and is bound.

As long as such condition obtains, the identified subject can never be free—for freedom is liberation from that identification.

Abandonment of a phenomenal centre constitutes the only “practice,” and such abandonment is not an act volitionally performed by the identified subject, but a non-action (wu wei) leaving the noumenal centre in control of phenomenal activity, and free from fictitious interference by an imaginary “self.”

Are you still thinking, looking, living, as from an imaginary phenomenal centre?

As long as you do that you can never recognize your freedom.”

—From “Open Secret” by Wei Wu Wei

“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love."

—Meister Eckhart

“Whatever happens, happens to you by you, through you; you are the creator, enjoyer and destroyer of all you perceive.”

—Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Love is revelation, but revelation must not become possession.

The moment love becomes possession, control, merger, or idolization of the person, Eros dies.

How do we merge agapic and ancient erotic love?

My love centered vision is not opposed to Eros.

It is what happens when Eros becomes personal, ethical, and faithful without becoming possessive.

The revelation is that in union, the parts do not need to be destroyed.

It can’t be a love where one is enslaved by the other.

The beloved reveals the divine, but the beloved is not to be possessed as the divine.

The cosmic revelation does not bypass the person.

It comes through the person.

Through marriage.

Through tears.

Through fear of loss.

Through being humbled by love.

Through another human being becoming part of the chisel.

Eros shines through human love, without human love trying to capture it.

Communion, not fusion.

Two become one, not by ceasing to be two, but by participating in one shared mystery.

Love does not erase distance.

It sanctifies distance.

There is always a distance between two people, even with great love, a mystery.

We remain two, and yet something greater than either of us appears between us.

We can never possess real love, we can only reveal it through our communion.

Eros reveals.

Agape remains.

The cosmos is not explained by love as an idea.

It is revealed through love as an event.

And we participate in that event whenever we love without possessing, surrender without disappearing, and behold the other without trying to reduce them to ourselves.

I feel this is what life means and why we have appeared.

Where there is no event, there is no need for time and space.

Time and space make events cognizable.

The one who thinks he is standing at the center, loving, choosing, possessing, fearing, seeking, and saving himself is not real in the way he imagines.

Love is not something the ego manufactures.

Love is what shines when the false center stops interfering.

I have come to a great realization in my life.

My ego was the imaginary center, but is no longer pretending to be the doer.

Chuang Tzu wrote:

“Bye and bye comes the Great Awakening, and we find that this life is really a great dream…

Then we are embraced in obliterating unity. There is perfect adaptation to whatever may happen–and so we complete our allotted span.”

With only don’t know, love is immediate. Before I explain love, before I possess love, before I define love, before I build a theology of love, love is functioning.

That is doing not doing.

I do not know what love is.
I cannot possess it.
I cannot explain it fully.
I cannot make it mine.
And yet here it is, moving through me.

The beloved is not “mine,” and yet love is real.

Love is the fire.

The beloved is the image.

The self-center is the smoke.

When the smoke clears, the fire was always burning.

Remove everything that is not love.

Then remove the one who claims to possess love.

What remains is not emptiness.

What remains is the eternal revelation itself.

It is where there is no looking or thinking.

There is no one to even look or think.

Not finding is finding.

Whatever you think you are seeing is what is ultimately looking.

The observer is a factor in any experiment undertaken.

The self that speaks does not know, and the no-self that knows does not speak!

No you exists, only I.

No self has ever been enlightened, they can only become transparent.

Now answer the crying heart in front of you.

Hello, after an encounter with bad kinds of alchemists and shadow workers i was left OVERFILLED by various spirits, constructs, wills that want me dead etc.

The problem is i was very active on the astral but i struggled with intrusive thoughts and somehow came in contact with them (half of them i know from real life we just kinda continued interacting astrally) who thought i was going to deliberately attack them (that isnt the case). So after a year of continued attacks by them i was left in this miserable state filled with astral attachments. I wondering if there are any kind alchemists (i knew one who could help but he has gone missing so im left alone) that can help me remove all this that doesnt belong here or if there is any practice that i can do which can help.

At least somebody i could DM would be really nice if this post isnt according to the subreddit standards.

Thank you.

Bonjour je suis nouvelle et j’aimerais en apprendre sur l’alchimie , pour l’instant je n’y connais as encore grand chose . Donc si vous avez des conseils comme un livre , outils ou quoi ça serait gentil !

Why are they triangles and some have lines going through them? Is there some logic or reason to them? I tried looking up sources and some say they represent how light the element, somewhere I heard they represent dryness/wetness

Might get a water bath if I can convince my wife I’m not clinically insane. Kind of a tall order, 3 jars of fermented, concentrated urine blew up on the stair case while I was moving them. In the house. My. Fucking. God.

Then she blew up.

I tried to tell her, “Baaabesss pls calm down, I’m doing this for your immortal life of luxury” but the woman looked at me like I was speaking Klingon with a Jamaican accent. Must’ve been the gasses.

Anyway, I’m trying to avoid a divorce 😁 so I got a lil’ rat hole in the middle of nowhere. I think the owner’s even nuttier than I am, which is awesome! I’m allowed to use for at least the next year. Cash only.

Cleaned the decades old lizard shit and god knows what else off the walls, moved the PissMaster8000™ in.

U FELLAS READY TO SEE SOME PP BOI MAGIC?? 😎😎😤