Alchemy & Electricity

No. We have spoken about electrons in a scattered way throughout the pages (since many alchemists identify their Mercurius with the electron), but above all in Alchemy and Modern Physics Particles. We are talking about ordinary electricity here.

It is heard that electricity should never be employed in alchemical work, meaning electric stoves. It is intuitive to understand that behind the reason for this prohibition, there could be the fear of ion exchange: those interested in cooking know that foods cooked with an electric stove have a substantially different flavor and taste from those cooked with a wood fire.

Chemistry is an electrical phenomenon involving the electronic clouds around the nuclei, and most likely so is alchemy; otherwise, explaining Mercury and its need for motion would be a challenge. So, yes, the electromagnetic effect can be a factor.

Another aspect that cannot be overlooked is the constant buzzing around the electric cables: Alchemy doesn’t like to be disturbed by intrusive noises.

This perfect “machine” could probably also be responsible for life. Said that, I have no firm answer: too little alchemical experimentation has been done in critical situations of electrical voltage. For example, one thing I have never been able to explain is why ants purposely choose to make huge anthills inside electrical control units…

… such as pure metallic gold (see Gold & Alchemy, or Adorn with a Star Ray). This would lead to an exceptional Mercurius, despite the insurmountable problem of making this type of Mercurius fixed, i.e. in a form that can be handled, managed and subsequently worked on (see First-Preparatory Works, Eagle Wings or Volatilization).

Electricity also causes displacements in the surrounding air.

In fact, small devices capable of generating very low electrical voltages – which archaeologists have called Leyden jars or primordial light bulbs, due to their bottle-like appearance – have been found in unthinkable places, such as temples. We still do not know what their use was, but an alchemist could see the right characteristics to “volatilize” gold leaves, for example. What an alchemist does not know is about the vibratory aspect: were these similar Leyden bottles used to enter or produce those “sparks” that we have seen so important? See also Alchemy and Modern Physics Particles and Palingenesis, Seeds in the Wind.

Let us remember that quartz in elongated structure is a piezoelectric material. And piezoelectricity is a factor in Alchemy. But the real answer is that we don’t know what those quartz lenses were used for. See alsoi Alchemy & Light, Introduction.

Sure, but more than from the sun itself, from the extreme daily temperature difference ranges in these places—a well-known phenomenon to generate electricity in the desert.

Indeed. Otherwise, the role of the proximity of watercourses to the most ancient sacred places would not be explained. See Water Alchemy.

Indeed. And we know how crucial atmospheric air is in Alchemy. See Air Alchemy, the Fabric.

A well-known quote from Die Sonne von Osten 1783 states: “That is why the Hermetic Philosophers say that their Materia is being born like the thunder and leaves behind similar signs”. Mind, they said thunder, not lightning. There is a substantial difference. This same sentence in its various aspects has also been analyzed in other pages, see Alchemy & Light, Introduction, Water Alchemy and Alchemy Resounds.

To stay on the electricity side, it is useful to know that on the surface of our quiet planet there is no intrinsically ionizing phenomenon as powerful as lightning.

Taking up and expanding Linn Mylls’ theory on the formation of lightning already mentioned in Water Alchemy, I paste and copy from my article : Water molecules in the liquid state share electrons covalently. This enables liquid water molecules to exist at a lower energy state and is the factor that makes water behave as a liquid. However, when energy in the form of heat is available, the water molecules use this heat energy to lock up a full complement of electrons in the valence band or a perfect dot diagram of eight electrons. The molecule is now free to move about independently and is now gas and refuses to share any of its electrons with its neighbors. It jumps into the atmosphere and leaves behind fewer electrons to be shared by the ocean’s liquid water molecules. As the gas H2O molecules lose their heat energy, they also lose the ability to maintain a full complement of electrons, and the gas molecules are forced to condense with each other, become liquid, and once again share electrons. In the process, they give up the surplus heat and electrons they can no longer afford to maintain. A lightning storm ensues if condensation is fast enough and in sufficient amounts. See also Alchemy and Modern Physics Particles.

It could be. But, in reality, we still do not know what happens in the so-called “bowels of the earth”. An intense alchemical magnetization process could take place.

Alexander von Bernus openly compares Mercurius to the electron. Canseliet calls the series of phenomena that occur after the accidental breaking of the philosophical egg “aurora borealis” (and he was also very concerned about electromagnetic radio and television signals). Fulcanelli followed with interest the experiments of the Curie brothers on the piezoelectricity of quartz.

They were very concerned about it, so many declared that the last alchemical arcanum had been revealed. Others claimed that the “electric ferment” left behind the seeds of matter.

Today, when we think of electricity, we think of Tesla and his huge voltages, which cost him his career. Yet we know that small voltages are a world apart, with separate scientific models, and not just a matter of scalar forces. The tiny variations of electronic buoyancy are in fact a world apart from Tesla’s electric floods. Small electronic variations do not require large furnaces but only nature, which works on low voltage.

High voltages are involved in lightning discharges. And lightning produces a huge blast of air, called thunder. We know that thunder, or the great displacements of atmospheric molecules, also held great importance for alchemists.

Both low and high voltage can dissolve some calcined metals.