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Alchemy Resounds

Alchemy Resounds

1 Why talk about sounds in laboratory Alchemy?

Because, deep down, laboratory Alchemy should eventually face the test of the sound: the final result of the third alchemical work should resonate, and the philosopher’s egg should emit sounds modulated differently according to the growth of its mass. And then the alchemist should be waiting for a to come event.
It can be assumed it is the famous “light that is heard with the ears”. No treatise on Alchemy directly mentions it, apart from Canseliet and his pupil Atorène.
Certainly, a phenomenon not expected by distillation and sublimation experts. But perhaps that is not so foreign to those who work in foundries because the world of molten metals in cooling is full of peculiar whistles.
So, all that remains to us is to investigate the world of sound. After all, Alchemy is physics, not chemistry.

2 Wouldn’t it be easier to produce this series of musical scale whistles directly instead of undertaking the alchemical hard work?

No, because, I repeat, alchemists must passively wait for an event to arrive; which they cannot cause it.

3 To resonate means to repeat sounds already emitted, like an echo. So you mean that with the philosophical egg the alchemists repeated or imitated sounds already emitted?

In fact, alchemists claimed to “repeat Genesis”. See also The Genesis on a Small Scale.

4 What other names is this sound phenomenon known by?

Philosophical Organ and Shepherd’s Pipe.

5 Is it this peculiarity of the Last Cooking that gave Ostanes the epithet of “ruler of the seven sounds“?

Indeed, “ruler of the seven sounds” and achiever of the philosophers’ stone should be synonyms.

6 Is there a timing to this phenomenon?

24-hour intervals between whistles (between one dawn and another). The precise moment of the year would correspond to moments of sun’s weakness and consequent greater strength of stellar influences—for example, the traditional “week of weeks” occurs in May, to a particular strength of the star Orion.

But, since these were periods of the year when the sun was particularly weak in relation to the stars, other alchemists speak of the winter solstice.

7 Could there be correspondences with the sonic Genesis of Far Eastern and Native American mythologies?

I suspect so, indeed. They call it the Sound Sacrifice and make it the basis of Genesis and the engine of the world.

8 Since sound is air movement, can we think it has a part in the Alchemic sonic phenomenon?

Indeed, in ancient times it was said that when the sun was weak and obscured by stellar forces, there was a consequent change in the composition of the atmospheric air.

9 Could other “waves” be the cause of alchemical “movements”?

In Alchemy we do not have full knowledge not only of the causes but not even of the effects. Ultimately, however, we can say that it is a private channel.

10 When alchemists say that the philosopher’s stone brings together all four elements, what do they mean?

In simple words, they mean that the element air, that’s to say wind, that’s to say acoustic phenomenon – therefore not the element of water, which represents everything that flows, even ordinary air – “comes out” of the element earth or mass of the philosophers’ stone. In fact, we know the philosophical egg emits sounds during the last cooking.

11 Could the “lost word“ mentioned by Trevisanus fit into the phenomenon of the whistling philosophical egg?

I think so. Unless it rather meant “voice commands”, or rather “voice imitations” in the manner of the ancient Egyptians.

12 Is it true that by the term “nature” the alchemists meant above all the sound that came out of the last phase of alchemical work?

It seems that, in the end, the word “nature” should be given a sonic rather than a mercurial attribute.

13 You said that “duplication” or replication in doubles is the key to alchemical “proliferation”, does this also apply to alchemical sounds?

I don’t want to mislead, but for me it’s always about “replicating”, not in the same way but on “scale”. Or in analogy. Or in harmonic “tension”.

14 What about thunder and “seeds” of matter?

A well known statement by Die Sonne von Osten’s, 1783, reads: “Hermetic Philosophers say that their Materia is being born like the thunder and leaves behind similar signs”. We talked in Water Alchemy about how thunder could be a consequence of lightning and therefore part of the “electrical” cycle of water. But thunder is a sound phenomenon, indeed the sound phenomenon on earth par excellence. It seems in fact that these booms remain to provide a resonance belt on the earth’s crust, known as the Schumann Resonance, also poetically called “the heartbeat of Mother Earth”.

15 Could Luc Montagnier’s team experiment leading to resonance induction as a phenomenon not only confined to acoustic reign provide an explanation for the expectation of the super-octave in the Last Cooking?

We have already discussed Luc Montagnier’s team experiment in Alchemy and Modern Physics Particles from the point of view of electromagnetism, here we will repeat from the poin of view of resonance induction. We know the experiment, US2010323391 patent, that is, the creation of a DNA twin from a sealed container of distilled water placed next to another sealed container of distilled water, but containing the original DNA, where both were surrounded by a weak electromagnetic field of 7Hz through a solenoid. And we also know that the astonished conclusions of the team of scientists were precisely of resonance induction as a phenomenon not only confined to acoustic reign (team’s exact words). I’m not a scientist, but, sure, I opened my eyes and ears to this intriguing case.

16 Finally, why is sound important in Alchemy?

Even without knowing what happens at the end of the Third Alchemical Labour, sound is the basis of the mythology of all time. See The Sound Sacrifice.

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  • Smelting Metals in the Service of the Sanctuary
  • Alchemy & Light, Introduction
  • Alchemy & Light, Known Authors
  • Alchemy and Modern Physics Particles
  • Palingenesis, Seeds in the Wind
  • The Enigma of the Three Salts, i.e. the Alchemical Physis
  • Doubles, Resonances, Unions, Seeds, Embryos, Births, and Processions
  • Flow and Reflux
  • Solar Alchemy
  • Planets, Bells
  • Lunar Alchemy
  • Stellar Alchemy, the Aerial Ropes
  • Stellar Alchemy, the Signatures Palace
  • Air Alchemy, the Dust
  • Air Alchemy, the Fabric
  • Water Alchemy
  • Fire Alchemy
  • Earth Alchemy
  • The Four Alchemical Elements
  • The Subtlety of the Exact Proportions
  • Alchemical Timing & Astronomical Code
  • Differences between Alchemy and Spagyrics
  • Concordances and Differences between Alchemy and Ancient Ordinary Chemistry
  • Before Preparatory Work, Spiritus Mundi
  • Before Preparatory Work, Magnetization
  • First-Preparatory Works, Introduction
  • First-Preparatory Works, Eagle Wings or Volatilization
  • Second-Main Work
  • Third Work
  • Concordances and Differences between the Humid and Dry Path
  • Gold & Alchemy, or Adorn with a Star Ray
  • Gold & Alchemy, Apples to Stop Atalanta
  • Gold & Alchemy, Potable Gold
  • Alchemy Resounds
  • What is the Philosophers Stone?
  • The Genesis on a Small Scale
  • Transmutation of Metals
  • Alchemy and Electricity
  • Short Art Ars Brevis
  • Inner Alchemy
  • Classical Alchemy
    • The State of the Art
    • Areas of Interest
    • Index of the Names
    • Articles
    • An Intriguing Case
    • Turba Philosophorum’s Ambition
    • Opus Magnum Scheme
    • Lexicon
  • Anatomy of an Alchemical Machine
  • The Sound Sacrifice
  • Introductory Notes to the Boards of Pure Force

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