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Alchemy works translations, commentaries, and presentations of hidden evidence in myths, art, nature, science history

  • Classical Alchemy
    • The State of the Art
    • An Intriguing Case
    • Opus Magnum Scheme
    • Turba Philosophorum’s Ambition
    • Areas of Interest
    • Index of the Names
    • Articles
    • Lexicon
  • Anatomy of an Alchemical Machine
  • The Sound Sacrifice
  • Introductory Notes to the Boards of Pure Force

Alchemy & Ancient Chemistry

Lancillotti and the Magisterium of Urine on Caput Mortuum

by Iulia Millesima

Carlo Lancillotti prepares a volatile urine salt, distilling it on the Caput Mortuum, the part that doesn’t rise. So we see what a volatile salt is for.

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Glaser and the Unladylike, but Volatile, Salt of Urine

by Iulia Millesima

The volatile urine salt deserves all the attention Glaser assigns to it. Methods to extract it. It is then up to the alchemist to know what to do with it.

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Nicolas Lefevre and the Benzoin Magisterium

by Iulia Millesima

Nicolas Lefevre proceedings to sublime and distill benzoin with Spirit of Wine and Tartar Salt.  Dry balm, menstruum, perhaps magisterium. An interesting and easy substance.

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Phantom Play’s Tribute to the Raising Benzoin

by Iulia Millesima

Benzoic Acid is not the Salt of Wises, as Phantom Plays seems to think, but let us point at this substance as one of the most volatile alchemists may avail. Since, together with Secret Fire, they do need to volatilize mineral salts unwilling to.

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Nicolas Lefevre and the Flos Coeli Medicine

by Iulia Millesima

Flos Coeli is latin for the flux of the sky. Unexpectedly Nicolas Lefevre makes this legendary substance from the middle of the earth to the surface.

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    • Articles
    • Lexicon
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  • The Sound Sacrifice
  • Introductory Notes to the Boards of Pure Force

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