The Third Work and the Last Cooking

No. The Third Work still has a rotation of colors, while the Last Cooking is the “hatching” with the final natural “chick exit” of the philosophical egg.

I don’t know, I’ve never witnessed it. I can only repeat what I read: at the end of the musical octave a note should arrive that announces the higher octave. At that moment a visual phenomenon should also occur in the egg (but I have no idea what this is and what I’m saying).

No. On the contrary, it is the opposite. Having never reached the final cooking, I can summarize what I have read about it without fear of revealing too much. Because, IMO the important thing is to give completeness to the alchemical work, and one cannot understand completeness without know the end. Only the end can reveal the true purpose.

When I read Canseliet’s details of his Last Cooking, I mus confess I was shocked by all his revelations. Secondly, I wondered how it was possible that a human being was given the possibility of achieving such power. Only many years later I understood that it was necessary to reveal the last part of the alchemical works to explain what Alchemy really was.

In reality there is no single right moment in the solar year, but one cannot go wrong by choosing the moments of “weakness of the sun”. So certainly the night, and certainly the moments of strength of some stars. These moments of stellar strength can be the cyclical annual weaknesses of the sun due to its winter departure or the overwhelming force of some stellar bodies, such as Orion (at night so strong as to “silence” the sun).

As far as I know, the Philosophers egg is supposed to synthesize the humid and dry paths.

True. Typically, when the stars are strong and the sun is weak the air has its own peculiar consistency.

In this case we have to read between the lines: obviously the intention is not to expose the material of the last Cooking to the solar heat, perhaps increased by some burning glass, but to “introduce” a symbolic Sun, a “spark” that can only come from a symbolic Sun, like gold or something else. See also Palingenesis, Seeds in the Wind, Alchemy and Modern Physics Particles, Gold & Alchemy, or Adorn with a Star Ray and Solar Alchemy.

Yes, the rooster is a symbol of the active part of Sulfur/spark/seed/Sun while the hen of the patient passive part of Mercurius/ray/sowing ground/Moon.

As far as I know, the Philosophers egg is supposed to synthesize the humid and dry paths.

The Last Cooking should last a week. it is in fact called the “week of weeks”.

There is talk of a crusty material to handcraft a sort of double crucible. Others speak of two real crucibles, one superimposed on the other.

A whole series of colors should follow each other, starting from black.

As said, this species of peacock’s tail should start from blackness. As any other alchemical color rotation used to be. And will come out of the last red.

In many treatises in which the peacock’s tail is mentioned, they are reticent, whether they refer to the end of the second work or the beginning of the third.

As far as I know, the external stimulus of the addition of gold could be done to cause this particular blackness before the Cauda Pavonis show occurs.

When in the Baroque treatises “Regimes of Fire” are mentioned, a passage of colors is meant. Because of their reticence, of course, it is uncertain whether they refer to the end of the second work or the beginning of the third. Anyway, yes, it could be applied to the passage of colors in the philosophical egg of both paths, given that it is a matter of regulating the fire for the colors to appear.

The ancient authors are also very reticent—some speak of sealing, others of making a tiny window. However, the egg is described as closed or, at most, with a tiny hole.

Concerning the supposed sealing of the philosophical egg, alchemists say that the shell is naturally in contact with the surrounding air, just like an ordinary egg (see Air Alchemy).

True. See Flow and Reflux. When it comes to the egg, tradition has it that the “hinges” of the oscillation movement – which are equinoctial, on the east-west axis – are to be considered above all.

The last sacrificed child ( in the philosophical sense, of course) is now turning into an embryo. Spirit and Soul, Mercurius, and Sulfur are now indissoluble.

They say the Philosophical Egg forms naturally when the matter goes no further. If we have wisely operated and left some impurities during the salts’ volatilization, the matter will now form a slight crust.

Alchemists have indulged in multiple definitions: the egg is a container and oven sufficient for moderate heat, and the egg must be placed inside a real oven.

The Athanor is an essential part of the success of the third work and is often confused with the actual oven of the last cooking and with the astronomical sun. But in reality, it is rather an alchemical oven, that is, an absolutely spiritual part capable of cooking (as we have seen, the Mercurius is capable of cooking) and an alchemical sun (that is, the Mercurius that composes the egg).
Also, there is a particular “psychic” condition of the alchemist, who, at that point of the work, must, in fact, enter into true “communion” with the matter.

It is very hard to grasp whether the noli me tangere phase or “nothing can be added anymore”, refers to the end of the second work or is part of the third one.
Logic would have it that an increase in weight takes place only with the addition of further mass.

Evidently, it refers to the previous faq. If we have wisely operated and left some impurities during the salts volatilization, for the matter to form now a slight crust, and if we know how to provide the newly crusted matter with a particular device and a special oven for the last cooking, we can be able to see the Egg.

Under the dramatic weight increase, the Philosophical Egg would cyclically emit sounds according to a particular musical scale. The number of different sounds must exceed seven. The lack of the eighth sound defines abortion and may cause dangerous but spectacular phenomena.

The sound could be produced by the increase in egg weight due to the abnormal mass contraction and, consequently, of the molecules forming it. Sound is motion, and motion is a force acting on everything and the spirit. Indeed, Spiritus can be defined as a movement.
Much more difficult, in the light of current physical and alchemical knowledge, to define where the higher octave of return comes from. I mean what alchemists call the answer of the divine. Or Cosmos.

Rather than deducing, a modern chemist might want to investigate the electronic configuration of the egg.

Investigating the electronic configuration of the egg would be an extremely complex operation. This would be mainly due to three factors: 1, a philosophical egg would have to be found first; 2, the chemical composition of Mercurius is disorienting due to the heterogeneity of the starting raw materials; 3, it seems that every attempt at chemical composition analysis has disoriented the reagents and optical readers.

Very few alchemists today can afford to face the cooking of the philosophical egg. But I could also say very few alchemists can face the final cooking today. It is enough to read Canseliet for an entire list of chemical-physical catastrophes, which is abnormal for the operation’s technical entity. At this stage, we no longer speak of explosions due to poor chemical knowledge or the fragility of tools. No, the third work borders on physics; it ends in physics. Therefore, physical phenomena can be expected nearby. However, Canseliet came to old age, and his physical troubles seem to have rather been caused by stress, anxiety, fatigue, and sleepless nights.

We have already discussed this topic in Alchemy and Modern Physics Particles. Here we can only add that this magnetic failure probably concerns the failure of the “spark” to become a true “ray”. See also Palingenesis, Seeds in the Wind.

Projection Powder is the first degree of ripeness before the perfect red achievement. Lapis Medicinalis is the second degree of ripeness. Projection Powder tests whether the amount of Secret Fire/Spiritus Mundi/Seed of Metals is enough for the alchemical child to evolve in Embryo. And, yes, the test consists of trying to transmute a melted metal into gold.

Carbuncle and Lapis Medicinalis are two names for the same thing.

Do not take for granted that Lapis Medicinalis, just because of the name, is good for medical use. Real alchemists do give a philosophical sense to “medical”. They probably mean the creation of a new body instead of the healing of the old one.

Lapis Medicinalis Microcosmi is produced from raw animal matter, such as human blood, urine, and bones, following a series of processes analogous to more generic raw matters. Lapis Medicinalis Macrocosmi is produced from more generic raw matter.
However, be aware that the reason for being of laboratory alchemy is hidden in this.

The Arab alchemists (since it is an Arabic word) said that the Elixir was extracted and not produced. It already existed in nature; everything that exists has a natural Elixir comparable to a lucid vapor and possesses a vital spirit. Anyway, pay attention to the meaning given to the word “nature” by the alchemists, because it could be a characteristic of the air that surrounds alchemical objects and which we find ubiquitously in any natural environment.

In laboratory alchemy, the “know yourself” concept uses raw animal matter, which naturally and manually eventually evolves into the Lapis Medicinalis Microcosmi. Lapis Medicinalis Microcosmi should be joined with the Lapis Medicinalis Macrocosmi. The reason is uncertain because few alchemists know what they are doing. But they easily speculate about the creation of a new alchemical body.

See First-Preparatory Works about DNA as a material. But, to answer the question, most likely yes: some practice involving DNA is definitely present.

Too many consider the Lapis Medicinalis as the end of their works and the Philosophers Stone. But, as said above, the Philosophers Stone can only be the last emission of the Philosophical Egg. So even Basilius Valentinus, when claiming to hold the Philosopher’s Stone in his hand, perhaps galloped with his imagination.

I have covered this extensively in Alchemy and Modern Physics Particles.