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truth is stranger than fiction but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to
possibilities
truth is not, by Samuel Clemens
AKA Mark Twain. What is alchemy
nature enjoys its nature nature contains nature
improves nature reduces major nature is superior to nature a magnificent and
select rack on philosophical water
by anonymous 13 seventeenth century
alchemy is the art imitating and accelerating nature
it is a natural art and science
in alchemy we do know trail I make anything all we do is provide a
condition for nature to do what nature does
so the Philosopher's Stone is not really made by The Alchemist
it is made by nature
The Alchemist only provide is the condition so that nature can operate
effectively and without being disturbed
many sages scholars and learned men have been all ages
and according to Hermes even so early as the days before the flood
written much concerning the preparation up the Philosopher's Stone
and if their books could be understood without knowledgeably
living processes nature one might almost say that they are calculated ta
supersede the study of the real world around us
but though they never departed from the simple ways have major
they have something to teach us which we in these more sophisticated times
still need to learn because we have applied ourselves to what are regarded
as the more advanced branches of knowledge
and despise the study up so simple looking as natural generation
hence we pay more heed to impossible things then to those objects which are
broadly exhibited before our very eyes
we excel more in subtle speculations that in a sober study of nature
and have the meaning of the sages
it is one of the most remarkable features a human nature that we neglect
those things which seem familiar
and are eager for new and strange information
the workmen who has attained the highest degree of excellence in his art
neglected and applies himself to something else
or else abuses his knowledge
are longing for an increase of knowledge urges us ever onward toward some final
goal
in which we imagine that we shall find full rest and satisfaction
nature then is one true
simple self-contained created by God and informed with a certain universal spirit
its end and origin our God
its unity is also found in God because God made all things
nature is the one source have all things nor his
anything in the world outside nature or contrary to nature
if art would produce any solid and permanent effect
it must follow in the footsteps of nature and be guided by our methods
it must trust itself to the guidance of nature as far as nature will lead
and go beyond her by still adhering to rules
now in our art you should closely imitate these natural processes
there should be the central heat the change of water into here
the driving upward up the air its diffusion through the pores appear
its reappearance *** condensed but volatile iced water the new chemical
light
by Michael send about GS seventeenth century
nature says Flores is one
and if any man strays away from her guidance he mars his labor
in changing the
base metals into gold and silver by the projection up a stone
it follows by an accelerated process
the method of nature and therefore it is natural
the fact is that in producing gold the art of alchemy does not pretend to
imitate in the whole worker nature
it does not create medals or even develop them out of the metallic first
substance
it only takes up the unfinished handiwork of nature
I E the in perfect medals and completed
transmute metals into gold
the new pearl of great price by Peter bonus
1338 and alchemist been only makes the stone in the same way that you make a
tree by planting the seed
and leaving it for a few years
once the CD set if the conditions are right then it just grows by itself
in accordance with nature
for as men corn and herbs are every one of them
generated and born out of their own specific seed so or into same manner is
the true medicine up the ancients
in which there cannot be a better generated and prepared out of most
perfect bodies
and
essence everything generated or begotten is generated and born of his own
specific seed
1 and in his proper to matrix the chemists key
by Henry no lia's 16-17 at there is no true generation
but openings agreeing in nature
so that things be not made but according to their natures
the elder or oak trees will not bring forth peers nor can you gather grapes
have towards
for pigs epistles things bring not for
but only there like or what agrees with the in nature
each tree its own fruit
just the wise man does that by art in a short time
which nature cannot perform in less than the revolution
at 1000 years
yet notwithstanding it is not we that make the middle
but nature herself that does it
nor do or can we change one thing into another but it is nature that changes
them
we are no more than mere servants in the work the root of the world
by Roger Bacon thirteenth century
if you are wondering how this leads to the Philosopher's Stone
I will explain it more clearly
the Philosopher's Stone is a natural occurrence of nature
in fact it is the aim of nature
therefore if you can find a substance which is very pure and infused with like
energy
then put it under protected conditions which are advantageous for its natural
development
you will allow nature to take its course in an axle aerated manner
when this is complete nature will have made for you the Philosopher's Stone
it's very simple entirely natural which is the biggest part of the secret
I will explain again in another way the Philosopher's Stone is the name of the
thing that you get when nature has finished doing what it does
all day long
the earth and the entire universe are going through this process
if however you find a substance already quite well matured by nature
clean it up then put it: into a closed system
or microcosm nature will finish this thing long before it finishes
everything else
so we'll get the result nature earlier and can enjoy all it's wonderful
properties while the rest of the world is killin ***
a chemical development are substances internal
and caused by the operation of nature are wise teacher Plato says
every husband men who serves good seed first chooses a fertile field
plows and many was it well and we did have all
tears he also takes care that his own grain is free from every for an
admixture when he has committed to see to the ground
he needs moisture for rain to decompose the grain
and to raise a total life
he also requires fire that is the warmth of the Sun
to bring it to maturity
the needs of our our an analogous nature
first you must prepare your seed that is
cleanse your matter from all impurity by a method which you will find set forth
at length in the *** to the sages which I subjoined to the street is
then you must have good soil in which to sell your Mercury and Sun
this year it must first be weeded all foreign elements if it is to yield a
good crop the glory of the world
or table a paradise by anonymous
1526 at for UHV this composition
combining as it does the virtues of all things there may truly be said that in
one drop you whole world is present man
the
best and most perfect god's creatures by Benedict disfigure Los
1607 add besides the science of the stone is so sublime and magnificent
that they're in almost all nature and the whole universe are beings is be held
as in a certain clear looking glass
for it is like a lesser world God wrought out his compacted being a the
world by certain harmony and musical proportionality to one another
that which are in the superior world are in the inferior also
but in a terrestrial matter that which likeness
are in the inferiors may also be seen in super years
in a celestial matter indeed and according to the cause
some philosophers have compared to work up the spill into the creation of the
world
likewise to the generation up man and to his natural this book at the chemical
art
by Mar silliest person is fifteenth century
be inspired apostle Saint Peter
tells us that the earth and its work shall consume dairy in
and a new world shall be borne beautiful and good
as is described in the apocalypse an anonymous treaties concerning the
Philosopher's Stone
by anonymous 12
seventeenth century
arranging writers call are still in a microcosm and there can be no doubt that
its composition greatly resembles that of the world in which we live the
chemical treaties
or the ordinal alchemy by Thomas Norton
1477 at to understand you're right
how about a bizarre chaos we are 24 Mar philosophical microcosm
we must first of necessity rightly comprehend a great mystery and
proceeding in the creation of the macrocosm
it being extremely necessary to imitate and use the very same method in the
creation of our little one
that the Creator of all things has used in the formation of the great one
aphorism server by jurors
by Barry over by jurors 1690 ad
this water cannot be prepared using strange methods in the world
but rather it can only be prepared using natural means
together with nature and from nature
these words are bright and clear to those who understand a magnificent and
select rack on philosophical water
by anonymous 13 seventeenth century
alchemy is therefore the art of the microcosm and the acceleration of nature
through the microcosm there is only one method for the entire work
we only do one thing and that is to allow nature to take its course
admittedly however we do first clean up our substance and remove what is not
needed
for the knowledge of this are consistent not in the multiplicity
for great number of things but in unity are still in dispute on
the matter is one and the vessel is one
the government is one and the disposition is one
the whole art and work thereof is one and begins in one matter
and in one manner it is finished the root of the world by Roger Bacon
thirteenth century
it is prepared from one substance with which the art of chemistry is conversant
to which nothing is added from which nothing is taken away
except that it superfluid these are removed a brief guide to the celestial
Ruby
by
Irene is filly B's 1694 eighty
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how does it work the Philosopher's Stone is energy concentrated and purified to a
massively high degree
this is the same energy that you are taking in when you breed
and when you eat and drink
it is the energy that powers out forms have life and so I will call it like
energy
since I have to call it something and like energy is self-explanatory
I think most of us already have a feeling that there is some kind of like
energy we obtain from our food
drinkin air
we all know that eating fruit is better than taking vitamins
we know that there is something jim to do so the fruit
we know that raw vegetables are better than cooked vegetables
we know that cooking food destroys the goodness in it
we other life forms and we know that the more alive or fresh our food is the
better it is for us
there is also much to be said for breathing deeply and rhythmically and
not just for the oxygen
else we would get the same effect by breathing air with more oxygen
but that's not necessarily the case
although the proper method a breeding and directing the movement so ***
the theory lessons abadi and beating a vegetable medicine
may extend people's
life yet they will not keep people from death
but the eating of Chen tangent divine medicine
confers immortality on the eater enabling him to last as long as heaven
and earth and right on clouds and Dragons up and down the T'ai Chi Ching
great clearness
on the cold medicine and on the yellow and the white by KO Hong
fourth century Chinese this like energy is physical in the sense that it can be
captured and made use
up
you could see that this light Peter geez the smallest particle
up which all other particles are made
or you could say that everything is made of energy and this is that energy into
raw and undetermined form
not yet formed into an element which is probably closer to the truth
things in the universe are all produced from the single Chi
the theory lessons which embodies both the Willoughby clear sky and the willapa
clouded her
when bamboo ware is broken
bamboo is needed for repairing
when a man's energy wears out lead is required EF furry strengthening
think the matter over
the medicine may be found directly in front of your eyes
the trouble is that the common people cannot perceive it sheesh England
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Chinese man is made over and lives through here
for your contains the hidden food at life which the invisible spirit
when congealed is better than the whole world the new chemical light
by Michael send about GS seventeenth-century
the stone
which the philosophers do seek is an invisible and im palpable spirit
the stone also is in everything that is
nature is in everything
and because nature has in itself all names and nature is all the world
therefore test tone has many names and is said to be in everything
although one is nearer than another book up the chemical art
by Mar silliest person is fifteenth century book at the chemical art
by fifteenth century everything conferring the virtue of stability and
permanence necessarily possesses this virtue
itself a golden and blessed casket nature's marbles
by Benedict disfigure Los 1607 address the power
growth that I speak up his imparted not by the earth but by the life-giving
spirit that is in it
if the art were deserted by the Spirit it would be dead
and no longer able to afford nourishment to anything
know then gentle reader: that life is the only true spirit to twelve keys
bypass Ilias valentino is fifteenth century
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the powers of the stone I will you explain a few of the many possible uses
of the Philosopher's Stone
the possibilities for its use your best and beyond the imagination
a regular person
however I will outline the traditional uses there are two forms of the
Philosopher's Stone
the Whitestone and the Redstone
the Whitestone transmute any metal into silver
the Redstone is the more powerful and more well-known
and transmute any metal into gold furthermore
know that the making of gold and silver were considered the least desirable
affects our best known
the effects on body and mind have always considered to be work so much more than
the money
i dis because the still makes gold and silver that these were used as currency
throughout history
not that they're still makes gold and silver because they have value
let not him who desires this knowledge for the purpose of procuring well
and pleasure think that he will ever adding to it
those therefore that desire this art as a means of procuring temporal under
pleasure and well are the most foolish love men
and they can never obtained at which the secret so great an expensive money
time and trouble and which feels their hearts
their minds and all their ***
for this reason the sages have expressed a profound contempt for worldly well
not as though it were in itself a bad thing seeing that it is highly commended
in Holy Scripture as an excellent gift of God
but because ovitz while abuse
be despised it because it seemed 20 jinder men from following the good and
the true
and to introduce a mischievous confusion into their conceptions of right and
wrong this a pic hydraulic
or Waterstone otherwise by anonymous
seventeenth-century but now concerning
and cheaply in this our age the ungodly and a curse it gold making
which had gotten so much the upper hand
whereby under color ovett many run a gates and roguish people do you scrape
bilities
and cousin and abuse the credit which is given them
yea nowadays men have discretion to hold the transmutation up medals to be the
highest point
and vestigial in philosophy this is all their intent
and desire and that God would be most esteemed became
and honored which could make great store gold
and in abundance the witch with unpremeditated prayers
they hope to attain up the all-knowing God and
searcher evolve hearts we therefore do by these presents public like this to
fight
that the true philosophers are for another reminder a steaming little the
making of gold
which is but after you're gone for besides that they have a thousand better
things from a friend earn it others
by the rosa creations 16-14 at if you do not yet understand how and why the stone
Werks
what the active
principal is then this will all sound unbelievable
but once you understand that the stone is simply a concentrated and highly
developed for my energy
which is the true nourishment all things that grow animals
plans minerals et cetera
now you will not only understand how the stone can perform such miracles
but also be able to pick up further uses I will begin with a long quote
which sums up the traditional uses quite well
then I will continue with a list of use is mentioned in the El chemical
literature or
in its first state it appears as an impure earthly body
Fulham imperfections
it then has an earthly nature healing all sickness and wounds in the bells
have man
producing good and consuming proud flesh expelling all stage
and healing generally inwardly and outwardly
in its second nature it appears as a watery body
somewhat more beautiful than before because
although still having its corruptions its virtue is greater
it is much nearer the truth and more effective in works
in this form it cures cold and hot peppers and is a specific against
poisons
which it drives from heart and lungs healing the same when injured or wounded
purifying the blood and taken three times a day
ice of great comfort in all diseases
but in its third nature it appears as an aerial body
up in oily nature almost freed from all
imperfections in which format does many wondrous works
producing beauty and strength her body and
as small quantity being taken in the food preventing melancholy and heating
up the call
increasing the quantity of blood and seed so that frequent bleeding becomes
necessary
it expands the blood vessels cures withered limbs
restore strength to the site in growing persons removes what is superfluous and
makes good defects in the lives
I and i ts Fort nature it appears in a fiery form
not quite freed from all imperfections still some with watery and not dried
enough
wherein it has many virtues making the old young and reviving those
at the point of death
for you to search you know there be given in wine
a barley corns way to this fire so that it reached the stomach
it goes to his heart renewing him at once
driving away all previous moisture and poison
and restoring the natural heater Bolivar given in small doses to old people
it removes the disease is a beach giving the old young hearts and bodies
hence it is called the elixir of life
in its fifth in last major it appears in a glorified and illuminated form
without deep x shining like gold and silver
wearing it possesses all previous powers and virtues in a higher and more
wondrous degree
here its natural works are taken for miracles
when applied to the router dead trees the revived bringing forth leaves and
fruit
a lamp the oil love which is mingled with this period
continues to burn forever without diminution
it converts crystals into the most precious stones have all colors
equal to those from the mines and does many other incredible wonders which may
not be revealed to the unworthy
for it heals all dead and living bodies without other medicine the book at the
revelation of Hermes
bike the oppressed this paracelsus sixteenth-century
use one
a universal medicine for the body the Redstone is much more powerful than the
white stone
a single dose can have a large effect depending on the strength of the stone
and whether it be white or red
however for a lasting effect festoon should be ingested
even daily else your body and mind will begin deteriorating again if ingested it
will cure all diseases
and in higher concentrations will make an old person healthy and better than
they were even in their youth have taken suddenly in high concentration
the body will purge itself over everything unnecessary
which may result in going through a shocking transformation over a couple of
weeks
with one skin peeling off Parenti
falling out been growing back in prime condition taken regularly in high
concentration
it will be a necessary to eat drink or even breed
although to see may be done anyway
the body will never grow old you will heal from wounds extremely quickly
and be unaffected by heat and cold
prepared as medicine and sweet food when taken into the melted me immediately
penetrate the human frame
greatly holding to itself every pledge leaping
increasing restoring and nourishing the interrupt virtue and spirit of life
digesting the crude and
on digested removing the superfluous making natural water abound
and augmenting comforting and inflaming natural heat or fire the above will be
the duty of the true position and same philosopher
for those will he be able to preserve our body from corruption
to retard old age retain florid you in full vigor
and if possible to perpetuated
at least top reserve it from death and destruction man
the best and most perfect have God's creatures by Benedictus
Regulus 1607 ad for a month everyday let there be taken up this blessed powder
the quantity of it
grain of mustard seed in white wine or in any other liquor
early in the morning
it is soo to revoke or causing sweat if anything be
to be set forth by temporaries
it is laxative if anything be to be evacuated by school
it is dire a *** if anything be to be driven forth by to passage of urine
but it is never vomited as that is altogether contrary to nature
it not only rectified man's body but also renewed the whole man
by the use thereof continued for a few weeks the crowning of nature
by anonymous 16 seventeenth century
are stone is the golden tree whose fruit who so ever teach shall not hunger again
an excellent introduction to the art of alchemy by Peter bonus
fourteenth century
used to
a universal medicine for the mind a stone will bring one to their very best
and sharp a state of mind
you will be able to learn even faster than as a child
and very easily pick up new languages and learn skills naturally
without making much effort arguably the best quality of all is that the stone
will release one from sadness
depression and suffering therefore also making one kind and caring towards
others
are are trees not only the body but also the sole from the
sneers have servitude and bondage it in nobles the rich
and comfort and relieves the poor
indeed it may be said to supply every human want
and to provide a remedy for every form up suffering the new pearl of great
price
by Peter bonus 1338 at he that has once found his art
can have nothing else in all the world to wish for
then that he may be allowed to serve his got in peace and safety
he will not care for pump or dazzling outward show
but if he lived a thousand years and daily entertained a million people
he could never come to wanton open entrance to the clothes palace of the
King
by an anonymous each and lover of truth 1645 at used three
a universal medicine for the spirit the stone is a fast track to spiritual
enlightenment
and considered by the ancient indians Tibetans and Chinese to be the only
method to achieve enlightenment without meditation
it is considered by the ancient Chinese Taoist to be the preferred method with
accelerated spiritual growth
and unlimited like energy and she the possibilities eventually become
limitless and one will be capable of anything
10 is the supremely priceless valuable medicine up the material body
successful compound in leads to Intel's changes
it makes it possible for one to ascend to meet the chance on
true man and further to solve be problem
if we were sharing non-living by its skillful use
even if you were able to apprehend the true nature a buddhism
I E to become a Buddha you will not be able to avoid giving up your body here
and act we ring in other body there
what can be better than compound in the great medicine at the same time
then you can overcome with you no leak to become a change in
true man Xi'an
the doors have soo an NPN are seldom know by the people
they are really not the nose and a mouth as some persons
think
even if you practice breeding for years how can you make the golden woo
crow capture the to you rabid
will champion essay on the understanding of truth
by John P 021 10 7880
Chinese whoever eats any other medicines may rise on high or stay in this world
according to his desire
on the cold medicine and on the yellow and the white by KO home
fourth century
Chinese use for
a universal medicine for plants the stone will cause plans to grow extremely
quickly and healthily and in any condition use five
a universal medicine for metals the stone allows any metal to be transmuted
into silver
with the white stone for gold with the Redstone
it is also possible to transmute gold back into the lesser medals
this matter after having received perfect whiteness perfect redness and
fixation
changes all in perfect medals into PBS silver and gold the chemists key
by Henry no lia's 16-17 at
the pure the medals are and the greater their affinity to our substance
the more easily are the received by the tincture and the more perfect and wrap
it is the process
regeneration
for the transformation consists in all that ice impure and
unsuitable being purged of and rejected like dross
in the same manner flood stones can be transmuted into precious diamonds
and common crystal can be so tinged as to become equal to the most precious
stones moreover
many other things may be done with the tincture which must not be revealed to
the wicked world
these virtues of the stone and others have a like-kind
are looked upon as the least important by the sages
and by all Christians on whom God has bestowed this most precious gift
such men think móvil indeed when compared with knowledge of God and his
works which is afforded by the stone the Civic hydrolytic
or Waterstone otherwise by anonymous
seventeenth century
he Raymond was also the first to discover the method evolving precious
stones out at the metallic principles
nay he was able not only to change lead into gold
but he
transmuted golden to lead and us turn back the course of nature the new pearl
of great price
by Peter bonus 1338 at every mercurial metals and minerals me
by successive stages be raised through the qualities of all other Mercury's
to the excellence of the solar body and then also be reduced to the degree and
virtual any metallic body one may choose day
golden and blessed casket nature's marbles by Benedict conspicuous
1607 at you six
a universal medicine for minerals the stone can be used to grow and develop
precious stones and diamonds
are still matures all immature precious stones