The Philosophers Stone is real and simple to manufacture.
The Philosophers Stone is real and simple to manufacture.
The Philosopher's Stone is a ruby red glass with a purple fluorescence, a glass which, when powdered and sprinkled on molten metal, produces alchemical copper, alchemical silver or alchemical gold.
Alchemists have a culture of secrecy that results from the criminal propaganda that has been waged against them for thousands of years. The criminals wanted to maintain an economic system based on gold instead of knowledge so that they could keep dominating with lies and monopolies. Some alchemists were forced to accept to hide the Philosopher's Stone recipe in order to keep the right to share knowledge.
The recipe for the Philosopher's Stone was encrypted in an initiation path to survive the inquisition.
An alchemist knows how to classify everything in three kingdoms: animal, vegetable and mineral.
An alchemist knows that everything has three principles: a sulfur principle (soul), a mercury principle (spirit), a salt principle (body).
An alchemist knows that in everything, each principle has its support, for example for a plant: essence (sulfur), sugar (mercury), minerals (salt). Practical example for dew: water (sulfur), hydragryum or "argent liquide" (mercury), ammonium (salt). Practical example for a NPK fertilizer: nitrates (sulfur), phosphates or red phosphorus (mercury), potassium (salt).
Firstly, alchemy proposes to make the most perfect separation of the three principles on each of the supports.
Secondly, alchemy proposes to reunite the purified supports, which by being purified have been able to fix the principles, to lead either to the elixir or to the stone.
Indeed, the goal of the alchemist is to concentrate the mercury into the sulfur (small work), then to concentrate the sulfur into the salt to obtain the Philosopher's Stone (Great Work).
The elaboration of the Philosopher's Stone consists of three stages: the work in black, the work in white and the work in red. The work in yellow, documented by some alchemists, must be seen as the intermediate stage between the work in white and the work in red.
The elaboration of the Philosopher's Stone involves three processes: dissolution-evaporation, distillation and carbonization.
The alchemist work consists of three steps that he repeats during the work in black and the work in red: heat the mixture until fusion, cool the mixture, crush the mixture.
1. Work in the black:
The alchemist begins by preparing, in an agate mortar, an intimate mixture of three constituents:
ore: arsenious pyrite like antimony mixed with ammonium sulfate (salt extracted from dew) (95%)
metal: iron, lead, silver or mercury (2%)
organic acid: tartaric or citric acid (3%)
The alchemist works until the mercury is dissolved and the sulfur coagulates. The pyrite is transmuted into sulfur. The organic acid is transmuted into carbon.
2. Work in the white:
The alchemist adds nitrate of potash to the crushed mixture to obtain a fluorescent blue-black fluid liquid.
On contact with air, this fluorescent blue-black liquid solidifies and separates. Slag remains. In industry, slag is a by-product of metallurgy, with a high content of silicates and metal oxides or, in geology, volcanic products rich in vacuoles, of very low density, which are formed during explosive eruptions. The alchemist washes the slag for months with tri-distilled water. He keeps this water away from light and temperature variations. This is the universal solvent (alkaest), the elixir of long life.
3. Work in the red:
During the work in the yellow, the alchemist purifies and sublimates the elements in full transmutation. "The quadruple globe is weightless above a contrasting landscape. The gray and white cameo of a sea of clouds overhangs a mass of massive and dark rocks." The quadruple globe refers to the four heat evacuation channels that forms the star that asserts itself in the solid cooled mixture, as documented in video by Patrick Burensteinas in "Le voyage alchimique - étape 7 - Notre-Dame de Paris".
As the concentration of sulfur raises in the salt, the color of the glass formed at the center of the star turns from yellow to red.
The alchemist works until the union of mercury and sulfur is achieved. Mercury is the link between sulfur and salt. A ruby red glass with a purple fluorescence is formed in the center of the star.
The Philosopher's Stone is a ruby red glass with a purple fluorescence, a glass which, when powdered and sprinkled on molten metal, produces alchemical copper, alchemical silver or alchemical gold.
Sources:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_œuvre_(alchimie)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphorus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_table
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(element)
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/amete/2015/104048/
Patrick Burensteinas, Le voyage alchimique - étape 7 - Notre-Dame de Paris, DVD: https://georgescombe.com/produit/collection-complete-le-voyage-alchimique-coffret/
The quote "The quadruple globe is weightless above a contrasting landscape. The gray and white cameo of a sea of clouds overhangs a mass of massive and dark rocks." comes from an old alchemy book and was, as I remember, on the English version of the "Grand oeuvre" article on Wikipedia in 2022.
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