Alchemy: Watch as it transforms right before your eyes, the Philosopher's Stone, equivalent to the transformation of the human psyche. An easy way for my audience to comprehend Alchemy and the Philosopher's Stone

The Incineration of White Medicine


The vessel called
Mother,

White water mercury
animated with Luna

not brought to flawless
perfection until incinerated
and made fusible like wax.

The philosopher takes the
matter, prepped by nature,
reduces it like snow melted
with water, the fire burns
hotter.

The Mercury of metals is
the feminine seed, the divine
transformation.

Sulphurs of Sol and Luna
fix the Spirits of Species.

Sulphurs of Sol and Luna,
true masculine seeds of the
Stone.

Extract the red tincture,
Mercury must be animated
with ferment of Gold,
and for white, the ferment
of Silver.

Gold resolved into Mercury
is Spirit and Soul.

Penetrating fire cleanses more
than water, Spirit is color.

Corruption of things, mortal
poison.

When heat and color of
a vegetable thing is
extinguished, there is death.

Gold is tinctured with gold,
Silver is tinctured with silver,
those who know the tinge of
Mercury with Silver and Gold
have a great secret.

Mercury of Luna keeps
the nature of  man.

Extracting of the elixir,
you must get the most
pure substance of Mercury.


 

Copyright 2006 Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist