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I found this when I wasn't looking for anything in relation to it, and so it seems we discover certain bits of wisdom when we are ready and none the sooner, the subject matter is absolutely what I have been writting about lately concerning limestone as the Bethel stone and its use to attract the spiritus mundi, at first I didn't know what Marl was..... but I had a hunch and a quick google search left my views on the subject vindicated in a triumphant, glorious and synchronistic fashion when I learned that marl was indeed limestone. The proceeding experiments mentioned in the text below I had already designed and contemplated on my own and had begun to undertake, whose design I gleaned from a close study of nature alone, along with a close reading from in between the lines of the most enigmatic of philosophical and biblical texts/no-texts. Alas it lifted my heart to the heights of heaven when I learned that those wise masters who preceding me, had taken the same seldom traveld and little worn simple and poor path to truth that I have attained to.
And to all that now begin to undetake the same path of celestial agriculture and masonry, may the heavens rain down dew and rightousness upon you through the fat of the land. May your hearts be pure and your intentions humble for the universal spirit does not suffer itself to be shown to the wicked and perverse and those who go against nature, for our science is truly a divine one.
This proceding text is from a book which has absolutely nothing to do with alchemy but everything to do with the study of nature and judging from the texts the wisdom from these following pages was no doubt lain out by an adept of our science a certain M. Jeanneret the Elder.
From: Foriegn Essays on Agriculture and The Arts...Issues 1-4
If we study the nature of limestone closely and reflect thoughtfully upon it then we will understand why it attracts the universal spirit to itself so avidly, for as just as in you and in your heart and mind, if it be emptied, and if you be very thirsty and wanting in your nature you will sooner be given water of the heavens to drink than he who is already full up. Therefore empty your hearts so that they may be filled up again with rightousness!
"The Angels or Intelligences are attracted by an horrible emptiness and attend the Astrolasme for ever"
And to all that now begin to undetake the same path of celestial agriculture and masonry, may the heavens rain down dew and rightousness upon you through the fat of the land. May your hearts be pure and your intentions humble for the universal spirit does not suffer itself to be shown to the wicked and perverse and those who go against nature, for our science is truly a divine one.
This proceding text is from a book which has absolutely nothing to do with alchemy but everything to do with the study of nature and judging from the texts the wisdom from these following pages was no doubt lain out by an adept of our science a certain M. Jeanneret the Elder.
From: Foriegn Essays on Agriculture and The Arts...Issues 1-4
The happy effects of marl, for the purposes of vegetation, should induce every one fond of philosophical researches to enquire into its principles, and every farmer to distingush that which he ought to prefer.
In order to satisfy the reasonable curiosity of the first, and the prudent foresight of the latter I have thought proper to conclude this essay, with some enquiries into the nature and properties of Marle.
With this view, an able artist made under my inspection several experiments, on some grey Marl approaching to the colour of slate, taken from two Marle-pits, near three leagues distant one from the other. They differ, in that one is sine grained, soft to the touch, and being exposed to the air, soon dissolves ; the other is coarser grained, feels rough in handling is harder and with difficulty dissolved
on being exposed to the air, or being laid oft land.
Three China basons were taken, in each of which were put two ounces of Marle grossly pulverized, because it was taken from a large piece of Marle.
On that in the first bason one hundred drops of spirit of nitre were first dropped, and when it began to ferment, cold water was poured on it. The ebullition was strong, the bason was filled with froth', and a great smoke issued from it. In the space of a few minutes the Marle was perfectly dissolved.
In the second bason the same operations were repeated with the spirit of vitriol, all in the same pro-
portions, as in the first bason. The fermentation was nearly the same; but instead of being dissolved, the Marle was considerably increased in bulk.
Lastly, in a third bason, an ounce of distilled vinegar was. poured; the ebullition on the cold water, being added, was the same ; but the Marle instead of being dissolved, became granulated like small shot.
• Two hours afterwards, ninety-five' drop's of spirit of.nitre were again put into the first bason, as much spirit of vitriol into the second, and some distilled vinegar into the third ; a new ebullition ensued, and the same effects were apparent, as from the first; Operation.
In three other basons, exactly the same experiments were made, with the same quantities, and the effects were the same. We may thence conclude that, though these two sorts of Marle appeared different, to the eye, to the touch, and in using them, yet they may have the same effects in promoting vegetation ; with this difference, however, that the effects of the hardest Marle is slower in proportions to the length of time it takes to dissolve.
The four ounces of Marle, which had been impregnated with spirit of nitre, in the two basons, were added together, a lixivium was made from them, which being evaporated by fire, yielded half an ounce of a nitrous salt, which crackled on the coals like nitre; and shot forth needles like it. This effect is no ways surprizing, spirit of nitre being only salt-petre, discharged of its earthly particles ; so that when you add to it any earth whatever, provided it can be dissolved in it, it becomes salt-petre again.
Some experiment was yet to be made on the substance of the Marle. A hard piece, just taken from the pit, was pounded, washed, and a lixivium made from it. The lotions being filtered and inspissated yielded no kind of salt whatever.
The Marle being first dissolved by the air, and then managed in the same manner, yielded a bitumenous salt, but in a small quantity.
RESULT of the several preceding EXPERIMENTS.
I. IT was evident, that Marle will not amalgamate, or mix either with spirit of vitriol or distilled vinegar, which are both strong acids; but on the contrary, they yielded a Magma, or a Coagulation. The Marl perfectly dissolved with spirit of nitre; whence it may be concluded, that, though it may not contain in itself any salt, it will, nevertheless, imbibe and attract the universal spirit or nitre, so conducive to the fertilization of land.
II. That Marle which will soonest and best dissolve with spirit of nitre is to be prefered, as it will attract more powerfully the universal spirit, dispersed in ever part of the atmosphere.
III. Marle appears to be only a simple matrix, which like a spunge imbibes the nitre, and salts dispersed in the air; since when it was first taken from the pit it yielded no salt; yet that which was taken from the same pit, and dissolved in the air, yielded a small quantity of a bitumenous salt.
IV. If Marle, even in the quality of a simple matrix, is well adapted to attract the nitre in the air, its effect on
vegetation will be lasting, as it may be reiteratedly impregnated. This is made evident, by the earth from which the salt-petre makers have extracted the salt-petre. Being exposed for a certain number of years to the air, and to the north easterly and north winds, and being sheltered by walls from the south, it imbibes salt-petre a-new, which is again by the former operations extracted.
V. From the preceding observations it should seem we might conclude, that Marle would be of no use on light gravelly lands, when turned in by the plough; because, not being exposed to the open air, at cannot attract the nitre or universal spirit, and be impregnated with it. Experience, however, proves the good effects resulting from this practice, which should be attributed to the porous nature of the Marle; it imbibes the water which penetrates the surface of the soil, and preserves it to refresh the roots of the plants. Without this help, the fructifying water would either have sunk deeper, or have been evaporated by the first heats.
VI. Marl has an effect so visible, so speedy, and even so lasting in promoting vegetation, that it is with some difficulty we can persuade ourselves it has no other quality but that of attracting to itself the universal spirit; may we not presume that it contains salts or sulphur, which art has not yet been able to discover. Nature seems to cast a veil before our eyes, we see the effects, but the causes are hid from us.
Many of the constituent parts of minerals and metals escape our researches ; they are exhaled and dispersed by the sire of the laboratories, and, mixing salts and spirits with them, produces nearly the same effects, by means of fermentation ; they are another species of fire.
Let us then be content to know what experience teaches us. Speculations on the nature of Marle are the less necessary, because farmers seldom have it in their power to choose. Every one is obliged to make use of that which is nearest to him; as, to bring this manure from any considerable distance, would greatly encrease the expence of marling the land, because the price of carriage would be in proportion increased.
If we study the nature of limestone closely and reflect thoughtfully upon it then we will understand why it attracts the universal spirit to itself so avidly, for as just as in you and in your heart and mind, if it be emptied, and if you be very thirsty and wanting in your nature you will sooner be given water of the heavens to drink than he who is already full up. Therefore empty your hearts so that they may be filled up again with rightousness!
"The Angels or Intelligences are attracted by an horrible emptiness and attend the Astrolasme for ever"
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