. The Secret Solvent

[Mahavira]

It may sound far-fetched

Not THAT far-fetched. 🙂

 

[Jolly Rancher]

Universal Solvent

No Secret Solvent = No Philosophers' Stone

Our Universal Solvent (Alkahest, Secret Solvent, Universal Menstruum, Mercury Of The Sages) is elucidated best by Boerhaave in the following quote...

If it does not have these properties, it is not our Universal Solvent.

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Our Universal Solvent is a perfect conjunction of celestial and terrestrial, an inseperable union of volatile and fixed via Circulation.

See also: One, Two, Three

Further reading: "Alfred, or, The Youthful Enquirer"

This is an absolutely fantastic set of quotes you’ve put together.

I’ve heard that there is a diagram somewhere in a collection of alchemical works that gives some less veiled instructions on how to make it. It’s necessary to calcine the salt at one point to make it as white as snow.

 

[Selcuk]

Very nice alkemical picture

 

[Seraphim]

"A New Method Of Chemistry" by Herman Boerhaave, 1753

The Alcahest of Paracelsus transmutes all the bodies in nature by subtilizing them: for, when bodies are subtilized as high as possible, they at length change to another substance, but retain their seminal properties: and by means of the Universal Solvent all things are brought back to their Ens Primum, and retain their native virtues; whence great and unlimited powers may be obtained. And plainer still; This liquor only, can dissolve all solids into their first matter, without any diminution or alteration in itself. Whence he recommends the knowledge of that homogeneous and immutable menstruum, which dissolves its subjects into their first liquid matter; whereby the internal essences of things and their properties may be seen.

"The Secret Book Of Artephius", 1150

The whole, then, of this antimonial secret is, that we know how by it to extract or draw forth argent vive, out of the body of Magnesia, not burning, and this is antimony, and a mercurial sublimate. That is, you must extract a living and incombustible water, and then congeal, or coagulate it with the perfect body of sol, i.e., fine gold, without alloy; which is done by dissolving it into a mature white substance of the consistency of cream, and made thoroughly white.

So we are looking for something? which dissolves something? into a "mature white substance of the consistency of cream"?

 

[ggkvarma]

To all seekers, gold is the final frontier and the perfect metal, both useful for transmutation and acts as an elixir.

There are many paths like lead acetate, antimony, etc., but the truest path is the gold.

It is simple, just extract the essence or water from the sister of gold. Now this water is precious, it can dissolve any metal, but common gold, being compact takes a little time, first it precipitates as a black powdery substance.

When completely dissolved, add more water and continue until it’s converted to diamond-like crystals, divide this white matter into two parts, add again water and continue with increasing heat until it turns brick red, this is further fermented with pure common gold at high temp for three days, this will be the first order of our elixir.

Continue with repetitions for a more powerful medicine, good for both body and metallic preparations. For the dry method one should work hard to procure the material for faster results, but with low quality of medicine.

Now concentrate on how to get the water, which will fulfill all your desires.

 

[Andro]

It is simple, just extract the essence or water from the sister of gold.

To extract a "water" from Silver, or even from Gold, the metal would first have to be rendered distillable at laboratory manageable temperatures. Are you in any way hinting at the use of hash/toxic chemicals to accomplish this? Or a more "gentle" agent?

Also, are you using the pure metals for this extraction? Or their salts?

Have you ever extracted a volatile liquid from the lead acetate process that can dissolve metallic gold in the same way you described above?

Thanks for sharing!

 

[ggkvarma]

Hi Andro, everything in alchemy is cyclic repetition, yes under some circumstances metals become volatile, if you mix milk, yogurt, butter, ghee and jaggery, when molten iron or nickel is poured into these milk products the metals become malleable or become like mastic, soft like dough, also there are substances when mixed with metals they become volatile, this we capture by condensation, this will dissolve any metal.

Life is more important than gold, but surprisingly it is gold that gives us longevity. When we try to extract the mercury of lower metals, they can be used for transmutation but not for making an elixir. Without long life what is the use of wealth, as the spirit carries our nature or karma, similarly the spirits of the metals also carry their nature, hence only noble metals are used.

 

[Andro]

Thanks for the reply ggkvarma!

You didn't say if you use pure metals (Gold/Silver) or their salts.

 

[Lakshmana]

In my Ozone thread posts I was opening and distilling Silver and Gold with Ozone, I remember that the Silver started volatilizing into the distillate and a highly unusual mercurial water was distilling that looked almost weightless...