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I wonder what is the form of the Fifth Essence?

"Another; Take Gold Calcined into fine Atoms, or Laminated into thin Leaves, one Ounce, of the Liquor Alkahest three Ounces put them into a Retort with a ground stopper, and let them remain in the heat of a gentle Bath a few daies, or until the Gold be dissolved without Sediment, the Liquor then being distilled from it, leaves it in the form of a Salt fusible which Cohobated often with the Liquor, is made Volatile, and comes over in two Liquors, White and Red; the Red is the Hematine Tincture, and the White may be reduced into a White Mercurial Body, after the dissolving Liquor is separated from the same: Thus Gold the King of Metals, of Nature most fixed in Corrosives, Test and Cuppel enduring all kind of Martyrdomes without the least diminution, even the most exquisite Tryal of Vulcan, is by this Liquor or Fire, wholly mastered and Conquered so as to be brought into its Mineral Ens, which is the highest Preparation of Gold, that can be made by means of this Liquor, being its Fifth Essence, and is of Power to cure the most deplorable Diseases, to which the Nature of Man is subject;"
 
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I wonder what is the form of the Fifth Essence?

This HERE is what Quintessence extracted with SM looks like.

The Fifth Essence is the great Quintessence and when they write about it they are usually
referring to the Universal Quintessence.

Quint = 5 = so we get the fifth essence. :)
 

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The Fifth Essence is the great Quintessence and when they write about it they are usually
referring to the Universal Quintessence.

Quint = 5 = so we get the fifth essence. :)

Hi black, i would like to make observation
I know your name is like the color, but the Quintessence (yes in latin quinta means fifth) should not be black in color.
Cyliani, Philaletes, Siebmache, and so on, they all specify that the black is the color pertaining to the regimen of Saturn,
and that before of the regimen of the Moon (the white tincture) we have many impurities.
Flamel too says that we have to cut the raven's head...
or that Apollo with his arrows has tpo kill the Python snake which is made of mud.
Raymond Lully too he points to a white and a red wine... not black.
I think the classical cliche proof could be the ability to transmutation
 

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Hi black, i would like to make observation
I know your name is like the color, but the Quintessence (yes in latin quinta means fifth) should not be black in color.
Yes, that's correct Argento Vivo ... the Quintessence is not black in color.

Cyliani, Philaletes, Siebmache, and so on, they all specify that the black is the color pertaining to the regimen of Saturn,
Yes, that is also correct.

and that before of the regimen of the Moon (the white tincture) we have many impurities.
Flamel too says that we have to cut the raven's head...
or that Apollo with his arrows has to kill the Python snake which is made of mud.
Yes, it takes several "cleanings" of the mud.

Raymond Lully too he points to a white and a red wine... not black.
Raymond is also correct about his wines.

I think the classical cliche proof could be the ability to transmutation

Not sure what you are saying here. :confused:
 

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Not sure what you are saying here. :confused:

I mean that the Philosophical ending products of the Art have a few common behaviors like changing copper into gold by adding of that

They say oil is the blood of the red lion, or red wine, or fixed Mercury, and this should transmute metals in gold, ratio 1 to 100
 
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I mean that the Philosophical ending products of the Art have a few common behaviors like changing copper into gold by adding of that

They say oil is the blood of the red lion, or red wine, or fixed Mercury, and this should transmute metals in gold, ratio 1 to 100
Hi Argent Vivo

From what I have been told, for Transmutation the Stone needs to be Multiplied
many, many times to increase it's energy. :)
 

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Hi Argent Vivo

From what I have been told, for Transmutation the Stone needs to be Multiplied
many, many times to increase it's energy. :)

Stone needs metallic fermentation to be able to transmute all kingdoms of nature.
 

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Stone needs metallic fermentation to be able to transmute all kingdoms of nature.

From my current understanding, I don't believe so. I believe it needs multiplication. My reasoning is that fermentation increases quantity, and multiplication increases virtue.

All the best;
C.