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putrefaction

Schauberger
therefore false economic system. Further comment is now totally superfluous. In any case, it was an outsider, who rediscovered the secret of naturalesque mass-motion, and who thus perhaps rescued the whole of humanity from a ghastly end, namely to perish hopelessly from the putrefaction of water, sap and blood. [The Energy Evolution - Harnessing Free Energy from Nature, The Catalysts]


Antoine-Joseph Pernety
"Basil Valentin, (Addition aux Douze Clefs), says that he who has flour will soon have dough, and he who has dough will soon find an oven to cook it. It is as if he said that the Artist who possesses the true Sophic Matter will not be troubled about working with it; it is true, if one believes the Philosophers, that the execution of the Work is a very easy thing, and that more time and patience than expense is required; but this must doubtless be understood of certain circumstances of the Work, and when one has reached a certain point.
Flamel says (Explication des Figures Hiéroglyphiques); that the preparation of the agents is more difficult than anything else in the world. Augurellus, (Chrysop., 1. 2), assures us that an Herculean work is necessary.
Alter inauratam noto de vertice pellem Principium velut ostendit, quod sumere possis; Alter onus quantum subeas.
And d’Espagnet does not hesitate to say that there is much work to be done, (Can. 42): “In the Philosophical Sublimation of Mercury, or the first preparation, the work of a Hercules is necessary, for without it Jason would never have dared to undertake the conquest of the Golden Fleece.” Yet we must not imagine that this sublimation is made in the same manner as chemical sublimation.
So he has been careful to call it Philosophical. It must be understood, from what he says afterwards, that it consists in the dissolution and putrefaction of Matter; because this sublimation is nothing else than a separation of the pure from the impure; or a purification of Matter, which is of such a nature that it can be sublimated only by putrefaction.
D’Espagnet then quotes the following words of Virgil. The poet, says he, seems to have touched something of the nature of the quality, and of the culture of the Philosophical Earth in these terms: Pingue solum primis extemplo a mensibus anni Fortes invertant Tauri: ... Tunc zephyro putris se gleba resolvit. - Georg. I.
Thus solution is the Key of the Work. All Philosophers agree and all speak in the same manner on this subject. But there are two labours in the Work, one to make the Stone, the other to make the Elixir. It is necessary first to begin by preparing the agents; and of this preparation Philosophers have not spoken, because all depends on it, and because the second work is, according to them, only child’s play and an amusement for women.
Yet the operations of the second work must not be confounded with those of the first, although Morien, (Entretients du Roi Calid.), assures us that the second work, which he calls ‘Disposition’ is only a repetition of the first. Yet we may believe that it is not such a painful and difficult thing, since they do not say a word about it, or speak of it only to conceal it.
Whatsoever this preparation may be, it is certain that it must begin by the dissolution of Matter, although several have given to it the name of calcination or sublimation; and since they have not wished to speak clearly of it, we may, at least, from the operations of the second ‘disposition’, draw inductions by which we may enlighten ourselves concerning the operations of the first.
The first step is to make Sophic Mercury, or the Solvent, from a matter which encloses in itself two qualities, and which is part volatile, and part fixed. That which proves that there must be a dissolution, is that Cosmopolita tells us to seek a matter from which we may be able to make a Water which dissolves gold naturally and without violence. But a matter may be reduced to water only by dissolution, unless one employs the distillation of common chemistry, which is excluded from the Work.
It is well to remark here that all the terms of common chemistry, which the Philosophers employ in their books, must not be taken in the ordinary sense, but in the Philosophic sense." [Treatise on the Great Art
A System of Physics According to Hermetic Philosophy and Theory and Practice of the Magisterium
by Antoine-Joseph Pernety]

See Also


entropy
death
decompose
myxomycetes

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