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Recipes - Paul Ferguson - 02-22-2023
A correspondent has asked me:
What are the formulas for the Astral, Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral stones? What is the formula for Magic fire?
I have sent him some source books. Can anyone provide concise answers? He's looking for chemical recipes, not definitions.
TIA
RE: Recipes - Adam McLean - 02-22-2023
I have been asked the same questions recently.
I don't think that there are such precise or comprehensive formulas in alchemy.
There are many books on Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral stones. I have one on my website.
Samuel Norton's Key of alchemy
https://www.alchemywebsite.com/norton_k.html
Looking for something precise and fixed, such as this, in alchemical literature, I believe is a hopeless task.
One really just has to go with the material and enjoy it for what it is.
RE: Recipes - Paul Ferguson - 02-23-2023
That was my correspondent asking you. I agree with your response.
I have sent him, courtesy of Google Drive:
1. Transmuting Sericon: Alchemy as “Practical Exegesis” in Early Modern England
Author(s): Jennifer M. Rampling
Source: Osiris, Vol. 29, No. 1, Chemical Knowledge in the Early Modern World (January
2014), pp. 19-34
Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The History of Science Society
Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/678094
This is about Ripley and contains much relevant material.
2. The Weiser Concise Guide to Alchemy, see pp. 81ff
3. Alchemists and Gold by Jacques Sadoul, which cites Fulcanelli; see pp 239 onwards for the Astral Stone.
Also, on Scribd:
https://www.scribd.com/book/351488395/Spagyrics-The-Alchemical-Preparation-of-Medicinal-Essences-Tinctures-and-Elixirs, for the Vegetable Stone.