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"The Great Work of the Lapis Sophorum According to Lamspring's Process." Translated from the German by Sigismond Bacstrom, M.D. 1804. 40 pages. R.A.M.S. 1977. (LAMSPRINGPROC: .doc, .pdf, .jpg)
Table of Contents:
Preface..................................................3
Introduction.............................................5
The Work Purification of the Mercury...........................6
Sublimation of the Mercury............................6
Humid calcination of the mercury......................6
Exuberation of the above mercury......................7
Fixation of the Exuberated mercury into Gluten Aquilae....................................8
Solution of Exuberated mercury into Mercurial water or the Lac Virginis...............................9
Distillation and Purification of the Lac Virginis....10
Union of the Spirit with the body of mercury.........11
Digestion of Gluten Aquilae with Lac Virginis........11
Solution of the White Corporeal Sulphur of Nature....12
Spiritual fermentation of the Sulphur naturae album or indeterminated White Tincture...........13
Multiplication of the Lapis Albus or White Tincture in quality or virtue....................13
Multiplication in quantity...........................14
Projection...........................................14
How to prepare the Lunar ferment and to Spiritualize it into the true Oleum Lunae, to determine therewith the sulphur naturae album ex Mercurio towards Luna.......15
Calcination of the Silver............................16
Further solution and subtilisation of the oily liquor of silver.................................17
Further subtilisation, and Putrefaction of the Oleum lunae................................................17
Reduction of the Lunar or Sophic ferment into an oil.18
Of the Rubification of the White sulphur naturae ex mercurio......................................19
Solution of the red sulphur naturae into an oil......19
Use of the Quinta essentia medicinalis...............20
Distillation of the Ruby-red transparent solution of the red sulphur of nature.....................20
Composition of the Principles........................20
Multiplication in quality virtue and power...........21
To Prepare the Solar ferment.........................21
Digestion............................................22
Rubification of the white sulphur of gold............22
Solution of the Solar ferment and reduction of the same oleum Solis.............................22
Notes on the foregoing process, by Dr. Bacstrom On the Introduction.................................24
On the Dragon that devours its own tail.............25
On the extensibility of the Elixir..................26
On Alkahest.........................................26
On mixing the oil of silver with spirit of wine.....26
On the operation of natural elements................27
Recapitulation Preparation of the sublimate........................29
Preparation of the Gluten Aquilae...................29
Preparation of the Lac Virginis.....................30
Preparation of the white sulphur nat................30
Preparation of the Oil of white sulphur.............30
Preparation of the white or lunar ferment...........31
Conversion of the same into a white or Lunar oil.......32
Fermentatio of the white mercurial oil with the Lunar oil, for the White Stone.................32
Multiplication of the White Stone in power.............32
Multiplication in quantity.............................32
Projection for Silver..................................33
Manipulation for Red Elixir............................33
Preparation of the Red Sulphur natur...................33
Conversion of the same into Oil........................34
Preparation of the Red or Solar ferment................34
Fermentation of the Red Sulphur of Nature ex mercuri Composition of the Red Elixir......................34
Exaltation of the Red elixir in Power..................35
Multiplication of the Red Elixir in quantity...........35
Glossary of Latin Terms................................36
Appendix A, illustration...............................37
Appendix B, illustration...............................38