The Weiser Concise Guide to Alchemy

By James Wasserman, Brian Cotnoir

In The Weiser Concise consultant to Alchemy, Brian Cotnoir bargains a close, step by step creation of Alchemy that explores its mysteries whereas illustrating its use as a contemporary religious process of attainment. He offers an outline of the heritage of Alchemy, from the 1st meldings of Egyptian know-how, during the center a while -- the golden age of alchemy -- correct as much as modern suggestions.

He demystifies the connection among Alchemy and chemistry, and he offers proof to detractors that Alchemy is far greater than a medieval kind of psychotherapy. (The advisor contains functional laboratory experiments that correctly, and intelligently, lead readers to an knowing of this old artwork and religious practice.)

The Weiser Concise consultant to Alchemy is replete with real routines of the alchemical paintings such as:
• Distillation and additional techniques to extract aqua vitae and the "spirit of wine";
• The purification of salts via calcination, crystallization, and sublimation;
• complicated approaches for acquiring such alchemical precursors as Archaeus of Water, Oil of Tartar, and the Spirit of Wine of the Sages;
• natural paintings for acquiring spagyric tinctures, magistries, ens, and stones;
• Mineral paintings for acquiring the salts and oils of metals.

The Weiser Concise consultant to Alchemy makes Alchemy a manageable and important modality that may be used for realizing and dealing in live performance with the energies of Nature for religious improvement, therapeutic, and transformation.

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