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alchemists 'Universal Lunar Mercury'….. They call it heaven,
celestial water and rain, parting water, aqua (water) regia, a
corrosive aqua forte, sharp vinegar, growthful green juice, a
growing mercury, a viridescent water, the green lion, quicksilver
[on no account use this], menstruum, blood, urine, horsepiss,
milk, virgin's milk, white arsenick, sulphureous vapouring and
smokey, a fiery burning spirit, a deadly poison piercing and
killing all, serpent, dragon, a scorpion devouring his children, a
hellish fire, a sharp salt, sal ammoniac, common salt, an eagle,
vulture, bird of Hermes, a melting and calcining furnace, birds,
beasts, herbs, juices.
The most elementary source of the Secret Fire is a salt nitrate
from man. From al-Razi’s eleven salts, we can see that urine is the only
salt from man. Urine is a very weak solution of ammonia and nitrates. 767
An average quantity of five hundred milliliters to two thousand milliliters
passed in twenty-four hours includes 4.6 grams of ammonia, seven to
seventeen grams of nitrogen and many inorganic and organic components.
An initiate in the mysteries of alchemy who did not recognize the
statement Know Thyself! was not an alchemist. Alchemists who did not
know where to start their chemistry were the same as Rosicrucians who
could not find their Order. They were simply initiates who had not yet
properly found and accepted themselves, and got on with life.
The only qualification for an alchemical Rosicrucian was to know
that the solution was literally within him. A true Rosicrucian knew the
philosophical mystery of I.N.R.I and that the hidden, nameless god
labeled Osiris or Amun was the god within himself. Chapter 10
introduced this topic, which is also the subject of the next chapter.
The philosophical use of urine has much in common with the
methods of eastern monks. Initiates learn to manufacture a medicine from
their own urine over a period of nearly 6 months.
After removing putridity from the stagnant urine, a white powder
remains. It is often mistaken for the alchemical Philosophers’ Stone.
Other homeopathic remedies recommend drinking urine or applying it in
a shatnez bandage.
The ancients, who didn’t have nitric acid, derived their nitrogen
from ammonia in urine and/or from distillation of dung and bones to get
sal ammoniac. Ammonium compounds behave as weak acids and
alchemists usually enhanced them with saltpeter (potassium nitrate,
KNO3).
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