ALCHEMICAL
LABORATORY
BULLETINS
Vol. II, No. 3
1970
INDEX
Official Announcement
A New Book
Valuable Addition
Class Schedules
The Same Record
Among the Firewalkers
Questions and Answers
The Plant Solaria
Antimony
In the Next Bulletin
ANNOUNCEMENTS
OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
We most emphatically protest some very dangerous concepts and practices of P.R.S. students. We have been informed that students are teaching others, especially novices, some of the alchemical procedures in theory and practice on antimony. If this is done in the name of the Paracelsus Research Society we do herewith state that we have not sanctioned and will not sanction such procedures. What is taught at the P.R.S. is accomplished under the auspices of a state chartered educational institution, sanctioned by the Federal Government as a nonprofit educational institution.
We repeat again what students were told before they were permitted to receive teachings concerning antimony and to which they voluntarily agreed: "Antimony is a deadly poison in the hands of individuals and groups of people not infomed about its handling. We strongly urge all former, present and future students to refrain from handling antimony in its various forms, and all other poisonous substances, in the presence of individuals wlho would like to find out about its mineral and medicinal evaluations, when such students are not legally qualified to give such information and instruction." If students persist in giving out such information, contrary to the above statement, the Paracelsus Research Society will close its doors and cease to teach alchemy.
This announcement is published by order of the President of the Paracelsus Research Society.
ALCHEMY IN THE 20th CENTURY
A New Book by Frater Albertus
In the German speaking countries of Europe, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and others, the demand for contemporary literature on alchemy has become very evident. Unfortunately this demand has not been met, because available literature on alchemy is of old vintage. "Alchemy in the 20tn Century" has therefore been published in the German language in an attempt to help fulfill this need.
If you have a friend who can read German, this book will be what he has been waiting for, or if you read German you will find it useful. Ask for a brochure of this book, free of charge, from the P.R.S. It deals with present day alchemy and gives laboratory results of those in Europe who have ventured into Alchemy as well as a number of the laboratory results of the P.R.S. students, and their names, here and abroad, to vouch for their published results.
Price and details are contained in the German language brochure.
The Alchemical Laboratory Bulletin is a quarterly publication of the Paracelsus Research Society, P. O. Box 6006, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84106, U.S.A. Annual subscription $6.00. This price includes one complimentary copy to be mailed to an institution of learning or as otherwise designated by the subscriber. Individuals and institutions unable to pay the annual subscription fee may, upon verification of their request, receive the Bulletin gratis. Copyrighted and printed in the U.S.A.
VALUABLE LABORATORY ADDITION
Through the generosity of the Singer Librascope Corporation of California the P.R.S. laboratories have been endowed with a large centrifuge of the International Centrifuge Co. This will make it possible for us to use the small clinical centrifuge for sampling of tests while the large machine, which will take up to 2000 ml. at one time, will help in the speeding up of research projects presently under way. By comparison our small clinical centrifuge will take up to 100 ml. at the most. In addition the Singer Librascope Corporation has donated considerable laboratory equipment in the form of glassware and other instruments totaling several thousand dollars, of which the centrifuge alone represents two thousand dollars.
To ship the equipment to Salt Lake City, we are indebted to Fraters and Sorors, who prefer to remain anonymous, for their generosity by donating necessary monies and equipment to bring it safely to our laboratories and have it installed, No monies of the student laboratory fund had to be used to bring this about.
CLASS SCHEDULES FOR 1971
At present only a temporary schedule has been approved for Europe. Classes will convene in Switzerland, as the most centrally located country in Europe, from June until September. For classes and dates please contact P.R.S., Postfach 38, Rheineck/S.G., Switzerland.
Time and classes for the U.S.A. and for other foreign countries will be announced in the next Bulletin. Those who must have this information sooner may contact the P.R.S. office here in the United States after July 1, 1970.
The Same Record Played...
Over and Over Again
"If I'd known that you wanted my application immediately I'd have sent it sooner." This is the gist of many letters we receive! Why? Because classes are filled as soon as dates are announced. We do not have the facilities to teach more students even after they have had their preliminary instructions as only four or five students are taught at any one time. As classes advance the number of students may increase in a class as they become assigned to various research projects. But we are limited in laboratory and dormitory space. We plan to enlarge both facilities next year. However, this does not mean that you can procrastinate because more space may become available. Do not forget that the number of students increases also, not only here in the U.S.A. but overseas; and we have to work very diligently to develop qualified assistants capable of teaching alchemy. The majority take their studies in alchemy and all its requirements very seriously although some 'see what they can do about it' as time and circumstance permit. Usually the latter think that all they have to do is write us a letter at the last minute and let us know that they wish to extend to us the privilege of their attending P.R.S. classes.
If you are seriously interested in the Alchemical studies then make application at least one year ahead of time, or even longer, to give you a fair chaance of getting the class placement that you would like to have. Otherwise you will be on the waiting list as a standby for a last minute cancellation. Though exact dates will be given as soon as possible, please state if Fall-Winter or Winter-Spring classes are preferred. We shall then do all in our power to assure a placement for you. And remember that money is NOT the object. The teachings are free and the equipment furnished. All you do pay for is your own livelihood during your stay here. Even that can be taken care of for those who are financially handicapped as long as monies from the student fund are available for the purpose. Up to now no applicant has had to be turned away.
Please ask for your study group application blank at once so it can be mailed to you early. For class classifications available see Volume 2, page 14.
Among the Firewalkers
Much nonsense has been written about firewalkers based upon so-called eyewitnesses who told about what they had supposedly seen. Not too many reports are available where a minute description of such a performance, including some of the preparations preceding such a feat, are authenticated.
While in the South Seas and stopping over at the Island of Fiji, I became aware of a small island among the many by the name of Beqa (pronounced Bengga). Two tribes live on, this island. Only one tribe, living at the village of Rukua on the west of the island is able to perform the ritual of firewalking. They are the traditional custodians of the ritual that comprises its secrets and legends. It was on a Friday morning when some young men began digging a large pit about 15 feet in diameter. First they removed some large, blackened stones and some charred remnants of large logs. I was watching them from nearby and it did not take long before curiosity on both sides became evident. Soon we were in a very lively conversation. It was then that I met Chief Timothy. His Christian name stems from the Methodist Church that has a predominant influence on the small island. In fact, practically all given names of the islanders are of Biblical origin. Chief Timothy was busily engaged in making some slings on a long pole from strands of a certain root that can withstand a high degree of fire. Upon my asking what they were for he told me that later the white-hot stones on the bottom of the pit would be moved in a position for the firewalkers to walk on a fairly level surface. Chief Timothy was in his early forties, of fine build and friendly nature. All others were of about the same age, save for a very few who were younger or older.
When the pit was dug three large boulders were placed in the center and three medium sized tree trunks placed upon them in such a manner as to form three spokes, as of a wheel, resting on the outside rim of the pit. Then dried palm leaves were pieced underneath, after which small twigs were put upon the former, then a layer of chopped wood and finally large pieces of tree trunks, that weighed very heavily upon the shoulders of the native islanders, were placed in the pit. As the wood grew into a large heap over the pit the great rocks were put on top to cover the wood.
It was already two o'clock in the afternoon when the dry palm leaves were lit and before long a fiery inferno began to belch smoke that soon vanished and the fiercely burning wood began to heat the stones.
During this time we were so deeply engrossed in our conversation, as nearly all those present had gathered around me, that we hardly noticed the passing of time. Upon my question of why only three wooden beams to support the rocks and why only ten male individuals walking on the fire and why only seven people actually performing the Kava ceremony later, their attention was aroused because someone apparently knew about the symbolism involved.
It should be mentioned here that before the turn of the century these people were cannibals, but now they were about to perform a ritual that among other things required of them the abstinence of any marital relations for two weeks prior to the ceremony. They could not have any quarrel with anyone during the time, must have no feelings of animosity towards anyone, must not eat of the cobra, by which name the coconut is called, nor drink its water. These and more disciplinary actions must be most strictly adhered to. Here I made a mistake that deprived me of a privilege as will be explained later. All this does not sound like coming from a generation whose ancestors supposedly were cannibals.
After a while the ten who were to perform the ritual retired into a shelter built out of green palm leaves, for further ceremonial meditation and preparation.
By that time it was evening and it began to get dark. The fire was burning fiercely, the burning wood had fallen into the pit, and the stones glowed red hot upon the wood. Then the long poles with the root sling were brought by the men and the large glowing tree trunks that were not entirely consumed by the fire were fished out of the pit and with ceremonial loud shouts pulled aside. Then with the same poles the stones were somewhat leveled at the bottom of the now white-hot pit. After that, silence! The green palm leaves in front of the temporary shelter were removed and out walked males, among them two boys of about 10 and 12 years. Not all were young men, some being in their fifties and over. Dressed only in grass skirts dyed with beautiful, brilliant colors, they walked silently around the pit and then one by one slowly entered the pit with its not only red but white-hot glowing stones and circumscribed the inside. Slowly they walked out again. Then they entered the pit again but marching in the opposite direction. They again emerged from this glowing inferno. Others brought some large bundles of boughs of a special plant and threw them upon the hot stones. Again the ten men stepped into the pit while an immense cloud of steam and smoke arose nearly engulfing those standing upon the boughs. Chantlike shouts were uttered and then, after the smoke and steam died down, all emerged. Their skirts were not even singed from the fire, whereas, when I approached the rim of the fiercely burning pit and from a safe distance held a piece of wood over it, the wood lit up. I examined their feet, even those of the little boys', and not a blister or any sign of burns showed.
Before, it was mentioned that I made a mistake. Had I not during our afternoon conversation asked for some coconut and its water, which was reluctantly given to me, I, too, would have been invited to walk with them. When one of the elders of the Tribe learned of my eating cobra it was too late, even though I had met all the other requirements. Since all this took place outside of the island of Beqa, I was invited to return with the group to their village the next morning, a boat ride of several hours by sea. Unfortunately, my flight departure from the main island of Fiji had been arranged and it was necessary for me to leave the next day. But the invitation still stands and this writer is expected to return to the natives of Beqa and for that which lies before him, as they were disppointed at returning to their island without the stranger who knew and understood some of their ceremonies about which outsiders knew very little.
During a different ritual, the Kava ceremony, a secret potion is prepared. The Kava liquid (Yanqona) is poured from a large, hollow bamboo stick into a wooden bowl. The chief works some strands of fiber with the Kava juice and then squeezes the juice into another receptacle. One of the participants in the ceremony passes it to the honored guest. The one drinking this potion, as this writer did, then knows that the magic of herbs can perform a magical feat within man.
Yes, descendants of former cannibals have a control of nature that civilized man tries to fathom in his way of thinking and by which results he actually emerges with seared feet, when he tries to duplicate such a feat, as witnessed by the writer. Some said it was a hoax but their blistered and burnt feet and painful cries testified otherwise, when they had to be pulled from such an inferno, wracked with pain that left them unconscious, whereas these natives emerged physically unhurt and spiritually uplifted.
QUESTIONS and ANSWERS
QUESTION NO. 15--There is some talk back and forth going on about the effects that tomatoes have in man's metabolism. Can you shed some light on this besides telling us about their vitamin content and such things?
Answer: Where Carcinoma (cancer) prevails: NO tomatoes. For the increase of the functions of the liver DO use tomatoes. Use the tomato vines for its own fertilizer. Better tomatoes will grow from using their dead vines as fertilizer.
QUESTION NO. 16--I find that the full moon does not always stimulate the growth as astrologers tell us. What would you say causes this?
Answer--If there is no rain just before the full moon growth is retarded, but the full moon just before rainy days will stimulate growth. To this some may answer that there is nothing to the theory that water would not do. This is not so. Please note that we say: "The full moon just before
rainy days will stimulate growth.
QUESTION NO. 17--Can you tell me why Horsetail Grass (Equisetum) is useful in Medicine?
Answer--Man needs silica and silicic acid. Horsetail grass contains about 90% silica. Not only that but about half of the earth at our disposal consists of silica. Alchemically speaking silica is representing the element fire (warmth). Other susbstances in abundance on our earth and available to man for his health are to be found in limestone, potassium and sodium.
QUESTION NO. l8--If I understood you rightly in one of your lectures during P.R.S. classes, you said that gems and metals grow like plants. Is this correct?
Answer: There is some talk that science has accomplished alchemical feats with metals. By that we refer to the increase of their substance. For example we mean to increase the weight of gold without the addition of more gold but by using other substances. The German newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung said under the date: of August 6, 1968 in part: "Large pure gold crystals up to one centimeter have been grown at the Phillips Zentral laboratorium in Aachen. Science hopes to have come a step closer to the secret by which nature shows how nuggets are formed. Dr. Rabenau and Rau produced gold crystals under hydrothermalic conditions with temperatures exceeding 100 degree C where a watery media is brought under high pressure. The gist of it all is that fine gold fragments are placed in a solution of Iodine and Hydrogen forming an acid solution which is heated up to 500 degreeC where each end of the ampule has a slight difference in temperature. The gold moves from the colder end towards the warmer part and in so doing transports gold crystals which separate itself again and which grow within days to about one centimeter." The question now is: What became of the results of such further investigations and laboratory tests after two years? Nothing more has been forthcoming during the ensuing years. We merely cite this instance where alchemical theories are being evaluated, though, perhaps, not with the same results as used by former alchemists.
We may add here, that we have just received word from Switzerland wherein we are informed through an enclosed brochure that a French scientist is able to grow emeralds, also by using genuine but imperfect natural stones and by reducing them and adding his secret solvent grows within ten months genuine emeralds. Here too, further investigation should prove most interesting as these emeralds are on the market by now and are considerably less in price than the valuable green emerald, the stone of Venus. Information regarding the latter can be had from Ets Pierre Gilson, Campange-lez· Wardreques, Pas-de-Calais, France.
However, there is more to this than meets the eye in a test tube or ampule. The alchemical process involved is likewise a natural one accomplished by artificial means. The seed of the metals of which the philosophers speak is not to be compared with the seed of the plant world as the seed of the plant world is not to be compared with the spermatozoon of the animal. So differs the seed of the minerals and the metals one from the other. It takes a much deeper insight than can be given here in a few words. If it was that easy to comprehend it would not remain the mystery which it appears to be to many.
QUESTION NO. 19--Is it possible to establish a relationship between the alchemical symbols mercury, sulphur, and salt with the chemical symbols H, O, and C?
Answer: There is, though not in the order you mention here. Had you suggested H, N, and C you would have come closer.
QUESTION NO. 20-There is something strange about these Alchemical Laboratory Bulletins. You read them and still have not read all that you think you have. Just now, after many years, I have found that you gave us the formula for the extraction of the Quintessence from Metals in the very first Bulletin, No. 1, which I experienced in the P.R.S. laboratory only some years after. What's wrong with me?
Answer: Nothing. Basically there are two ways to read our Bulletins. First: Like any reading matter by just giving a cursory glance through them to see 'what is new this time.' Second: Pausing while reading and contemplating what has been read and becoming involved and actually concerned about the subject matter under consideration, which, incidentally, may be taking place right now with you while you are reading what is said here.
Translations from Our Old Books
TO EXTRACT THE QUINTAM ESSENTIAM OUT OP THE
PLANT SOLARIA OR SONNENTAU
I shall now teach you, my child, the most hidden secret of the plant world, which the old Masters have kept a secret, because they had given an oath among themselves not to reveal in their writings which would make public the solar power of this plant. This knowledge is only for those who have attained natership in our work and for those free artisans who know about it and are under oath. Otherwise no one will get to know how to perform this herbal work for in there you will find the combined strength of all plants, stones, gums and all that which is medicinal. It has not been revealed in writing by anyone except Master Isaac and his son, and now to you, my child. Therefore my son, I implore you by the living God and your inheritance of His Kingdom, that you will keep this art and power a secret.
Further shall you know, my son, that the solar strength of this herb is the same as that which the rays of the sun mainly exert by their influence upon gold and the mineral veins in the mines. So that God gave only to this plant which he created, an influence which excels the planets, confirmed by all philosophers, as the sun through its greater power excels all other things in our firmarnent created by God. Likewise, has this plant greater virtues in this world than other plants. Also, its color, leaves and shape show it to be different from other plants.
This herb is of such a nature, that the hotter and dryer the countryside, the hotter the weather, and the stronger the sun shines and burns on it, the more moist the plant becomes and thousands of dewdrops will hang on just one leaf. Try it in this manner: Place a glass bowl below the plant. Then take a slender, pliable stick and tap the plant with it, so the dewdrops fall in the glass dish below until it is filled with a dew, with which you will perform wonders. And let me add this: When the sun shines very hot and you have tapped off all the dew;drops, when you say the Lord's Prayer five or six times, so will you find again dewdrops on the plant. And if one were to tap the plant twenty times, he will find the dew thereon. If there was nothing else to marvel about this plant it would be that the hotter it igets the more moisture it gives off, while other plants under the same condition would wilt and die. But the hotter and dryer the weather and the hotter and stronger the sun shines, the more moist and wet this herb gets as if someone had poured water on it, this should cause us to contemplate about such wonderful power and the secret nature it must possess.
Now, this water which you have collected in the dish, does wonderful things. With it you can cure diseases of the eyes, such as running eyes and inflammation and watery eyes when you opened or closed them, and many more. Further it will take away the pains of the heart. It will sooth the burning in the liver and stomach, cleans up coughs and sunstroke. It is good against hallucinations, is used to kill cancer and lupus, snake and othe poisonous bites, even poison when drunk by a person, even pestilence and other evil illnesses, which would take too long to mention here.
Besides this herb has the color of the sun. It is dark red with yellow streaks running through it. It is nicely formed like a star. Its proportion is like a planet in the heavens with seven points, the forepart broad and the hindpart small, is rough and full with hair and yet a clean tender herb, from without warm and moist, while from within cold and dry. Its left side is cold and moist, its right side warm and dry, and is of the same temper of gold.
You can cleanse its feces from it but you cannot separate its elements because it has been fixed by nature. If you distill it in the water bath the air will go over with the water, as we will teach you later. The earth can be separated from the feces.and the feces from the fire and earth, though it does not have much feces.
In Latin it is called Lingua avis; others named it Solariam, from sun, like Lunariam from poppy. Its German name is Sonnenthau but the old philosophers concealed its name because of its wonderful strength and virtue. Arnoldus de Villanova says, it is a wonder that men die, because if a man would take a daily portion of its coarse substance his spirit would become so subtle that it would be separated from its feces.
To the above we would like to add that the reader should not be carried away by such statements as the Hollandish alchemist Issaacus Hollandus here makes. This herb has to be prepared alchemically to produce the virtues mentioned by him. The difficulty lies in his remark that the plant has its virtues fixed within it. Students of alchemy who are familiar with the wonders of antimony will especially appreciate this remark.
Antimony
Mention the word "antimony" and most people will ask: "What's that?" When it is explained to them the answer will be something like: "Oh! I never knew that." And that concludes the matter in most cases. Not to the alchemist. What the magazine "Business Week" has to say concerning Antimony in this year's May 2, 1970 issue is noteworthy. In a condensed version it says:
"Antimony holdout has buyers in a bind. From lead acid batteries to dyestuffs and vinyl plastics, from paints and electric cables to toothpaste tubes, prices continued to move up this week. And the cause was a single problem: a shortage of the element antimony--which rhymes with alimony and whose cost can be almost as crippling.
"Antimony occurs in nature in both a free state and in various igneous rocks. It has been known since the early 1600s as a metallic element of unusual and desirable properties: hardness, strength, resistance to oxidation at room temperatures. But its chief source is stibnite, an ore found extensively in mainland China.
"China for its own reasons, has been refusing to sell antimony on the world market. And the results have been catastrophic. In just a year's time, the price of antimony in the U.S. has quadrupled--from 44 cents per pound in 1968 to $1.78 today. And in Europe, the situation is even worse. Prices this week were running close to $2.00 per pound, with consumer scouring the world for new supplies.
"Domestic production from primary ore was only 3,500 tons. Another 16,900 tons was imported, chiefly from Mexico, South Africa, Bolivia, and Europe. No imports were of Chinese origin.
"The problem now is that in foreign markets U.S. purchasers must compete with buyers who no longer can get antimony from China. And available ore is going where the price is highest.
"The impact on some U.S. companies has been staggering." We raised our prices on vinyl compounds effective March 1, based on an antimony oxide price of $1.075 per pound," says Tenneco Plastics Div. Vice-President R. W. Kulick. "But by April 1, we found we could not buy antimony oxide for less than $2.59 per db., with no deliveries scheduled before May 1.
"'Our prices," says Kulick, "will henceforth go up or down with the cost of the oxide."
"M & T Chemicals, Inc., a producer of antimony oxide, has announced that it will sell its product only on a month-to-month spot basis until the ore crisis is over. And the J. T. Baker Chemical Co., which also sells antimony oxide, recently boosted the price of its product from $2.85 to $6.85 per lb.
"Antimony oxides go into the production of tartar emetic (a medicinal). As just one example of how the price rises are now fanning out: before the antimony shortage tartar emetic sold in the U.S. for 65 cents a lb.; today the price is $3.15 a lb. and still going up."
To the alchemical student this will reveal something that may have no meaning whatsoever to those not informed about the virtues of antimony. It is the law of equilibrium that brings the material aspects of antimony, value wise, to the level of its spiritual manifestation, as its medicinal value becomes more and more expounded, presently almost exclusively through the research of the Paracelsus Research Society, for the benefit of mankind at large.
In the Next Bulletin
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