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04-08-2009 #11

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Green Lion Location: France
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Green Lion, that sounds neat. May i ask what kinda psychic activities he does that it
boosted?

Sorry but my father don't tell me everything what he does.

So I don't know.
But you should try if you want to know.
This practical is not very difficult.

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You're right, and im going to try it. I read something once that basically said to know the
formula before performing it, so i try to get as much information on something as i can
before i experiment with it.
Thanks for your information though, and if i get something neat, ill make a new thread and
post it.

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10-03-2009 #13

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Can some give me the names of the books or texts that teach recipes for this beautiful
quintessence?
Last edited by True Initiate; 10-03-2009 at 04:51 AM.

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10-03-2009 #14

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There are a few ways to capture the the quintessence of honey here

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10-03-2009 #15

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You can make a beautiful red quintessence simply by doing the ens process.
The alkali will dissolve the honey.

In this pic the alcohol extract above, the alkali below.

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03-29-2013 #16

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A failed attempt
I tried Hollands method once but failed. The method was to distill honey and rectify it until
it came over as a blood red liquor then to digest it until it was fixed. The only thing i can
say is dont distill at high temperatures lol catastrophe awaits

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Originally Posted by elixirmixer

Quintessense of Honey. I shared it with some people.

What is quintessence of honey and how did you make it?

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Originally Posted by solomon levi

You can make a beautiful red quintessence simply by doing the ens process.
The alkali will dissolve the honey.

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In this pic the alcohol extract above, the alkali below.

Originally Posted by solomon levi

I made one quintessence of honey - I think it was French's recipe - where you let the
honey digest with alcohol for a time,seperate the tincture from the dregs and distill it
to a syrup.
I really enjoy taking the quintessence I made, but I don't think it'll revive the dying.

Which of the 2 above methods gave you a better result?

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12-25-2017 #19

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Originally Posted by Green Lion

Hi.

Obtaining the essence of honey has been one of my early spagyric work.
I got the recipe in the chemistry course of Lefevre, Volume 1, page 218:

II. Quintessence de miel.

Vous prendrez deux livres de miel blanc, qui ait une bonne odeur & un bon goût. Vous
le mettrez en une grande cucurbite de verre, dont les trois quarts soient vides. Vous la
couvrirez de sa chape à bec bien lutée, à laquelle vous appliquerez un grand récipient
pareillement luté. Faites un feu doux de cendres, jusqu’à ce que vous voyez monter des
vapeurs blanches ; & pour les condenser en esprit, vous appliquerez sur la chape &
sur le récipient des linges mouillés en eau froide, & il en sortira une liqueur qui sera
rouge comme sang. Après la distillation, vous mettrez cette liqueur en un vaisseau de
verre bien bouché, tant que la liqueur soit bien clarifiée & de couleur de rubis. Après
quoi vous distillerez sept ou huit fois, jusqu’à ce que sa couleur rouge soit convertie
en un jaune doré, & prendra une odeur très douce & très agréable. Cette quintessence
dissout l’or en chaux, & le rend potable. Deux ou trois dragmes de cette liqueur prises
intérieurement, font revenir à eux ceux qui sont à l’extrémité : elle fortifie même ceux
qui jouissent de la santé, guérit la toux, les catarrhes & la rate ; appliquée sut les
plaies & ulcères, elle les guérit incontinent, Fioraventi rapporte en avoir donné à des
personnes dans les approches de la mort, & qu’il rappelait ainsi a la vie, pour leur
donner au moins le temps de mettre ordre à leurs affaires. Distillée vingt fois avec
argent fin, & donnée pendant quarante-six jours à un paralytique, il en a été guéri :
c’est ce que Fioraventi marque avoir éprouvé lui-même. Sur quoi ce Médecin fait une
remarque fort sensée à ce sujet, que Dieu n’a jamais promis dans l’Ecriture sainte, ni
scammonée, ni casse, ni turbith, ni rhubarbe ; mais bien du froment, du vin, de l’huile,
du lait & du miel.

A little synthesis :

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Quintessence of Honey

Take two pounds of white honey, with good smell and good flavour. Put it in a large
glass retort. This retort should be full at ¼ with honey.
Heat the cucurbite with sweet ashes fire, until you see white vapours. To condensate
this vapours, use a system of refresh like humid clothes. You will then obtain a red
liquor, like blood. Keep this red liquor in a very well closed vessel until this liquid
become ruby red and clear.
Then, you could distil this red liquor seven or eight times to obtain a gilt tincture. This
tincture will have a very great smell.
This quintessence dissolve gold calx and then it will be an aurum potabile.
You could also distil twenty times this quintessence with pure silver.
Etc.

Personally, I had done a little different.

Instead of keep the red distillate in another vessel, I made seven distillations with
putting distillate on the feces.

And here are some pictures to decorate ...

First, the assembly. It is a hot balloon of fortune. An electric hot plate, an aluminum
container, sand, a Pyrex flask with a capacity of 2L, a Liebieg and a balloon receiving
1L:

Then the warmed honey:

Between each distillation, here is what the slag:

In the balloon first.

Loosened it.

Then, before putting on the distillate such slags, I reduce the powder:

Finally, the beautiful essence of honey:

GL,

I was going to use your method of making the quintessence of honey but found that there's
a time constraint when heating honey at different temperatures and I was wondering if you
remember how long you heated your honey and at what temperature. My question is based
on the following chart I saw online:

TIA

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12-25-2017 #20

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What exactly is that chart supposed to show regarding effects?

Art is Nature in the flask; Nature is a vial thing.

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