Recog ch 2 last word is "alchemy" in that chapter

Jed Kelestron jedkelestron at gmail.com
Tue Apr 19 21:47:09 CDT 2011


The four year old Wyatt (p. 18f) was a toddler alchemist when he
poured poop from the pot into the furnace:

"Then take out all the Feces which remaineth in the Retort, and are
blackish like unto Soot, which Feces are called our Dragon, of which
feces Calcyne one pound or more at your pleasure in a fervent hot Fire
in a Potters or Glass-makers Furnace, or in a Furnace of vente (or a
Wind Furnace) until it become a white Calx, as white as Snow, which
white Calx keep well, and clean by it self, for it is called the Basis
and Foundation of the Work, and it is now called Mars, and our white
fixed Earth or ferrum Philosophorum."

http://www.rexresearch.com/alchemy2/ripbosbk.htm



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