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THE

BOOK OF

FORMULAS

A COLLECTION OF CHOICE SPAGYRIC PREPARATIONS

PREDESTINATED TO THE CURE OF DISEASE AND

THE CONSERVATION OF HEALTH: INCLUDING

SOME OF THE RAREST AND MOST VAL

UABLE SECRETS OF THE ANCIENT

MEDICAL AND HERMETIC

PHILOSOPHY

COLLATED AND RENDERED INTELLIGIBLE

WITH EXPLICATORY ANNOTATIONS

By: JOHN HAZELRIGG, F.H.S.

AUTHOR OF "METAPHYSICAL ASTROLOGY”,

“THE SUN BOOK” etc.

Now for the First Time Given to the World in a Lucid Form

Published A. D. MCMIV by the

HERMETIC PUBLISHING COMPANY

of New York

THE

BOOK OF FORMULAS

PREFACE

I take pleasure in here presenting to the earnest few of beneficent and up-

lifting purpose, this collection of valuable forms and medicaments, culled

and transcribed into more lucid phrase from the chemical and Hermetic writ-

ings of such learned worthies as Paracelsus, Faber, Quorcetan, Hartman, Rul—

andis, Mynsicht and numerous other philosophers in the Spagyric Art. That

these preparations——and many similar ones which I hope to treat of in a sub-

sequent work—— have remained absent from the officinal category is not a matter

for wonder, chiefly because of a recognition by their authors of specific

powers and potencies in natural processes of too arcane a nature to be apre—

hended by the dense self—sufficiency of the materialistic and incredulous

mind; and partly by reason of the fact that while dealing with obvious prin-

ciples, though only occultly understood, they were couched in terms and mean-

ings which were wisely veiled from those of disrespectful and antagonistic

attitude.

The importance to the occult chemist of working in harmony with astral law,

that thereby the natural and artificial qualities of all things from the Uni-

versal to the Particular might be properly attained, may be the better appre-

ciated in this extract from Salmon, an astro-philosopher and physician of the

Middle Ages:

“1. The time of the preparation ought to synpathize with the native

production of the thing to be prepared; which is in respect of qual-

ities manifest or occult.

“2. As to the Manifest Qualities, that time is to be chosen in which

they naturally flourish; wherein you are to choose a hot and Itoist

season for dissolution, digestion and fermentation; and a cold time

for coagulation; a noist tine for distillation and melting; and a dry

time for exsiccation and calcining.

“3. As to the Occult Qualities, the preparation is to be begun when

the planet governing the thing is strong and vigorous in his house or

exaltation, and in good aspect of Sol, Luna, Jupiter, Venus or all of

them.

“4. The place of preparation must be the laboratory, which must be

hot, cold, noist, dry, airy, close, etc. according as the nature of

the matter to be prepared requires.

The significance of planetary influence, and its relation to the astral po—

tencies involved in all natural operations, is too complex a subject to enter

into here, except to say that the truth of the above brief intimations has

been amply verified in the writer’s experience. Nor when the rationality

thereof is once understood, through careful study and investigation of the

stellar hypothesis, will one marvel that it should be so.

Likewise, in dealing with spiritual principles of things physical, the

Spagyric artist was enabled to percieve the admirable analogies that helped

verify the oneness of method throughout the spheres of manifestation, and its

identity with those of the Higher or Causative realm, and thereby the

necessary inter—action and dependence of the one upon the other. Proceeding

thus, under the logical assumption that the One Law must express itself

similarly upon all planes of activity, they demonstrated the reality of a

physical trinity—spagyrically classified as Salt, Sulphur and Vercury-that

corresponded with the Body, Soul and Spirit of the noumenal world, or the

Father, Son and Holy Ghost of the devotional school; also the fact that

these three primal principles embrace and comprehend the four elements,

Earth, Fire, Air and Water, the separation, purification and inseparable

conjunction of which consituted a fifth of the purest potency, which they

termed a Quintessence. This on the spiritual plane, as embodied in the

esoteric teachings of the ancient reliqious mystics, is identical with

Regeneration, a process the meaning of which modern churchianity knows as

little of as the material scientist does of the above trinity in nature. With

this attainment in chemical processes all poison has been eliminated from the

matter operated upon, and the spiritual or curative faculty is exalted to the

highest degree, as is shown in some of the formulas which make up this

collection. The antimonial prescripts of Basil Valentine and the mercurial

preparations of Paracelsus were not those which pass today as medicines, but

which in reality are poisons most dangerous to the vital principle in the

physical organism. The alchemists scorned the use of remedies that yet

remained in such imperfect guise.

In a later treatise I hope to elaborate more fully and practically upon the

Hermetic Philosophy as concerns the preparation of metallic, mineral and veg-

etable medicaments, their spiritual bases, and whereby their different facul-

ties may be developed into the highest vital energies.

With these concise hints by way of introduction, I commend the contents of

the following pages to those of earnest mind and particularly to such whose

object is the mitigation of human physical suffering - one of the grandest

missions to which an earthly pilgrimage can be consecrated.

JOHN HAZELRIGG

MENSTRUUMS

According to Dr. Johnson, the use of the word menstruum originated in

the notion of the old chemists respecting the influence of the Moon in

their preparations - a fact that contains the essence of a truth such

as the modern chemists, unfamiliar with the astral principia, is both

indisposed to concede and unable to apprehend.

In all the formulae contained in this book, the practitioner is

advised to use only such nenstrua or dissolvents as are made in the

private laboratory, for those of crunerce are undependable, generally

by reason of the impurity of the substances used, or else through an

utter disregard of the spiritual principles involved. A perfect

exaltation of medicines can never in any wise be accxiplished through

adulterated or imperfect mediums.

Divers chemical experiments delivered by the ancients have been

believed false only because the menstruums employed in the highly

unsuccessful trials of them were not as highly rectified, or otherwise

exquisitely depurated, as those that were used by the deliverers of

those experiments; so that oftentimes the fault of a bad itenstrui.im

is injuriously imputed to a good artist. Many such purchased in the

apothecary shop are wholly unfit, barely by their being not

sufficiently freed fran their weakening aquosity (phlegm), as is very

often the case with Spirit of Wine. On the other hand, while sate

processes fail to succeed according to the expectation because the

menstruums employed about them were not pure enough, so sate miscarry

because such menstruums are but too exactly depurated. Again, while

the purity of these is a prime desideratum, one principal regard is as

to their fithess for the particular purpose to which they are

designed. Thus, an Aqua Fortis that is proper in one operation, must

be differently complexionated for the better success of another. For

which reason the different solvents, as here given for use in the

succeeding formulas, are successively numbered, and so referred to

therein in brackets, that the essential one may be utilized.

In most instances of digestion and putrefaction, and nore especially

where a Quintessence is the end to be attained, a homogene menstruum —

as the spirits, phlegm or water of the subject matter itself - is

absolutely a requisite, that the astral principles inherent therein be

not fatally disturbed, or their efficacy impaired. As saith

Paracelsus: “ Every fruit must die in that wherein is its life”. (From

ARCHIDOXIS)

Modern chemists for the sake of expediency and convenience, and

largely through ignorance of Nature’ s interior methods, operate with

mediums foreign to their matter, and thereby, injure its natural or

curative potencies.

I give here careful and complete directions for the making of such

menstruums as are necessary in the medicinal formulas that follow.

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