FORMULAS.DOC

              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 up­lifting purpose, this collection of valuable forms and medicaments, culled and transcribed into more lucid phrase from the chemical and Hermetic writ­ings 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 sub­sequent 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 prin­ciples, though only occultly understood, they were couched in terms and mean­ings 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 Uni­versal to the Particular might be properly attained, may be the better appre­ciated 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 qual­ities 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

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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 veg­etable medicaments, their spiritual bases, and whereby their different facul­ties 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

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                                   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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                         TO PURIFY

The ordinary way of purifying all salt is by simple solution, filtration and crystallization. But note this in the purification of all , that after solu­tion and filtration, you must , for a medical month (40 days), beginning at the wane of the Moon, when putrefactive processes are more easily carrried forward, then evaporate and crystallize. This is necessary be­fore the solution can properly be separated from the faeces. Repeat the oper­ation until no more faeces will settle. According to Paracelsus, it in filter and evaporate, till a crust appears at the top, place in a cool place to crystallize, evaporate the again, and again set to crystallize which re­peat thrice more.

Common and are purified by solution in ordinary followed by filtration and crystallization without the .

COMMON AQUA FORTIS ( communis)

(1) . Dried Hungarian (prepared as for of ) Lbii. mix and put into a retort two-thirds full, with a large receiver, place in a little reverba­tory . Prooeed with the first degree of till the phlegm disappears; when the red vapors fill the receiver, then increase the by degrees till the spirit is drawn off. This should take twelve hours or longer. It is known by its yellowness or greenish color, and its stinking smell. This is a dissolvent for and .

NOTE:              - The HNO of commerce lacks the es8ential disintegrative potencies of the above, and will be found of doubtful utility for the purposes needed. Out of and undephlegmated Lbi. you may have xvi of AF. For certain other operations, is made of p. i. p. i.

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AQUA REGIA (Regis communis)

This passes in the modern dispensatory as nitromuriatic acid and as chloro­nitrous acid (NCl2O3), this latter being merely a mixture of chlorine and hy­ponitrous acid. While it dissolves gold, platinum, etc it does not extract the spiritual tincture. Like many other chemical preparations of commerce, it fails in the purpose for which designed. A common that will dissolve is thus prepared:

(2) lbi. common decripitated iv. with a strong three or four times till all the comes over with the spirit; in every iii. of which               thrice sublimed i. Or thus: Spirit of iii i., digest, Or,

(3) Tentzelii, The Golden Dissolvent of Tentzelius.

              Lbi. , powder of flints lbiii. , distil the water from them by a retort; from the caput mortuum extract the with hot water; with the remaining ashes mix lbi., distil by a retort in a naked fire, so you have which distilling in BM or ashes in a glass alembic, will yet be clearer. Or,

(4) . Dissolve vi. in lbi. Or, according to Basil Valentine, the alchemist of the XIVth century,

              (5)                            .               Basilii, Basi1's Dissolvent of Gold.

                            A. lbii., powder of flints lbiii., distil by a retort red hot with a pipe. Schroder saith, the ordinary way is by an iron pot, on which is placed an earthen cover like an alembic with a beak, set into a naked fire, with a large receiver. This not only dissolves but carries it with it through the receiver.

OF SAL

The ancient chemists denominated this under barious names, viz., Cerberus, Salt of Hermes, Anderonae, Anatron, Cahalatar, Internal Salt; Basil called it

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the Earthly Serpent. That of commerce comes principally from Chili and Peru, and is often adulterated by mixture with common , a fact that can be de­tected by burning, for being fired upon a red hot tile or stone if it al] fly away it is pure, it anything remain, it is common . It is purified by solution, filtration and crystallization in common water according to the usual way.

(6)              Spirit  of

              Pure lbi. Potters earth p. v., mix them, with which fill up to the neck a glass retort, well luted up to its neck, place it in a close reverberatory furnace, with a capacious receiver; give it fire by degrees to the highest for the space of 24. hours; the phlegm comes first with white vapors, then the spirit in red vapors, which will make the receiver as red as a ruby.

NOTE: - See that the receiver shall be well and close luted to the retort, lest the vapors should exhale, as their malignancy is very hurtful to the brain and nerves, tending to paralysis. The phlegm that is mixed with the spirit will do it no injury, because it will be so small a proporation to the spirit as to make it lose none of its energy or force.

(7)              Bezoardic  Spirit of

Rectified spirit of , butter of , ana, in a retort, so have you the Bezoardic Spirit of . The caput mortuum serves to make Bezoar Mineral of . If the above be strongly forced, the spirit will be red, and be able not only to dissolve , but also to volatize it. The Bezoardic Spirit of Common ...