Regulus of antimony

SpiessglanZ kermes, m. kermesite kermes mineral, -kbnig, m. regulus of antimony, -leber,/. livex of antimony, hepar antimonii. -metall, n. antimony, -mittel, n. antimonial remedy, -mohr, m. aethiops antimonialis (old pharmaceutical preparation of mercury and antimony sulfides). -ocker, m, antimony ocher, -oxyd,n. antimon> trioxide. -safran,... 

The type is cast in a mould that can be opened and shut very quickly. The metal, which is ladled into it, consists of lead, arsenic and regulus of antimony. At the same time as the metal enters the mould... a rapid movement is made by the hand holding the mould, which increases the pressure on the bottom where the actual letter is formed. 

In the treatment of these subjects Porta includes statements of the ancients from the time of Theophrastus and Aristotle, as well as the contemporary knowledge of his own time, not always with any critical discrimination between the ancient interpretations and the more modern facts. Thus under the heading To change stibium into lead 37 he says, if you frequently heat and burn stibium which the chemists call regulus you will burn it into lead, because we see it noted by Dioscorides saying, Stibium if heated somewhat further is turned into lead. The chemists of Porta s time by the regulus of antimony or stibium, meant metallic antimony, and no longer considered... 

The final preparation of antimony we will briefly examine is that of the so-called Star Regulus of Antimony. This preparation is considered to be an advanced alchemical work as there is some danger involved and requires the operator to have developed laboratory skills. Many of the ancient sages describe this operation in extremely veiled terms. 

The term Regulus of Antimony has always been used to refer to the metallic antimony reduced from its ore. When it is well prepared and purified, you will see a starry pattern on the surface of the metal. The metal itself is quite brittle and reduces to a powder fairly easily. Hidden in the Regulus is the spirit of antimony. 

The Regulus, once obtained, is ground and mixed with twice its weight of niter, then fused again in a crucible to purify it. This purification may be repeated several times in order for the starry qualities to develop in the metal. This Star Regulus of Antimony is also called the Martial Regulus because of the iron used in its production. 

This Regulus is then amalgamated with purified metallic mercury, washed and then distilled. The amalgamation and distillation is repeated seven to ten times and is referred to as letting the eagles fly. The Regulus of antimony will not amalgamate very easily with mercury... 

We ve mentioned two of the commonly used paths for confecting the Philosopher s Stone, that of the Wet Way through lead acetate, and the Dry Way through the Star Regulus of Antimony. The final method we examine is often called the way of the Divine Cinnabar. I saved this for last because it is a dangerous operation requiring the use of the very toxic metallic mercury. The other two methods also present dangers and the use of toxic materials, but mercury is particularly insidious and can quickly contaminate an area which will then be very difficult to clean up. 

Animation is described as the addition of etheric essences or principles in the etheric shell of a substance and awakening its generative virtue. There are many ways to animate mercury. We mentioned the most popular method earlier when discussing The Flamel Path with the Star Regulus of Antimony. 

The red, solar, sulfureous principle of iron (or its counterpart in regulus of antimony) acts on the mercury with increasing force each operation. 

Once we have a supply of Animated Mercury from one of the above methods, or from the Star Regulus of Antimony method, the next step is to form the so-called Re bis wherein the opposites are united. 

Niter, 96 parts sulphur, 24 parts regulus of antimony, 48 parts realgar, 6 parts shellac, 1 part. These for the most part give a bluish white flame, and when employed in cases of tbe size mentioned above, burn slowly, and will last as long as this epeciee of firework is required to last. 

He is the first perhaps who has taken such particular notice, what an augmentation of weight is added to many Preparations by the concurrence and incorporation of the substance of Fire into their composition, as you may see in the Calcination of Lead, p. 107. in the Distillation of Spirit of Saturn from the Salt of Saturn, p 116. in the Calcination of Regulus of Antimony, p 208. and even in the Calcination of Antimony by the heat of Sun with a burning glass, p 228. which few instances may possibly lead the way to Inquisitive persons to discover the same augmentation in divers other Preparations. ... 

Niter, 72 parts sulphur, 18 parts regulus of antimony, 33 parts realgar, 1 part sbeuac, 1 part. 

Antimony Antimony BIxk Antimony, elemental Antimony, metallic Antimony powder Antimony, regulus Antymon Cl 77050 EINECS 231-146-5 HSDB 508 Regulus of antimony Stibium Stibium metallicum UN2871. Hardening alloy for lead, bearing metal, type metal, solder, collapsible tubes and foil, sheet and pipe, semiconductor technology, pyrotechnics. mpn630" bp = 1635" d =... 

His words are mischievously obscuring because the Green Lion is not crude antimony as he says and the Red Lion is quite apparently not the Star Regulus of antimony. Though a master of misinformation, Basil Valentine skillfully left an important clue to those who can see. The words are you know what it is. Of this, we shall have much more to discover in Chapter 19. 

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