Virgin’s milk

A thick white water called Lac Virginum or virgin s milk. 

ACETUM PHILOSOPHORUM — is Philosophical Vinegar, that is. Virgin s Milk, or Mercurial Water, in which metals are dissolved. One of its Hermetic names was Sophie Hydor. According to Theophrastus, the Philosophical Vinegar is the Chemist s Vitriol-water, but the Turba states that it is the water of mercury which dissolves gold. Others affirm that Philosophical Vinegar is that which is made from fresh shells of tortoises by sublimation and distillation. 

It is of the nature of silver, and of the spirit of the same, the White Stone, the Disappearing Water, Virgin s Milk, the Proud Lady. 

WATER — Dry Water which does not wet the hands. It must be remembered in this connection that those Adepts who give this name to their Mercury are followers of the Dry Way in the operation of the Magisterium those who, like Paracelsus, Basil Valentine, etc., are operators of the Humid Way, apply to the same substance the appellation of Virgin s Milk, because it is a white liquor which does wet the hands, while the other is a fluid Mercury of the nature of Vulgar Quicksilver. 

When the glass with the Blackness has stood for 8 days and nights in a gentle fire, it is then removed from the fire. Then the Blackness is being moistened with the Virgin s Milk, drop by drop, and in such a manner, that the dryness continues to keep the upper hand. 

Through these imbibations with the solar Virgin s Milk, the materia prima is brought higher and higher to a redness, until eventually, the Colour of Perfection of the purple redness appears. 

The Dragon shuns the sunbeams which dart through the crevices and our dead son lives the king comes forth from the fire and rejoins with his spouse, the occult treasures are laid open, and the virgin s milk is whitened. The Son, already vivified, is become a warrior in the fire, and of tincture super-excellent. For this Son is himself the treasury, even himself bearing the Philosophic Matter. 

With seven drops of his exquisite blood, our heavenly Pelican commences once more with his activity. Because now, with seven little steepings, the red solar Mercury, that means, the Virgin Milk of the Sun is being added, but only a little at one time, because this last operation is brought to its completion more by the dry Heaven s Fire. 

Choudhury, A., Kumar, S., and Adhikari, B. (2007) Recycled milk pouch and virgin low-density polyethy-lene/linear low-density polyethylene based coir fiber composites. /. Appl. Polym. Sci., 106, 775-785. 

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