Spagyrics: The Alchemical Preparation of Medicinal Essences, Tinctures, and Elixirs »

Professor Manfred M. Junius (1929-2004) served as the production manager for spagyrics for Australerba Laboratories and was head of the Australian School of Ayurveda in Adelaide, Australia. His Western alchemical knowledge was obtained through many years of personal instruction from Augusto Pincaldi in Switzerland.

This comprehensive alchemical guide to plant extractions shows how spagyric methods “open” medicinal plants completely to release their most powerful healing properties. Including the Plant Magistery of Paracelsus and the Life Elixir recipe of Andreas Libavius among its historic techniques, this classic source text preserves the nearly forgotten methods of a true hermetic art.

FOREWORD BY BRIAN COTNOIR

PREFACE

1 SPAGYRIA AND SPAGYRICS

2 ADVICE OF BASILIUS VALENTINUS

3 THE THREE PHILOSOPHICAL PRINCIPLES AND THE ELEMENTS

4 MERCURY, SULFUR, AND SALT IN THE PLANT WORLD

5 THE EXTRACTION OF THE THREE PHILOSOPHICAL PRINCIPLES FROM PLANTS

The Extraction of the Essential Oils, That Is,
of the Volatile Sulfur

Mercury

Fixed Sulfur and Its Salt

Salt

6 THE STARS

The Foundations

Stars and Medicinal Plants

Days, Hours, and Rhythms of the Planets

The Exact Horoscope as the Basis for the Works

7 PREPARATION OF SPAGYRIC TINCTURES AND ESSENCES

8 CIRCULATION

9 THE PLANT MAGISTERY OF PARACELSUS

10 THE CIRCULATUM MINUS OF URBIGERUS

11 ELIXIR--CLYSSUS--VEGETABLE STONE

The Opus Vegetabile of M. Johannes Issac Hollandus

Tractatus de Quinta Essentia Vini

12 ALCHEMICAL SIGNS AND SYMBOLS

13 OLD WEIGHTS

EPILOGUE: HOW CAN WE HEAL?

NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY SPAGYRIC RESOURCES INDEX