Publisher's Synopsis
'The Philosophical Water' from volume four of F. J. W. Schroder, 'Neue alchymistische Bibliothek', Frankfurt and Leipsig, 1772. 'The Philosophical Water' from volume four of F. J. W. Schroder, 'Neue alchymistische Bibliothek', Frankfurt and Leipsig, 1772. Translated by Adam McLean.
An investigation of the "hot, fiery, penetrating spirit, the Philosophical Water, and the hidden key to this Art: without it, all the work of alchemy is useless and in vain." "The philosophers have named this virgin and blessed water in their books with many thousands of names, calling it a heaven, heavenly water, heavenly rain, heavenly dew, and May dew, water of Paradise, a separating water, Aqua Regia and corrosive Aqua Fortis, a sharp vinegar and brandy, also the quintessence of wine, a waxy green juice, a waxy mercury, a greening water and Green Lion, in mercury, Menstruum, and blood, urine and horse oak, a milk and a Virgin's Milk, a white arsenic, silver, a luna and juice of the Moon, a woman, and a female seed, a sulphurous vapour and smoke, a fiery burning spirit, a deadly penetrating poison and basilisk that kills everything, a poisoned worm, a venomous snake, a dragon, a scorpion that eats its children, a hellish fire of horse dung, a sharp salt and Sal Ammoniac, a common salt, sharp soap, lye, and viscous oil, an ostrich stomach that eats and digests everything, an eagle, vulture, and hermetic bird, a vessel with a hermetic seal, a melting and calcining furnace, and other countless names of animals, birds, herbs, waters, juices, milk, blood, etc."
