Technical Info

The word 'spagyric' comes from the old Greek language, and it means or rather implies the action of opening and closing or dissolving and congealing, also known as "solve and coagula". The term 'spagyry' was first coined in the 16th century by the Swiss-German alchemist Paracelsus who was a great practitioner of this art.
To practice this art, one must have a good knowledge of organic chemistry along with a good understanding of the operations of Nature in Her three kingdoms: mineral, vegetal and animal.
If one wants to make an herbal extract, there are several modes of extraction at one's disposal. An oil can be obtained with the help of high pressure water steam; this oil is usually light, clear, transparent and nature-like fragrant. It is recommended for the making of perfumes and oily scents. Another common method is by doing a maceration of the powdered plant with a good rectified grape alcohol and left to digest for three weeks at warm temperature. Then follows a distillation so that an oil is recovered which is superior for healing purposes. Another modern and recent technique using cold pressurized carbonic acid does a very good job as a total extraction and yields a very thick and rich resin like oil. This carbonic acid extraction allows some of the plant salts to pass into the solution, thus making it soluble in most liquids and coming one step closer to spagyrics.
Now, there are other processors who are called Spagyrists and who aim to go one step further and deeper in the study of nature. First the plant is brought to liquefaction, fermentation and distillation of its spirit; then an oil follows and finally remains at the bottom of the alembic a burnt residue which must be calcinated along with a previously saved portion of the dry plant. From the ashes, with water a salt is extracted; it must be triturated and exalted so that it becomes sharp, penetrating, fiery, partly volatile and fusible like wax; a salt which is capable of extracting everything from the plant in a short time. So the plant extracts itself with its own exalted salt. Then that total extract is later on processed, sublimated and separated into its three principals which must be purified separately and then rejoined again. Thus, by our natural spagyric method, the quintessence of a plant is obtained and we say it has been reduced to its own crystal. In this manner we can change a plant into a salted elixir which can be further reduced into a fusible oily salted stone which is its final destination and is called its 'Arcanum' and has healing properties and potencies.
When a plant is processed according to spagyric rules, the alkali salt which is extracted from its inside becomes a most powerful agent to 'awaken' and increase the healing and curative potential virtues present, but 'sleeping' in the said plant.
Our grandmothers and parents always told us to eat spinach and lentils as they are rich in iron, or honey because it has a high gold content, likewise some others say that red wine made from grapes contains a form of gold which is good for our heart, whereas white wine carries a form of silver, which is good for the brain. All plants, vegetables, herbs and fruits contain minerals and metallic salts which can be 'awakened' and activated by the action of the alkali salts when they are prepared and sublimated according to the rules of Nature and spagyrics. Through the help of those well triturated alkalis, the living vegetabilised metals present in the plant can be actualized and then precipitated from their organic state into tangible pure metals as we know them; but when they precipitate and lock as a metal, they lose their healing virtues which they had as a salt.
Equipped with this knowledge and understanding, we at Cinnabaris Spagyrics aim at creating such 'living and awakened' elixirs. When one knows which salts, minerals and vegetabilised metals exist potentially in a particular plant or herb, and how to manifest them outwardly as pure metals, then it becomes easy to formulate an elixir which has a predominating particular metallic vibration, such as yellow gold vibration for the 'golden elixir' and silver or white gold vibration for the 'white elixir'.
According to ancient lore and tradition, great men and sages gifted with spiritual vision, knowledge and understanding could explain how the subtle polarized luminous rays of the stars and planet affect the three kingdoms of Nature by imparting them with these subtle energies and attributes, thus conferring them with different characters and individualities. Those wise men called 'Man' the microcosm because they could visualize that he was a small but complete abridged and condensed aspect of the great world or macrocosm. Whatever exists outside the big universe exists subtly reflected within the immortal 'sidereal subtle' body of Man. They explained us the universal law of attraction and repetitive correspondences in the three kingdoms of Nature: like attracts like.
In the metallic gender, the condensation of direct sunlight in its proper corresponding ground or soil with which it has got affinities, slowly and over a long period of time congeals into gold; therefore it is a solar metal hot or warm by nature. Amongst the gems, it is the ruby which represents the Sun.
In the animal kingdom He has his seat in the heart of all creatures as He rules the blood flow and in human beings, He operates from the solar plexus and its outlet: the eyes.
Therefore our golden elixir is excellent for supporting all the male and solar functions of the human body. On the other hand, the white elixir is of a feminine nature, being a polarization and an offspring, cool and with all the feminine qualities which comes along with it. It soothes and calms the mind and rejuvenates the brain, thus de-stressing it. Sun and moon, gold and silver, male and female, hot and cold, Golden Elixir and White Elixir.