"My research has lead me to understand the same on the PS. Also got heavily into distillation, and found myself running extraction labs, based heavily on alchemical methods. Would also agree on the books, I actually keep those exact ones in the extraction lab. From my reads, to get the PS, its something made via disillation, but a piece of each kingdom (plant, animal, mineral) post distillation is needed, and then redistilled. No one states the exacts of the process, they also say you need to do it (distil) to find the truth. After years of distilling, I understand why. As for once you find (create) the PS, most seem to elude that you wont want it, because you will have come to understand something bigger; spirituality and its connection to energy. Purification through fire (via distillation, make your spirit free of its earthly vessel, purify, recondense as something anew). The phoenix rises from the ashes. All of this can be described and physically seen in the distillation process.

I have also read a bit of the works from Doreal. The connection again to me seems to be energy and the spiral waves it which it moves. It is but a single force (electro-magnetic), that has two poles, and its balance is the neutral.

We have the All (Omnia) the O (one), followed by the sense of duality (two, positive/negative), balanced with 'neutral' trinity (three), from here the material world begins to form (four)."


I made it to the black or 'crow's head' stage after months of distilling, but I felt it wasn't going to work and that somewhere I messed up. Plus, I had to move and didn't feel like I would get any further with the experiment.

Lately I've been working with prayer, meditation, sound & music in an effort to achieve basically the same thing. I suspect all can be used to achieve what the true alchemist ultimately wants, which has nothing to do with being filthy rich or eternal life (on earth).