How to make Calcinations of Alchemical Salt
From the ash next to the body, the 3 principles Sulfur, Mercury and Salt, in the sacred gathering of the Alchemical Tincture.
SALTS (Calcination of Caput mortum)
The plant body resulting from the filtration of the tincture is what we will call caput mortum (dead head).
Although this body is traditionally burned in herbalism to smoke the house, in alchemy these organic remains are an essential part of the preparation of the tincture.
Carried towards its salt through calcination, the plant ashes will unite with its soul, in the generated elixir (Salt, corpus + Mercury and Sulphur, tincture).
The part that is Salt represents the element Earth, that which retains its anchorage to coagulation in matter. The insoluble, that is, that which, even when exposed to the maximum purification of fire, insists on densifying its light and giving shape to the essence.
Without this Salt, there would be no evolution in matter, since the elements would join the Whole without any anchor that makes them remain at the condensation point that the density of matter implies.
Therefore, after item 4 of the mother tincture section we will do the following:
- We take the filtered plant body and we take it, into a metal bowl (preferably iron, although it can also be stainless steel), to a ventilated place for its calcination. It should burn into a light grey ash, a process that releases a lot of smoke from the previously contained alcohol and water.
This ash will bind to its mother tincture again near a heat source, a salt lamp, for at least 7 days, during which time we will promote the union by shaking the bottle daily.
And now we have our alchemical tincture ready!
There are many ways to do this preparation. This way is undoubtedly the simplest. The advantage of doing it this way is that we can do it with the means at hand in our own kitchen, without the need for a laboratory or distillation devices.