Manly P. Hall Collection, Box 10

Operation

On Zinc, according to the intention of Desjours and Deloques, to extract the mineral spirit and make it the subject of the Great Work, combined and commented upon by Mr. ....... Anonymous.

Zinc is an antimonial, Saturnine In alchemy, Saturnine refers to lead or qualities associated with lead (heavy, base, or transformative). mineral. There are three kinds: the mineral form and two artificial ones. All three can be used equally in our magistery A masterwork or the product of an alchemical process..

Make the flowers of zinc Zinc oxide, often produced by heating zinc in air. according to the art. The ordinary and most common method is this: melt the zinc in a large, flat crucible. Being in a fine state of fusion and red, rub the edges of the crucible with a small iron spoon with a long handle, made for this purpose. The rubbing will immediately cause your zinc to ignite as if it were saltpeter, shining like a sun.

Being in this state, white, very cotton-like flowers rise, and a kind of crust forms, which you lift lightly with the spoon after having let it cook in a corner of the crucible so that it also reduces into alchemical symbol for flowers of Zinc. Having thus performed a miserere Literally "have mercy," likely referring here to a specific labor-intensive scraping or stirring technique., remove it from above the molten material, as if skimming, and put it into an earthenware vessel beside you. Continue doing this as long as there is molten and flaming material, keeping it at a reasonable fire, taking