The Art of Distillation
The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy
Sajah Popham
4.8 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2017
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Distillation is one of the primary alchemical processes used in the production of true spagyric extracts. The 2 primary methods of distillation used are for essential oils, which extracts the Sulfur (Soul) of the plant, as well as for alcohol, which extracts the Mercury (Spirit) of the plant.
This episode shares some more detail around the deeper meaning and symbolism of distillation as a critical method of creating transformational forms of herbal extracts.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what's up everybody? Seja here and I'm down in my Spajirics lab and it's Sunday today and we are |
| 0:07.2 | doing a distillation of our Hawthorne Spajeric essence. So today we're going to be distilling what in |
| 0:15.7 | alchemy is referred to as the mercury or the spirit of the plant, which manifests as the alcohol. |
| 0:22.6 | So since we were doing this process down here in the lab, I thought it'd take a little bit of time to share with you a little bit about the distillation process. |
| 0:31.6 | This is one of the critical processes in the creation of what we might consider a little bit more refined or a little bit more complex spigeric forms of extract. |
| 0:46.3 | And I just wanted to take some time to walk you through with it. I know we've been getting a lot of questions about distillation over the last week as we've been running the herbal alchemy training sessions. If you are not in the herbal |
| 1:00.7 | alchemy training session, scroll down to the bottom of this page and sign up. It's a totally |
| 1:05.5 | free course that we're running right now. It's going to be only available for a limited time. |
| 1:11.4 | So be sure to check out the herbal alchemy training sessions. We've been working on this project for over a month |
| 1:15.8 | and it is awesome. We've got tons of amazing content that we're literally just giving away for |
| 1:21.6 | free. So be sure to check that out. And so in this video I want to talk a little bit more |
| 1:27.2 | about distillation. And so in this video I want to talk a little bit more about distillation. And distillation |
| 1:31.5 | in alchemy, as I said, is one of the primary methods of extraction or separation that we use |
| 1:40.1 | in Spajiric processes. Now in general, creating Spajirics we're doing there's two |
| 1:46.5 | primary types of distillation that you do. One is distillation of what in alchemy |
| 1:53.3 | they call the sulfur of the plant and the sulfur of the plant is the sole or |
| 1:58.7 | the essential oils of the plant. |
| 2:01.6 | That in the Spajiric essence process as well as much more advanced processes like the quintessence or the plant stone |
| 2:09.6 | is the first step in creation of these more advanced forms of spajirics. |
| 2:15.6 | The second type of distillation that we do is distillation of the mercury or the spirit |
| 2:23.5 | of the plant which manifests as the alcohol. |
| 2:27.1 | Now in modern herbal pharmacy, typically the sulfur and the mercury of a plant is extracted |
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