May Dew and the Elixir of Life

The Primum Ens Melissa, one of the most famed items of Paracelsian pharmacopeia, has been widely circulated in modern spagyric texts—albeit almost entirely represented by a single source from biographer Franz Hartmann, who was not a laboratory spagyrist himself. 

Comparing the writings of Hartmann to the original Paracelsian recipe and another reference point found in the early 20th-century text "The Book of Formulas," this presentation explores alternative understandings of how this work unfolds and follows the Alchemical maxim "one vessel, one matter."

A work of Spring, this exploration is aptly timed, giving those who want to bring this method to the laboratory the opportunity to seize it immediately.