P.o.n Alchemy Course Options

Hello all...

Have taken up an interest in laboratory alchemy and although I cannot get into it at the moment would like to take it up when possible M.Stavish recommends the P.O.N course, was wondering if others would recommend it or is it full of freshman information?

P.O.N Triad publishing

Many thanks
M

Here are my instructions for a simple tincture.
I would suggest starting with horsetail. It can be very easily found as dried herb either as tea or loose herb in any health food store.

Put a good bit of the dry herb in a glass mason jar, depending on the size of the jar, fill it to about half an inch to an inch deep. Pour 100 proof vodka in the jar until the level is about two or three fingers higher than the previous level of the dry herb.

Cover the mouth with plastic wrap then screw the metal cap on. Now place the jar in a dark warm place to digest. Most instructions say leave for 2 to 3 weeks but I always use a hermetic month as a rule of thumb. (40 days)

When it is ready decant the liquid off or filter through a coffee filter.

Add 5 to 30 drops to a glass of distilled water and drink daily. Distilled water or white wine is the traditional method of ingestion, I personally like it in my morning coffee.

Horsetail is associated with saturn and aid the Spleen and bones. Horsetail is known to harden bones and supposed to be good for any sort of internal bleeding and ulcers. Vibrationally it will assist in stability and inertia along the path.

Cool.

Two questions though...

Firstly, what is a plant stone exactly and how does it show you've mastered the plant work? And secondly, how do you know that the herbal tinctiture is having an effect? Is it easily verifiable? Oh yeah, and what do you do with the salts? M.Stavish says that you can eat the salts after burning them but then you have the liquid also as a result of the process, do you mix them together or are they two diffrent end results altogether?

Apparently sundew coresponds to earth as it, ''contains the powers of all seven planets'', might try and use that to start with.

At times some authors leave people a bit short changed on what to expect from a practice, some things, energy states in particular, are difficult to put into words but I personally value testimonals and such things, especially as a neophyte/zelator. M.Stavish par example perscribes sundew but dosen't give information on what its purpose is, will be fun finding out first hand but a brief description wouldn't go a miss.

Forever the cautious capricorn. .lol.

This post has been edited by Mchawi: Jul 19 2008, 10:57 AM