The Ocean of Mercury (1910) - Page 19


Steaming, grinding, moving, digesting, dissolving, coloring, stabilizing, and traversing of mercury. Through steaming comes sharpness; through grinding, acidity; through moving, strengthening; through digesting, binding; through dissolving, unity; through coloring, redness; through stabilizing, pervasion; through traversing, the power to transmute.	146–147
The five states and five movements of mercury	146
Defects of mercury	150
Measurements from the smallest unit to the weight of a heavy load	150–151
Steaming of medicines (concluded)	152
Acid steaming of metallic essences	”


Digestion of mercury	157
Minor digestion of mercury	157–158
Digestion of mica (heaven-essence)	158–163
Digestion of the essence of mica	163
Giving the 'mouth' absorbable material to mercury—characteristics of the digested state	164
Three-fold movement	165
Digestion of the 'mouth' of mercury	166