Re the grease extraction of trap water with ether. It is an extraction method. The exact proportions are not so critical, as the excess ether is evaporated off. But the method I settled on:
1.Take 600 mls of trap water in a glass bottle with a good seal. The bottle needs to be about a liter to allow for gas pressure.
2. Add 30 mls of di-ethyl ether. This should be enough to leave a layer of ether floating on the trap water. Ether was chosen because it has limited solubility in water, and will separate as a discreet layer, once it has saturated the water.
3. Shake the ether/trap
water vigorously and warm to around 30 to 35 degrees C. Any hotter and
there is a danger of the bottle lid blowing off with pressure. Shake several
times, and do the digestion for 24 to 36 hours.
4.The water often looks slightly milky. Distilled water with the same ether proportions does not.
5. With a pipette, draw off the ether layer, leaving the trap water layer undisturbed. collect the ether in a separate container and allow the excess ether to evaporate outside the building. I use a hand held ratchet suction device attached to the end of the pipette, called a "pi pump". With this we can wind up the desired amount/volume, remote from the mouth. I don't think ether is particularly toxic but it is a bit intense when we take a strong whiff of it. A separatory funnel is okay but ether dissolves silicone grease which is used as a lubricant for a lot of older separatory funnels. The newer ones with Teflon seals would work very well.
6. What remains after the ether smell has completely gone is a white grease. It is not water soluble but easily soluble in alcohol.
Ether is a covalent substance and not as susceptable to catalysis as aldehydes. Extraction with alcohol did not work so well. Aldehydes will catalyse into an oil/grease/resin with a metal catalyst, and these greases are coloured--yellow to red, according to the carbon chain length. (This is what masquerades as alchemy in some sources and Internet sites.)
As far as ingestion, I tasted it but never took it as a long term serious elixir. This is because I view the first white matter as a beginning, not an end product.
This brings up the subject of the stone per Fulcanelli. Barry did a great service to post this quote. The properties of the stone as Fulcanelli wrote, are consistent with other master's descriptions. These properties make DH's claims that the white ormes are the philosophers stone look half baked to say the least. Yet the white ormes are a part of the whole scene- I think, something like a starting point. These properties of the 'stone' are well worth contemplating.
Ryan suggest filtering
through activated charcoal per below. I think the activated charcoal will
trap the m-state. I am doing experiments with activated charcoal over the
last week to see if m-state prefers the nooks and crannys of activated
charcoal. If m-state likes carbon, then it suggests that it likes covalent
matter (ether too) and would indicate where it resides in the body.
Warm Regards,