Way of Cinnabar: The Operation of the Alchemical Great Work through the Wet Path of Cinnabar (LIMITED FINE EDITION)
Author: Lenny Pedersen
Extent: 162 pp
Format: 6 x 9"
Printing: Full colour
Binding: Sewn book block; hand-bound in the finest leather
Additional: Gold foiled & tooled; raised spine bands; satin bookmark
Price: £385.00 GBP
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Way of Cinnabar: The Operation of the Alchemical Great Work through the Wet Path of Cinnabar is the single most lucid literary work in existence on this mysterious and most intriguing Path of the Magnum Opus, the Great Work of alchemy. It was originally translated and annotated by Lenny Pedersen (author of The Ten Commandments of Alchemy: The Divine Laws of the Magnum Opus through the Cinnabar Path of the F.A.R.+C.) in 2014 for his own personal studies and was shared only in private with but a handful of close personal friends, his feeling being that the treatise was something for which the world was not yet ready.
The day has now come, however, where a brief unveiling of the operative secrets of this fascinating way of confecting the Philosopher’s Stone has been deemed to be of great importance to alchemists of today. Thus, this translation, hitherto kept from public distribution, is made available in a severely limited print run, after which the book will once again disappear into the obscurity whence it came.
This fine edition, limited to only 12 copies, is a veritable work of art: printed on high quality paper in full colour, the book containing numerous colour images; hand bound by master bookbinders in Glasgow, Scotland; sewn on traditional machinery; bound in genuine leather of the highest quality, with raised spine bands; gold blocking & hand tooling on front, back, and spine; beautiful hand-marbled endpapers; gold satin bookmark ribbon attached to book interior. Only 12 copies of this book will be produced!!! Sold on a "first come, first served" basis!!!
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Among the various Paths to the confection of the Philosopher’s Stone, the one commonly referred to as the Cinnabar Path, studied and practiced by the French Rosicrucian Order known by its abbreviation, F.A.R.+C., has fascinated alchemists immensely since it was first presented to the world at large in the 1960s. While alchemical labour on cinnabar ore had existed since ancient China, this particular way, wholly western rather than eastern in its methodology, is of an unknown origin beyond this highly secretive Rosicrucian Brotherhood.
The teachings on this Path were eventually shared with the outside world for a limited period of time back in the 1960s and 1970s, but not without being veiled in a certain amount of alchemical mystery. Thus, only very few were able to work their way through it without the assistance of actual Initiates of the F.A.R.+C. No direct and clear operative teachings were available outside the Order—until a couple of private texts, the existence of which the world at large was completely oblivious, circulated among small private groups of alchemists. The present work is not only one of these text, but indeed the very jewel in their midst!
Whereas other works such as The Via Cinnabaris of the F.A.R.+C. do indeed go into more operative explanations than the original treatises of the Order of the Elder Brothers of the Rose+Cross, Way of Cinnabar goes into a level of detail never before seen, down to the actual laboratory setup of the most efficient way of manufacturing the Philosophical Salt so crucial to this Work. It even takes the reader through the specific amounts of Salt employed in the various stages of the Work to assist, as much as absolutely possible, in the successful completion of the labours. The proper procedure for carrying the process through to the White Stone is also explained, should one wish to confect the Lunar as well as the Solar Stone.
All of this is done with clear instructions as well as illustrations, where necessary, to aid in comprehension and successful completion of the work.* It is the single most inclusive and clearest treatise ever produced on how the Cinnabar Path of the F.A.R.+C. is carried out, and it is for this reason that it has been kept secret for all this time, and equally why it's distribution to the world at large is SEVERELY limited! If you genuinely have an interest in this Path of the Magnum Opus, secure yourself a copy of either the limited fine edition or the limited standard edition before they are both gone forever!
*Naturally, a disclaimer should be made that neither the author, translator, editor, publisher or other party involved in the creation and distribution of this literary work guarantees the success in any kind of alchemical labour as such is ALWAYS dependent on the operator him/herself, regardless of the lucidity of the instructions provided.