The Alchemy
of Water
There are two types of water: bulk water
and activated or structured water. The water that comes out of the tap
is bulk water - lifeless water piped from underground sources or deep
reservoirs. Spring water or water from a bubbling stream is structured
by sunlight and aeration. The biologist and chemist take bulk water from
the tap, purify it through reverse osmosis or distillation, and then use
it to reproduce, in the test tube, chemical reactions which normally occur
in plants and in healthy animal cells next to cellular membranes under
structured water conditions. (Mikesell, 1985)
The alchemist seeks to reproduce in the laboratory the structured water
conditions found in nature. They vary their method of collecting and processing
the water to find these qualities which are ignored even today. The procedures
are aimed at either preserving the vital quality of the water found in
nature, or reactivating the vitality of the water if it has been lost.
Their sources of water are the collection of dew, rain, snow, or hail.
Rain, snow, and hail are rather pure sources of this water, while dew,
when collected from plants, contains trace minerals. The morning sunlight
makes dew so vitally active, that walking barefoot in dew is a Native
American method of healing the body; while walking on sand is used for
increasing the body's vital energy. Sunlight acting on water in a plant
leaf transfers a charge to the water. Water from a stream is activated
both by sunlight and by flowing over quartz sand. Our research is investigating
this structuring of water by the energy transferred from quartz crystals
and sunlight into water.
Rain water and snow have both been used by modern alchemists at Paracelsus
College (Parachemy 1977, Essentia 1980 & 82). Rain water was collected
during a thunderstorm in insulated containers before it contacted the
earth in order to prevent the high electrical charge from being grounded
out. Pure rain water has a higher nitrogen content during an electrical
storm (Parachemy 1977).
The present day rain water has an acid component. Therefore, the alchemist
distills this water to remove the acids and re-electrifies it with a 500,000
volt, 59 microampere Van de Graff generator to give it the electrical
charge lost during distillation. From this water is formed the Universal
Gur, considered by alchemists as one of the prime substances of life,
similar to the amino acids and nucleic acids formed in modern laboratories
by the electrification of atmospheric nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon dioxide.
This Universal Gur is used as the starting material for generating the
mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. To make the Gur, the water is
covered with a cloth and allowed to stand in a warm, dark place for 1
to 3 months, during which time a purification takes place. This water
is then fractionated through distillation. The first 1/4 fraction is distilled
by simmering below 100 degrees C. The Gur is the thin honey-like substance
left after the last fraction. Because care must be taken that the Gur
is not burnt, it is dried at 80 degrees C. The other fractions are designated
as the fire, air, water, and earth of water. Each fraction has a different
pH, the Gur found after the last fraction having a pH of 8.0.
Another procedure used by alchemists at Paracelsus College for fractionating
water into its different components was described to me by Karl Lee from
the Big Sur area. Water is placed in a tank with three sections. Each
section is separated by a kidney dialysis membrane. At each end of the
tank is placed a carbon electrode from a 12 volt D.C. current source.
This arrangement produces water which is acid in one section, neutral
in the middle, and alkaline in the other section. All three types of water
have healing qualities. The acid portion of this water has been shown
to dissolve calcification in arthritis. When used for this purpose, it
is followed by some of the neutral water to stop its decalcifying action.
Because the purification step is omitted, this method produces the purest
activated water. I would expect this procedure to produce a structured
water because it has been activated by the electrolytic separation.
Another way of producing activated water by alchemists is the use of sunlight,
whether natural sunlight, sunlight separated into one of its colors with
a prism, or sunlight shone through a flask of colored liquid. In general,
red and yellow light will activate the water in an acid manner, while
the blue and green light will activate the water in an alkaline manner.
Each of these different color-activated waters have a distinct taste.
Water structured with a yellow tungsten bulb has a different UV spectrum
than water structured with a Kiva Light, which is a full spectrum Vita
light centered in the green end of the spectrum. An example of the use
of sunlight to activate H2O is the alchemical procedure of placing a flask
of water and reactants half way into a dung heap. The dung heap provides
steady heat from the thermophilic bacteria, while the sunlight both structures
the water in the flask and causes daily evaporation and re-precipitation
within the flask.
A magnet will structure water in an acidic manner with its south pole
and in an alkaline manner with its north pole. Recent experiments have
shown that the north pole water is an antibiotic water and the north pole
of a magnet will stop bacterial infections and tumors (Mikesell, 1985).
More work needs to be done in comparing the magnetic structuring of water
to the crystal structuring of water.
We are using crystals to activate water. These quartz crystals are Vogel-cut®
and double terminated. They are either 4, 6, or 8 sided and of clear quartz
or a light yellow citrine quartz. These crystals are charged manually
and will induce structuring in pure distilled water. However, the addition
of 0.01% silica causes structuring to occur. This structuring is best
assayed with a UV spectrophotometer where one finds an increase in UV
absorption due to an increase in the water bonding from the water forming
chains on itself. The magnetic moment of this water is increased by 0.07
gauss and there is also an increase in the pH and dielectric conductivity.
Boiling of the water after structuring shows no change in the UV spectrum,
so one can conclude that a permanent chemical change has taken place.
When a drop of this structured silica water is dried on a slide and compared
with untreated silica water, the photomicrograph shows the formation of
needle-like silica crystals in the structured water drop, while the untreated
water dried to an amorphous mass of silica gel. This shows that the process
of structuring water produces a structuring or ordering effect on the
solutes in solution.
Polywater is structured water which is condensed from unsaturated water
vapor in narrow capillary tubes. Polywater, like structured water, has
a higher density, more viscosity, and a lower freezing point than normal
water (Perthing, 1979). It was originally thought to be composed of pure
water, but subsequent investigations show the structuring of polywater
was due to a small amount of sodium silicate in the water which leached
out from the glass capillary tubes (Derjaguin and Churaev, 1973). Our
research into this phenomenon has shown 0.01% of silica gel to have a
maximum structuring effect on water activated by a crystal plus a xenon
strobe. It is then tested with the UV spectrophotometer. A small amount
of dissolved silica is also a characteristic of the activated spring waters
that we have investigated.
Another way of producing structured water is the alchemical procedure
of succussive dilution. Succussive dilution is the homeopathic practice
of making a dilute solution by starting with a 1/10th dilution, shaking
the bottle 100 times and making another 1/10th dilution. This process
of serial dilution and shaking is continued until the desired dilute solution
is reached. Nowadays, only homeopaths us this technique. Dilution and
succussion used to be the only method of preparing alchemical solutions,
because the alchemist found they could get more activity from succussively
compounded dilute solutions than from normal concentrated solutions. By
the process of succussively adding 1/10th of a material and shaking the
bottle, they were able to get more material into their solution. As we
have seen from the dried silica gel experiments, these supersaturated
solutions made up of structured water will form crystals upon further
evaporation.
The shaking between solutions or dilutions increases hydration shells
around each of the ions, which increases the distance between paired ions.
This overcomes the natural tendency of pair ions, such as Na+Cl- to remain
in closed association and results in a higher activity of these solutions
when compared to normal dilutions. For example, HgCl2 when diluted beyond
the point of having an HgCl2 present, that is beyond 10-23gm/L showed
a dielectric conductivity comparable to a lower dilution (Mikesell 1985).
Succussively diluting chemical compounds and medicines, or preparing them
with some form of structured water, results in a more dilute solution
activating the chemical reactions when compared to standard dilutions
made with bulk water. This structured water can be activated with crystals,
sunlight, magnets, electrolytic separation, or re-electrification. The
alchemists, by using these living waters, have discovered a different
set of laws regulating chemistry and medicine under conditions which more
closely resemble the living state.
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