The Twelve Operations · Operation 7 · Albedo
Distillatio Distillation
In the vessel. The liquid is heated until it rises as vapour, condenses and is collected, and the process is repeated, each pass purer than the last.
In a life. Purification by repetition. It is lived as discipline: the willingness to go through the same process again, more carefully, and remove what the first pass missed.
What are you ready to go through again, more carefully this time?
The full section on distillation, with the other eleven operations and the four stages, is in The Magnum Opus.