The Twelve Operations · Operation 8 · Albedo
Sublimatio Sublimation
In the vessel. A solid is heated until it rises directly as vapour and settles higher in the vessel, purified. Doves rising are its image.
In a life. Raw instinct raised into a higher form without losing its force: anger into a boundary, desire into direction, hunger into craft. The crude becomes precise.
Which raw force in you is ready to become something precise?
The full section on sublimation, with the other eleven operations and the four stages, is in The Magnum Opus.