Distillatio · Albedo

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.

Distillatio · Albedo

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.

A question to carry

What are you ready to go through again, more carefully this time?

The Twelve Operations

Draw the card of the day

Each operation of the Great Work, with its laboratory meaning, its reading in a life and a question.

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