In chemistry, a salt is an ionic compound that results from the neutralization reaction of an acid and a base. Salts are composed of related numbers of cations (positively charged ions) and anions (negative ions) so that the product is electrically neutral (without a net charge). Wikipedia, Salt
Russell
Just as sodium and chlorine find balance in their salt, and thus lose their metallic qualities, so do all pairs of metals lose their metallic unbalance in their salts. A salt in Nature is a balanced pair of elements. [New Concept - XXXXII - The Age of Transmutation - New Concepts for Science]
Schauberger
The outcome of this incessant reciprocal activity on the one hand is the reconstitution of the various kinds of water present in the individual zones, and on the other, the constant transformation of the species of vegetation in which water makes its way, ceaselessly moved by this inner interplay of forces. This inner, energetic interaction, however, is opposed by the effect of the water's weight. The alternating magnitudes of these component forces inevitably lead to the constant rising and falling of the water particles - the so-called pulsation of water. Every new formation and all growth is derived from the smallest beginnings. Continuing development in the early stages can only be accomplished if the circulation in the Earth's interior proceeds correctly. According to inner law, every higher form of vegetation is built up from the lower species preceding it. The carrier of the substances and the transmitter of the life-processes in the root-zone is the groundwater. The impulse for its movement is caused by a drop in temperature, to which the inner metabolic processes of the here decisive groups of basic elements give rise. The impulse for the movement of water is thus a product of the interactions between the opposites contained within it, which find their necessary resistance in the water itself. Through the resistance arising from the interactions between carbone and oxygen, fluctuations in temperature again occur and with them the impulse to move - the pulsation of water, which in this way at times dissolves salts and at others deposits them, transports them, creates energies and transforms them. The sense and purpose of these perpetual transformation processes is the creation and maintenance of the various types of vegetation and physical forms, which on their part again represent the bridges for the build-up and maintenance of the energies. [The Energy Evolution - Harnessing Free Energy from Nature, Conclusions]
Manly Palmer Hall
"According to the ancient philosophers, salt was of the earth earthy, sulphur was a fire which was spirit, while mercury was nothing, only a messenger like the winged Hermes of the Greeks. His color is purple, which is the blending of the red and the blue—the blue of the spirit and the red of the body.
The alchemist realizes that he himself is the Philosopher’s Stone, and that this stone is made diamond-like when the salt and the sulphur, or the spirit and the body, are united through mercury, the link of mind. Man is the incarnated principle of mind as the animal is of emotion. He stands with one foot on the heavens and the other on the earth." [Initiates of the Flame, by Manly Palmer Hall]
Albert Poisson
"Matter first differentiated itself into sulfur and mercury, and these two principles united in various proportions to form all your bodies. “Everything is composed of sulphurous and mercurial materials” says the Christian Anonymous,
Later a third principle was added: salt or arsenic, but without giving it as much importance as sulfur and mercury. These three principles in no way designated vulgar bodies. They represented: certain qualities of matter, thus sulfur in a metal represents color, combustibility, the property of attacking other metals, hardness, on the contrary mercury represents brightness, volatility, fusibility, malleability. As for salt, it was simply a means of union between sulfur and mercury, like the vital spirit between the body and the soul.
Salt was introduced as a ternary principle, especially by Basil Valentin, Khunrath, Paracelsus, in a word by the mystical alchemists. Before them, Roger Bacon had spoken about it well, but incidentally without attributing any special qualities to it, without paying much attention to it; on the contrary, Paracelsus raged against his predecessors who did not know salt. “They believed that Mercury and Sulfur were principles of all metals, and they did not mention even in a dream the third principle” (The Treasure of Treasures). But salt is of very little importance and even after Paracelsus, many alchemists passed it over in silence.
Sulfur, Mercury and Salt are therefore only abstractions, convenient to designate a set of properties, was a metal yellow or red, difficult to fuse, it was said that the Sulfur abounded in him. But we must not forget that Sulfur, Mercury and Salt derived from the First Matter: “O wonder, Sulfur, Mercury and Salt make me see three substances in a single matter” (Light emerging by oneself of Darkness Marc Antonio)." [Theories and Symbols of the Alchemists The Great Work by Albert Poisson]
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