Primum Ens: Melissa
The Primum Ens of Melissa (Primum Ens Melissae) is the singularly most renowned alchemical plant quintessence, in the entire canon of adept alchemy texts, due to its psychospiritual and rejuvenative properties.
Ingredients: Saturated solution of pure Ens extraction of lemon balm (Melissa officinalis) in 100% pure grain alcohol.
See “Dosage Protocols” on how to remove the alcohol before ingesting Ens if you do not wish to ingest alcohol.
Ingestion Notes:
- Timing: It is considered best to take first thing in the morning upon rising, but other methods are 3 hours after eating and 30 minutes before meals, or before bed (a few hours after eating).
- Shake Well: Shake well just before adding drops. The solution is saturated, which means it is concentrated and particulates of the physical Ens may settle to the bottom in between uses.
- Removing Alcohol: If you wish to use a method of taking Ens without ingesting as much (or any) alcohol from the tincture, you can add boiled distilled water to a tea cup and add your drops of Ens to the hot water, which will evaporate off the alcohol from the tincture. Then allow it to cool some before drinking.
Dosage of Ens of Melissa as a Sacramental Quintessence can be approached on a couple levels:
- Taken in small doses over time it enhances dreaming and dream state activity, such as lucid dreaming and becoming aware in one’s dreams more often. In this instance, start with 5 drops daily in 4 ounces of distilled water or white wine and increase by 1 drop every few days until you reach 10 drops per dose.
- Increasing over time to substantially increased dosages facilitates the more renowned qualities of the Ens; i.e. noticeable rejuvenation, detoxification of the body, purging of dysfunctions from the psyche, and conscious awareness of the subtle bodies and the beginning of shifting conscious awareness into the aethyric body. In this instance, after going through the process above, continue increasing by 1 drop every few days until you reach 30 drops per dose.
Prima Entia Plant Alchemy Training
As part of the Plant Alchemy Project™ sponsored by Aethyrius as Overseer of Ordo Aethyrium, for those who wish to learn the practical alchemy work of obtaining plant quintessences for themselves through the Primum Ens process, a complete online step-by-step training course is offered here: Primum Ens Plant Alchemy Training.
Though these quintessences are official sacraments of Ordo Aethyrium, and learning to obtain them is required training within the 5° Practicus grade of the Order, they also have a long-standing history in alchemical tradition.
As a part of our educational outreach within the Western esotericism community, we offer this open system of learning the alchemical Ens process of obtaining true plant quintessences to any eligible person wishing to approach effective methods of the Western Mysteries from the esoteric viewpoint in a grounded, practical manner.
We hold that those within the Western esotericism community at-large should have access to reliable plant quintessence training whether they are a member of Ordo Aethyrium or not. It is part of the Order’s Regulations to be a working Order; this is one form in which that mandate is fulfilled.
The official sacraments of Ordo Aethyrium are alchemical quintessences. In particular but not excluding other alchemical preparations, these are the Sacramental Quintessences produced through our Primum Ens process.
In particular, the Prima Entia of Melissa (Melissa officinalis), White Oak (Quercus alba), Blue Spruce (Picea pungens), and Immortelle (Helichrysum italicum) are considered primary sacraments from the plant kingdom.
Other alchemical preparations from the mineral realm used in advanced levels of Inner Order training are considered as a secondary, and higher level, of our sacramental hierarchy.
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