When you pour it off, make sure you've poured off absolutely as much as possible, and then put it back in the freezer for good measure. You don't have to put it back, but if you're already having melting problems, it won't hurt. Leave it in there for another 5 minutes, transfer it to the fridge for five minutes and finally take it out. When you do take it out, find some way to prop up your jar so it rests at a 45 degree angle. This will allow all the excess shellite to pool in one corner which after waiting a bit, you can easily and safely pour off again. Wait till your crystals no longer look wet and smell of shellite, and then it's time to scrape up your sacrament.
"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind" - Albert Einstein
"The Mighty One appears, the horizon shines. Atum appears on the smell of his censing, the Sunshine- god has risen in the sky, the Mansion of the pyramidion is in joy and all its inmates are assembled, a voice calls out within the shrine, shouting reverberates around the Netherworld." - Egyptian Book of the Dead
"Man fears time, but time fears the Pyramids" - 9th century Arab proverb