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Israelites, Freemasons and Rosicrucians. Surprisingly, these traditions are
once again contributing to leaps in modern medicine and industrial
technology.
Many will see the topics in this book as forbidden territory. Even
today, in this age of science, the subjects of alchemy and mystery religion
remain fused with intolerance. It is only in today’s postmodern western
democracies, freed from religious oppression, superstition and master
theories that we can listen to the cacophony of simultaneous voices
without declaring enemies or being declared an enemy.
Throughout history, many lives have been lost in pursuit of the
illusive Philosophers' Stone. Few have found the wisdom to truly behold
it because it is a process and not an end in itself. The reader should
therefore regard this book as a philosophical base station at the foot of the
highest mountain of Wisdom. It seeks to understand the philosophy of
alchemy, its peculiar chemistry and the surprising and pervasive role it
has played in the development of human culture through the mystery
religions.
In a sense, alchemy has come full circle since translation of the
great Arabic texts into Latin in the tenth century CE. Alchemy was the
precursor to chemistry and pharmaceuticals. Now the sciences of
chemistry, physics and information are on the threshold of making the
hidden benefits of alchemy widely available.
David Hudson, a farmer from Phoenix, Arizona, has been
carrying out technical research into the Philosophers' Stone for two
decades. His work has helped galvanize many of the themes in this book.
Hudson’s influence is everywhere through this work as much as that of
Robert Graves and Sir Karl Popper. 1 Stephen Skinner’s excellent book
Lapidus – In Pursuit of Gold also proves to be a treasure on alchemy.
The author would also like to thank Tom Simms of New Brunswick,
Canada, for his discussion of the New Kingdom and Third Intermediate
Period in Egypt. Tom’s research has assisted dating the Exodus in
Chapter 5. The author is very grateful to Robert Word, of San Francisco,
for his excellent translation of the Triangular Manuscript of St Germain,
the only translation known to exist.
Turning to perhaps the most intensively investigated region in the
world, Egypt and Syro-Palestine, we find modern archeology has not yet
conclusively unraveled their chronologies. Of the many difficulties
encountered by archeology, none is more confusing than the Biblical use
of archetypes. An archetype is a model, projected paragon or ideal.
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