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Introduction
Leaning on my elbow, I turn to my own thoughts.
The pages of my life, I have cast, on the great millwheel of fortune.
In my hunt for the golden crown, I have sought clues, in labours long
and wide.
I am resolute in my dangerous pursuit.
Dangerous you laugh?
Yes, I say, for Wisdom is demanding.
She does not release her captives readily, but demands inconsiderate
labor in searching her ciphers.
So as the millwheel turns, I entrust myself between the columns where
the University of Antiquity awaits.
There I am sure the dance of the labyrinth will lead me to the emerald
city.
And Ariadne's silken thread, woven from chains of light, will support
my journey to the midnight sun.
The turn of the millwheel has brought me luck, I cast again…
…God goes with the brave.
The alchemical Philosophers' Stone is the main subject of this
book. It has many names including the Elixir of Life, occult gold, manna
and dew. For thousands of years the knowledge of this marvelous Stone
has been the sole province of mystical brotherhoods including Egyptian
Priests and Pharaohs, Melchizedek Priests, Arabian Schools, Rabbis,
Kabbalahists, Indian Yogis, Rosicrucians, Freemasons and lone Jewish
alchemists.
The subject embodies a mix of religion and politics that has
fermented throughout history, occasionally erupting. The earliest traces
we have of this are with first dynasty Egyptian Pharaohs. The trail tracks
the devastating Hyksos invasion of Egypt and the Exodus of the Children
of Israel from Egypt.
Ancient sanctuaries such as Harran and Jerusalem emerge as
warehouses of arcane knowledge. So esoteric is the knowledge that it is
from lone Jewish alchemists, who perhaps knew the least that we learn
the most. Jewish scholars persistently worked at alchemy and around
tenth century CE translated the great medical and alchemical treatises of
the Arabic world. In looking at the Philosophers' Stone, we have cause to
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