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unbelievably wealthy with gold and healthy into the bargain. This, of
course, does not rule out that transmutation occurs in nuclear physics by
the bombardment of atomic nuclei with neutrons.
Intuition tells us that alchemical transmutation is not chemistry
but didactic philosophy. Transmutation in alchemy can only be a
hermetic process based on the perfection of metals, illustrated by symbols
and veiled in allegory, designed to make good men better. Wisdom
communicates from one man to the next without attenuation through use.
This is symbolically the same as the lighting of candles by the
congregation during the Paschal Praeconium in the Roman Catholic rites
of Resurrection, celebrated at midnight on Easter Saturday. From the
flame of the great Paschal Taper, the congregation lights multiple candles
throughout the whole church. The great Taper though divided, suffers no
loss from the communication of its light. 820 In the same way, the modern
Olympic flame, ignited by priestesses in Athens with the rays of the sun,
communicates with the Olympic host city.
Zosimus of Panopolis, a highly regarded Jewish alchemist of
about four hundred CE, clearly considers the Jews as the repositories of
alchemical wisdom. 821 He suggested that they gained their sacred art
from the Egyptians by surreptitious means.
The infamous Jewish alchemist Count St. Germain, seems to
confirm the Jews’ illicit possession of alchemical knowledge. He wrote
that Moses discovered a manuscript in an Egyptian monument that
showed how to prolong life for more than a century. The manuscript was
triangular in the same way the Sumerians codified the law of the God
KUR on triangular tablets. 822 Moses concealed it in Asia under the device
of a winged dragon. 823 Asia here probably refers to Byblos, identified
with Gebal, which was the home of the Dionysian initiates in about one
thousand six hundred BCE. 824 Appendix 11 provides a translation of this
important manuscript.
Saint Germain’s winged dragon is a magical talisman. Its tail
lemniscates in a figure eight pattern and has a small head at its tip. The
main head and the headed tail are pointing in opposing directions. The
figure has wings and an arrow-shaped tongue protruding from the main
head. It is one of three magical illustrations executed in gilt and several
colors of ink.
The symbol of the winged dragon refers to the legend of
Hercules, glorious son of Jupiter and Alcmena. He fought and conquered
the dragon at the entrance to the garden of Hesperides called Ladon. 825
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