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The Alchemy Key.pdf - Veritas File System

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Antimony was purified with iron or Mars, just as in the modern industrial<br />

process of extracting antimony from stibnite ore. When they saw the pure<br />

white vapor of antimony rise, the alchemists likened it to a white virgin<br />

queen, the moon goddess, and called it the Philosophers’ Mercury. This<br />

Mercury should not be confused with metallic Mercury, which is always<br />

poisonous if used alchemically.<br />

<strong>The</strong> white virgin indeed brought relief to the injured. A fragrant<br />

cream made from a precipitate of antimony became a universal unguent<br />

of the alchemist doctors. Crusaders used this salve or universal medicine<br />

to heal wounds and it has been used right up until very recent times. <strong>The</strong><br />

secret ole of antimony was so intriguing that the metal, although very soft<br />

and less bright than silver, was often used for tableware such as salt<br />

salvers and gravy boats. Adepts could display these openly in public,<br />

with few knowing the real meaning of the white virgin in the metal.<br />

Finally, Mercury, white virgin of alchemy, was married to the<br />

Sun King. A rainbow of colors appeared in the alchemist’s flask. A<br />

green dragon battles a Red Man. <strong>The</strong> blood of the green dragon is the<br />

necessary sign that the son of love will be born. Finally, in the faeces of<br />

the reaction, a rock appears. It is the green lion tinged with lilac. This<br />

royal color signifies Horus rebirth as king.<br />

I will not dwell on these celebrated reactions. <strong>The</strong>y can be<br />

demonstrated but never scaled-up to any useful volume for medicine or<br />

industry. I would now like to turn to another paradigm of alchemy.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re is a man in Phoenix Arizona by the name of David Hudson.<br />

He recently patented a version of the Philosophers’ Stone called Orbitally<br />

Rearranged Mono-atomic Elements (ORMEs) in many countries such as<br />

Australia and UK, although the US Defense Department vetoed his patent<br />

in the USA on the grounds of national interest. Gold, silver, rhodium,<br />

iridium and eight other Transition Elements can exist as ORMEs.<br />

ORMEs are virtually undetectable by conventional means<br />

because they lack a d-orbital electron. However, they do show a<br />

distinguishing infrared doublet located between 1400 and 1600 cm -1 .<br />

We tend to focus on gold as the most valuable ORME. Yet,<br />

rhodium and iridium may be more important for health applications<br />

because they represent five percent of a mammal's brain by dry weight.<br />

When referring to ORMEs we are really talking about the Transition<br />

Metal complex that includes gold.<br />

In other words, ORME technology produces many Philosophers’<br />

Stones from the Transition Metal complex. <strong>The</strong> end is the same as for the<br />

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