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In another famous bas-relief from the Pyramid Texts, the Pharaoh
is shown offering shewbread to Anubis who is sitting on an ark. Anubis
symbolizes the guardian of God over the secrets. 1348 Sometimes he has a
sceptre made from the mysterious metal tchâm, which like orichalcum,
may be platinum. 1349
Plutarch notes that Anubis, the jackal god, was born of both
sisters Nephthys and Isis, who were two aspects of the same divine
person: 1350
By Anubis they understand the horizontal circle, which divides
the invisible part of the world, which they call Nephthys, from the
visible, to which they give the name Isis; and as this circle equally
touches on the confines of both light and darkness, it may be
looked on as common to them both.
The chest that Anubis guards represents the prime secret on
which the sovereignty of the king depended. 1351 So important was this
secret to Hercules that he descended into the Underworld to recover the
guardian dog Cerberus. 1352 Cerberus, a dog with three heads, was the
grim, watchful guardian of the entrance to Hades.
The secret of preparing the Philosophers' Stone was seemingly
lost to Egypt in the tumult of the Hyksos expulsion. The old legends of
Zosimus and St Germain imply the Israelites plundered the secret from
the Egyptians, as we saw in Chapter 14. The Bible also talks about the
plunder of gold and silver from the Egyptians:
And I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians:
and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty:
But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that
sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and
raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your
daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians. 1353
And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses;
and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of
gold, and raiment: And the Lord gave the people favour in the
sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as
they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians. 1354
When the Israelites departed from Egypt, Moses knew how to
make the substance known as the Philosophers' Stone, manna,
chrysopoeia, aurum potable or the water of gold. Moses' skill as an
alchemist is clear in the episode of the golden bull. The Israelites
apparently carried through the desert sufficient gold for the Ark of the
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