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precious lamps decorate churches, in particular Jesus’ tomb in
Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Although invented by Johann
Kunkel in Potsdam in about 1680, the earliest example of ruby-glass
dated with certainty is a pair of fine Baroque ruby glass beakers in the
Treasury of Copenhagen’s Rosenborg Castle. Duke Julius Franz of
Saxony-Lauenburg polished these beakers in 1689.
The Egyptians used antimony in glass making since at least the
time of Tuthmose III. The religious secret of antimony glass provided the
wondrous translucency of the stained glass windows at Chartres
Cathedral. 1378 The alchemical technology for this special glass suddenly
appeared in the first quarter of the twelfth century CE and just as abruptly
disappeared in the middle of the next century. 1379 The famous Purple of
Cassius was, for example, a colorant made from the body of God. It was
in use long before its official discovery in 1685. The presence of the
Purple of Cassius in glass figuratively endowed light with the body of
God. Chartres’ Blue was similarly a particularly beautiful unsaturated
blue that delighted the senses. It was a feature at Chartres Cathedral. 1380
As the Essenes were quite familiar with glass making and the
chemistry of gold, they would have been in possession of the materials to
make the explosive called gold fulminate. Gold, Aqua Regia and potash
make this highly unstable explosive. Aqua Regia dissolves the gold and
the addition of potash precipitates gold hydroxide. Potash is potassium
carbonate from the ashes of burnt wood. Adding ammonia (sal
ammoniac) to the gold hydroxide then forms gold fulminate. It becomes
very explosive when dry and is difficult to handle. Dissolving silver
oxide in ammonia makes fulminating silver, which is also very explosive
when dry.
The alchemist masons who employed gold fulminate as an
explosive would have prepared it on-site. To cut a block or stele with
precision, the masons would have poured a fulminate slurry into a series
of chiseled-out hollows, allowed it to dry and then set off a chain reaction
to separate the rock.
Modern gunpowder is a less expensive explosive made from
seventy-five percent potassium nitrate, ten percent sulphur and fifteen
percent charcoal. The alchemist monk Roger Bacon first revealed it in
the West in the early fourteenth century CE. 1381 At that time, gunpowder
was a mixture of Brimstone, Sulfur and Saltpeter. China first discovered
the secret in one thousand CE. As soon as gunpowder appeared in
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