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England, the Crown seized the rights and began to manufacture it under
Crown monopoly.
Both fulminating gold and original gunpowder used regular
alchemical raw materials like saltpeter, which was a common source of
nitric acid for Aqua Regia. Yet, only fulminating gold is likely to have
been the Shamir. This is because it had two characteristics that would
have disenchanted monarchs and therefore allowed it to remain
comparatively secret. The first was that any significant use of fulminating
gold required a monarch to delve deeply into his gold reserves. The
second reason was that the strategic use of the fulminating gold was
severely limited because it was unstable. Unskilled soldiers could neither
prepare nor handle the dangerous substance.
Moses and the authors of the Bible at the time of King Solomon
may have known about gold fulminate. For example, Moses referred to
the massive destruction the Lord would wreak on the land with brimstone
and salt if the Israelites abandoned his covenant: 1382
And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and
burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth
therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and
Zeboim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus
unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?
It is also possible that the story of Joshua’s destruction of Jericho
is an indirect reference to the terrible power of the Shamir. 1383 In fact,
Joshua reserves the metals in the city for the Lord’s treasury, perhaps with
an eye to replenishing his stores. 1384
In old Masonic tradition, the Shamir is one of the secrets that
Hiram Abiff refused to surrender to his murderers. The Old York ritual
refers: 1385
… to the wonderful properties of that noble insect the SHAMIR,
which cut and shaped all the sacred utensils and holy vessels in
King Solomon’s Temple... the wonderful creature that could cut
stones.
The crest of Earl St Clair of Orkney and the documents in the St
Clair libraries prominently show the Shamir. Earl St Clair was the
Scottish ruler who sheltered fugitive Knights Templar and their fleet,
when it escaped Philippe IV’s suppression order. His family
subsequently became hereditary Grand Masters of Freemasonry. The
knowledge of the Shamir has no doubt remained sealed with other
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