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documents in three encased boxes, alongside the seventeen Barons in
their armor, in the vault of the St Clair's crypt at Rosslyn Chapel. The
secret still holds fascination but today it is likely to be one of those empty
secrets that are now all too common in hermetic alchemy.
Following the destruction of alchemical works by Diocletian, the
famous Library of Alexandria was itself burnt to the ground by a
Christian mob in 390CE. This loss of the Library, followed by the
gruesome murder of the beautiful mathematician Hypatia by a gang of
monks twenty-five years later, ushered in Europe’s Dark Ages.
The story of the Philosophers' Stone lay dormant in the West for
another six hundred years, until the time of the Crusades when rumors
seeped out that the Knights Templar had found something very exciting.
Troubadours of the Holy Grail romanced this discovery to a fascinated
Europe, as we shall see in Chapter 22.
Alchemists and kings vigorously sought the Philosophers’ Stone
as a wonderful medicine that had the power to repair the human body and
increase human life almost indefinitely. The Bible itself had declared that
Melchizedek the King of Salem, who first possessed the Philosophers'
Stone, would live forever. 1386 Flavius Josephus seemed to confirm this
when he recorded that the Essenes had extraordinary lifetimes of greater
than one hundred years. 1387 Georgian people in the mountains above
Colchis reputedly enjoyed similarly bounteous lifespans of one hundred
and ten years. 1388 In 1220CE, with Grail romances echoing around
Europe, the alchemist Artephius claimed he had lived a thousand years.
1389
The Comte St. Germain was supposed to have lived for more than
one hundred years. He was a prominent Jewish alchemist who made
known that his special color was, as we might imagine, green tinged with
blue. Baron de Gleichen, who knew St. Germain well, refuted his long
life maintaining that St. Germain had said to him:
These stupid Parisians believe that I am 500 years old; I confirm
them this idea since I see that it gives them much pleasure.
However, this does not mean that I am infinitely older than I look.
Various sources 'sighted' St. Germain in 1835, 1926 and 1934,
although his death is well recorded on February 27, 1784, and by his own
admission he seems to have been ninety-two or ninety-three at the time.
The year of his birth is unknown.
Nicholas Flamel who lived from about 1330 to 1418 was a Grand
Master of the Prieure du Notre Dame du Sion and a well-known
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