OF THE INFLUENCE OF COSMIC RADIATION

Patrick Riviere


Article followed by an appendix presenting the works by Patrick Rivière




In the abundant alchemical literature, it is clear the importance given to stellar cosmic rays (essentially soli-lunar), as reflected for example by plates 4, 9 and 12 of the Mutus Liber of Altus, as well as that of the Hermetic Triumph, of L. de St Didier. Could this be solely due to the presence of ultraviolet rays (UV)? Although these are indeed filtered by the ozone layer, the cosmic rays striking the atmosphere and the earth's surface regularly generate a certain number of elements - radioactive or not - and in particular transmute nitrogen 14 carbon 12 or carbon 14 radioactive, with production of protons and electrons.

Strengthened by the interest that hermetic-alchemical literature has for the Sun: "The Sun does everything" says Hermes Trismegistus, who adds further: "Exposes to the Sun and thins out the vapor in the Sun..." Zozime the Panapolitan affirms that "The time to undertake the Great Work is that of summer, when the Sun has a favorable nature for the operation." In a treatise published in 1724, the anonymous author writes in Chapter IX, entitled "On the Sun, the true center and heart of the world": "But who could concentrate the influences of the Sun... would have found Nature's secret for health and for wealth." Théodore Tiffereau, then a chemistry preparer, assistant to Mr. Lelou, director of the Higher Professional School of Nantes, realized,during a mineralogical study trip undertaken in Mexico, in the middle of the 19th century, the transmutatory experience which he related as follows:

"Leaving for Mexico, in 1842, with the intention of studying on the spot the processes followed by Nature for the production of precious metals, I finally succeeded, after much trial and error, in transforming whole into pure gold about ten grams of an alloy of silver and copper. This memorable transmutation I accomplished in 1847 in the city of Guadalajara, and was thus authorized to believe that science had been wrong in relegating transmutation to the domain of chimeras..."

and I still left the liquor to rest for five days. During this time, new vapors continued to emerge. These five days elapsed, I brought the liquor to the boil, I kept it there until the disengagement of the nitrous vapors ceased; after which I evaporated to dryness. The matter obtained by desiccation was dry, dull, of a blackish green; it showed no appearance of crystallization; no saline part had been deposited. Then treating this matter with pure and boiling nitric acid for ten hours, I saw the matter becoming light green without ceasing to be aggregated into small masses; I added to it a new quantity of pure and concentrated acid; I boiled again; it was then that I finally saw the disintegrated matter take on the brilliance of natural gold. I collected this product and sacrificed a large part of it to submit it to a series of comparative tests with pure natural gold; it was not possible for me to notice the slightest difference between the natural gold and the artificial gold that I had just obtained... " " /.../ Here, Gentlemen, in all its sincerity, the fact obtained , the constant result that I was able to reproduce several times in Mexico. " I collected this product and sacrificed a large part of it to submit it to a series of comparative tests with pure natural gold; it was not possible for me to notice the slightest difference between the natural gold and the artificial gold that I had just obtained... " " /.../ Here, Gentlemen, in all its sincerity, the fact obtained , the constant result that I was able to reproduce several times in Mexico. " I collected this product and sacrificed a large part of it to submit it to a series of comparative tests with pure natural gold; it was not possible for me to notice the slightest difference between the natural gold and the artificial gold that I had just obtained... " " /.../ Here, Gentlemen, in all its sincerity, the fact obtained , the constant result that I was able to reproduce several times in Mexico. "

And in a letter this time addressed to the prestigious chemist, member of the Institute, Marcellin Berthelot, Théodore Tiffereau writes: "/.../ We are no longer in the time of Galileo, we can talk, I use it to affirm you again, with an unshakable conviction, that the gold which I presented to the Academy of Sciences on October 17, 1853, is artificial gold, as I can prove. A year later, in 1854, I I was doing experiments at the Mint in the presence of M. Levot. Driven away by these gentlemen, I was left only with the conviction that I had obtained but no support to continue my research. It was with bitterness that I kept this gold with my hopes, without knowing when I could resume this work, my position not allowing me to have my time... "

Théodore Tiffereau sent several memoirs to the Academy of Sciences. And in another letter, to add: "The gold obtained by me in Guadalajara constitutes a palpable fact which I have always held at the disposal of scholars and whose real existence could not be denied. It has been analyzed and recognized as real gold by Mr. Silva, former president of the Chemical Society and professor at the Ecole Centrale. This analysis has been confirmed by those of other chemists, among others by that of Mr. Itasse. " " /.../ This gold was shown at the Great Exhibition of 1889, submitted to the members of the Commission. Silva, former president of the Society,

Could it then have been simply an allotropic variety of silver, the physicist Carey Lea having detected among them one of yellow color, taking on the appearance of gold according to him? Personally, we do not think so and moreover Th. Tiffereau continued his experiments also subjecting nitric acid and carbon disulphide to the direct action of solar rays (Mém. Acad. Sciences), wondering thus: "Should these changes, to which the action of solar light appears to contribute so powerfully, be attributed to a special electric or magnetic state, or rather to the part played by nitrogen under this influence?"

And as the experience of the production of "artificial gold" could not be repeated in France by Th. Tiffereau, we must conclude that the acuity of solar radiation in Mexico, near the Equator, constituted sine qua nonfor the "transmutation into gold" of the original silver and copper. The intensity of solar radiation on the ground is of course higher in the intertropical regions than in the temperate regions of the globe. Note also that during the "transmutation" carried out by Th. Tiffereau, in 1847, solar activity (according to the cycle of protuberances and spots, lasting 11 years) was at its peak. Effect of chance? A very interesting experience of the scientist (member of the Institute), concealed under the alchemical pseudonym of Fulcanelli, littér. "Vulcain-Elie", the Fire of the Sun (cf. P. Rivière, Fulcanelli, coll. "Who am I?", ed. Pardès, 2004), far from invalidating what precedes as one might believe when reading it at first glance, on the contrary, allows us to affirm the importance of this "solar maturity" provided to matter, allowing its true "transmutation". Golden :

Do not add anything more, leave to settle for half an hour, then carefully decant your clear and still hot solution into a beaker. You will find at the bottom of the retort a thin deposit in the form of black sand. Wash it with lukewarm distilled water, and drop it into a small porcelain dish. You will recognize by testing that this precipitate is insoluble in hydrochloric acid, as it is in nitric acid. Aqua regia dissolves it and gives a magnificent yellow solution, absolutely similar to that of gold trichloride. Dilute this liquor with distilled water; precipitate with a blade of zinc, an amorphous, very fine, dull powder will be deposited, of a reddish-brown colour, identical to that which natural gold gives, reduced in the same way. Wash properly then dry this powdery precipitate. By compressing it on a sheet of glass or on marble, it will give you a shiny, coherent blade, with a beautiful yellow shine by reflection, green in color by transparency, having the appearance and surface characteristics of gold. purer /.../"

And the scientist wonders about the intrinsic nature of the body obtained: "But this simple body, so easily obtained although in small proportion, is it really gold? Our sincerity urges us to say no or, at least, not yet. For if it presents the most perfect external analogy with gold, and even most of its chemical properties and reactions, it nevertheless lacks an essential physical characteristic, density. This gold is less heavy than natural gold, although its specific density is already greater than that of silver. We can therefore consider it not as the representative of a more or less unstable allotropic state of silver, but as silver. 'young gold, nascent gold, which again reveals its recent formation /.../ " And later in the text,as if to add to the final resolution of the operation, the scientist also alludes to the importance of cosmic influxes: "

For alchemists, spirits are real influences, though physically almost immaterial or imponderable. They act in a mysterious, inexplicable, unknowable but effective manner on the substances subjected to their action and prepared to receive them. Lunar radiation is one of these hermetic spirits..." (Fulcanelli, Les Demeures Philosophales , t.1, pp. 184-189, ed. JJ Pauvert, 1973) The polarized solar light emitted by the nocturnal star n is obviously not to be neglected either.

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In a relatively secondary order of ideas - involving only the solar electromagnetic flux here - it remains interesting to look at the scientific communication made by A. Baumgartner, eminent professor of physics in Vienna:

"By repeating last year, the experiments of Mr. Somerville on the magnetization of iron by the influence of sunlight, I found a process which succeeded me more quickly and more surely than that of Mr. Morichini and Me Somerville. It led me to this result, that a piece of steel the size of an ordinary knitting needle, of which one or more places are polished and the others without luster, and that one exposes to the influence of direct, white sunlight, takes a north pole at every polished spot and a south pole at every unpolished spot /.../ " " /.../ Time, other things being equal d elsewhere, seemed to depend on the intensity of the sunlight; for when I concentrated the sunlight on the polished areas by means of a lens,I succeeded in a few minutes in producing a magnetism which would have required several hours with the natural intensity of the sun..." (Magnetization of steel by direct white light from the sun , in Annales de Chimie et de Physique , T.33, 1826)

Let us also note in passing, a recent text affecting a priori an "alchemical" character, translated from Danish into English and circulating on the Web, attributed to a certain Merelle (pseudonym referring to the scallop shell), in which it is mentioned of an unusual interpretation of the aforementioned "silent alchemical book, composed of plates", the famous Mutus Liber. ( The Mysteries of Alchemy, by Merelle, translated into English by Ole Jensen). The author, apparently unfamiliar with the exercise of deciphering Hermetic symbolism, after an insipid general presentation of ancestral Alchemy, explains straight away how she interprets the plates where reference is made to cosmic radiation as well as to the spring dew. According to her, only the latter and common mercury are enough to produce alchemical gold. To do this, having carefully collected the dew at dawn (during the full moon) with the help of spongy cloths, she fills a glass container with it. Two pounds of mercury are required on which the author pours dew. Then, she slowly evaporates it (in the sun!) and repeats the experiment until all the dew has been used up (still on a full moon). After having filtered the remaining mercury in a gauze or a fine linen cloth and that this one has become dry, the author notices the presence of particles of "gold" there which she took care to photograph and present to the reader on page 2 of his presentation! What to think of all this, except that the author, whose notions of physico-chemistry definitely do not outweigh those relating to alchemical symbolism, let himself be taken in by his fantasies and was quite simply misguided...

Indeed, the mercury heated and thus bathed in the dew must have finally partially oxidized, forming mercuric oxide of a red-orange color, impregnating the nitrous crystals with a golden dye (potassium nitrate and a little ammonium) filamentous and prismatic in the shape of needles, as represented in the photograph provided by the woman concealed under the pseudonym of Merelle!

It is nonetheless true that the best metal to "transmute into gold", by modern processes that have become classic involving particle accelerators, with regard to the Periodic Table of the Elements, of Mendéleïev (Nb atomic (of electrons) / Pds atomic: mercury, Hg =80/200.61; gold, Au =79/197.2), indisputably remains mercury. Thus, in 1947, Professor Dempster, from Chicago, bombarded the isotope 196 of mercury with neutrons (nuclear fission) to successfully transmute it into gold. Which, at the time of the so controversial "cold fusion", which would realize the designs of ancient Alchemy - so hoped for by our great friend, Professor Jadczyk, Doctor of Theoretical Physics, preface to the revolutionary thesis of our two other no less eminent friends, Igor and Grichka Bogdanov ( Before the Big Bang, ed. Grasset, 2004) - leads us to re-consider the thorny question of the famous "red mercury" which circulated in Russia ten years ago. It is true that it was more in this context, if we are to believe the American scientists Cohen and Barnaby (following their conversations with Russian scientific and military officials, in H. Guillemot, Science & Vie, #924) to make orange-sized neutron bombs from nuclear fusion; Barnaby even citing the Russian military factories where they would be manufactured. The "red mercury", strictly speaking, would essentially consist of mercury antimonate (Sb2O7Hg2), a compound well known to ancient alchemists (cf. Eyrénée Philalèthe, Nicolas Flamel...) from their Eagles or particular sublimations used to the animation of their philosopher's mercury.

In the contemporary context of "red mercury", this would be mixed with metallic mercury, then irradiated for twenty days in a nuclear reactor. The process of its use would be as follows: in neutron bombs, a layer of red mercury would surround a charge of tritium and deuterium. Upon ignition, the shock wave from the initial explosion would cause the red mercury to release enormous energy, sufficient to trigger the fusion of deuterium and tritium and the ejection of highly energetic neutrons. This question was at the time very controversial by the French scientific community. Was it a real "info" or rather an "intoxication"? Still, "red mercury" or mercury antimonate exists naturally in Black Africa (Ghana, Chad, Togo) in shakovite ore and would have been traditionally used there to make... . counterfeit money! But we do not say what would happen to it, if once amalgamated with vulgar mercury, it were irradiated by cosmic radiation and more particularly solar radiation, at this quasi-equatorial latitude... The alchemists of the past, using cosmic radiation, had they thus put their finger on a considerable and renewable energy at will? Togo) in shakovite ore and that it was traditionally used there to make...counterfeit money! But we do not say what would happen to it, if once amalgamated with vulgar mercury, it were irradiated by cosmic radiation and more particularly solar radiation, at this quasi-equatorial latitude... The alchemists of the past, using cosmic radiation, had they thus put their finger on a considerable and renewable energy at will? Togo) in shakovite ore and that it was traditionally used there to make...counterfeit money! But we do not say what would happen to it, if once amalgamated with vulgar mercury, it were irradiated by cosmic radiation and more particularly solar radiation, at this quasi-equatorial latitude... The alchemists of the past, using cosmic radiation, had they thus put their finger on a considerable and renewable energy at will?