The Transmutation of Metals

ALCHEMICAL GOLD, SILVERTAURUM

Various manufacturing processes with supporting letters and documents

J. MARCUS DE VEZE

PARIS
DORBON ELDER BOOKSHOP
45, Quai des Grands-Augustins

1902

TO THE READER

For centuries and centuries, ordinary humans have wondered if it is possible to make gold by transmutation; if, for example, copper can be changed into silver and silver into gold.

As a result, they also wonder if the Philosopher's Stone existed, as well as Potable Gold or Elixir of life.

In this booklet, we are going to study the question and demonstrate that the Philosopher's Stone or Projection Powder, Potable Gold or Elixir of Life, and finally Transmutation existed thousands and thousands of years ago.

The Egyptians for example, knew from a very remote Antiquity, the means of making alchemical Gold, and the modes of operating the transmutation have never been lost; they have even been used among a large number of people.

We will add, as we say elsewhere in the course of this study, that the metal is a real animal, having its own life, which helps in its transformation and, consequently, in its transmutation; only what Nature can only accomplish with the help of many centuries, man can accomplish it in much less time: in just a few months, and even today assisted by Electricity; by powerful dynamos, man can achieve transmutations in a few days.

Let us add that many alchemists have believed that the limit of the progress of metals stops when the metal has reached the state of gold and even silver because it has then reached the state of noble metal, and it stays there forever. Other hermetic writers believe, on the contrary, that the modification of metals is continuous, that it continues unceasingly in such a way that a metal, after having reached the end of its perfection, returns to an imperfect state, so that the process of its molecular transformations continue incessantly through the centuries.

It was Emil Rudolf Glauber who first issued this insight which has been adopted by many alchemists.

Paracelsus went even further, he affirmed that under the influence of the stars and the sun, not only all the base metals were changed into gold or silver, but that they could be transformed into stone and the minerals develop in the same way. plants by a kind of seed (Tiffereau's ferments); we see by this, that there is nothing new under the sun.

Paracelsus mentions the principle of the Universal dissolvent, of Alcaest the ideal of menses, finally of silver, which can bring all bodies to a liquid state; but he only speaks of this solvent par excellence in a single passage of his works, and still in a rather vague manner; it is in his Traite de viribus membrorum, here is the passage in question that names translate: “there is also the liqueur Alcaest which acts very effectively on the liver. She sustains him, strengthens him and preserves him from the illnesses that can reach him. All those who apply themselves to medicine, must know how to prepare the Alcaest”.

So according to Paracelsus the great dissolvent. “The alcaest” can bring about radical transformations and consequently transmute everything.

This observation of the great Alchemist is for us most precious and can lead us to believe that transmutation is not a utopia, but a very real thing, completely objective.

This is what readers who want to read this study will be able to see.

We are convinced that after reading this booklet, they will no longer be able to doubt the existence of the Philosopher's Stone; and that will be the only reward we aspire to for our work.

JX from V.



THE TRANSMUTATION OF METALS

I

Have we arrived at the time predicted by Doctor Girtanner de Gœtingue (1)?

The transmutation of metals will be generally known in the 19th century, because all chemists will know how to make gold (2).

That is to say, man would no longer seek native gold in the bowels of the earth, since he would have alchemical gold at his disposal.

What is Alchemical Gold?

It is the gold created by human science; that is to say, by the art of the transmutation of metals; in other words, by the change of a base metal, into a precious metal, lead and silver for example, into gold.

Is the fact possible?

This is what we are going to study here, with supporting evidence and documents, and we hope that the reader, after having read us, will fully share our opinion that the transmutation of metals has been known and practiced since the highest antiquity, that this is an incontestable fact, supported by too many certain proofs to be doubted for a single moment by men of science who have studied the question seriously and in good faith.

That superficial minds have denied the fact, no wonder; it has always been so, but that we can deny it today, in the 20th century, it seems quite surprising with the means of investigation that we have and with what one knows in chemistry, although this science is relatively little advanced yet, compared to what it will be the next day when it will proclaim the Unity of matter; on that day it will not only be the transmutation of metals that it will operate, but the transformation of everything, it will be able to make food substances out of all kinds of matter: we can therefore see by this what change has taken place in the economic situation of mankind; what some writers have already wanted to study by supposing true the transmutation of metals; they planned,quite wrongly, radical transformations in our social organization; which is false, absolutely false, because if gold were tomorrow to be as common as iron, this fact would not disturb our economic situation much. But that is not the question we want to study; Placing ourselves in a higher point of view, we wish to examine the question of transmutation only from the point of view of the demonstration of the Unity of matter.


II

In recent times, there has been a great stir around an American discovery; we want to talk about alchemical Gold, immediately called: Argentaurum, because this new metal contains a lot of silver on 125 grams, it would have provided after its fusion 33 0/0 of gold and 26 0/0 of silver, otherwise said, silver transmuted into gold, would have contained no more than 26 0/0 of the old metal and would have furnished 33 0/0 of gold, so that by continuing the operations, we would finally arrive at own only gold, of a given quantity of silver since once the gold has been extracted from silver, it can always be transformed into gold.

By what process we obtain this result, it is still a secret of the inventor, of Dr. Emmens. We must add that, as always, the laboratory processes are long and very expensive, but that is not the question: whether this transmutation costs more or less, does not matter to us. We place ourselves, we repeat, at a higher point of view, the philosophical point of view, and we say: is the transmutation of metals a real fact? And if this fact is real, as there is reason to believe, after having studied all the documents of the trial, the Unity of matter would be absolutely proven.

However, official chemistry today still refuses to accept, even in the hypothetical state, this Unity. However, modern discoveries tends to demonstrate this unity, and that by positive facts, and not by mere theory; our great chemist Berthelot, although one of the most official scholars, is not far from admitting this Unity.

According to the theory of the Unity of matter, all bodies are only homogeneous atomic compounds borrowed from the Aether (3) and subjected to forces which can influence them by various combinations, hence the diversity bodies formed by the Unique matter.

In a letter from M. Fittica, Director of the University of Marburg to M. Tiffereau (4), we read: "That metals are compounds is no longer a hypothesis for me, but a theory which I hope confirm with future research.

Each body therefore draws its special autonomy, its characteristic autonomy, so to speak, from its atomic aggregates; the bodies are differentiated by various forces, under the dependence of which the single matter is placed. It is even with the study of these forces that our modern science will have to concern itself, in order to arrive at the transmutation of metals first and then of other organic products. It is, moreover, transmutation, let us not forget, which created our modern chemistry; we have said it very often, and we cannot repeat it too often; it has therefore rendered humanity a very great service.

How to explain now the theory of transmutation; it is very difficult in the current state of science, because the interpretation of the phenomena of materialization and duplication has so far escaped scholars. It is quite obvious that the day when they will be able to explain the fourth dimension or the interpenetration of solid matter (5), they will also be able to reveal to us the theory of transmutation.

We had just written the above, when we read in the Revue Générale des Sciences (6) the following paragraph, which would prove that, according to the scholarly review, the argentaurum would still be hardly more than a myth; our good faith makes it our duty to insert this paragraph.


THE SILVERTAURUM

“We know as little as possible of the internal structure of what we call the atoms or molecules of simple bodies. So no one loses affirming that it is one day impossible to lower the atoms of silver for a moment to the state of fragments, in order to then raise them to the dignity of gold ingots. Nor are we allowed to say with certainty that the sun will shine next year. Whatever one supposes of the prejudices of official scientists, their minds are perfectly ready to receive with joy the revelation of a seriously demonstrated "transmutation of metals".

“The Demonstration is for the scholar of our days, more magical than the philosopher's stone (it is the most magical of things) no stubborn can resist it. If Dr. Emmens had converted a considerable quantity of silver into gold, which I do not believe, for lack of evidence, he would have thrown the representation of wealth into confusion for some time.

“Capital, this potential labor would receive another already known sign. The equivalence of products, needs, capacities and work accomplished would soon find its proof in paper notes which are, in short, little contracts between men. The Golden Calf would change its name in some way. Such a discovery would be one more star for science in the night it still contemplates. The public mind loves the marvelous, the discovery of vague ancient treasures and Astrology.

In a high fold medium, the possible theory of the unity of Matter, resurrects Alchemists from time to time. For the moment, there is nothing to think or believe about the Argentaurum, because nothing specific has been told to us.

JOSEPH GODFROY.


This very fine article, as fine as alchemical gold, is perhaps not the last word on the serious question; he does not invalidate, moreover, the discovery of the American scientist: he is waiting for new ingots, as for us, we persist in believing that alchemical gold existed in the past, therefore it exists. We will never forget that our excellent and late friend Auguste Cahours, from the Institute, Director of the chemistry laboratories of the Mint, who had been instructed to follow Tiffereau's work at our large establishment, declared to us that he had found gold in silver transmuted by Tiffereau, but that the quantity was nevertheless too small to be able to conclude that the transmutation was certain.

Having then asked our dear master and friend why he had not repeated the experiment, he replied that he had other things to do and that this transmutation would lead to nothing, because the gold thus obtained would count more expensive than native gold; from that day (1871), we thought that there was something true in transmutation!

Without this, Auguste Cahours would not have spoken thus. There is no smoke without fire!

Let us now pass to another scholar, to M. de Rochas.

Here is what he writes in the Cosmos, n° 653, page 132: "The Cosmos has already reported the discovery of the American chemist Emmens, who claims to have succeeded in producing the interchangeability of silver and gold, and who on April 6, 1897 sold to the United States Assay Bureau, established in New York, the first silver ingot transformed into gold in the Syndical laboratory of Argentaurum.

Here are the figures provided by the Assay Office to establish the acquisition price of this ingot by the Government of the United States:

WEIGHT BEFORE MELTING ........ 7.06 ounces

Weight after melting ...................... 7.04 ounces

Weight of gold ................................65.80%

Weight of silver ............................ 26.00%

Value of the gold contained in the ingot 95.76 dollars

Value for money ............................ 1.11

Analysis fee ............................ 1.22

Net value paid to Syndicate.......$95.65

(Note LAT: around 1897, one US dollar is roughly equivalent to 25 euros from 2011)

We will recall that Doctor Stephen Emmens is a well-known scientist in the New World, member of the American Society of Chemistry, of the American Institute of Mininq Engineers, of the International Society of Electricians, inventor of Emmensite, an explosive adopted by the Government for the defense of its coasts, and of a method of treatment of sulphurous zincs, author of a volume entitled: Argentaurum papers , where, in connection with his discovery, he exposes his views on the composition of bodies.

Mr. Emmens does not reveal his processes there, which are today the property of a financial company (7) set up to take advantage of them, but the following letters that were communicated to us allow up to a certain point to see where this research has gone.


Letter from Doctor EMMENS to Mr. WILLIAMS, CROOKES, Fellow of the Royal Society of London.

New York, May 21, 1897.


Dear Sir,

I am happy to answer any questions you want to ask me.

1° I regard diamond and graphite as interchangeable from the molecular point of view, which means that I regard them as composed of the same substance presenting different conditions of molecular arrangement. When the diamond is converted into Graphite, you may properly call the change thus taken place Transmutation, but this word having by long usage always implied a change of substance, may by its use cause misinterpretations.

2° By the interchangeability of gold and silver from a molecular point of view, I mean neither more nor less than what I have just said about diamond and graphite. Like you, I suppose (and most chemists), I believe that the Universe is made up of a single matter (8). The chemical elements are modes of this universal substance combined with a greater or lesser quantity of what we call energy. By changing the mode, we change the element, but not the substance. We therefore do not transmute in the sense of the term conventionally adopted by the alchemists.

3. But these opinions and all analogous opinions, whether orthodox or heterodox, are merely provisional, temporary. You, Lord Kelvin, and I are very ignorant. We live in the midst of daily marvels far more transcendent than the passage from silver to gold and accept them as facts, without understanding them.

What is gravity that makes a stone fall?

How come my will direct my finger? Etc., etc. A philosophy which is obliged to stop at atoms, at energy, at the Aether will not discover much of the Universe.

4° The letters which I published in Engineering and Mining Journal (of New York) in September 1896, will explain to you the position in which I am placed, and the necessarily singular character of the remarks which I am about to expose to you.

5° The production of gold in our Argentaurum laboratory has some resemblance to the conquest of the Golden Fleece. It is not pursued with a view to science or in the spirit of proselytism. We do not seek to make disciples, nor to train believers.

However, I am happily gifted enough in terms of camaraderie to be happy to answer the questions of my brothers in science, but only insofar as my communications cannot prejudice the interests which I represent.

6° Our way of proceeding has been modified since what we made known in September 1896. As soon as the work begun on a microscopic scale came to take on commercial importance, we saw that it was possible to dispense of the tedious and costly preparation of allotropic silver, which had hitherto constituted the first of our operations. Now, we use Mexican dollars which we subject to the following five manipulations:

a) Mechanical treatment;

b) Action of a flux and granulation;

c) Mechanical treatment;

d) Treatment, by oxygenated compounds of nitrogen (oxide of nitrogen; that is to say by modified nitric acid);

e) Refining.

We regard the mechanical treatment as the causative cause (causa causans).

The fluxing action and the granulation simply serve, we believe, to render the molecular aggregates capable of decomposition and recomposition.

8. What I said of Professor Dewar, in my letter of August 25 which appeared on page 221 of the Engineering, and mining journal of September 5, 1896, related to the question of mechanical treatment. If he or you want to try the combined effect of compression and a very low temperature, you will easily produce a little gold, the whole question of cost price apart. Take a Mexican dollar (the United States Mint certifies that this coin, as now minted, contains no gold, or at most traces of it); take a Mexican dollar and put it in a device that prevents its particles from spreading outside when it has been divided. Then, subject it to a powerful, rapid, continuous threshing and, under such cold conditions,that repeated shocks cannot produce even a momentary rise in temperature. Test it hour by hour, and in the end you'll find more than traces of gold.

9° Whether this experiment could succeed with pure silver or a silver alloy other than that of the Mexican dollar, is what I cannot say. In my opinion, it is quite possible that there are varieties of different silver, as to the molecular arrangement.

10° I do not want to ensure that the metal obtained by this experiment or produced by our laboratory under much more advantageous economic conditions is really gold.

For my part, I like to consider it as such, but I am careful not to want to force you or anyone else to share my opinion. All that mattered to the members of the Argentaurum Syndicate was whether the United States Mint would buy at the price of gold, whatever their metal might be. However, they have nothing more to be desired on this subject, since the Mint has already bought three bars from them. We are preparing the fourth (*).





*Currently there are 6 ingots accepted under the conditions indicated in the table above.

When my force machine, now almost finished, will be in working order, it will easily allow us to produce pressures of 800 tons per square inch and to perform real wonders. I have no doubt that the Argentaurum's gold production will be increased to 50,000 ounces per month within a year.

I may have been very long in this letter, but I did not think I could be less explicit in writing to a man whose scientific authority imposes itself on everyone.

I am etc

STEPHEN H. EMMENS.


The above letter from MSH Emmens therefore proves that the American chemist Emmens, if he did not operate the transmutation of silver into gold, at least invented a process which gives silver the value of gold since the United States Mint buys the bullion produced, at the weight of the gold.

But in short, it is a true transmutation, only as it has been said in all tones and in all languages ​​that transmutation was an impossible, false operation, an imposture. Today Emmens calls his process Interchangeability which expresses almost the same idea, because to transmute is to change beyond, that is to say to change a substance to such an extent that it becomes another, but the term interchangeability means molecular exchange of two substances, that is to say transformation of one thing into another, of silver into gold, for example, in the species; which is a real transmutation, because if it were not so, that there was only a simple molecular exchange, it would be necessary that the operation made pass the silver molecules into gold molecules, by an arrangement,by a particular molecular arrangement; what could be obtained by simple threshing, under high pressure; while our transformation is also and above all obtained by a chemical process which gives silver molecules the properties of gold molecules and this, without there being any change of substance, but only a change of state of the substance .

What we have just said and we will add is that Mr. Tiffereau obtains his transmutation, himself, by simple chemical processes, which proves that in nature, all roads can lead to Rome, that is to say - say to the same result, which would be easily demonstrable; we will not mention many cases so as not to get out of our subject; we will limit ourselves quite simply to giving here the chemical process of M. Tiffereau, a process which dates back to the year 1847.


III

Here is how he describes it on page 77 of his booklet (9):

"After having exposed pure nitric acid to the action of the sun's rays for two days, I projected on it filings of pure silver, alloyed with pure copper in the proportion of the alloy of the coin. . A strong reaction appeared accompanied by a very abundant release of nitrous gas; then the liquor left to rest, let me see an abundant deposit of intact filings agglomerated en masse.

“The release of nitrous gas continuing without interruption, I left the liquid to itself for twelve days, I noticed that the aggregate deposit increased significantly in volume. I then added a little water to the solution without producing any precipitate, I left the liquor to stand 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 it to dryness.

• Desiccated material was dry, dull, blackish green; it showed no appearance of crystallization; no saline part had been deposited.

“Treating this matter then 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 I sacrificed a large part of it to submit it to 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 which I had just produced.

“My second experience, of the same kind as the previous one, took place in Colima; the phenomena were produced as in Guadalajara (experiment above), under the influence of solar light, which did not cease to act during the whole duration of the first treatment, and the acid which I employed was rather extended from water so that solar action alone could not produce the release of nitrous vapours. Now, as these did not cease to emerge, I attributed this fact to an electric current due to the kind of fermentation of which nitrogen seems to me to be the principle. The nitrous gas continued to evolve constantly, as long as the liquor was not brought to a boil. I finished this operation, like the preceding one;nevertheless in this second experiment, I employed, towards the end of the operation,

“I made a third experiment on my return to Guadalajara, it succeeded completely like the two preceding ones, without presenting any extraordinary phenomenon worthy of note; the quantity of alloy which I had experimented with was entirely transformed into pure gold, as I said in my second memoir. »

Thus, here is a good man who claims to have obtained by three times, on three different occasions, the transmutation of metals, and no one in France wanted to believe him, and he is an honest man; here is what M. de Rochas says about it (Op. cit.):

“Mr. Tiffereau then hastened to re-embark for France, in order to take advantage of his discovery, by first benefiting his country; but he could never reproduce in our climate the reactions which had taken place under the action of the burning sun of Mexico and perhaps also under the influence of particular ferments diffused in the atmosphere of a region rich in mines of gold (10); his meager resources did not allow him to return to the New World.

“All those who know him cannot doubt his good faith; the unalterable confidence of this simple and modest old man, and the sacrifices he has made, almost half a century ago, to realize his discovery again, this father of a family who very regularly supports his expenses by practicing the profession of photographer, are proofs that one is in the presence neither of a mystifier, nor of an illuminated. »

And the honorable scholar follows the preceding lines with the following:
“It is perfectly conceivable that the State, that learned societies do not want to admit the reality of a chemical reaction affirmed by an unknown person who cannot reproduce it at will; but the history of science is there to show that in almost all the great discoveries, there have been precursory facts which remained isolated, because we had not been able to grasp all the conditions of their realisation. I heard that Ruolz had thus produced, by chance, crystallized carbon in a laboratory operation and that he then remained forty years without being able to reproduce this artificial diamond. In any case, the assertions of Mr. Emmens give serious weight to that of Mr. Tiffereau, and it seems difficult to admit that the great American chemist takes part in a shady business,

To the preceding lines, we will add that the detractors of the great chemist had not been afraid to spread that all the noise that was made around the Argentaurum was only to make a stock market blow on the gold mines of the Transvaal.

Needless to say, no credence should be added to such a calumny; moreover, do we not know that it is the clearest of the incomes of great inventors, to reap always in the first line: calumny.

As for us who have studied the question for a long time, we are absolutely convinced that the transmutation of metals is possible; that the thing will soon be demonstrated in an indisputable way.

We have had this conviction for a long time already; here is indeed what we wrote as early as 1889 in a review of Occultism (11) and which is reproduced in one of our works on Egyptology (12):

“We are firmly convinced that the Pharaohs and the High Priests of Egypt knew the philosopher's stone, this alone can explain the enormous profusion of gold which these Eastern sovereigns possessed.

“In support of our conviction, we will mention the writings of a man, P. Kircher, who has always fought the accepted opinion that the Hermetists of the Middle Ages possessed the philosopher's stone. With regard to the question, this same author claims (13) that they made gold without the aid of this stone, but by a quintessence hidden in all the mixtures, impregnated with the Universal Spirit (14).

As this passage is of great importance, we will record it here.

"The Egyptians did not have in view the practice of this (philosopher's) stone, and if they touched something of the practice of metals and that they revealed the most secret treasures of minerals, they did not intend for that, which ancient and modern alchemists hear; but they indicated a certain substance of the lower world analogous to the sun; endowed with excellent virtues and properties so surprising that they are far above human intelligence, that is to say, a quintessence hidden in all mixtures, impregnated with the virtue of the universal spirit of the world, that he who, inspired and enlightened by his divine lights, would find the means to extract, would become by his means free from all infirmities and would lead a life full of sweetness and satisfaction.

It is constant that these first men (the Egyptians) possessed the art of making gold, either by extracting it from all sorts of materials, or by transmuting metals; that anyone who doubts it or wishes to deny it would show himself to be perfectly ignorant of history.

Priests, kings, heads of families (of priests and kings) alone were informed. This art was always kept in great secrecy, and those who possessed it always kept profound silence in this respect, lest the most hidden laboratories and Sanctuaries of Nature being revealed to the ignorant people, they should turn this knowledge to the detriment and ruin of the Republic (15).

We thought it curious to report here, this passage from the Jesuit scholar, who fully recognizes that the Egyptians could make artificial gold by any means and it does not matter to us whether it was with a stone, (projection powder) or Elixir ( liquor ); also, in conclusion, we will say that what the Egyptians were able to do, we must be able to accomplish it and it is absolutely certain that the priests of Egypt knew alchemy and the transmutation of metals or at least the way to make gold. History itself corroborates this fact, since it teaches us that Diocletian, abusing his victory over Egypt, had all the ancient papyri that dealt with the manufacture of gold searched for and burned there.

We also know from the Hermetic philosophers that Symandrius, King of Egypt, had his Palace surrounded by an immense circle of solid gold, the circumference of which measured no less than 365 cubits.

On one of the bas-reliefs which decorated this circle of gold, one saw represented this king, offering to the Gods the gold and the silver which it had made and whose annual amount rose to more than 130 million mines. .

We seem to have insisted enough to convince the reader of the possibility of making artificial gold.


IV

In a speech delivered by Mr. Maxwell at the solemn hearing of the return of the Court of Appeal of Bordeaux, the honorable deputy of the Attorney General, praising President d'Espagnet, ended his speech by saying: "However, these mysterious operations have a purpose, the reality of which he energetically affirms. I will confess to you that I have some difficulty in seeing a mystifier in a man of the President's valor. "

Quoting part of the very fine speech that we have just mentioned, M. de Rochas makes a very judicious remark (18) with which we wholeheartedly associate ourselves, because for us, as we said at the beginning of this study, we do not see in the proven transmutation, that the affirmation of the Unity of matter. This remark is this: If, as is claimed, President d'Espagnet really obtained transmutations, I understand that he gave symbolic recipes to be understood only by initiates; but I admit that I do not understand the state of mind of a group of modern alchemists who publish a monthly review in Paris in which they give all the details of the operations of the Great Work, accompanied by hygienic and moral advice at the address of those who give themselves up to it,

"But then why aren't they producing anything?"

“It is no longer, in their case, an industrial affair where the main question is the cost price of a metal or an alloy that can replace gold in the manufacture of money; for them the interest is above all theoretical and however small the quantity of gold produced, they would be largely rewarded for their efforts by the glory of having demonstrated the unity of matter! »

We can only add our feeble voice to that of the honorable scholar, who struck a straight blow at the hyperchemists; will they be responding?

It is hardly likely! Because they believe with reason, in the Unity of matter and have various formulas of transmutations, as we are going to see; so they take no account of attacks contrary to their convictions.

The forehand struck by M. de Rochas at the Hyperchemists seemed all the more justified as they say in their program (19).

• It may seem pointless, in this era of excessive literature and journalism, that we in turn put a new journal into circulation, when so many others exist and are progressing.

• There is, however, an excuse for our attempt: the vain desire to find a journal has not guided us, any more than the ambition to equal those profound periodicals of occultism that the public is finally beginning to appreciate.

• But we wanted to try to fill a very obvious gap If Magic, Astrology. General Esotericism and Psychism, possessing conscientious organs, Alchemy, that old sublime science based on the principles of hermetic philosophy, seems distant from its sisters, still remains relegated to the shadows. One perceives the theoretical idea of ​​the Unity of Matter, of Substance, but one neglects its important, diverse and practical consequences. Mocked by some, neglected by others, Hermeticism must however acknowledge its rebirth among that of the multiple branches of Gnosis.

"The time has come today to fight unceasingly for the doctrine of the Unity of Substance and Hylozoism, a doctrine called to transform from top to bottom the scientific, philosophical and chemical theories of our time. .

“Current chemistry appears routine, insufficient in its conclusions, without real metaphysical scope, because exclusively analytical and too timid, scientists turn on their own and seem very surprised to realize that after long or vain trial and error, they only traced or followed a circle . However, it is this circle, for them still without exit, from which it is necessary to leave. Chemistry must become, assert itself: Hyperchemistry. It will soar far away, ever higher, bolder, more reckless, a middle science between Metaphysics and classical Chemistry, an intermediate and fertile branch.

“The program of our review therefore appears very clear and very vast, far too much beyond our weak means; but we have confidence in Time, this great adjuvant, and in our remarkable collaborators. Independent, we only fight for the Truth, without worrying about what will be said about it, convinced that the Future will give reason to most of our assertions, because they are based on immutable principles.

“This review of Hyperchemistry therefore features the following program of struggle: to bring the public, the intellectual public, it goes without saying, and it is in the minority – still alas! – to the idea of ​​​​the Unity of Matter and to the clearly experimental proof of this truth; to prove the Transmutation of bodies, to delve into this problem by bringing to light ancient and modern methods; in summary, therefore, the very clear and very clear purpose of this journal is to propagate above all Alchemy.

“In a word, we want to rise above the routines of cataloged and official science, and that is why Hyperchemistry will always be at the head of the Novelty movement. »

The opportunity was far too good to rise above the routines of official science, to explain and decide on the question of alchemical gold, so the Hyperchemists, without answering directly to M. de Rochas gave numerous recipes for the transmutation of metals into gold.

Thus in the n° 10 of October 1897, one can read column 8, Recipe for artificial gold. (Could this be an indirect response to M. de Rochas?); take equal parts of iron filings, sublimated sulphur, raw antimony; mix and bring to red in a crucible for eight hours. Pulverize the ingot, calcine until the sulfur has evaporated. Mix two parts of this powder with one part of borax; calcine and remelt. Pulverize, dissolve in commercial hydrochloric acid, leave for a month in moderate heat. The liquor must be distilled three times; a red powder is then found in the retort, doubtless a mixture of antimony oxide and iron chloride; this powder will be dissolved in a concentrated solution of antimony chloride;evaporate, mix in equal weight with sublimate start again until a red oil passes; it is necessary to soak fresh silver chloride in this oil; dry, pulverize and mix with 5 parts of molten lead; cut them and you will find a third of silver, transformed into gold.

And the Review adds: “according to an old Manuscript. »

So here is a new recipe and it may be complicated, but at least it has the merit of being clear, that is to say, it couldn't be less alchemical.

In the Revue Générale des Sciences , Mr. Alexandre Elard, one of our old acquaintances, gives a method for removing gold from sea water.

Since an eminent chief engineer of the Ponts et chaussées, as learned as he is modest, Mr. Clavenad does not question the synthesis of metals. This fact became evident from the correspondence he published in hyperchemistry, correspondence which we cannot give here since this journal formally forbids the reproduction of his articles.

For us, moreover, transmutation has never been the object of a doubt; and we will add that there is not a single process for obtaining this transformation; also, what surprises us is that we could have lost the processes of the sixteenth century and not have found them sooner.

If, as everything indicates, matter is One, nature has various processes for making gold; Mr. Tiffereau indicated his. Mr. Emmens another, in his letter to EW Crookes; finally, the same scholar has another which so far seems the best since he has found financiers to buy it from him and found a company to exploit it.

We have just listed three or four processes which allow transmutation and after that, there will still be people who doubt this, the artificial manufacture of gold and treat as naive those who, like us, have believed in transmutation and recorded it in their books, as I did in Isis Unveiled. (20).

Have I received tiles on the head about this one.

Moreover, it has always been so with the great discoveries; the first thing with which man gratifies the inventor is doubt, negation.

Steam, electricity, telepathy, telephony, utopias! Yesterday did we not still have the pamphlet of a poor devil who complained, 25 or 30 years ago, that the Academy of Medicine had not wanted to hear him about a process for seeing through opaque bodies. Who could deny today a fact that is obvious. Now, for the transmutation of metals, which Mr. Emmens finds no more extraordinary than the weight of bodies, incredulity is still absolute.

We had come to this point in our study when we received a visit from Mr. Tiffereau. He is an old man of 87, green and fresh like a young man; when he left us, he gave us some documents, part of which we are going to reproduce here, as well as the interview we had with him: it is first of all a new letter from Mr. Emmens, a letter dated September 7, and which communicates the advertisement which it makes insert in an English scientific newspaper The Nature and by which it puts at the competition four rather unexpected subjects.

Mr. Emmens thus proves that he has above all, at heart, the interest of science and that far from making a mystery of his processes, he strives to attract general attention towards the works tending to the transmutation.

These four prizes are five hundred dollars each, that is to say 2,500 francs.

We will not give here the program of these competitions so as not to overload our study.

Here is the other document provided to us by Mr. Tiffereau.

Mr. Emmens on August 27, 1897 informed me that he had just taken his tenth gold bar to the Mint. Moreover, he proposed to me to found a Company having for object all that relates to gold and in particular the construction of a Pavilion of gold at the Exhibition of 1900, as well as the refunding of the capitals engulfed in the Panama disaster.

From the two letters written on August 31, we believe we should extract the following, because it constitutes considerable news at the time of the crashes of the gold mines and the Transval war.

“I don't worry,” said Mr. Emmens, “of errors of all kinds appearing from time to time in the newspapers, about my company which will know how to defend itself well.

“A first dividend has already been distributed to the members of the Argentaurum Syndicale and it will be followed by many others, should the general public remain incredulous or imagine that I am working at a loss. We have the good fortune to be completely independent of the opinion of the newspapers and also of that of scholars.

“... We have just deposited our eleventh ingot, which brings our total production of Argentaurum Gold to 150.42 ounces (or 4 kilogr 958 gr.) The net profit to date is 522.95 dollars or 2,700 fr.

My machine (recently delivered) is now working; it is very small, because I wanted to experiment and perfect all the details before building a high-performance device.

The operation by which a load of silver is converted into gold, requires in all, about ten days; but appreciable results are easily seen after four hours. A few of my friends have already had the pleasure of visiting the Argentaurunn Laboratory and producing some gold themselves, which they now wear as charms on their watch chains. “This production, thus reduced to miniscule proportions, could if necessary be an additional attraction at the Golden Pavilion. “I attach to my letter a document which will not only interest you, but which may also be useful to you; This is the slip issued by the Mint's Assay Office for our tenth ingot. You will see how this office proceeds when purchasing our ingots.

“I am now making my preparations, to repeat your Mexico experience. Some preliminary tests have already given me results which allow me to believe that, within two or three weeks, I will have the pleasure of sending you an authentic specimen of Tiffereau gold.

“Another piece of news will also interest you. I have just received an offer from a major English refiner, who undertakes to take all the production of the Argentaurum Laboratory, up to a maximum of 50,000 ounces per week (ie 4,500,000 fr.), and to pay for it. regularly in cash and in advance. This sufficiently indicates the value that serious people hold of our Society. English statesmen and financiers usually succeed in capturing new sources of gold for their own profit, while scholars, politicians and bankers of other nations wait cautiously for proof. in hand.

In this case, my friends and I, we do not depend on anyone: we can speak as masters; we will not descend to the role of suppliants. We therefore responded to the offers from the English refiner that we were determined to carry out his orders, but that we reserved full freedom to refuse them, when it suited us. »

Your devoted.

STEPHENS H. EMMENS.


Mr. Tiffereau, after communication of this letter adds: Needless to say, Sir, that I hold at the disposal of those who might be interested in this letter as well as the slip from the New York Mint.

I will point you out now, he added:

1. That the Argentaurum Laboratory, after having taken four months to produce its first five thousand francs worth of gold bullion, produced the same sum during the month of August alone;

2° That the English affineur has enough confidence in Mr. Emmens and in his process to hope that he will not be long in producing 4,200,000 francs per week, that is to say more than 200 million per year;

3° That Mr. Emmens, by repeating my experience in Mexico, will prove the truth of my affirmations, which have been renewed for many years, and give to understand that I, too, would be in the period of industrial exploitation, if my fellow citizens m gave the help I kept asking for. Will you allow me to relate to you some curious facts of transmutation and production of precious metals which tends to confirm my experience of Guadalaxa? I won't abuse your moments

- But please, I said to Mr. Tiffereau.

Well here it is; one of your colleagues, MNH architect in Paris, points out to me a fact on which it is good to draw the attention of the metallurgists.

- Having had, he said to me, to make a payment at a later time, I had put the amount of the sum aside, in a drawer. This sum was made up of pieces of 20 francs and 2 francs, all forming a roll together.

-When he undid this roll, eighteen months later, he noticed that the 2-franc coins had taken on the yellow tint of gold, that this tint was not very sensitive on the part of the silver coins corresponding to the disc even gold coins, while it was very accentuated on the circumference (the edge) of the silver coins and on the part not covered by gold. This yellow color was not due to copper or oxidation, as was confirmed by experience.

If we judge by the thickness of the film of gold formed during these eighteen months, it would take several centuries for the transmutation of silver money into gold to be complete.

This phenomenon must be attributed to the fermentation of gold on silver. It is to be regretted that the printed paper which had been used to wrap this currency was not preserved, because it is probable that this paper contained microbes producing gold which one could have collected.

A few years ago, moreover, newspapers made mention of a fact which occurred on gold and silver jewels wrapped in cotton wool and enclosed in boots. These jewels sent from Paris to Spain were found all dull on arrival at destination; they were submitted to chemists who saw them covered with two species of microbes, to which they did not hesitate to attribute the erosion of the precious metals.

In Germany, we have observed the attack of printing characters by ferments which, transported on new characters, have corroded them.

Since ferments thus attack the printing characters, composed of an alloy of lead and antimony, we can assume that the printed paper which formed the entourage of the roll of money, of the architect of whom we have spoken, contained microbes, the action of which had been felt on the gold and the silver piled up one on top of the other.

It is all the more probable that the ores of lead and antimony contain gold, the production of which may be attributed to special ferments acting on the two inferior metals.

I will point out to you in passing that the alchemists were very much concerned with lead and antimony and that they never ceased to affirm the continuous action of certain ferments.

The layer of nascent gold thus formed has no consistency; this is what M. Le Brun de Virloy explains very well in his experiments on metallic matter. The metal resulting from growth appears at first, says this author, to be in a nascent state and does not yet possess all the properties of the adult metal, any more than it shows the same reactions; it is even so unstable that it can completely or partially disappear; but it ends up reaching the adult state, under the influence of certain reagents.

- So you believe like me in the life of metal, I tell him.

- But very certainly, answers me Mr. Tiffereau, since certain microbes or ferments act positively on its constitution, as we have just seen it.

- I pursue my idea; nature offers us examples of these gradual transformations.

Dufrénoy in his Mineralogy (Volume III, page 22) speaks of an alloy of gold and silver designated by Klaporth under the name of Electrum. The ore, he tells us, is made up, in places, of gold-colored lamellae juxtaposed with other yellowish-white lamellae. Must we not conclude from this fact that certain parts of these silver ores begin their evolution towards gold, an evolution which other parts have already completed.

Can we not, in this case, attribute such transformations to microbes?

(The rest of our conversation having been quite private, we pass it).


V

From the above information provided by the end of the conversation reported with the alchemist Tiffereau, it therefore follows that the metal has a life of its own.

But to maintain that metal is a kind of animal, wouldn't that raise storms? we will demonstrate it.

Everyone knows today that if after having determined the force, the power of a magnet, it is violently torn from its frame, this magnet is weakened, it can no longer carry such a considerable weight as before this tearing. This magnetic iron is therefore tired, and to reassemble it and give it its normal strength, it is necessary to reapply its frame to it and first suspend light weights, which can be gradually increased every day. At the end of a certain time, one can note that the magnet has been reinforced, has improved, has been nourished to use the term consecrated to us in the laboratories of physics; also it can then support a load much more considerable than that which it could carry originally. The reason we know it is a matter of Polarity:

So to give life, to vitalize the steel, as the metallo-therapists say, it must be linked by its armature to a great magnetic current of nature.

This admitted, let us say that the molecules of iron, which are sometimes grains, sometimes flesh, form infinitesimal aggregates which animate the metal with a life of their own; these molecules constitute in the mineral, true globules of life, vital balls as the physiologist would say; whence it follows that when an exaggerated pressure or traction is exerted on an iron joist, this one is tired, enervated, the nerves of its flesh (21) are loaded with grains, which produces a deep trouble in the cohesion of the metal, hence a decrease in vigor and vitality; the iron has lost its rigidity, and if the pressure persists with more power, it will cause the rupture, that is to say the death of the said joist.

This is what almost all technicians know (architects, engineers, locksmiths, etc.) but what many do not know is that if this joist, a little before the time of its rupture, if this joist, overworked and therefore convalescent, is left to rest for a while it recovers; his primary strength returns to him little by little; one would say that its molecules, its small vital organisms are being reconstituted and resuming their original potentiality; at least that is what the learned Professor Kennedy, an American engineer, asserts.

This scientist established, in fact, as a result of experiments, that an iron bar which, in a first test had required a certain degree of bending to be forced, bent a few hours later and even the next day under a lesser load. . So he imagined putting to rest, for several days, overworked iron bars and making new tests on them at increasingly long intervals of time. He was then able to observe, not without a certain surprise, that the gradual return of the lost strength was directly related to the duration of the rest.

One can activate the revivification, the restoration, so to speak of an iron bar, and this almost instantaneously, by annealing, that is to say, by heating the metal to red color followed by quenching. ; but the operation does not always give the expected results.

The fatigue and restoration of metals can only exist because their molecules are truly living organisms, imbued perhaps with cosmic intelligence; From then on, they are able to modify their state, in order to be able to adapt to the conditions of the atmosphere!...

Formerly, everything was matter for the materialists; Carl Vogt, didn't he say that Thought was a secretion of the brain!

Today, for a spiritualist school, matter itself has a spiritual part; this is what Dr. H. Baraduc told me a long time ago. Although not far from admitting this fact, I am not yet entirely convinced of it, but I admit without difficulty that metals: iron, steel, gold, have a life of their own, even today unknown, but which may be observed in the near future; from then on their transformation, their transmutation becomes not only admissible, but possible, if one admits, like us, the Unity of matter.

In a letter from M. Clavenad to the Director of Hyperchemistry, this great alchemist claims that metal has life only when it has no form, we have just said the opposite and proved it.

There are, as we have seen, many processes for making gold, one of the simplest is that of the alchemist Auguste Strindberg, the brother of the unfortunate aeronaut who was part of the Andrée expedition, in the North Pole.

Here is the process which does not require a considerable expense; you only need to use a solution of iron sulphate (commercial green couperose), a bottle of ammonia and a cigar.

Provided with these ingredients, we take a strip of paper, we dip it in the solution of iron sulphate, we then hold it, above the ammoniacal vapors, which the bottle of ammonia gives off. This done, we let the strip dry. in the smoke produced by the cigar that is smoked during the operation; ten to twelve minutes at most of exposure to smoke and gold will appear. - First of all the paper is colored in green under the action of the sulphate, then while drying, it is colored in brown brown, like the deutoxide of gold, and finally metallic gold flakes are formed and constitute unfixed gold, when the sulphate of iron has produced another fertilization by precipitating it itself.

To explain Strindberg's experiment, this alchemist admits the formation of a sulphate of ammoniacal iron, the molecular weight of which would correspond to the molecular weight of gold chloride, and he adds that nicotine has the property of reducing the salts of gold. Hence the indispensable utility of the cigar to operate the transmutation.

Mr. Strindberg has by this means obtained what he calls his guestbook on which appeared on the white pages of the kinds of shiny spots with a metallic reflection which are only pure gold.

How simple is this operation, next to the enormous work that had to be accomplished to obtain the philosopher's stone, of which here is the recipe according to the true alchemists; let us unveil the Hermetic Great Arcanum.

“To obtain the Stone, it is first necessary to dissolve the gold and the silver in the Universal solvent that the alchemists call azoth; and the azoth of the wise or mercury of the wise. - From gold, sulfur is obtained, from silver, from mercury, and even more from the salt of mercury. When the matter is thus prepared, one can then begin the Great Work. The sulfur and the mercury being intimately united in the hermetically sealed (luted) philosophical egg (the matrass), the egg is placed on the Athanor (Stove). Then begin the innumerable operations of coction "in the fire of Egypt."

The series of labors of this solemn obstinate coction, begins with the conjunction, then the putrefaction during which matter becomes black like a raven's feather; after comes the 3rd operation called déalbation (from alba, white) during which the material becomes white; finally the 4th most difficult operation is fixing, which brings the color red. This appearance obtained, the alchemist operates a last fermentation which aims to increase the power of the stone and that is why this last fermentation is sometimes called: growth.

After this series of operations, which lasted for many months, depending on the greater or lesser inexperience of the alchemist, the philosophical egg was broken and a shiny friable red material could be collected, having rather the appearance of glass. pounded, smelling like calcined calcium chloride (sea salt). That was the great Magisterium, the philosopher's stone, the red elixir with the power to transmute metals into gold. If, on the contrary, the alchemist stopped his operation after the dealbation and thus only obtained the white powder; the White Stone, we possessed only the Small Magisterium having only the power to transmute metals into silver.

We come to the Projection. This consisted in throwing a grain of the Stone surrounded by virgin wax, in the middle of the molten metal: tin, lead, mercury and after cooling, there was a quantity of gold equal to the weight of the metal used. With a few successive modifications, one could obtain Potable gold or Elixir of life, a sort of Panacea (22) which made it possible to prolong life well beyond the term granted to ordinary mortals such as Artephius, Cagliostro, the Count of Saint-Germain and so many more.

By the lines which precede, one sees what immense labor demanded the total accomplishment of the Philosopher's Stone.

So who still manufactures today, this stone, this chimera will say many readers, chimera so sought after by Raymond Lully, Arnaud de Villeneuve, Paracelsus, Albert-le-Grand, Roger Bacon and so many others?

However, the number of contemporary alchemists is considerable and justifies the words of JK Huysmans in Là-Bas: “More than fifty furnaces are lit every day for the work of Chrysopée, for transmutation, for the Philosopher's stone! »

By the above our readers can see that the old sacred art, the spagyric art is far from dead; on the contrary, it is more lively than ever and that if nowadays there are prompters, there are also true alchemists; one of the most remarkable is certainly M. Moissan, whose discoveries we must mention here, which shed new light on transmutation, which becomes a palpable, indisputable fact; M. Moissan's processes will certainly lead to transmutation in an industrial way.

The Academy of Sciences has for a very long time ranked transmutation among the absurd things, so it is forbidden to maintain the venerable assembly of the thing and MM the Perpetual Secretaries have always thrown into the wastebasket all the memoirs which deal with transmutation.

Despite this disdain, an eminent chemist Mr. Henry Moissan transformed in front of MM. The members of the Academy, a quantity of metals, and that in official crucibles, at the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts, with the help of powerful Dynamos; because M. Moissan uses as an artificial philosopher's stone machines equipped with one or more electromagnets, and the electric currents used by the scientist transform (transmute) the metals and thus replace the operations attempted by the Alchemists of the Middle Ages, alchemists accused of spells and magic! ...

The method of our chemist differs, it is true, essentially from those of the Masters of the Great Art. Instead of dissolving and coagulating with the help of salts, he puts his Dynamo into action, which has a force of 150 to 460 horsepower.

What would Raymond Lully, Albert Le Grand, d'Espagnet, Van-Helmont and other medieval alchemists have achieved with such energy? We don't know, but what we do know is that M. Moissan, thanks to his brilliant idea of ​​​​brazing the crucibles by means of oxygen, was able to prepare a resistant, homogeneous, ductile chromium and aluminum, sonorous, easy to roll and pass through the die, more capable of alloying in very large proportions with all the known metals.

Samples weighing several kilograms submitted to the Academy of Sciences have amply demonstrated that today the industry can absolutely count on new metals, which are distinguished both by their lightness and their tenacity and we have no doubt that Parisian industry, so active, so searching, seconded by art, does not produce veritable marvels with its new metals, while waiting for them to be able to transmute into gold or silver the vilest metals or those still unknown, of which every day, we find new types.


CONCLUSION

Arrived at the end of any study, it is necessary to draw conclusions or at least a conclusion from the exposition of the facts presented to the readers.

Here a conclusion is useless, because in the course of our work, we have demonstrated that transmutation is not a myth, a utopia, but a scientific operation, a tangible reality, as we said at the beginning.

The transmutation has moreover been carried out by a number of alchemists and known characters among whom we will confine ourselves to mentioning only the following: Louis de Neuss, Ed. Kelley, Nicolas Flamel, Empress Barbe, second wife of the Emperor Sigismund, Van Helmont , Helvétius, Bérigard de Pisa finally a very contemporary alchemist Cyliani, whose experiments date back only to 1832.

We know that many authors have disputed the good faith of the alchemists or personages whom we have just named, among others Mr. Louis Figuier. However in this last author we raise this narration of Bérigard de Pisa (23): “I will report, says Bérigard to us what arrived to me formerly, when I strongly doubted, that it was possible to convert mercury into gold. A clever man, wanting to dispel my doubts in this regard, gave me a powder rather similar to that (of the seeds) of the wild poppy and whose smell recalled that of calcined sea salt. To destroy all suspicion of fraud, I bought the crucible, coal, and mercury myself from various dealers, so as not to fear that there was gold in any of these materials out of ten gross of mercury, I added a little powder,I exposed the whole to a rather strong fire and in a short time, the mass was found entirely converted into nearly ten gros of gold, which was recognized as very pure by the tests of various goldsmiths. If this fact had not happened to me without witnesses, without the presence of foreign arbitrators, I might have suspected some fraud; but I can assure you with confidence that the thing happened as I relate it.”

This account seems imbued with too much veracity not to believe it.

We have also seen that transmutation existed in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, as well as today for the privileged few (24). Also, we have no doubt that, assisted by electricity, transmutation will make enormous progress during the 20th century, which will demonstrate the UNITY of matter, which will certainly constitute the greatest discovery of the century!...


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NOTES

1. Dr. Girtanner, a distinguished physician and publicist, was born in Saint-Gall (Switzerland) on December 7, 1760: he died in Gœtingue, a city in Hanover, on May 17, 1800, aged only 40, which did not prevent him from Having produced a lot, he wrote only in German on medicine and on the French Revolution, to fight it naturally, from the point of view of German nationality, because the good Doctor found that he could compromise the Royalty in Germany and therefore be a great danger to that country.

2. Magical philosophy. T. VI, p. 383.

3. We write this word like this to distinguish it from the liquid called ether. - See Dictionary of Orientalism, Occultism and Psychology: V° AITHER. - 2. - vol. in-12, Paris. Dorbon elder bookstore.

4. In L'Hyperchimie, n° 8, August 1901, p. 3.

5. See on this subject the seven dimensions of space by Ernest Bosc in the Revue L'initiation n° July 10, 1901.

6. G. Carré and C. Naud, publishers, 3, rue Racine.

7. When a financial company buys with cash, it is clear that the object of the purchase has a value, the financial ones generally not making sentiment. JM de V.

8. Theosophy and Occultism do not question this fact and call this matter: Akasa. JM de V.

9. Gold and the transmutation of metals by G. Tiffereau, the 19th century alchemist. Paris, Chacornac, 1889.

10. It will be noticed that in his letter to Mr. Crookes, Mr. Emmens says that he has so far succeeded only with Mexican dollars, and that in a letter to another person he speaks of the action of the sun's rays. In the latter, he also alludes to the possible action of a substance not detected by chemical analysis and which recalls the projection powder of the alchemists or the ferment of M. Tiffereau.

11. In INITIATION.

12. Pages 54 et seq. of Isis unveiled or Sacred Egyptology, 1 vol. in 12, Paris. 1891. and pages 59 and following of the 2nd edition in-12. Paris, Librairie Académique Perrin et Cie, 1897, and Librairie Dorbon aîné.

The first edition is now untraceable.

13. Oedipus AEgyptiacus, tome II, p. 2, from alchymia, CI

14. The proceedings of M. Emmens and those of M. Tiffereau prove Father Kircher right.

15. See on this subject our Isis UNVEILED, Passim and especially in a special chapter. (CH. VII). 1 vol. in-12, 28 Edition, Paris, Perrin et Cie and Librairie Dorbon aîné.

16. Cf. - Lexicon of Suidas, vo Chemistry.

17. Page 27: A hermetic magistrate, in-8°, Bordeaux, 1896.

18. Ut Supra.

19. L'Hyperchimie, Monthly review of alchemy and hermetism 1st year, n° 1.- The office is now located at 4, rue de Savoie.

20. Librairie Dorbon ainé, Paris.

21. See in Ernest Bose's DICTIONNAIRE RAISONNÉ D'ARCHITECTURE, the article CHAINE, CHAINAGE.

22. The true Universal Panacea is pulmonary gymnastics; the proper functioning of the lungs, everything is there. Also we advise our readers to read the BOOK OF RESPIRATIONS or the art of breathing; flight. in-12. Paris, Dorbon Elder.

23. In FIGUIER, Alchemy and Alchemists, 2nd ed., page 214.

24. See the works of Clavenad, Decrespe, Guymiot, Marc Haven, Jolivet-Castelot, Papus, Sedir, S. Selva and others. - We will particularly point out to our readers, a pamphlet by Papus: The Philosopher's Stone, Paris, Georges Carré, 1889.