XPost: alt.magick, alt.books, alt.religion.wicca   
   From: tgiarmo@sandata.com   
      
   On Fri, 2 Sep 2011 23:56:16 +0000 (UTC), in   
   alt.magick,alt.religion.wicca you wrote:   
      
   > "Thomas J. Giarmo"  wrote in   
   >   
   >> the two main properties of the Stone are the conferment upon the   
   >> successful 'possessor' vast riches (as it enables the creation of   
   >> gold, usually, and often as a transmutation of a lesser valued metal   
   >> into gold) and immortality (again a transmutation of the individual   
   >> into some transcendental state of being or condition).   
   >> ...   
   >> the lore surrounding the Stone is quite extensive and complex, but it   
   >> is sometimes held to communicate its benefits through proximity   
   >> (touching base metals at the proper time and in the right way it is   
   >> supposed to be able to catalyze their change to valuables like silver   
   >> or gold; ingested [dangerous!] it touches one's interior   
   >   
   > Last week or so, John Winston posted (alt.alien.visitors) an anonymous   
   > recipe for creating both types (white and red) of philosopher's stone.   
      
   thank you, Mike, but I wouldn't read Winston if my life depende on it.   
      
   ok, let me put it another way. In the movie Jurassic Park, there's a   
   scene where a researcher sticks her hand in a pile of dinosaur shit,   
   digs around, and pulls out an undigested berry. I'm sure if I read   
   Winston, I too may discover a crap covered berry, but to me, the price   
   is way too high.   
      
   > Just so save you the time to skim it until the key instructions, the   
   > procedure consists basically of boiling down urine.   
      
   this is the symbolic mercury and sulphur.   
      
   > What this reminded me of was the original discovery of phosphorus, which   
   > most commonly occurs in red and white allotropes. I'm sure there's a grain   
   > of truth somewhere in the recipe.   
      
   alchemy as a science has more or less died out, is no longer seen as   
   valid, and the books on the subject are so confused with symbolism,   
   speculation, and double-talk, it is at a stage now where there are no   
   alchemists around to protect their sacred science, and therefore,   
   information on the subject is only available when given in plain   
   English. The rest is nothing but confusion.   
      
   by the by, Mike, it is quite disingenous to set your Follow Up to an   
   invalid email address without noting the same in your post.   
      
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