Chaldeans

Health, he pronounces in flawless Lutheran tones, is the result of faith, which arises from hearing the Word, but by this statement he does not, in fact, refer to the Scriptures. The Word he interprets in an idiosyncratic sense as being the mind, heart and spirit of God, the Ruach Elohim who was pictured as a bird by the Chaldeans. 

Precious metals such as silver and gold, which are seldom oxidized even at high temperatures, are often refined by cupellation, a process for removing from them base metal impurities such as lead and tin, with which they are associated in many ores. Hot lead and tin are easily oxidized. In the cupellation process, a crude, impure precious metal is placed in a shallow cup or crucible made of bone ash, known as a cupel, and is then heated by a blast of hot air. At high temperatures, the base metal impurities are oxidized by oxygen in the hot air, and the oxides thus formed are absorbed by the porous bone ash. The Chaldeans are said to have been the first to have utilized (ca. 2500 b.c.e.) cupellation to remove lead and purify silver from lead-silver ores. 

The Chaldean Oracles, in G. R. S. Mead, trans, Echoes from the Gnosis, vol. 8 (Wheaton, IL Theosophical Publishing Society, 1908). 

Berthelot s belief that metallic antimony was known to the ancient Chaldeans was based on his analysis of the most unusual vase that had... 

Berthelot also found that articles of metal from ancient Chaldea, dating from 1000 B. C. to 3000 B. C., were composed of copper alone, while a statuette of about 2600 B. C. was of copper and lead in the ratio of about one of lead to four of copper while another article of Chaldean origin of similar antiquity was of copper and tin with about 12 per cent tin. ... 

We may say at the very outset that nothing is of greater value in this quest than common-sense and reason. The Powers that have possession of this knowledge, who may be said to be the discarnate adepts of the Chaldean and Atlantean periods, will see to it that it never falls into hands that could by any possibility misuse it, and the aspirant to this knowledge, once he takes the path, will be put to EVERY POSSIBLE TEST, before the true and full awakening comes. 

History.—Pure copper, or an alloy with tin in the form of bronze, appears to have been known for at least 7000 years. The metal was probably familiar to the Chaldeans before the year 5000 b.c.,3 and seems to have been worked by the Egyptians about the same period, since Egyptian copper tools supposed to date from about the year 4400 b.c. have been discovered. The copper mines of the Sinai Peninsula were extensively worked by the Egyptians about the year 3700 b.c.4... 

He blinked with childish innocence. Not if you define necromancy as the ancients did. The learned Strabo, for instance, relates necromancy to divination and the Chaldeans—... 

The ultimate promise at the end of the poem, that the soul is to pass beyond the Father, recalls the ideas expressed by the Holy Hierotheos, and the distinction between the First and Second Mind in the Chaldean Oracles. 

Johnson, Sarah lies. Hekate Soteira A Study ofHekate s Roles in the Chaldean Oracles and Related Literature (Atlanta Scholars Press, 1990). 

Persian Christians, who declared themselves autonomous in 410 and referred to themselves as Chaldeans (The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 10, Online edition, 1911/1999). von Franz, Alchemy, op. cit, p. 108. 

Sometimes, again, it has been supposed that alchemy arose farther to the cast, in Chaldea, or even in China. The Chaldeans were notable astrologers, and they associ ated the sun, moon and planets not only with human destinies, but also with the known metals. Still farther east, in ancient China, alchemical ideas found a place in the comprehensive religious and philosophical system of Taoism. Much later, in the second century a.d., Vd PO Yang, who has been called the father of Chinese alchemy, wrote the first Chinese treatise devoted entirely to alchemy, wherein he described the preparation of the pill of immortality, the Chinese equivalent of the Elixir of Life of Occidental alchemy. 

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