Gold Golden Elixir

Soon after this, Cockren was killed in the blitz of London, and his secret perished with him. He left many who believed in the curative powers of his oil of gold. Mrs. Maiya Tranchell Hayes, who headed a surviving temple of the Golden Dawn, swore by it, as did Mrs. Meyer Sassoon, widow of a well-known financier. As late as 1965 there were elderly people in London who still took small doses of Cockren s elixir. 

Uses of the Reverted Elixir. The third part of the Scripture of the Golden Liquor concerns the uses of the Reverted Elixir. Placed on fire, it will form the Elixir-Gold (or Cinnabar Gold, danjin). This can be used for smearing the blades of swords that keep the other weapons ten thousand miles away (a phrase that also appears in the Nine Elixirs) or for casting dishes and cups. Those who eat and drink from these vessels can live as long as Heaven and Earth, for these vessels, like the fangzhu mirrors, absorb the essences of the sun and the moon. ... 

Elixir for the Nomination to Immortal. The fifth and final part of the received Scripture of the Golden Liquor concerns another elixir. By adding yellow clay to the Gold and Mercury Waters one obtains gold after one day of heating, and the Elixir for the Nomination to Immortal after two days. When one ingests this elixir, one will be able to retire to a mountain or a river and become an immortal. This is referred to in identical terms by Ge Hong ... 

If you add yellow clay to the Golden Liquor, place them in a bowl luted with the Mud of the Six-and-One, and heat the bowl over an intense fire, its whole contents will form gold. This is the first half of the procedure. If you heat this gold longer, it will transmute itself into an elixir. By ingesting this elixir in pills of the size of small beans, you will be able to enter a famous mountain or a great river and become an Immortal of Earth (dixian). If you powder a speck of this elixir into quicksilver, it will immediately become silver if you add one ounce of this silver to one pound of lead, it will all become silver. (Baopu zi, 4.83)... 

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