Preparing the Philosophers Stone

The Philosophers Stone is prepared from metallie gold by the following proeess developed by David Hudson. The product is colloquially called Whitegold and technically known by the acronym G-ORME, which stands for the Orbitally Rearranged Metallic Element of Gold  

50-mg gold (99.99% pure) was dispersed in 200-ml Aqua Regia to provide clusters of gold atoms. 

60 ml concentrated hydrochloric acid was added to the dispersion and the mixture was brought to boil, and continued boiling until the volume was reduced to approximately 10-15 ml. 60 ml concentrated HCl were added, and the sample brought to boil and checked for evolution of NOCl fumes. The process was repeated until no further fumes evolved, thus indicating that the nitric acid had been removed and the gold had been converted completely to the gold chloride. 

The volume of the dispersion was reduced by careful heating until the salt was just dry. Just dry as used herein means that all of the liquid had been boiled off, but the solid residue had not been baked or scorched. 

The just dry salts were again dispersed in Aqua Regia and steps (2) and (3) were repeated. This treatment provides gold chloride clusters of greater than 11 atoms. 

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Not all alchemical theories were derived from ancient or medieval sources. Some grew out of conceptions of nature and evaluations of what constituted a primary or universal matter propounded much later, during the period of the Scientific Revolution. In this regard, some alchemists who adhered to the views of nature advanced by the sixteenth-century physician Paracelsus (1493/94— 1541), sought to prepare the Philosophers Stone from vitriol. Others, who traced their procedural lineage to an alchemist named Michael Sendivogius (1566-1636) expected to produce it from nitre. A third tradition extending well into the seventeenth century and... 

Alchemy is the art of preparing the Philosophers Stone from gold. The chemical symbol of gold is the same as that of God . The professed uses of the Philosopher s Stone were to extend life and to convert base metals to gold. Both objectives remain controversial. 

Make gold potable, and you will have the universal medicine. There are two traditional ways of preparing the Philosophers Stone, the wet way and the dry way. The dry way takes only eight days using double philosophic mercury. Nicholas to Flamel says the practice begins as follows... 

Preparing the Philosophers Stone by the wet method involves a number of stages. The first three of these stages are ... 

In his early thirties van Helmont retired to an old castle in Belgium near Brussels and remained there, almost unknown to his neighbours until his death in his sixty-seventh year. He never professed to have actually prepared the Philosophers Stone, but gained... 

A Philosophical Riddle The Answer of Bemardus Trvisanus to the Epistle of Thomas of Bononia The Prefatory Epistle of Bernard, Earl of Tresne to Thomas of Bononia A Brief Rehearsal of the Preparation of the Philosophers Stone... 

A Brief rehearsal of the preparation of the Philosophers Stone." In Aurifontina chymica. 271-272,. 1680,... 

Colson, Lancelot. Philosophia maturata an exact piece of philosophy containing the practick and operative part thereof in gaining the philosophers stone with the wayes how to make the mineral stone and the calcinations of mettals whereunto is added a work compiled by St. Dunstan concerning the philosophers stone and the experiments of Rumelius and preparations of Angelo Sala, all most famous chymists in their time / published by Lancelot Colson. Ann Arbor (MI) University Microfilms International,... 

Ripley, George. "Five preparations of the Philosophers Stone." In Lives of the alchemysticalphilosophers, ed. Francis Barrett, 313-322., 1814. 

Valentine, Basil. A short way and repetition of former writings of... With an elucidation thereof, touching the philosophers stone. .. Whereunto are annexed real informations of the qualities, and preparations of mercury, antimony, vitriolwater, common sulphur, unflak t lime, arsenic, sal-peter, tartar, vinegar, and wine., 1656. 1 p. 1., 25 p. 

But even if the alchemists did not discover the Grand Arcanum of Nature, they did discover very many scientifically important facts. Even if they did not prepare the Philosopher s Stone, they did prepare a very large number of new and important chemical compounds. Their labours were the seeds out of which modem Chemistry developed, and this highly important science is rightfully included under the expression "The Outcome of... 

The alchemical writings attributed to Arnaldus are characterized by the obscurity and charlatanry found in most of the anonymous alchemists of that century, treating of the transmutation of the metals, the red and white elixirs and their preparation, the philosopher s stone, etc. The reasoning, as is characteristic of this class of works, is analogical and weak. 

Sir Epicure Mammon is on the way. Mammon is the firm s biggest customer. For him, Subtle has been preparing the philosopher s stone, and for the last few days, Sir Epicure has been acting as if the stone were already in his possession. 

Anna Zieglerin s book on the preparation of the philosophers stone,... 

The time of the Philosophic Stone The times which belong to the greatly desired stone. Kalid says Prepare the stone into the white stage for 130 or 140 days. 

This treatise describes the entire process of preparing the philosopher s stone. There are three seperate operations described here the preperation of the secret fire (the catalyst or solvent which is used throughout the whole work, without which nothing can be achieved, but which is seldom if ever mentioned in any alchemical treatise), the preperation of mercury (a metallic vapor made from antimony and iron, said to resemble vulgar mercury (Hg) in appearance, necessary in the preparation of the stone) and the preperation of the stone itself. 

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