The Elixir of Life

Such antiquity clearly removes any value to the pleasantries, in more or less good taste, which Rationalists never cease to attach to their negations regarding the value of this Rite. 

There is a well-known Hermetic axiom which, in the celebrated Emerald Tablef attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, affirms that which is above is like unto that which is below. 

From this, we can assert a priori that, just as material nourishment is capable of supporting our material life if it is wholesome, or on the contrary destroying it if it is a poison so there may exist a spiritual, psychic nourishment which supports our spiritual, psychic life or, on the contrary, if it is a spiritual poison, destroys it. 

Ambelain substitutes the word sacrificateui implying sacrificer , for reasons which become evident later in the chapter - PV. 

We suggest first that, in all ages, people have tried to establish communion (or commune-union) with the Entities whose existence and presence they suspected and that the rites associated with this communion have always worn the appearance of an assimilation through the oral, nasal, sanguine, visual contemplation), etc., route... often as a material assimilation with spiritual purpose  

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In the earlier part of the sixteenth century Paracelsus gave a new direction to alchemy by declaring that its true object was not the making of gold but the preparation of medicines. This union of chemistry with medieine was one characteristic goal of iatrochemists, of whom he was the predeeessor. The search for the elixir of life had usually... 

Cordials were said to be produced in ancient Egypt and Athens. Commercial production started in the Middle Ages when alchemists, physicians, and monks were searching for the "elixir of life." Many wek-known cordials were developed in this period, such as Benedictine and Chartreuse, both bearing the names of the monasteries where they were first developed. 

Includes Alchemy (I) The philosophers stone and the elixir of life.--Alchemy (II) The transmutation of metals... 

Katzen, Maurice. The elixir of life a guide to the panacea for all diseases, by Saint George. Cooks Falls (NY) Faith Farm, 1960. 62p. 

A rather unpleasant book covering every imaginable (and many unimaginable) freaks of nature. However does include on p.368 Alchemy and the "elixir of life,"... 

Cowan, James. The elixir of life. Esoterica 6 (2004) 26-30. rhttp //www.esoteric. msu.edu/VolumeVI/Parable.html. 

No sooner is the modem Doctrine of Elements laid aside, than the discoveries of the Primordial Matter, the Transmutation of Metals, and the Elixir of Life reappear and once more enter the range of the possible. (9)... 

A fifth position on alchemy held by Wellby and others—though a decidedly minority one—held that the alchemists had indeed effected transmutation of metals, created the elixir of life, and achieved other medical feats. Some believed that the adept achieved the spiritual and psychic power to transmute metals using only mental energy. Members of the Alchemical Society, including Waite, generally dismissed this idea (Journal of the Alchemical Society 1913a, 32). 

The discovery of insulin at the University of Toronto in 1921-22 was one of the most dramatic events in the history of the treatment of disease. Insulin s impact was so sensational because of the incredible effect it had on diabetic patients. Those who watched the first starved, sometimes comatose, diabetics receive insulin and return to life saw one of the genuine miracles of modem medicine. They were present at the closest approach to the resurrection of the body that our secular society can achieve, and at the discovery of what has become the elixir of life for millions of human beings around the world. 

It is in Arabic alchemy that two concepts that were to become central to European alchemy are encountered for the first time the Philosopher s Stone and the elixir of life. The Philosopher s Stone was a substance reputedly able to transform base metals into gold. In spite of the name, it wasn t thought of as a stone and was often... 

Another goal of the alchemists was to find the elixir of life, a substance that could restore lost youth and prolong human life far beyond the usual span, up to a thousand years, according to some. Paracelsus never made such excessive claims, but he did administer a... 

From the statement of the thirteenth century encyclopedists, and from Arabian writers also, we know that there existed much imposture and charlatanry among writers on alchemy, with their assumptions and claims as to gold making and the elixir of life. Concerning the dates or authorship of such alchemical writings we rarely have specific or definite information. Works of this character were not generally issued except under precautions to conceal the identity of the writer. 

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