The Philosophers Stone and Manna

The Jews in Alexandria and the Rosicrucians Sabian forebears in Damascus independently preserved the secret of the Philosophers Stone. To this day, each retains its independence. 

We have seen that the Rosicrucian route leads back to Anatolia, to the Indo-Hittites and the scientific philosophies of metallurgy, alchemy, medicine and immortality. This route is relatively obscure because of the Rosicrucians traditional low profile and intentional lack of records. Over the last three thousand years, discovery of significant documents such as the Corpus Hermeticum, Picatrix and writings of the Family of Love have been rare. 

In contrast, the Jews objectively documented their story through wide study of the Bible and candid writings of the great Jewish alchemists. Jewish alchemy seemed to start at the Hyksos invasion of Egypt in 1801BCE when the Israelites participated in the royal secrets of the Philosophers Stone, known to the Old Kingdom Pharaohs. 

As we saw in the last chapter, the Egyptians knew the true secret of the Philosophers Stone at the time of Imhotep, if not earlier. The annual rituals of Unas described in Chapter 16 used the Philosophers Stone to refresh the spirit of the Pharaoh and thereby to refresh the order and fertility of the land. The Egyptian king-making ceremonies were rites that introduced the Philosophers Stone to the new Pharaoh. They described how the Old Kingdom Pharaohs never died, but ascended a stairway to heaven. Strangely, true to the tradition, the bodies of the oldest Pharaohs and their high priests remain undiscovered. 

The texts of the Old Kingdom gave the Philosophers Stone many names. It was called the golden tear from the eye of Horus, that which issues from the mouth of the Creator (the Christian Word), and the spittle or the semen of the Father in Heaven. With the rise of the Heliopolian Amun, it later became the hidden Light, the unknowable name of the God whose title was Amun and whose symbol was the ram. 

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