![]() Philalethes describes the powerful effect of the elixir as though it were a veritable fountain of youth.Ī man or woman who is born to hereditary weakness, may be changed into a more than ordinary strength by the use of our Medicine or a man who by labor, sickness, and years, is come to Grave’s mouth, even to drop in it, may by use hereof be restored his hair, his teeth, and his strength, so that he shall be of greater agility than in his youth, and of greater strength, and may live many years, provided the period of the Almighties decree be not come. In addition to consuming the elixir, the European alchemists claimed that it could also be used to transmute base metals into gold. To accomplish this, one first has to prepare a red gold glass, by fusing the red elixir with pure gold in a furnace. Below are Flammel’s instructions for this process, recorded in his Breviary. Melt in a crucible 10 ounces of fine gold and throw in it, on the melted gold, one ounce of the red powder. Leave it in a very strong fire for two hours, remove the crucible, let it cool, break it, and you will see in the bottom a red glass, that is the exalted gold, true and royal powder capable of transmuting all metals into pure gold, better than the one found in the mines. The instructions then direct the practitioner to grind the red gold glass into a powder, called the projection powder, and store it in a sealed vessel. When one desires to make gold from lead or mercury, one should then heat the lead until it becomes molten, or in the case of mercury, until it begins to fume, and then throw in the projection powder of red gold glass wrapped up in a ball of wax. Flammel claims that five or six grains of the projection powder will transmute thirty or forty pounds of lead or mercury into the finest gold. However, he also claims that depending upon how many cycles of multiplication the elixir has been put through its ability to transmute the metals may increase dramatically.
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