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When the Ark of the Covenant was completed, Moses’ brother Aaron was said to have placed an omer of manna into the Ark. This sacred manna was commonly associated with a mystical form of bread—the shewbread—or, as it was called in Tubal- Cain's Mesopotamia, the shem-an-na. At this point, we come to a particularly important definition of the shem-an-na, for according to the Master Craftsmen this coni- cally shaped (or shem-shaped) food was made of what the Sumerians called Highward Fire-stone. In the New Testament Book of the Revelation it is said: To him that overcometh, I will give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone. Dracula, was an officer of this Order—as a consequence of which, much of his novel is a coded representation of the secret knowledge. The two emblems of this ninth-degree ceremony are: the upright triangle of Gold and Light (representing spirit), and the downturned triangle of Blood and Water (representing mat- ter). Interlocked, one upon the other, they form the familiar Seal of Solomon which contains the formula that is known as the Gem of Alchemy. In the New Testament Book of the Revelation it is said: n old Alexandrian alchemical text makes particular men- To him that overcometh, I will give to eat of the hidden At of the weight of the Philosophers' Stone—which it manna, and will give him a white stone. calls the Stone of Paradise. It states that: When placed in the scales, the stone can outweigh its efore we look at the precise nature of the white stone of the quantity of gold; but when it is transposed to dust, even a B shem-an-na—the bread made from the powder of alchemi- feather will tip the scales against it. cal gold—let us firstly consider the famous statue of Priest- In terms of a mathematical formula, this relationship is written King Melchizedek at Chartres Cathedral in France. as: 0 = (+1) +(-1). This appears to be a very straightforward sum The statue portrays Melchizedek with a cup containing a stone at first glance, because (+1) + (-1) does indeed equal zero. But in representation of the bread and wine which he apparently when applied to physical matter it is actually an impossibility offered to Abraham, according to Genesis. The wine, as we because it relies upon using a ‘positive’ and an equivalent 'nega- know, was emblematic of the sacred Star Fire (just as tive' to produce ‘nothing’. The moment one has a positive piece of Communion wine represents the Messianic Blood today), but the something, it is not possible to add an equivalent negative of that true importance of the imagery is that the bread-stone is held something to produce nothing. At best, one could move the ‘posi- within the cup, thereby signifying that Star Fire was replaced by _ tive’ something out of immediate sight—but it would still exist, its substitute nourishment at the very and it would therefore not be nothing. time of Melchizedek and Abraham. wos The only way to turn something This substitute was made from | «there are two distinctly separate into nothing, as far as the material shem-an-na—the white powder of forms of physical gold: the field is concerned, is to translate that gold, the highward fire-stone. something into another dimension so The object of the substitute was straightforward metal as we know it, that it physically disappears from the very straightforward. Instead of | and amuch ‘higher’ state of gold— mundane environment. If that feeding the recipient with a direct that is gold in a different dimension process is achieved, then the proof of y hormonal supplement, the powder achievement would lie in the fact that had its effect on the endocrinal sys- | Of perceived matter, and this is the its weight also disappears. thereby causing the repent ma aT pete al ek oh itself but can also underweigh ise ufacture his own super-high levels of the hidden manna... and become nothing? What, then, is hormones such as melatonin. it that can be gold, but can be fire In the famous Middle Ages Grail and transposed to dust? It is the romance of Parzival, by Wolfram von Eschenbach, it is said of phoenix—the red-gold that will fire to ashes but will then be the Temple Knights of Grail Castle: restored to enlightenment. It is the golden calf that Moses burne: They live by virtue of a stone most pure. If you do not know to a powder. It is the highward fire-stone of the shem-an-na. An its name, now learn: it is called lapis exilis. By the power of we know from the Sumerian records that this was not made of the stone the phoenix is burned to ashes, but the ashes speed - stone at all, but of shining metal. ily restore it to life. The phoenix thus moults and thereupon In the alchemical tradition, the Philosophers' Stone is said to be gives out a bright light, so that it is as beautiful as before. that which translates base elements into gold. This is deemed to Many have wondered about the name lapis exilis because it be the case in both the metallurgical sense and in the spiritual appears to be a play on words, combining two elements. Firstly, sense of higher enlightenment. In the physical sense, however, itis lapis ex caelis, meaning 'stone from the heavens’, and, sec- we must return to the oldest of all alchemical rules of the earliest ondly, it is /apis elixir, the Philosophers' Stone by which base ele- mystery school: "To make gold, you must take gold." ments are transformed to higher states of being. Either way, or Hence, it is determined that there are two distinctly separate both, it relates directly to the highward fire-stone—the forms of physical gold: the straightforward metal as we know it, shem-an-na of the exotic Star Fire substitute. and a much ‘higher' state of gold—that is, gold in a different The key to the Parzival allegory lies in the description that the dimension of perceived matter, and this is the white powder of phoenix is "burned to ashes", but from those very ashes comes the _ gold, the hidden manna whose secret manufacture was known Great Enlightenment. So, what exactly is a phoenix? It is a only by the Master Craftsmen. mythical bird, we might answer. But we would be quite wrong! So, what precisely is the ‘highward' or ‘high-spin’ state which The word 'phoenix' is far older than the Bennu bird mythology, converts gold (and platinum-group metals) into a sweet-tasting, and it is in fact ancient Graeco-Phoenician. 'Phoenix' means impalpable white powder? ‘crimson’ or 'red-gold'. A normal atom has around it a screening potential—a positive Even today, within the confines of the Ordo Templi Orientis, screening produced by the nucleus. The majority of electrons the ancient Mass of the Phoenix is performed as a symbolic Star _ going round the nucleus are within this screening potential, except Fire ritual. It is pertinent to note that Bram Stoker, the author of for the very outer electrons. However, the nucleus goes to the NEXUS - 37 DECEMBER 1998 - JANUARY 1999