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What is alchemy?

And how did the Templars become proficient

in the practice of it?

I'm Timothy Hogan, Grandmaster of the Knights Templar.

And I'm Scott Wolter, a forensic geologist

and a Knights Templar.

One of the main technologies that the Templars rediscovered

and implemented was the science of alchemy.

But what is alchemy?

Alchemy was the precursor to chemistry.

In fact, the word chemistry comes from alchemistry.

And the word alchemy or alchemistry

itself comes from chem or chemit, which

was the ancient name for Egypt.

It was believed to be a science from Egypt

that had to do with the science of transmutation

or taking something of lesser value

and transmuting it into greater value,

whether that be taking lead into gold, which is the most

popular conception of it.

But also creating medicines.

Taking an herb and turning it into a medicine

that can heal the body.

Ultimately, it was also a metaphor for the transformation

of consciousness.

So transforming the consciousness

from a base state to one of a more enlightened state,

shall we say?

Again, one of the things that the Templars rediscovered

was this science of producing monoatomic elements, yes which

they referred to as manna.

They knew this was the manna of the Bible.

But they also believed that there are evidence of this

all throughout the Torah or the Old Testament

where, for example, Moses took the Golden calf

and burned it into a powder to feed to the wandering Hebrews.

Where the Templars recognized this as, Oh,

probably this art of alchemy.

I mean, a modern scientist would look at first and be like, oh,

this is just proof that the Bible is-- there's nothing--

It's just made-up stories.

It's made-up stories.

But the alchemists understand, so actually,

Yeah, there is a way you can convert

metallic gold and other platinum metals into this white powder.

And other societies have been working with it,

I mean, the manna of the Bible which

was this monoatomic elements.

It had a twofold process.

On the one hand, it was superconductive.

And so if it went into something like a capacitor like the ark,

it would cause the ark to produce a tremendous amount

of electricity.

So that was on the one hand.

On the other hand, it also seemed

to make the body more conductive.

So when people ingested it, it would heal the body.

Is this why we get statements in the Bible talking about

certain pharaohs and people living to be 150,

200 and longer years?

Is manna the reason for this?

And could it actually be true?

I think there could be something to it.

Certainly, we know the Egyptian pharaohs

were producing this substance.

We find it in Egypt being described on the temple walls.

All the places that the Templars set up

bases of operation in Egypt, including

their commander at Philae, at the Temple of Isis,

at the Temple of Hathor, Dendera,

places like Edfu, Esna, Abydos.

They all had depicted on the walls

this process of not only extracting this manna, which

they depicted as conical cakes, because when

it's formed, when it's produced, when it's extracted out

of things in a jar, that's actually the shape it forms.

So not only was it depicted on these temple walls,

but it was usually depicted next to arks

that were also being depicted.

Now the Egyptians name for it was they called it mfkzt.

And sometimes they refer to it as white cake or white gold

cake.

And we find this in the hieroglyphs as well.

When I think about gold in the ancient world

and the treasures that included gold, I mean,

we automatically think that it has monetary value.

But now we have to rethink that because it's

a lot like having a stack of wood

that eventually you're going to set fire to that's

going to create warmth.

So you see this wood pile as energy.

Well, isn't that the same thing now?

Shouldn't we be thinking of metallic gold

as really a wood pile of energy that's going to power the ark

and be ingested into bodies to help prolong heal and extend

life?

It's a great analogy.

And we see this same idea being incorporated and passed

on by other ancient cultures.

In fact, in ancient Sumer, the science of alchemy was known

as gra.al, G-R-A.AL.

Probably the origin of the word Grail.

And in fact, even in Wolfram von Eschenbach's book, Parzival

that was published in the 1200s, it specifically

says that the Knights Templar are the Guardians of the Holy

Grail.

And it describes the Grail as a stone that

burns the Phoenix to ashes after which it comes back renewed

and it restores health and vitality

to the Templars who live off of it.

Well, this is an alchemical metaphor.

I mean, it's literally talking alchemy.

I mean, it's describing the processes of alchemy.

It's exactly right.

What we know is manna amongst the Hebrews

is found amongst the Sumerians as being called shi mana.

And the shi mana was also said to help

power the flying crafts that the Anunnaki, or the gods,

were flying around in.

And again, remember, the equal armed cross

that the Anunnaki used was adopted by the Templars

too for that.

And this goes all the way back to being the national

symbol, if you will, of the Atlanteans.

That's exactly right.

And we find it not only in this region of the Middle East,

but we find it as far away as India.

In India, we find it being called mani.

So instead of manna, it's mani or sometimes Cintamani.

And in some of the Vedic texts, it also

talks about Vimanas, which was these same flying craft, as we

find in the shi manas of Sumer.

But this is the Vedic tradition of it.

But the commonality here is the word manna.

Now the Templars, they came out of Albigensian families,

the original Templars.

Those Albigensians, or Cathars, they had a ceremony as well,

which was a communion rite, which

involved using this manna in the form of communion.

And they called it the Manisola Ceremony, which

of course, again mani, manna.

And then in the Polynesian cultures,

ancient Polynesian cultures, we find the same idea being

utilized in the name of manna.

So it's the same substance being described

in all of these ancient cultures, which

suggests quite strongly that there was

a common root for this science.

And this is what brings us back to Atlantis.

Yes.

It's just another piece of evidence

that ties this thing together.

Tim, if I may.

I have a beautiful green tablet here,

and this is something that is actually

mentioned in our treasure list that is in some other documents

that we have.

And it mentions the Emerald tablet.

So I know that this has a connection with Egypt.

Please share.

Well, according to tradition, this tablet is known

as the Emerald tablet of Hermes.

It's an instruction panel for how

to produce something known as the philosopher's stone.

The philosopher's stone was said to be

able to transmute base metals into gold, heal the body,

and awaken consciousness more, which

if you were able to do all these things,

you would truly be a master of this world.

So that was one of the goals of alchemy.

But this tablet was said to have been produced in antiquity

by Hermes or Hermes Trismegistus,

as he's sometimes called, Hermes the Thrice Great or Thrice

Illustrious, which this character, by the way,

we also find in Parzival.

In that story Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach,

there's a character known as Treves the Hermit who

helps to guide Parzival.

Well, Trevrezent means threefold knower.

And Hermit comes from Hermes.

So Hermes the threefold knower is Hermes Trismegistus.

So obviously, this is a reproduction.

This is not an original Emerald Tablet.

And it's certainly not made of real emerald.

So what exactly is it that this tablet is made from?

And where is it now?

Well, so the actual Emerald Tablet of Hermes was said

to have been discovered at Siwa in Egypt.

Some say it was discovered near Abydos at the Osirion, which

was a place where the alchemical process was being implemented

in ancient Egypt.

And according to tradition, that's

also where the god Osiris was said to be buried.

Supposedly, Alexander the Great discovered a tomb there

with this Emerald Tablet.

And Aristotle helped him to translate it.

And this was part of his own mission.

But the original Emerald Tablet, we don't think it

was actually made of emerald.

In fact, it was probably made of a copper acetate,

which looks like emerald.

That was made using an alchemical process.

An alchemical process.

That's right.

And this was significant because if you take copper

and you're able to convert it to a copper acetate,

then by heating that copper acetate,

you could actually very easily extract

copper monoatomic atoms from it or copper manna, which

was said to help restore youth and other things

of that nature.

So the Emerald Tablet that was said

to have been brought over in the records

and put into one of the vaults in the Americas

here by the order is said to be of this copper acetate

substance.

So it's not a real emerald, but it

fits as an emerald in terms of a description.

And in fact, even in again going back

to Wolfram von Eschenbach's book Parzival,

it describes the Grail as an emerald

that fell out of Lucifer's crown when there was a war in heaven.

And it was brought to Earth by neutral angels,

is what they say.

Could that be a metaphor or an allegory for maybe

an extraterrestrial impact that brought in different chemistry

than we have here?

It absolutely could.

And I think it's also alluding to this emerald tablet,

this emerald copper acetate process.

Let's talk about the process.

Can you describe the various stages of alchemy?

Yeah.

Different alchemical texts describe

the process in different ways.

Sometimes there are seven steps, sometimes there are 12 steps,

depending on how detailed you want to get in it.

And what you're doing, right?

And what you're doing.

But ultimately, it can be broken down

into three main steps which were known

as digestion, in which the thing was dissolved in a liquid.

Basically, a liquid menstruum, a solvent.

So if you were working with a metal,

you wanted to dissolve it in an acid.

If you're working with an herb, you

might want to use alcohol or even water.

You're trying to digest.

Break it down.

Break it down, just like your stomach does with digestion.

The second stage was distillation.

By heating the liquid, you extract

the heart and vital parts of the thing you're working on.

And it turns into a steam.

By heating it, the liquid turns into a steam,

and then can be collected into another vessel, which

was fundamental to this.

I mean, it helped to remove the impurities.

And in fact, the Emerald Tablet itself mentions,

it says you must separate the subtle

from the thick and gross.

That's one of the things it says on the tablet.

And so it's talking about, how do you liberate

these subtle essences, the beneficial ones

from the things that aren't good for us.

So this was one of the ways to do it.

The final stage of the alchemical process

then would be calcination, in which the remaining dross

body that was at the bottom of the flask

had to be burnt down to ashes.

And those ashes scattered to the four winds of heaven.

And ultimately, the manna or the monoatomic elements,

as well as other beneficial minerals

could be extracted from it.

And this is where you got your white stone.

And it was believed that there are allusions to this

in the New Testament as well.

For example, in Revelations, it says,

"To he who overcometh will be given the hidden manna

Well, again, it's probably alluding to this process.

And there are other things too.

Many of the symbolism associated with even the birth of Jesus

had alchemical undertones to it that the Templars

came to associate with.

One of the places you can extract

these monoatomic elements is from sea salt.

And sometimes this manna was also

referred to as bread, manna bread or shewbread

is another name for it.

But in the story of Jesus, you have the Virgin Mary.

Mary or Maria means sea or salt water.

And if you heat seawater, what do you get?

You get an immaculate conception of salt.

Right.

It suddenly crystallizes--

It crystallizes.

Seemingly out of thin air.

That's right.

And salt is a salt cube.

And if you unfold the cube, you get a cross.

You get a cross.

That's right.

And hidden within that cross then is this manna.

And of course, in the story of the virgin birth of Jesus,

he's born in Bethlehem.

And Bethlehem literally means house of bread.

So here we have this allusion to this entire alchemical process.

And it goes even beyond that.

But the Templars saw this and recognized

there was alchemical metaphors all throughout the Bible.

And that it alluded to these processes.

The Templars saw that the Egyptians,

as they were studying the temple walls in Egypt

and they saw the alchemical processes on the walls.

And it had been preserved for thousands of years.

So it wasn't an original idea.

It wasn't an original idea.

Following in the footsteps of what they had discovered

in Egypt.

That's right.

They knew that they could imply Pythagorean ideas,

sacred geometry, and other things

to build new temples or cathedrals throughout Europe.

And on them, they could preserve this knowledge.

And we know one of the things that scholars have never really

been able to get their head around is the fact

that, Yes, there are alchemical processes being outlined on all

the Cathedrals, there was a author

by the name of Fulcanelli who was an alchemist who

wrote a book called Mystery of the Cathedrals

that gets into this very well.

But the only people that were translating

alchemical Greek and Roman alchemical texts at the time

were groups like the Sabians and the Druze

and certain mystic Islamic groups in the Middle East.

So we need to ask ourselves, how did this knowledge

that was being translated in the Middle East

find its way onto the buildings in places like France

And Medieval France?

Well, the answer is the only people

that were associating with these other groups

and building these cathedrals were the Templars.

If we go back to the Emerald Tablet,

the Emerald Tablet literally starts out

saying as above, so below.

That there was a relationship between the heavens

and the Earth.

This was fundamental to alchemy.

The study of the stars.

In fact, the word Templar itself comes from Temple.

And the word temple comes from templum, which means time.

But with time comes from measuring

the stars, the procession of the stars.

So the Templar order was very concerned

with following the stars, not only for alchemical operations.

But these same ideas then started

to get applied to things like navigation.

One of the other groups that the Templars were associating with

and learning alchemy and astronomy and astrology from

was the Sabians.

They existed primarily in Northern Turkey,

in the area of Harrans near Gobekli Tepe.

And their name, Sabian, probably comes from the Egyptian word

Saba, which means stargate.

And throughout Egypt and all of these locations

where these alchemical processes are being depicted,

the other thing we also find is this word Saba or stargate

being depicted in the sanctum sanctorum or Holy

of Holies of these temples.

When we factor in the other uses of alchemy

found around the ancient world with the shimana, the vimanas,

these flying crafts.

And let's not forget too that even Solomon himself,

according to the Kebra Nagast text,

which is an Ethiopian text, talks

about how King Solomon had a flying ship that he

used to fly around to go visit from Jerusalem to Ethiopia

to visit the Queen of Sheba regularly.

And we also know, according to the Torah's, would

receive 666 talents of gold a year in exchange for bread.

Well, again, bread is a metaphor for the manna.

And that number 666 in the ancient world

was really the number of transformation.

So what we're talking about here is transforming or transmuting

gold into the manna.

And this manna, of course, was stored

in the ark, which was in turn stored in the temple.

The temple was built to store the ark.

To house the ark.

Exactly.

But it could also be used for Solomon's flying ship.

This goes back to that levitation properties of manna.

So let me ask you this.

When-- well, in church when they talk about the wine represents

the blood of Christ and the bread represents his body,

is this going back to this whole alchemical process

of manna and transmutation?

Yes.

According to the Templar tradition,

the original communion rites, the Eucharist that's

practiced within Christianity and was practiced

in the ancient world by the ancient Egyptians,

the Babylonians, and others, the Mithraic cults,

they all had these similar communion rites.

But originally, we believe based on what we see in the temple

walls that the bread, the original bread for this

was this manna, these monatomic elements.

And if you tweak those elements that particular way,

you can transmute them and turn them

into this red substance, which the Templars came

to call the Red Lion or sometimes the blood of Christ,

because it looks and tastes like blood.

And it was said it heals the body.

So this was the original communion.

Ingesting it helped to heal the body, awaken consciousness

to the bigger order.

And again, this is something found

throughout the ancient world.

Another example of this, the Cintamani

that's found within the ancient Indian traditions.

And also ancient Chinese and Manichaean traditions

that moved up into Tibet also make reference to it.

But what it suggestive of is that the ingestion of this

actually helps to stimulate the pineal gland, which

is the radio receiver for the environment.

The pineal gland, as it picks up subtle vibrations

from the environment around it, it releases melatonin.

Melatonin is the body's best natural antioxidant.

But it's also the chemical messenger for serotonin.

And serotonin is what regulates all the other glands

of the body to respond to the environment.

So by stimulating this area, which

was also known as the third eye in some traditions.

It heightens awareness.

And in fact, in Aramaic, it was referred

to as the nazar or the third eye, the brow.

And this is what we believe was really the origin of the word

Nazarene.

So Jesus the Nazarene would have been

Jesus with an open third eye, basically.

Of all the things that the Templars recovered,

rediscovered when the order rose to prominence,

the secrets of alchemy are absolutely the Golden Prize,

if you will.

But these secrets of alchemy were the power

that really allowed them to become

so powerful and successful.

I'm convinced of it.

And they were universal.

It allowed them to associate with groups

all over the world who also had these secret practices.

I mean, you can't think of a further, more closed off place

during the time of the Templars than Tibet, for example.

And even in Tibet, we find the famous mantra,

Om representing the word of creation,

mani being the precious jewel, which is the white stone,

the manna.

Padme being what was the crown chakra

or the opening of the head in the Kabbalistic tradition,

referred to as kether.

And hum was the completion.

So truly by obtaining this precious white stone,

this manna, you were able to overcome,

just like revelation says, this is what the Tibetan stuff says.

And this is what the Grail tradition

has also said, of which the Templars were the guardians.

But ultimately, the purpose of this

was to allow us to be in harmony with our environment,

with the universal order, with each other, with the animals,

and the other people around us.

And it was believed if you were able to be in this harmony,

then everything else would fall into place.

Government structure could fall into place.

Democracy could work.

The power of the individual could shine.

And freedom could be truly expressed.

So it's pretty clear to me that alchemy gave the Templars

the science of Atlantis, which they then took and applied

in both old and new ways.

Yeah, this was definitely one of the secrets,

the royal secret, if you will, that had been passed

on by the Templars.

Thank you for watching this episode of Mysteries

of the Knights Templar.