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	Philosophers Stone - Crystalinks
		Geber's theory and the concept of the philosopher's stone may have been inspired by the knowledge that metals like gold and silver could be hidden in alloys and ores, from which they could be recovered by the appropriate chemical treatment.
		Though the notion of a simple philosopher's stone of the alchemic sense fell out of scientific conception by at least the 19th century, its metaphors and imagery persisted: man's attempt to discover the essential secret of the universe, redemptively transforming not just lead into gold, but death into life.
		It was sought by the alchemists as a connection to the elixir of life and the philosopher's stone, a mythical substance which would enable the transmutation of common metals into gold.
	www.crystalinks.com /philosopherstone.html (1608 words)

	Philosopher's stone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The philosopher's stone, in Latin lapis philosophorum, is a mythical substance that supposedly could turn inexpensive metals into gold and/or create an elixir that would make humans younger, thus delaying death.
		Philosopher's Stone is also a modern slang term for the sclerotia of certain hallucinogenic mushrooms, most notably that of Psilocybe mexicana.
		Geber's theory and the concept of the philosopher's stone may have been inspired by the knowledge that metals like gold and silver could be hidden in alloys and ores, from which they could be recovered by the appropriate chemical treatment.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Philosopher's_stone (1602 words)

	Aurora of the philosophers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But when the philosophers compare their matter to a certain golden tree of seven boughs, they mean that such matter includes all the seven metals in its sperm, and that in it these lie hidden.
		This stone they affirmed, being conceived of the vitriol, to be the Red Sulphur of the philosophers, with which they have, by means of solutions and coagulations, made some progress in attaining the stone; but in projection it has all come to nothing.
		Hence the philosophers gathered that a third thing was necessary, namely, the animated seed of both, the man and the woman, without which they judged that the whole of their work was fruitless and in vain.
	www.meta-religion.com /Esoterism/Alchemy/aurora_of_the_philosophers.htm (11407 words)

	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is the first volume in a planned series of seven books written by British author J.
		Both the book and the motion picture were released in the United States with the title Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, ostensibly because the publishers were concerned that the original title would not instantly give the book an impression of magic and fantasy to the American public.
		Dumbledore agrees with Nicholas Flamel, the manufacturer of the Stone, that it should be destroyed to prevent future attempts by Voldemort to steal it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Philosopher's_Stone (1285 words)

	Adept Alchemy (Robert A. Nelson)--- Philosophers' Stone
		Thus radiant and liquid, the philosopher's stone is not likely, in our opinion, to be pushed farther; desiring to amplify its igneous nature would seem dangerous to us; the least that could be feared would be to volatilize it and to lose the benefit of a considerable labor.
		But what we ask for, along with all the philosophers, is not the union of a metallic body with a metallic spirit, but rather the condensation, the agglomeration of this spirit into a coherent, tenacious and refractory envelope, capable of coating it, impregnating all its parts and quaranteeing it an efficacious protection.
		So long as the secret is possessed by a comparatively small number of philosophers, their lot is anything but a bright and happy one; surrounded as we are on every side by the cruel greed and the prying suspicion of the multitude, we are doomed, like Cain, to wander over the earth homeless and friendless.
	www.rexresearch.com /adept/aai1phst.htm (8501 words)

	Thottbot World of Warcraft: Philosopher's Stone
		The cooldown is on the skill itself not on the philosofers' stone.
		The Philosopher's stone was an actual concept back when alchemy was still being practiced...
		The philosophers stone is not a reference to anything other than the original alchemic myth of something that could turn lead into gold among other things.
	www.thottbot.com /?i=5757 (803 words)

	Glossary: philosopher's stone
		philosopher's stone - noun - (14th century): an imaginary stone, substance, or chemical preparation believed to have the power of transmuting base metals into gold and sought by alchemists.
		The Philosopher's Stone was a substance (not a rock) that the alchemists sought.
		Therefore, by combining different chemicals and substances a secret balance of dualisms might be discovered, The Philosopher's Stone, that would contain the essence of the (nondual) divine.
	www.harbour.sfu.ca /~hayward/van/glossary/philosophers.html (490 words)

	NOVA \| Newton's Dark Secrets \| Magic or Mainstream Science? \| PBS
		NEWMAN: The philosophers' stone was thought to be an agent of universal transmutation.
		You find alchemical treatises that claim that knowledge of the philosophers' stone has to be kept secret, because if it gets out to the world that a particular alchemist has it, he'll be strangled in his bed to extract the secret.
		For example, alchemists realized that if the philosophers' stone were real and it got out to the public, it would ruin the gold standard.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/newton/alch-newman.html (1971 words)

	Essay by Joseph Salemi
		But once in possession of the stone he could use it to transmute base metals into gold, and the effort was therefore worthwhile Of course, a great many avaricious persons dabbled in alchemy out of sheer greed, and numerous con-men professed the art solely to defraud the gullible.
		The Philosophers' Stone was a symbol for a transcendent psychic achievement, whereby one divested oneself of all baseness and ignorance and became a mature and fully realized individual, in touch with one's deepest self and the divine source of that selfhood.
		In short, gaining the Philosophers' Stone was analogous to achieving the state of the Buddha, or becoming a Zen master, or attaining Epicurean ataraxia, or being reborn in Christ.
	www.n2hos.com /acm/cult042003.html (2493 words)

	Harry Potter & The Philosophers Stone
		The Philosopher's Stone is the introduction to Harry Potter and covers his first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, as well as providing his story and that of the many characters.
		As shown previously, the Philosopher's Stone is an actual occult pursuit.
		Philosopher's stone is blood red--red/ruby in the occult symbolizes the sun and power.
	www.seekgod.ca /hpsymbols1.htm (6665 words)

	Muse: Philosophers' Stone, The (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When a person swallowed a bit of the Stone, alchemists claimed, he _ would sweat heavily, and his hair and nails would fall off and then grow anew.
		Thus the Philosophers' Stone was called "the Medicine for Men and Metals" because it could "heal" both.
		The City of Gold, like the Philosophers' Stone, was never found, but much was learned in the quest.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa4136/is_200402/ai_n9391336 (910 words)

	fUSION Anomaly. The Philosopher's Stone
		The fl stone is the stone of transformation, and even more important to this argument the stone of projection.
		In fact the two promises of the Philosopher's Stone are what is actually accomplished by the monolith through the course of the movie.
		Sorcerer's Stone, since the publishers felt that a title referring to the "philosopher's stone" would be too esoteric and dull-sounding to appeal to an audience of American
	fusionanomaly.net /philosophersstone.html (916 words)

	ANONYMOUS TREATISE ON THE MATERIAL OF THE PHILOSOPHERS STONE
		CONCERNING THE MATERIAL OF The primary and remote matter of the Stone is triple, to wit, Mercury, Silver and Gold, in that all perfection consists in triplicity, and that all that is triune is perfect.
		The second matter of the Stone, the so–called female, is the Moon which is to be taken very pure, as it comes from the mine, the which has never been put to any other use, nor too much suffered the violence of fire, which is unmixed with any foreign body and easily malleable.
		When you have the Stone made and achieved at the fifth step of the operation, one half shall you take to serve for yourself and this prepare to effect projection, and the other shall you keep for multiplication.
	www.jungcircle.com /mist/alchemy2.htm (2536 words)

	Ephilosopher :: Philosophical Ethics Forum :: Philosophers' Stone Thought Experiment (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The original idea of the philosophers' stone was to bring about immortality and freedom from disease.
		For example the miracle cure, the philosophers' stone, would utterly be an attempted suicide by the pharmaceutical industry.
		The limiting case is where the Phil Stone makes obsolete all treatments and puts an end to the pharma industry except for the job of manufacturing the Phil Stone itself.
	www.ephilosopher.com /modules.php?op=modload&name=phpBB_14&file=index&action=viewtopic&topic=3143 (3443 words)

	Richard Ingalese: They Made The Philosophers' Stone
		The Philosopher's Stone is the objective of most students; and when acquired and intelligently used, it confers physical immortality at will.
		My part was to produce the means to carry on the work, to consult with my wife and to encourage her in the hours of disappointment and despair; and, later, first to assist in the work, and then to relieve her of the toil of bringing her results to perfection.
		It was the implicit faith in the power of the Stone to cure all disease, under every circumstance, that caused their more conservative and wiser brothers to use all aids to restore health, and then utilize the Stone to perpetuate life, health, and youth, for centuries.
	www.rexresearch.com /alchemy5/ingalese.htm (9275 words)

	On the Philosophers' Stone
		To speak philosophically, we would have its soul, which is in its Essential Salt, and its spirit, which is in the Inflammable Sulphur.
		Philosophically speaking, no more is meant than decomposition of the subject into its first principles, as the uniting them more permanently with an increase of virtue is most emphatically called a resurrection and regeneration.
		This now is what the philosophers call their Mercury and affirm it to be found in all things, as it is in fact.
	www.levity.com /alchemy/collchem.html (3825 words)

	Enigmania: The Philosophers' Stone
		As a stone gets larger, it eventually becomes a planet, then a star, then a fl hole, etc. "Lifting" can only mean moving such a "stone" farther away from an even larger source of gravity.
		On a philosophical level, I would posit that there is only one God for the same reason that I believe most of the people I know are not identical twins.
		Even a stone made of condensed matter, lying on top of the core of a massive fl hole, could (theoretically) be lifted slowly by its Creator, much as Jesus could (theoretically) walk on water.
	enigmanically.blogspot.com /2008/04/stone-paradox.html (2957 words)

	Alchemy - Crystalinks
		Systems of five almost identical basic elements were postulated in China, India, and Greece, according to a view in which nature comprised antagonistic, opposite forces--hot and cold, positive and negative, and male and female; i.e., primitive versions of the modern conception of energy.
		It was also sometimes called "the powder" (xerion), which was to pass through Arabic into Latin as elixir and finally (signifying its inorganic nature) as the "philosopher's stone," "a stone which is not a stone," as the alchemists were wont to say.
		It was sometimes called a medicine for the rectification of "base" or "sick" metals, and from this it was a short step to view it as a drug for the rectification of human maladies.
	www.crystalinks.com /alchemy.html (4018 words)

	The Philosophers' Stone
		In Dwellings of the Philosophers, which was mainly Dujols' research, he describes it in so much detail that us, simple students or researchers of the hermetic Art, can have a concrete idea of that so longed philosophical stone, so as not to be deceived by pretence adepts.
		First, let us say that, according to the sacred language, the term philosopher’s stone means the stone, which bears the sign of the Sun.
		Above all, it is important to remember that the philosopher’s stone appears in the shape of a crystalline, diaphanous body, red in the mass, yellow after pulverization, dense and very fusible, although fixed at any temperature, and which its inner qualities render incisive, fiery, penetrating, irreducible, and incalcinable.
	pwp.netcabo.pt /r.petrinus/Pfilosofal-e.html (913 words)

	Scarp Notes for Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone - Table of Contents
		The mystery gradually unfolds with discovery that it was the Philosopher's stone that someone had attempted to steal from Gringotts; except, that it had been removed by Hagrid beforehand.
		They also found that it was the "Philosopher's Stone"— which would produce the "Elixir of Life" potion, that had been made by Nicolas Flamel, a friend of Dumbledore's.
		II This is the table of contents for the SCARPnotes of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's (Philosopher's) Stone.
	potter.scarpnotes.home.att.net /sorcerers/sorcerers.html (2632 words)

	Philosopher's Stone - Thottbot: World of Warcraft
		The philosophers stone is not a reference to anything other than the original alchemic myth of something that could turn lead into gold among other things.
		I wouldnt think thats able to happen, because the stone itself doesnt only say Req lvl 35 but it also has an alchemy skill, so you have the lvl and the skill to equip it, it not then there would be ppl all over the place trying that.
		yup my stone is now useable as trinket:) didn't have to make a new one even, probably when i was searching trinkets 1 web-site said that it can be used, so i tried and thats when it didn't work, but i'm glad it does now.
	thottbot.com /?i=5757 (2097 words)

	Philosophers Stone
		The original idea of the philosophers Stone being capable of turning base metal into precious metal is an alchemical idea originating in ancient Egypt.
		It is the fool who seeks worldly treasure and misses the point completely since the concept is to turn the base human animal into a higher spiritual form.
		In the children's story of the Philosophers Stone, the fairy story surrounds the stone with fantastic creatures and magic ideas.
	www.crichtonmiller.com /philosophers_stone.htm (1041 words)

	Allakhazam.com: World of Warcraft
		Achieving the Philosopher's Stone is the Western Tradition's equivalent to the Eastern Tradition's "Nirvana"..
		The alchemists' dream is to attain knowledge of the mysterious Philosopher's Stone, or "that Elixir by which such wonders are performed".
		Every time I see alchemy, I almost always see a reference to a philosopher's stone...and since a lot of content in video games is modeled after legends and myths in real life, I was wondering what the stone was supposed to have done in the alchemy myths.
	wow.allakhazam.com /item.html?witem=9149 (1072 words)

	stone - Wiktionary
		Rank of this word in the English language, from analyzing texts from Project Gutenberg.
		Generally, however, the stone or petra, almost always of 14 lbs., is used, the tod of 28 lbs., and the sack of thirteen stone.
		A piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon.
	en.wiktionary.org /wiki/stone (327 words)

	The Philosophers' Stone and its SECRET explained by CLAUS FURSTNER . The Philosophers' Stone Art Studio.
		The Philosophers' Stone is a visual symbol combining the four principle Concepts of ancient philosophy.
		The Philosophers' Stone was first used around 3000 BC in the ancient philosophy of Hermetic Alchemy, where it symbolised the transformation from base metal (the 'worldly') to gold ('spiritual fulfilment').
		The four concepts symbolised by the Philosophers' Stone are shown as geometrical shapes.
	members.ozemail.com.au /~clauspat/stone.htm (364 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When Rowling speaks of the "Sorcerer's Stone," she is in fact referring to what was once called the "Philosopher's Stone." In fact, the first book of her series is being published under the title Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in England.
		The philosopher's stone is the magical substance in alchemy that can turn base metals into gold, cure all ills and ailments, and give its possessor immortality.
		But in the interest of brevity, what follows is the shortest recipe book for the Philosopher's Stone that I could find.
	www6.aeonflux.net /~io/phil.htm (4010 words)

	Upload of the The Philosophers Stone
		This ritual was used to mark the upload of The Philosopher's Stone for the first time.
		The intention of this ritual was to declare the existence of The Stone as an act of magic, put some good will into the site and spread that good will to its visitors.
		This ceremony is to witness the upload of The Philosopher's Stone to the web and to ensure its splendour out to the furthest reaches of cyberspace.
	the-philosophers-stone.com /regulars/rituals/upload/upload.htm (839 words)

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