-Caveat Lector- From: Ash's Mural Gallery: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Museum/3517/Ash/index.html Ashley Rye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Red Mercury and Alchemy The Threat of Red Mercury Since the break-up of the former Soviet Union and the loosening of tough central control, criminal organizations there rapidly gained in strength. Once established, they soon began seeking links with overseas crime syndicates. From 1991, high-level meetings were held with Italian crime godfathers from the Mafia, Comorra and 'Ndranghetta. Close links were forged with them, facilitating the laundering of money and the trade in drugs and illicit nuclear materials.The latter had become available with the administrative chaos and shortage of funds in the Soviet nuclear industry and armed forces. There was no such shortage of funds on the part of those regimes desperate to purchase them. Late in 1993 a disturbing new element appeared. Russian crime syndicates were offering for sale a substance hitherto unknown to the West, called simply `red mercury'. It was said to be a secret product of the Soviet nuclear industry. On 23 December 1993 five Moldavian nationals were caught trying to enter Romania carryinG some pure uranium together with what they said was this red mercury. It was destined for the nuclear black market. Worried Western scientists sought to establish whether this sub- stance actually existed and, if so, exactly what it was. But in 1994 the US Department of Energy and the International Atomic Energy Agency declared red mercury to be `bogus'. They argued that it was just another fraud perpetrated by the Russian mafia on would be purchasers of illicit nuclear goods. But certain Western nuclear physicists had good reason to think otherwise. And they suspected the accusations of fraud to be motiv- ated by the desire to cover up an unpalatable truth. In the June 1994 edition of International Defence Review, nuclear physicist Dr Frank Barnaby wrote of his conversation with an anonymous Soviet physicist. He had been told that this red mercury was a vital component in a revolutionary type of Russian nuclear bomb. It had proved such an efFicient catalyst in the detonation of these devices that they could be built many times smaller and lighter than their Western equivalents. Dr Barnaby explained that with the use of this red mercury a nuclear bomb weighing only four to six pounds could be con- structed. He was concerned since such a weapon could easily be placed in a city centre and detonated. He expressed his fears about the danger of this technology falling into the hands of some terrorist group. His information was that a number of Middle Eastern countries - Israel, Iran, Iraq and Libya - and Pakistan had already illicitly purchased quantities of this substance for weapons produc- tion. At least some of these countries are known supporters of terrorist groups and might be expected to pass on either the technology or the finished product. The reported production of this substance has distinct parallels with the alchemical process. If any alchemists worked in the heart of the Russian military complex with access to modern equipment, it is easy to think of them inventing something like red mercury. According to the Russian scientist, the recipe for making it is as follows : I) Antimony sesquioxide and mercuric oxide are heated together at a temperature of 500 degrees centigrade under one atmospheric pressure of oxygen. This heating must continue without pause or fluctuation for two days. It produces a substance called mercury antimony oxide. This was not described publicly in the scientific press until as recently as 1968. 2) Next dissolve this mercury antimony oxide in pure mercury, using equal weights of each substance. Seal this mixture in a container and place it inside an atomic reactor. Irradiate it for about twenty days at a temperature of 500 degrees centigrade. 3) After this time all excess mercury is tipped off leaving a `cherry red' substance with a consistency similar to liquid honey. Capsules of this thick fluid are placed inside the nuclear bombs. It is indeed curious that this manufacturing procedure should involve mercury and such lengthy reaction times. It is curious too that, in addition to mercury, antimony is involved. The twelfth- century alchemist Artephius wrote of a special tincture which contained both antimony and sublimated mercury for which many dramatic uses were promised. The creation of the initial chemical compound of mercury antimony oxide was admitted only in 1968; red mercury is not yet openly accepted. How many more supposedly impossible substances can be created using chemistry, modern technology and much time? Apart from great patience, perhaps there is more that we can learn from the experiments of the alchemist. But it was not these chemical techniques which lay at the very heart of alchemy. At its deepest and most secret level the experiment was on none other than the alchemist himself - or herself. Their task was the transmutation of the soul. We must return to Zosimus, one more time, and listen to what else he has to tell us. To Make the Heavens Open The writings of Zosimus make it evident that alchemy, whatever physical secrets it might have concealed, had become a chemical metaphor of the same spiritual quest which is the underlying object of Hermetic thought. A spiritual quest which had to be concealed because all too often it was feared and vigorously persecuted by both civil and religious authorities. The purification of the first material - the mercury - over a long period of time by means of a steady heat until the `Philosopher's Stone' is reached was simultaneously a practical ascetic discipline and a symbol of the progress achieved in purifying the inner being of the alchemist. This is how we must understand the statement Zosimus made to a friend, a woman alchemist called Theosebia: `Perform these things until your soul is perfected.' Alchemy, according to Zosimus, was a divine mystery. In the previous chapter we looked at `The Poimandres', the first text in the collection of the Books of Hermes Trismegistus - known as the Hermetica. We have seen how it concerns a pupil who is seeking an initiation into a divine mystery. An initiation which reaches its profoundest point as an all-encompassing vision of light. Zosimus, in his text for Theosebia, explicitly referred to `The Poimandres', as well as to another dialogue in the Hermetica, the fourth, called `The Mixing Bowl'. This focuses upon the links between humianity and divinity. It stresses the ever-present, eternal nature of the source of all being. The `mixing bowl' was a symbol of baptism or initiation which conferred knowledge and immortality. This same text too mentions reincarnation. Zosimus advised Theosebia, `Do not roam about searching for God; but sit calmly at home, and God, who is everywhere and not confined . . . will come to you' This process of creating the 'Stone', was often expressed symbolically as if it were a birth following a long gestation. This is put well - if cryptically - by the woman alchemist Cleopatra: For just as the bird warms her eggs with her heat and brings them to their appointed term, so yourselves warm your com- position and bring it to its appointed term . . . cook it upon a gentle fire . . Then remove it from the fire; and when the soul and spirit are unified and become one, project upon the body of silver and you will have gold such as the treasuries of kings do not contain.' She continues, `See the mystery of the philosophers which our fathers swore to you not to reveal or publish. It has a divine Form and a divine Activity.' The secret remained concealed but was never lost. Indeed, the seventeenth-centuiy English antiquarian freemason and alchemist Elias Ashmole explained, in the introduction to his compendium of British alchemy which he published in 1652, that the alchemist, `rejoyceth not so much that he can make Gold and Silver . . . as that he sees the Heavens open . . 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