Alchemy Revealed (Free ebook)

[spectre]

Greetings all,

I'm new here and I'm also completely new to Alchemy, just started looking into so far have only read on spiritual theories so far.

But I bought an ebook by Art Kunkin, who claims he studied Alchemy for 7 seven years at the Paracelsus Research Society (now closed) under Frater Albertus. It's called Alchemy: The Secrets of Immortality Finally Revealed. It's a short 70 page book and a work in progress so only portion 1 of 5 (book 1) is finished and the rest of the portions are either not finished or pretty incomplete. The first portion of the book is about "How to Easily Make An Herbal Stone For Adding Years To Your Life".

But you read "Free Ebook" in the title of my post and you read correctly: I'm allowed to give away 10 copies of the book so please PM me to get your free copy. An please tell me what you think of it after you've skimmed over it, I'm really interested in knowing what others think the "Herbal Stone" information in the ebook, since I'm myself completely inexperienced in the art. To be honest I'm slightly worried that I might've been scammed and that the information is worthless so I'm asking for people to check it out and tell me its worth

[BeautifulEvil]

I noticed the last few "chapters" of the book are really just a few sentences. Is it suppose to be like this, or is this pdf some type of rough draft?

[spectre]

Yes, I suppose so. It's said in the introduction

"January 18, 2008 - This is an uncorrected and incomplete manuscript edition of this book as of this date... In coming weeks I will be sending updated editions of this manuscript to all people on my mailing list at no additional charge until the final edition becomes available."

etc. etc.

So, perhaps I've been scammed since there was absolutely no warning given that the book was incomplete with only "Book One" finished. I guess I'll give Art Kunchin the benefit of a doubt for some time until I see how he responds to my email questions. I haven't read "Book One" yet myself but I'm going to soon. Please tell me what you think yourself though

[BeautifulEvil]

Hmm, that is a very bad style for any author. I had doubts about this book from the very beginning, but I don't know though, the author is fairly old (80 I think?) and may not be able to spend much time writing.

Anyway, thank you for providing this book to the members of this forum.

[horticult]

I read it. According to inet records Art is old, many years involving in art ;-), with "known artists" such Albert etc. The trick is to put an apple to uranite for some days. According to his outlook and story some effect is probable. You can find some his 10y old posts in forums...

[spectre]

Thanks, I think I'm getting to that part. Am now reading through his theory about the Secret Fire being radiation. Anyway if anyone else want a copy of the book just give me a quick PM and I'll send a link back

[BeautifulEvil]

According to inet records Art is old, many years involving in art ;-), with "known artists" such Albert etc.

Yeah, I've heard some interesting stuff about Art and ran across some of his posts a few months ago. I am kind of jealous that he worked with Albert and other known semi "famous" alchemists, but apparently even they were unsuccessful in creating the philosopher's stone. Atleast that's how Art portrays it in his book (most were able to create powerful medicines though).

Am now reading through his theory about the Secret Fire being radiation.

I haven't gotten that far yet, basically I've been jumping around the book, but I'll probably read that part next. I'm not all to convinced at this moment that the Secret Fire is radiation. I've always been taught that any kind of radiation is harmful to the body, i.e. it mutates/breaks down DNA.

[spectre]

His method to make the Herbal Stone is basically to take a radioactive rare mineral, place it in a mug with an organic apple or pear for a week or so and then consume it.

But I'm thinking that maybe the Secret Fire might be radioactivity or some kind of energy waves but I don't believe it's only "radioactive minerals". I don't buy it that the anicent Alchemists were using radioactive minerals but maybe they used something else.. the Sun energy? I don't know. I'm reading this other book called "The Electric Sky" which is about Plasma Cosmology. Here's a video that got me interested: Thunderbolts of the Gods

[BeautifulEvil]

His method to make the Herbal Stone is basically to take a radioactive rare mineral, place it in a mug with an organic apple or pear for a week or so and then consume it.

Yeah, I totally disagree with this method, and I don't think slightly radioactive apple's will extend one's life or offer health benefits. If this method is indeed producing results, it's because the apple might be leeching monatomic transition metals from the radioactive ore.

I don't buy it that the anicent Alchemists were using radioactive minerals but maybe they used something else.. the Sun energy?

The sun symbology directly relates to gold, and if you research a large amount of occult literature you'll notice the sun plays a very prominent role in the occult. It's related directly to tiphereth, sol/sun, 6, hexagram/hexagon, light, adonai, christ, serpent, solomon, the ark of the covenant, and the HGA. Crowley makes some of these connections very clear in a few of his works.

If you've read a number of my posts on this board, you'll soon notice that I am very heavily involved in the study of "occult" gold (Nostradamus mentions this term), or the white powder of gold. It's my contention that this is the true "philosopher's stone" and I notice Art mentions it in his book. However, I believe he's mislead, or hasn't done the proper research. This is the true secret.

[spectre]

Thanks for your reply about the book BE. I kind of agree with you that his view on alchemy seems very narrow and I'm unsatisfied that he doesn't give more information about alchemy since he's supposedly been practicing it for so many years. But I'll see how his response will be to my email and how it goes with updating the missing material. I sent him an email 13. April and have yet to get a response but I'll let you people know how that goes.

Crowley makes some of these connections very clear in a few of his works.

Just wondering is Crowley any good for alchemical information? I've never been much into AC.

[deviadah]

Moved this to a more suitable place i.e. alchemical texts!

[BeautifulEvil]

Just wondering is Crowley any good for alchemical information? I've never been much into AC.

A good portion of his information is good, and quite enlightening. You have to remember though, Crowley was an occultist and not much of an alchemist. Although from what I remember, he did have an alchemy phase during his life. I believe Crowley ties together a lot of the secrets of alchemy in some of his works. If you review my threads in this section of the forum, "Alchemical Texts", you will see a few examples of these.

[BeautifulEvil]

Pitch blend contains small amounts of radium. Radium can transfer it's properties to other substances. The apples/pears are being irradiated by the radium. Super super small amounts may be fine, but long term use can be disastrous.

I'm wondering how Mr. Art Kunkin is doing in light of this information.

[spectre]

I'm wondering how Mr. Art Kunkin is doing in light of this information.

I don't know, in the ebook he claims his "hair and nails have started to grow at a faster rate".

I haven't heard from him at all. I sent him an email to two of his email addresses over a month ago but haven't received any response. I checked my receipt and my cash transfer went to "Los Angeles Free Press" (link) which is a newspaper he established in 1964.

I just now emailed him again to his two email addresses plus his Los Angeles Free Press email address. He's been a lecturer at alchemical conferences (I believe held by the "International Alchemy Guild"), he studied for many years at Frater Albertus' Paracelsus school and supposedly he was an interim president at the Philosophical Research Society for a short period after Manly P. Hall died (I sent them an email asking about this and was told by the respondent that "he believed this" but that Kunkin hasn't been associated with the PRS in any capacity since the early 90's.. I'm still not sure though and think maybe someone mixed Paracelsus Research Society with Philosophical Research Society on his resume for a lecture .. since Kunkin himself doesn't mention this on his own homepage). So he has some "resume" but I'm still starting to doubt him. To be honest his ebook isn't even finished and yet he charges 30$ for it, which is no small price considering the quality and the fact it's only a downloadable ebook. He seemingly doesn't respond to emails but I'll give him the benefit of a doubt until I see if he responds to my last one. Besides the money he charges for his book goes directly to his LA Free Press, which makes it look like he's just publishing his ebook to keep his project going; although I don't doubt it's probably a good project to support. It's just that the quality of his book is rather shabby so far since it's incomplete, the price is rather steep with that in mind, the money goes to his LA Free Press.. so you start to wonder if he's just trying to cash in on his alchemical dabble for his newspaper and that it's not really done for the alchemy itself.

He does provide a novel theory in his ebook that probably isn't found elsewhere but there's still the question of his method and theory. I myself don't believe that the ancient alchemists were speaking about "nuclear transmutation" in their works or even radiation as the "secret fire". Personally I'd even consider the radiation of the Sun's rays and the ionic stream it emits to be more interesting than radioactive minerals (well, at minimum it's very important for plant alchemy).

There is one other French alchemist, Professor Albert Cau that according to Kunkin's book shares similar ideas to him about radioactivity and alchemy (and supposedly even calls Kunkin "the only true alchemist in the US" or something like that). Here's Albert Cau's website:

Alchemy - Scientific Study of Alchemy.

[BeautifulEvil]

... or even radiation as the "secret fire". Personally I'd even consider the radiation of the Sun's rays and the ionic stream it emits to be more interesting than radioactive minerals (well, at minimum it's very important for plant alchemy).

Ah, I've found there are actually more than one "secret fires" in alchemy. The one most normally associated with this term is ammonium nitrate. When water is left out at night, it absorbs ammonium nitrate from the surrounding air & atmosphere. This special water can then be evaporated to form a white salt. This white salt was called by the old alchemists "the water that does not wet the hands." In this way they easily concealed the real meaning, and thus it can only be understood by initiates of the art. The same thing happens with morning dew (which is high in ammonium nitrate, and other substances), and when salts are placed out to deliquesce. Also, many adepts of the art believe the ammonium ion is responsible for the transmutation of elements. Another secret fire is the salt of an animals horns or antlers - which is ammonium bicarbonate. Just thought I'd toss that out there for you to ponder on.

There is one other French alchemist, Professor Albert Cau that according to Kunkin's book shares similar ideas to him about radioactivity and alchemy (and supposedly even calls Kunkin "the only true alchemist in the US" or something like that).

That's laughable because Kunkin doesn't even possess the stone, and honestly, his apple+pitchblende mess is absolutely laughable. If that's his Philosopher's Stone, then something must be off, because it's nothing like the attributes of the true stone mentioned by many infamous adepts of the art. I will say this: many alchemists possess the stone - the secret underground alchemy community is quite lively. We've made MANY interesting discoveries over the past few months. Transmutation is indeed real.

It's perhaps the best kept secret of all time.