Subject: RLC & ME
From: Estella Themis
Date: 15-Mar-02
You are banned Miss Mysterios-O...Lone Star. Prince Vlad, help me - defend me from this disrupter! I have never been so insulted in my life.
Subject: RLC & ME
From: Lone Star-O
Date: 15-Mar-02
Pay that thar varmit no heed, Miz Honey Bee, fer we all done knows that you is the Queen o' the soterika.biz range. I done found out more 'bout 1894 while you two was gittin' ready fer a shoot-out at high noon...and it's got somethin' to do with that thar smart ol' koot, Nick Flannel Pajamas.
Subject: RLC & ME
From: Estella Themis
Date: 15-Mar-02
Nick Flannel Pajamas...oh, you must mean Nicolas Flamel, the famous alchemist who discovered the Philosopher's Stone after reading the Book of Abraham the Jew in the late 14th century. So there, Miss Smarty-pants... :P
Subject: RLC & ME
From: Lone Star
Date: 15-Mar-02
Yeeha! Yep, Miz Honey Bee - and I have more of yer answer, or part of it, I do. First off, as I said earlier, the date of 1894 might have somethin' to do with that thar priest of yours. That priest had him a girlfriend, it seems, named Miz Emma Calve - no, she wasn't no heifer, she was a right purdy singer - kinda like that thar Madonna.
Subject: RLC & ME
From: Estella Themis
Date: 15-Mar-02
Thanks, Lone Star, I knew I could depend on you to protect me.
Subject: RLC & ME
From: Lone Star
Date: 15-Mar-02
1894 CORRELATIONS
Georges Girard, Jean Contrucci and several researchers have asked themselves
whether Emma Calvé had heard of the book of Abraham the Jew before buying
Cabrières in October 1894, and whether this may have influenced her
decision.
The huge works undertaken by Emma Calvé to restore Cabrières, of necessity
preceded by demolition work, may only have served as an alibi and a way of
hiding discreet excavations. Did she find l'Asch Mezareph (the very word
of Hermes), certified host of Cabrières, according to Pierre Borel (1655 - counsel and doctor to the king) who
cited it on pages 160 and 161, tome two (Paris, 1655) of his book entitled
Tresor de Recherches et Antiquites Gauloises et Françoises?
According to Georges Girard, one might say that this book was:
That which an angel might have presented in a dream to the alchemist
Nicolas Flamel, and that an old man might have come to propose that she buy
it shortly after.
In reality, the famous Nicolas Flamel never existed; it was Jean Flamel,
secretary of Jehan d'Arras, author of L'Histoire de Melusine at the
request, as Patrick Ferté reports, of the Duc Jean de Berry for his
sister Marie, in fact Duchess of Bar (sur l'Aube?)...wife of Robert, 1st Duc de Bar and
sovereign of Stenay.
In fact, the Philosopher's Stone was none other than the Grail (grid-map) hidden in
the cavern at Arques (we have the proof of this), whereas the affirmation of
Flamel "N" (and not Nicolas) was only an alibi concealing his discovery of
the Templar Treasure.
Thank you to Mr. Silvain fer the above info-mation.
Subject: RLC & ME
From: Estella Themis
Date: 15-Mar-02
WOW! WOW! WOW!
Subject: RLC & ME
From: Miss Mysterios-O
Date: 15-Mar-02
So, what had happened to the Book of Abraham the Jew?
Nicolas Flamel had
bequeathed his papers and library to a nephew named Perrier, who was
interested in alchemy and of whom he was very fond. Absolutely nothing is
known of Perrier. He no doubt benefited by his uncle's teachings and spent a
sage's life in the munificent obscurity that Flamel prized so dearly, but
had not been able altogether to maintain during the last years of his life.
For two centuries the precious heritage was handed down from father to son,
without anything being heard of it. Traces of it are found again in the
reign of Louis XIII. A descendant of Flamel, named Dubois, who must still
have possessed a supply of the projection powder, threw off the wise reserve
of his ancestor and used the powder to dazzle his contemporaries. In the
presence of the king, he changed leaden balls with it into gold. As a result
of this experiment, it is known he had many interviews with Cardinal de
Richelieu, who wished to extract his secret. Dubois, who possessed the
powder but was unable to understand either Flamel's manuscripts or the book
of Abraham the Jew, could tell him nothing and was soon imprisoned at
Vincennes. It was found that he had committed certain offences in the past,
and this enabled Richelieu to get him condemned to death and confiscate his
property for his own benefit.
At the same time the proctor of the Chitelet,
no doubt by order of Richelieu, seized the houses that Flamel had owned and
had them searched from top to bottom. About this time, at the church of
Saint-Jacques la Boucherie, robbers made their way in during the night,
lifted Flamel's tombstone and broke open his coffin. It was after this
incident that the rumor spread that the coffin had been found empty, and
that it had never contained the body of Flamel, who was supposed to be still
alive.
Through whatever means, it is believed Richelieu took possession of the Book
of Abraham the Jew. He built a laboratory at the Château of Rueil, which he
often visited to read through the master's manuscripts and to try to
interpret the sacred hieroglyphs. But that which a sage like Flamel had been
able to understand only after twenty-one years of meditation was not likely
to be at once accessible to a politician like Richelieu.
Knowledge of the
mutations of matter, of life and death, is more complex than the art of
planning strategies or administering a kingdom. Richelieu's search gave no
good results.
On the death of the cardinal, all traces of the book were lost, or rather,
all traces of the text, for the diagrams have often been reproduced. Indeed,
the book must have been copied, for it is recorded in the seventeenth
century that the author of the Trésor des Réchèrches et Antiquités Gauloises
made a journey to Milan to see a copy which belonged to the Seigneur of
Cabrières.
In any case, the mysterious book has now disappeared. Perhaps a
copy or the original itself rests under the dust of some provincial library. Or is it perhaps the Emerald Tablets, left at Rennes-le-Château by Emma Calve, in the possession of her true love? You see, if Cardinal Richelieu was the last to have the book, that most probably means it was inherited by his hand-picked successor, Cardinal Jules Mazarin, and the latter's enormous library later proved to be the basis of the collection of the Bibliotheque National in Paris. Mazarin was also very fond of hiding his wealth and valuables in the walls of his châteaux - if we can just make a link between the Italian and the town of Carbrières...hmmm.
Subject: RLC & ME
From: Lone Star
Date: 15-Mar-02
Yeeha! No offense, Miz Honey Bee, but I thinks I need to go rustle me up a book called that thar Story of Miss Mysterios-O! Miz M, wanna meet ol' Lone Star at the Sauniere Café in RLC fer a Emerald Tablet round-up?
Subject: RLC & ME
From: Estella Themis
Date: 15-Mar-02
Hey, no fair, Lone Star, you're MY boyfriend, not hers! Lone Star, Lone Star...get back here this minute...ARGH!
