Cleopatra's Gold - chrysopoeia

Cleopatra, author of Chrysopeioa, or Gold-Making, is the subject here. The Egyptian alchemist who set out to turn lead into gold is shrouded in mystery. Who was Cleopatra ? Who was the alchemist ? Were they one and the same ? The Christian reader is warned to advance with an open mind as this study is not meant to be a thesis on religion but only an opinion of what might have been.

Once having presented my version of the story I will lead the reader to the opinions of others that I have found to be useful in my research. My version begins in the age or Romulus of Rome and leads to the the birth of Christianity and to the present age. My version is a fiction but any one with any logical reasoning capacity will know that truths and opinions about truths are also mysteries often lost in interpretation and shrouded in the dense fog of passing time.

So I choose to start with my fictional version of the story behind Cleopatra's Gold.

We begin by travelling back in time to 753 BC when the brothers Romulus and Remus, the mythical sons of the war overlord Mars go into battle over what to name the new colony which they are building. Romulus kills Remus and claims the colony under the name of Rome. The first city of the Roman empire lacks only one thing and that thing is fertile young women who are capable of carrying the seed of strong soldiers. This is resolved through some cunning moves on the part of Romulus where young virgins are captured and forced into a sex trade within the city. Rome becomes the home of a population that speaks Latin. This language is in it's infancy in a territory where Greek and Hebrew are the main languages. At this time there are no more than a few thousand people on the planet who speak Latin but it will become a norm in centuries to come. By 200 BC great literary works are being scribed in the Latin language and Greek and Hebrew texts are being translated to Latin. By 200 BC the Greek philosophers known as Plato and Aristotle and other great Greek heroes of war and scholars have come and gone and much of the power of the Greek empire is lost to the Roman armies.

Egypt had been in constant battle with the Persians from Mesopotamia (Sumer, Akkadia, Babylon). The Egyptian Ptolemaic period begins in 332 BC when Alexander the Great moves his Greek soldiers into Egypt. The conquest leads to a series of Egyptian Rulers who go under the title of Ptolemy.

We are within a century of the birth of Christianity. Cleopatra is born in Alexandria, Egypt, in 69 BC. She was the daughter of Ptolemy XII and reigned alongside her brothers and husbands, Ptolemy XIII and then Ptolemy XIV . Her father had lost the respect of the Egyptians and had fled to Rome. By this time Rome was basically keeping Egypt under it's guard and doing so while taxing them. In other words Egypt was at the mercy of the Roman Empire much as the Greeks had been in 332 BC.

Being in love and being married is often not a strong correlation. Cleopatra was in love with the Roman Emperor Caesar. She was married to her siblings in order to be able to rule in a land where a women could only be Queen if she was married to a ruler.

To make a long story short, Cleopatra goes on to marry Caesar and is given the throne of Egypt.

Knowing that, we can now get back to the main purpose of this story which is to paint a possible scenario that involves the holy family in Egypt, the education of Jesus, and the alchemy of transforming gold into a substance that has magical properties.

Cleopatra was a queen but some say that she was an alchemist also. Other stories tell us that she was the patron of a wizard of alchemy. The truth might be either or none but there is no denying that there was a literary work that came out of the late hellenistic period (Greek) called the Chrysopoeia of Cleopatra

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Chrysopoeia is word derived from the Greek words Khruson meaning gold and poiea meaning to make something from seemingly nothing. In our modern world the poeisis process is better known as mutagenesis. To the alchemist in the century leading up to the birth of Christianity it was the study of gold transmutation. The study of the processes of turning something into gold or gold into something other than gold jewelery and gold minted coins.

While Cleopatra and the alchemist or Cleopatra as the alchemist are working on their black op, highly secretive project, the holy family is being chased out of Bethlehem by the Roman guard who are looking to kill all male offsprings. This brings them into Egypt and closer to Cleopatra. Jesus returns to Egypt later to study in the esoteric schools and temples.

Just what is he learning about gravity and about healing and about anastasia that has him promote a campaign of miracles that see the same Roman guard and the Hebrew priests try him and execute him on a cross ?

That is the million gold coin question and the entire point of this story.

Fast forward again to the present age.

In the 1960's a man called David Hudson patented a product called Alchemical Homeopathy™. This is a product of gold and it is gaining some popularity with people who believe in ascension and in other seemingly magical, almost miraculous acts, demonstrated by people who use the product. Today Laurence Gardner pushes the assumption that this white powdered substance is the same product written of in the Chrysopoiea of Cleopatra and may be correlated to the Ark of the Covenant somehow. Conventional scientists are not so quick to back up these claims however. To make matters worst for advocates of the monoatomic powdered salts even some of the stranger thinking conspiracy theorists and ufologists such as David Icke are raising all types of warning flags trying to warn people to stay away from these gold products. The reasons of the conventional scientist are that introducing gold salts into a system that naturally produces it's own can cause serious imbalances. The conspiracy theorists view point is that the product could very likely be used by age old groups such as the illuminati, the Rosicrucians, the Templar Knights, and others in a plot to control the mind of the masses.

Well a good story has to have a little of the strange in it. Interestingly enough gold in not new in medicine. Gold injections were commonly used as a pain inhibitor until not so long ago. It was common for people with severe arthritis and infants with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis to get these shots. The administration of such a shot was preceded by blood work in order to estimate the existing levels of gold sodium in the blood. The shots were very painful and could be fatal if rejected by the body. However in other cases the injectable gold was so successful that total remission of the pain disease was witnessed.

One school of thought believes the gold salts work at the blood cell forming level. The medical terms here are hematopoiesis and erythropoiesis. There's that poiea term again. A cell differentiates itself at a certain point in it's genesis...............

And my version of the story goes on from there.

The following sites are full of literature that claim a version or another of Cleopatra's Gold and the alchemy of hellenistic time.