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Show Some Wonderful News ROSICRUCIANS CONVERT ALCHEMIST SECRETS INTO WAR NEEDS From out of the middle centuries and dusty tomes come strange formulas once thought to be magical rites, to play a vital part in America's effort for victory. At a recently concluded AMORC Rosicrucian Convention Conven-tion held in San Jose, California, nearly a thousand members mem-bers and delegates saw synthetic semi-precious stones, valuable val-uable for industrial use, which had been reproduced in accordance with dechiphered alchemical processes. Dr. H. F. Syndergaard of Salt Lake City just returned from the conclave of the philosophical Order, related that the work had been accomplished by advanced chemistry students of the Rose-Croix University, an affiliate of AMORC, with the assistance of Dr. Atherton Whaley, Ph.D. in Chemistry. They had found that the allegorical and symbolical sym-bolical phraseology of the alchemists, such as the writings of the renowned Paracelsus contained startling, practical formulas. After considerable difficulty, Dr. Syndergaard states, they succeeded in producing synthetic opals, then rubies, and finally a very beautiful amber-colored topaz, by a simpler and easier method than in use elsewhere today. It is hoped that synthetic diamonds may be developed by the alchemical processes to supply commercial needs without resorting to the extreme temperatures now required by science to produce them. Dr. Syndergaard further states that Orval Graves, Dean of the Rose-Croix University, an authority on chemical lore and literature, with the aid of Dr. Whaley, has assigned a body of students to laboratory research to test the old alchemical theory of the transmutation of metals, with the end in view of providing needed metals from plentiful ones. The convention was the fourteenth annual one of the Rosicrucian Order, and despite the war, several ally foreign countries were represented. The election of new Grand Councillors for North and South American Jurisdiction, and the adoption of a plan whereby each member was to suppress idle and pessimistic rumors hindering national defense in his respective community, concluded the administrative aspects of the conclave. |
