Another book that touches this subject is "The God Code". The author makes a startling correlation between the Hebrew character equivalents of YHVG and the elements of Fire (Hydrogen), Air (Nitrogen), Water (Oxygen), and Earth (Carbon), and how that these elements are the only four elements to be known to make up the chemical composition of DNA.
Anyway, as per the Gardner book again, he talks about how mfkzt, when heated in a crucible, simply disappears, then once cooled again, it goes back down through a few stages of materialization... one of which has anti-gravitational properties which are capable of being transferred to objects in the immediate proximity of the super heated element. Another of which was seen as a flash of pure white light, which was later found to be a photonic discharge.
But here's the kicker as to what you mentioned earlier about miracles... try to think of this next quote in terms the anti-gravitational properties of super-heated mfkzt:
Apocrypha
2Esdr 16:73 Then shall they be known, who are my chosen; and they shall be tried as the gold in the fire.
There is a 'myth' in an ancient text called "Iter Alexandrei ad Paradisium" which is an old parable about Alexander the Great's journey to paradise which features the enchanted Paradise Stone, which gave youth to the old and was said to outweigh its own quantity of gold, even though a feather could tip the scales against it.
This is none other than the Philospher's Stone, which is both the 'manna' of the Moses, and the mfkzt of the Serabit temple 'craftsmen' (translated in the 17th Century as 'carpenter'). I'm not really trying to eneter a debate on the subject either, but I am conveying recently discovered scientific facts about the phyisical properties of Gold and some other Platinum group metals, and 'fixed' translations of the old Hebrew texts, like the reference to 'craftsmen/carpenter' above. It's all in that book. so when you put this together with genetics and superconductivity, it opens an entirely new area of research yet unexplored.
The next chapter in the Gardner book is called (start page 21) 'Daily Bread', and he goes on to explain how he thinks that perhaps cakes made of mfkzt were the ORIGINAL sacrament given to the Jews, and how the Moses sprinkled the mkfzt powder onto the water from which the Jews drank after he came down fom the Mountain and "ground" the Golden Calf into "powder". (Exodus 32:20)
I have two of the apocryphal books of Moses (6 and 7) which were passed down to me from my great-grandfather, who was also a freemason, but they were of little interest to me other than sentimental value until this past year... Just to give you an idea of how close to home this aspect of the discussion is.
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F%&@ ME RUNNING... this might explain the Spaniards obsession with El Dorado and the fountain of youth...