…bring off this trick, then you possess our stone, the philosopher's stone, the lapis, the sophic hydrolith of the wise Irenaeus philalethes calls it. And there were hundreds of controls, words for naming the secret, difficult to obtain, alchemical gold. In…

…the Catholic Church. I had always assumed, thinking about it, that purgatory must have been a doctrine that the church fathers, Irenaeus and Eusebius and that crowd had written into the gospel message for their own purposes. I discovered, to my amazement,…

…structure on the planet. And whatever good he does is quickly wiped out 50 years later by these clowns. I mentioned Eusebius, Irenaeus and the rest of those guys. And then Islam comes along to twist the screws yet tighter on this monotheistic ideal and…

…the Catholic Church. I had always assumed, thinking about it, that purgatory must have been a doctrine that the church fathers, Irenaeus and Eusebius and that crowd had written into the gospel message for their own purposes. I discovered, to my amazement,…

…structure on the planet. And whatever good he does is quickly wiped out 150 years later by these clowns. I mentioned Eusebius, Irenaeus and the rest of those guys. And then Islam comes along to twist the screws yet tighter on this monotheistic ideal and…