Here's my previous post on the matter: https://greatawakening.win/p/12izuQqgx2/hey-dudes-you-know-that-gold-the/

Consider this a short update, I'll answer questions in the comments.

I read through a book called the Alchemical Catechism and I think my theory isn't only likely, but damn near exactly what is going on with the child/human sacrifices.

Let's start with Philosophers and what modern culture assumes they "knew."

First off, yes, Philosophers were obsessed with Mercury and creating Gold.

What modern diction gets wrong about that is, capital "Mercury" is NOT always referring to elemental mercury, though alchemists hold it in the highest regard. Mercury itself has 4 different facets.

• The first is as the planet Mercury, and also its Greek god, but so far all the Philosopher books I've read seem quite dedicated to a Christian God rather than the pagan ones. No, they hold the planet in esteem because of its motions, which, I suppose, they use to chart chemical reactions.

• The second is as elemental mercury, which is held in the highest esteem because it reacts with so many substances, including forming amalgams with gold which is otherwise non-reactive though exceedingly conductive. Even so, this form of mercury is considered vulgar and impure in most cases without perfect extraction of the mercurial "seed."

• The third is as Mercury in a conceptual modal. Think of it as "change." The closest approximation I can distill it down to is what we refer to as chemical reaction. Mercury, in essence, is the active conversion of two base materials into something else.

• The fourth is as a spiritual Mercury, which is like the drive to uncover the Truth itself. The author of the Alchemical Catechism seems to suggest it is like the womb in which the seed of the alchemist's ambition (sulphur) creates discovery.

Okay, enough with Mercury. On to Gold!

Similar to Mercury, the "Philosopher's Gold" has three natures. Many historians assume Philosophers were trying to create elemental gold. From what I can tell, that's an abject lie. They considered metallic gold used for jewelry as "dead" and "vulgar" gold. Pretty, saleable, but otherwise useless for alchemy.

Instead, this author claims there are two other forms. For this, I'll just quote the section.

Q. How many species of gold are distinguished by the Philosophers? A. Three sorts :--Astral Gold, Elementary Gold, and Vulgar Gold.

Q. What is astral gold? A. Astral Gold has its centre in the sun, which communicates it by its rays to all inferior beings. It is an igneous substance, which receives a continual emanation of solar corpuscles that penetrate all things sentient, vegetable, and mineral.

Q. What do you refer to under the term Elementary Gold ? A. This is the most pure and fixed portion of the elements, and of all that is composed of them. All sublunary beings included in the three kingdoms contain in their inmost centre a precious grain of this elementary gold.

Q. Give me some description of Vulgar Gold ? A. It is the most beautiful metal of our acquaintance, the best that Nature can produce, as perfect as it is unalterable in itself.

So, we have Astral gold which is, accurately, found within stars.

Then you've got Elementary gold, which is the workable gold of the alchemists.

And finally, Vulgar gold, which is otherwise meh.

Now, let's put this all together.

What alchemists were trying to do, this one in particular, is to create the "seed" of any given element. By that, I think they meant to concentrate any material of their choosing into its purest possible form. Today, we could take that to mean they wanted to reduce it to the atomic level and then keep it from globbing upon itself.

Elements act differently when they are solo. I've learned this from extensively researching monoatomic gold and other nano-particle structures of gold.

I've said before, adrenochrome is probably just a happy side-product of the actual goal -- to isolate and extract in humans the PUREST form of gold. As in, PURELY ATOMIC gold, unbound to itself in the most solitary way they possibly can.

From what I can surmise, this is what is called "living" gold.

All sublunary beings included in the three kingdoms contain in their inmost centre a precious grain of this elementary gold.

Whether or not it does have some spiritual significance, I think that's what the Cabal are trying to obtain from their human sacrifices. A pure Elementary gold that is still "living" i.e. not in a bulky, disorganized, and condensed nugget.

To understand this better, let's quickly delve into what the Philosopher's Stone is.

According to this dude, there are many Philosopher's Stones. That's because ANY element reduced into its most pure and atomically individual level IS the/a Philosopher's Stone.

It's more of a concept than an actual tonic or rock. It's like the Cornerstone of the Church, the name of Peter, or the Rosetta Stone. The Philosopher's Stone is the pureness OF purity. It is the pursuit of purity; the soul of any idea, concept, or element. In other words, it is the meaning and purpose of any individual thing or concept, as well as the full understanding OF that purpose beyond what words can describe.

A. The Stone is nothing else than the radical humidity of the elements, perfectly purified and educed into a sovereign fixation, which causes it to perform such great things for health, life being resident exclusively in the humid radical.

So, to come to a close...

I think I'm spot on with what they are actually harvesting from people. They are trying to get their "living gold." Not their soul, nor just elementary gold, but a form of gold so pure that it can be used in perfect reaction with all other things.

To limit it just as an atomic conductor in nanomachines is too short-sighted. They are literally trying to make Philosopher's Stones of yore.

Nanomachines that can rip apart chemical bonds, material structures, and DNA to then reconstruct it into anything you choose? Sounds like the Philosopher's Stone which is said to transmute lead into gold in my opinion. It just took a ton more steps to get there than the alchemists could possibly have imagined.

If I had a recommendation, I'd say watch Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood. The author of the manga obviously had treaded the same ground as me, and many others before me, and she repackaged it to make her story come to life. The fundamentals are there, but the terms and interpretation must be further evaluated in scope of what the real Philosophers believed to apply it to the World we know now.

Anyway, I have more, and I'll answer questions, but I'm gonna leave it here for now because, hot damn, I couldn't just keep this to myself. I don't think you guys are ready for the nitty-gritty; it's too "out-there" for most to realize how far-reaching and intrinsic it is in the World as we know it...