DREAM OF GOLD

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 178, 31 July 1933, Page 9

DREAM OF GOLD

SEARCHING FOR SECRET. ANCIENT ALCHEMIST’S STONE For 20 years Mr. Arthur Cornelius, a Londoner, has been searching for a secret which will make him the richest man. He says ho believes that the drcam of tlio ancient alchemists of a stone which would turn all metals into gold—the Philosopher’s Stone—was a At som° period in the. world’s history, Mr Cornelius says, the stone was actually discovered, and for years in his studio in Old Crompton Street. London, he has studied the lives and works of the akhemists for information. Mr Cornelius has travelled thousands of miles in order to conduct, a first-hand search for the secret formula. But his fruitless inquiry loft him undaunted; ho bases his claim on the fact that even had the alchemists discovered the secret it. was not to their advantage to announce or prove it. to the world. “Mv seruUh might seem a strange one in the twentieth century,” Mr. Cornelius said recently, but I have conclusive proof that ninny of ti/‘ old alchemists discovered the secret. Nicholas Fl.nmel made gold in Paris as late as 1382. Ho made enormous quantifies of gold from mercury.” Although the records of the life of this man indicate that ho discovered the secret, the minutest search of his works has boon in vain. Pope John NX IJ. also know how to make gold in his laboratory at Avignon, and when ho died in 1344 left 18 million florins in his coffers.

<f l am not making mv plans public yet,” added Air. Cornelius, “because the investigations are entirely in my own interest.” He is now studying metallurgy so that ho can experiment with certain methods.