In one of my wire-ring notebooks from the era of everyday experiments back in the 1970s; I wrote every day after my experiments with growing of gold crystals. During that time I grew every day, or tried to; that’s how I discovered the grow or no grow effects; of the moon’s monthly cycle of fertility. That also taught me the effects of the daily and monthly; and even hourly effects of the Sun; and the Moon; and Venus, on the growth of the crystals.

During that time period; I became acquainted with a man who had photographic enlargement equipment and we made a trade. I needed photo enlargements of the micro-photos of the gold and platinum crystalline specimens I grew, and photographed. So I had him provide me with large prints of up to 24 inches by 32 inches; and I then mounted them in frames; and sold them. At one point I had over 80 of them leaned up against the walls all through an empty three-bedroom house I was house sitting for a friend. I had a bed in the living room; and I was laying there looking upside down at several of the enlarged photographs. Looking well upside down was a whole new way to study the photographs. Suddenly I saw what looked like an apple on a stem hanging from a limb on one of the golden trees. Wow! I got up and went over to the photo for a close and intent study of the apple. It looked just like an apple on a stem; but it had tiny appendages like the hairs you might have seen on a kiwi fruit. Other than it being of solid gold, it was a beautiful apple; shaped like a Golden Delicious apple, and hanging on a stem.

Going back to my wire-ring notebooks; I have all of the first rendering of this story in one of those boxes full of notebooks. But for this time in my life; I have chosen to go forward by retelling the story without even looking for that notebook. Today’s retelling was motivated by an article I read about whether or not Isaac Newton actually saw or was struck by an apple which motivated him in his search into gravity.

Funny, I can truthfully say that my experience with the golden apple has a great deal to do with my own personal and truthful experiences in my findings about the motion of gravitation in the cause and source of gravity, and therefore creation of every-thing, including the gold and/or platinum crystalline trees.

It’s worth noting that obtaining one of the golden apples was one of the 12 labors of Hercules. In other words, one of the 12 months was in particular pertaining to the task. As the legend goes, the golden apples grew in the garden of the Hesperides, and were linked to the evening star; or Venus. Also, if of interest, the legend holds that in the garden of Hesperides lived two mythical beasts; one the unicorn; and two a dragon. The dragon was there to guard the garden, and the unicorn; a symbol of immortality with its spiral horn which was said to stir and purify any poison liquid.

Dragons are usually living in the caves (like crystals) breathing fire and smoke; like materials in some of my alchemical experiments; and they are always seeking to hoard gold. Commonly, there is an element of truth to all myths, or legends, that is why they exist and are passed on from generation to generation. Secrets are hidden in plain sight like in the biblical stories; or fairy tales. For instance, the 12 labors of Hercules are descriptions of the Moon cycles as connected to alchemical experiments; during each of the 12 months of Earth’s year. Provided you are, as is mandatory, operating within the borders of the Earth’s equatorial belt. Being on the equator is optimum of course, because the primary zodiac is the alchemist’s main operating source of experimental energies, or effects; here on Mother Earth. The Earth being the alchemical egg of creation; and because you as an alchemist are operating; using either a parabolic mirror or a convergent lens as an artifice of operation.

The alchemist knows that light; the Sun; is the creator, and everything; is created in and by the image. The alchemical; yin-yang symbol being the cosmic egg of creation once set into bi-polar motion. Attracts from the etheric; that which is necessary to assemble the image into a material manifest reality. Gravitation being the wandering attractive motion; of assembly; resulting from that sustained image.

Bi-polarity; attraction; fertilization or ionization; and generation; all are possible because of gravitation. Everything is created in the image.