The Essene: What he did, he manufactured this gold, then turned around and paid the people to build the temple for him. And they would go spend this money all over because they were making big money. And it raised the economy of the whole country to the point that there was no country in the world that could come anywhere near it. He didn't care about the gold but he hired the priests to make the gold for him and run the furnaces and he hired all the laborers to make the temple and he put the money in the country.

What he did at the Dead Sea--he took the Dead Sea water and titrated it to 10.78 with wood ashes they had filtered through cloth.

Barry: So how did they know when it was 10.78?

The Essene: When you add it [and] you get no more precipitation you quit. They were very careful. Have you ever titrated the Dead Sea?

Barry: I have.

The Essene: You know what happens.

Barry: Yep. It looks like cottage cheese.

The Essene: Right.

His plant is still there today and it would not take very much to put back on line; it's still all together.

Barry: Un huh. You've seen it?

The Essene: Lori went there and had a video cam and she took pictures of the whole plant.

Barry: Wow. And so you knew exactly what everything was for and what it was doing.

The Essene: And how to operate it.

M: So what is it?

The Essene: A chemical plant. They would take the m-state out of the precipitating container by pipe and run it out into a large raft. And they actually filled these rafts which were about twenty feet high and the size of a football field. They had several of them. Alright, they would dry in the sun.

J: The precip at ten point seven.

The Essene: And every day these guys would go with brooms and sweep the top layer of dust off of it into a fire. We worked until the furnaces were charged. Now the furnaces were charged with brimstone (that's sulfur).

Mixed with the m-state. And what happens is the sulfur grabs the sodium, at high heat, off of the gold and turns to sodium sulfate. And the gold is free. For a collector they used a silver ore and for a reducing agent they stirred it with an iron rod. I never knew they had iron at that time until [?].

J: The sulfide mat, if you will, is so tarry you can't pour it, you can't work with it. It's gnarly stuff in the bottom; it's black, it's ugly.

The Essene: Um hm.

J: You throw in iron or hematite and it scavenges up all the chemicals and leaves the noble ones.

The Essene: It leaves the gold and metal behind. Alright, the silver came down with it. Then they had these other dishes where they would pour this [molten] metal into water and it makes shot. They pour it about ten feet down to hit the water. They would take the shot out of that and they had these plates of stuff out there and they would spread the shot out on it and then they'd beat the hell out of it with hammers--thin it out; flatten it.

They would go from there to these large square tanks. They were about ten foot by ten foot by about fifteen foot deep. They fill full of green manure and they [layered it with the beaten metal] and more green manure all the way up. And they kept it wet. That's how they got the nitrates to part the silver out of the gold.

J: Yea. Urea separation huh?

The Essene: Um hm.

 But anyway, after seven years they would take and wash all the manure out of it and take the metal and have the finest beaten gold.

J: In the bible it says beaten gold repeatedly--I wondered what that meant.

Barry: How pure is that gold?

The Essene: After parting and the nitrates in manure for seven years, I don't think you can get it any purer.