{"id":95,"date":"2011-08-19T12:29:31","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T12:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iearth.us\/iearth\/us\/?p=95"},"modified":"2014-02-27T17:34:06","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T17:34:06","slug":"the-elixir-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iearth.us\/iearth\/us\/2011\/08\/19\/the-elixir-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"tHE eLIXIR oF lIFE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The elixir of life, (Arabic: \u0625\u0643\u0633\u064a\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u062d\u064a\u0627\u0629\u200e, Exeer Al-\u1e25ayat), also known as the elixir of immortality and sometimes equated with the philosopher&#8217;s stone, is a legendary potion, or drink, that grants the drinker eternal life or eternal youth.<\/p>\n<p>Many practitioners of alchemy pursued it.The elixir of life was also said to be able to create life.<\/p>\n<p>It is related to the myths of Enoch, Thoth, and Hermes Trismegistus, all of whom in various tales are said to have drunk &#8220;the white drops&#8221; (liquid gold) and thus achieved immortality.<\/p>\n<p>It is also associated with the Qur&#8217;an&#8217;s Al Khidr (&#8216;The Green Man&#8217;), and is mentioned in one of the Nag Hammadi texts.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 6pt\">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The elixir of life, (Arabic: \u0625\u0643\u0633\u064a\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u062d\u064a\u0627\u0629\u200e, Exeer Al-\u1e25ayat), also known as the elixir of immortality and sometimes equated with<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iearth.us\/iearth\/us\/2011\/08\/19\/the-elixir-of-life\/\" class=\"readmore\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">tHE eLIXIR oF lIFE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mirror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iearth.us\/iearth\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iearth.us\/iearth\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iearth.us\/iearth\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iearth.us\/iearth\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iearth.us\/iearth\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/iearth.us\/iearth\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235,"href":"https:\/\/iearth.us\/iearth\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iearth.us\/iearth\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iearth.us\/iearth\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iearth.us\/iearth\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iearth.us\/iearth\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}