'Alchemy' Articles
Alchemy is one of the corner stones of natural philosophy. The grandfather discipline of science. In it they operated on some metaphysical presumptions of the structure and virtues of matter. I see that as intuition getting the jump on reason as it often does. Regrettably it doesn’t fill in the blanks in between. At least not for most people.
How did the alchemists take into account the full picture? They used more in the way of inductive logic than deductive.
Alchemy is now possible as well as quantum teleportation. But with these changes, which support Hermeticism more than classical Platonism, people still adhere to a “science” based on primarily Platonic concepts. You can thank Roman Catholicism for that. Politically correct science for the masses. It is very amusing to me.
“If by fire Of sooty coal th’ empiric alchymist Can turn, or holds it possible to turn, Metals of drossiest ore to perfect gold.” John Milton, Paradise Lost
What is Alchemy?
Alchemy uses a series of beliefs that I myself practice. Both intuitive and literal observations of matter and the natural world, but it is more focused on artifice. It even had a doctrine that doesn’t really defy common sense; That nature doesn’t create finished products. This is why alchemy had an almost moral agenda to it. They believed that by refining the material of nature they could at least partially reinstate the first “perfect” state of source. They didn’t know that the universes most primal energies were toxic to us in extreme states. Though even if we had never achieved… Seek More
Science, Spirit, Energy and Matter
Alchemy can be applied widely, and it’s more a way of thinking or philosophy rather then ‘stir a pot and out comes gold’ as it’s usually portrayed. The association with making gold was narrow even in the heyday of alchemy. However, some say philosophy is just a subjective stance and has no substance in the material world. Then why is it philosophy at all? If it’s truly wisdom, doesn’t or shouldn’t it have more substance than subjective view, or is the idea that what we label as subjective not so clear a thing? Alchemy was more a way of seeing… Seek More
The Keys of Alchemy
Did alchemists really try to change matter to something else like gold? They experimented with matter to confirm or refute their theories. What were their theories? A cycle of creation, or arising. The elements didn’t all just pop up, they stemmed from each other much like the cycle we can observe in water. Matter was actually not first, and in science solids aren’t the first or primary state. They observed cycles of destruction. How matter (if it’s behaving like that) seems to self interrupt. More or less “go nuke” though not that dramatic. They observed this cycle in states of… Seek More
