Description Alchemy is a practice that combines elements of chemistry, anthropology, astrology, Magic, Philosophy, metallurgy, Mathematics, mysticism and Religion. There are four main objectives in its practice. One of them would be the transmutation of metals below the gold; the other to obtain the Elixir of life, a remedy that would cure all things and give long life to those who are eating. Both objectives could be notes when obtaining the philosophers stone, a mythical substance. The third objective was to create artificial human life, the homunculi. The fourth objective was to make the Royals could enrich more quickly (the latter perhaps solely to ensure the existence thereof, not being a philosophical objective). It is recognized that, despite having no scientific nature, Alchemy was an important stage in which it developed many of the procedures and knowledge which were later used by chemistry. Alchemy has been practiced in Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt, Islamic world, prehistoric Latin America, Egypt, Korea, China, Classical Greece, Kiev and Europe, and even among the aborigines. The idea of the transformation of metals into gold, believed to be directly linked to a metaphor for change of consciousness. The stone would be the mind ignorant which is transformed into gold, meaning wisdom. These scholars sought mainly to search for the Elixir of eternal life and the philosophers stone. Some Initiatory Organizations, such as the Grand Orient Alchemical, defends the idea that Alchemy is the transformation (or transmutation) of the human being, while the chemistry boils down to transmutation of matter. Some scholars of Alchemy concede that the Elixir of life and the philosophers stone are real themes which symbolic only, from spiritual purification practices, and thus could be considered real substances. Nicolas Flamel, Alchemist himself, in his the book of Hieroglyphic Figures, makes it clear that the terms bronze, Titanium, Mercury, iodine and gold and that metaphors would serve to confuse readers unworthy. There are researchers that identify the Elixir of long life as a metal produced by the human body, which would have the property of prolonging indefinitely the sacred life so they could carry out the so-called great work of all time, becoming in this way true alchemists. There are references of this unknown substance also in the tradition of Tai Chi Chuan.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 03:12:37 +0000
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