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
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If you’re new here, seek and you will find…and subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!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; [...]
October 6th, 2008 | Posted in Alchemy | Leave Insight
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 [...]
October 6th, 2008 | Posted in Alchemy | Leave Insight
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 [...]
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