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Introduction To Alchemy

Posted 05-19-2014 at 01:53 PM by forrest.livingston8
Updated 05-19-2014 at 02:07 PM by forrest.livingston8

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Alchemy is one of the most diverse, complete, and misunderstood forms of understanding the universe known to the ancient and modern world. The history of alchemy spans over four thousand years and three continents from what little we know about it today. The historic need for secrecy has lost more alchemic knowledge than it has protected, so it may very well have exceeded those numbers.

The term “alchemy” is an amalgamation of ancient Greek and Arabic, showing the spanning range of the historical system. It is also thought to have origins in the Egyptian word “kēme”, which was the hieroglyphic Khmi, the black earth. There are more theories on the name’s origin, so this will be left as an exercise to the interested student to study and make their own decision.

Alchemy is often considered a “protoscience”, which is to say that it used modern scientific principles but was not completed as compared to modern science. This is the definition utilized by scientists, and it is a fair definition. Alchemy was the mother of science, giving of its own body to feed and protect it. But science has taken its own route, and has become a system designed to handle data in ways that alchemy never considered. It has also lost the aspects of alchemy that make it so powerful, the mixing of all art forms instead of the separation and distillation.

Alchemy is often erroneously called “magic”, which could not be farther from the truth. Magic is a term used to categorize things that people do not understand, or find mysterious enough that they refuse to understand. Alchemy, conversely, is a system composed of interwoven complimentary elements that work to better and clarify all aspects, making understanding a gradual but complete process.

For those that are interested, further details about the history of general alchemy may be found through the review of the tomes detailing the known history of those periods. You will want to make sure you have completed the first volume of this series before you start any of those, as they will often have interspaced technical aspects which require the basics to comprehend.








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