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In Reply to: Re: I was so with you... posted by Bambi B on November 29, 2004 at 21:38:02:
What you say about both, while not far from the deep truth, is not quite right.You say "***The "Philospher's Stone" is a metaphor for a long psychic process whereby the alchemist observes in miniature by an experiment called the "Magnum Opus" the evolution of the Universe. The resulting contemplations imply the nature of the mind of God no less. Eternal life was the result of bonding with the spirit of God- a side benefit to the knowledge of Creation."
The Philosopher´s Stone was referred to as a stone able to transmute cheap, innoble materials such as Iron, Lead, et al, into the most noble one, Gold; and anybody who touched it would be cured of any illness: that was the "official version for consumers", while the truth is that the alchemists´s true search was for the transmutation of man´s instinctive and emotional nature into the highest spiritual one, thus getting them closer to the contemplation of God: Jesus Christ Himself was a perfect example of the Stone, as He not only healed the ill ones, and changed water into wine, but He became the way to the highest spiritual transformation, too...
The whole matter of Alchemy was that, and the search for the Stone would take the alchemist´s whole life, in a neverending process of transformation and spiritualization, disguised to profanes under the cloak of their physical experiments with matter, from which Chemistry (Al-kimia was the Arab word, from an ancient Egypt term, Khmi, meaning "Black Earth", as opposed to the golden desert sand, as the Black Earth was the fertile soil coming from Nile´s periodical floods..., thus evoking growth and transformation) was born.
The whole process, requiring a whole life, was then properly named by Medieval alchemists as the "Magnum Opus", Latin for "The Great Work". And today that term is still being used to name a man´s life´s greatest achievement, be it an artistic work, a scientific discovery, or whatever else. It´s not just an experiment... while it certainly leads to facing, and transforming, man´s innermost nature, and to meeting with God Himself, what makes you, in the long run, right.
Other than these small precisions, I fully concur with you in dispising most of today´s Hollywood-based films, while I still must say that, in what makes reference to thieves and cops, black sheep have always been much more interesting than the average member of the flock...
Best regards
BF
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