>>40551263
Alchemy isnt about metal or inner transformation Its about a holistic approach 2 healing everything that includes metals plants minerals and personal transformation

Alchemy wasnt either material or spiritual it was both simultaneously
When an alchemist purified lead into silver they saw it as
Chemical process removing impurities
Spiritual metaphor purifying the soul
Biological insight distillation mirrored digestion

Alchemy was the original STEM a lab clinic and philosophy seminar rolled into one
Protochemistry Lab techniques distillation crystallization
Protomicrobiology Fermentation studies yeast as living spirit
Protopharmacology Herbal tinctures elixirs eg Paracelsus medicines
Protopsychology Inner transformation shadow work via nigredo
Language of Symbols
Alchemists used material processes as code for cosmic truths
Turning base metal gold Ignorance enlightenment
The Philosophers Stone Divine knowledge and physical catalyst
This wasnt deceptionthey saw reality as interconnected layers
Historical Evidence
Isaac Newton Spent years on alchemy while formulating gravity
Robert Boyle father of chemistry Wrote alchemical treatises
Carl Jung Rediscovered alchemy as a map of the psyche
Literalist
Alchemists were the first experimental scientists Their labs birthed chemistry medicine and metallurgybut they recorded discoveries in symbolic language because they saw spiritual laws mirrored in physical reactions
Spiritual
The lab was a meditation chamber Stirring a flask wasnt just chemistryit was a ritual to internalize universal patterns As above so below meant matter and spirit were one conversation
Academic
Alchemy was predisciplinary Before philosophy split from science it was a holistic framework exploring consciousness through material transformation Newtons alchemy proves this wasnt fringe
Shamanism and alchemy are the originators of all modern sciences

>>40551312 (OP)
Ignore the thread I quoted
It was an accident

>>40551312 (OP)
All fake and gay