Alchemy Religion

This book having worth enough in itself needs not my commendation, this author in his lifetime being an eminent physician and most able philosopher as the discourse itself can best testify. The author builds on good principles, so that his theory is as true as it is plausible; and I presume he aimed at nothing more, leaving all particulars and their application to the industry of his listeners. He is sometimes pleased to descend to examples, but to such only as are natural, and they indeed are good to teach but hard to imitate. We see not all that nature does.

Alles Leben ist Chemie. Ohne die stete Aufrechterhaltung eines chemischen Ungleichgewichts kommt jedes Leben schnell zu seinem Ende. Dennoch ist die heutige Chemie eine junge Wissenschaft, ihre Anfänge reichen nur zurück bis ins 18. Jahrhundert. Die Alchemie als ihr Vorläufer war allerdings wesentlich mehr als nur die Kunst des Goldmachens, auf die sie heute oft spöttisch reduziert wird.

"La Pierre Philosophale parfaite est une poudre rouge qui a la propriété de transformer toutes les impuretés de la nature. On croit généralement qu'elle ne peut servir, d'après les alchimistes, qu'à changer du plomb ou du mercure en or. C'est une erreur. La théorie alchimique dérive de sources bien trop spéculatives pour localiser ainsi ses effets."

Why you so uptight? Breathe, bitch. Too concerned about behaving in a socially proper way. I have always been enthralled with constant curiosity about what's on the other side. As a queer being, I fall into the cracks of society, with the intersectionality of all these labels and identities. I get a different perspective of reality, and I am an opportunist and an alchemist. So I transform my bitterness and pain into jewels. We are all drawn, mysteriously, to what's on the other side. Continue along, and serve yourself some cosmic deliciousness.