Wouldn’t it be nice if you could change a simple worthless piece of junk into gold? I know I would love to. Alchemy is the ancient practice that’s shrouded in mystery and secrecy. Many believed only certain people were worthy of the knowledge of alchemy. When I was first introduced into the life of alchemy, my mind was clouded by what I was researching. I didn’t quite wrap my head around it but still at the same time I felt a deep sensation of excitement to learn more about alchemy; I began to ask myself own basic questions about the topic, like what year was alchemy first introduced into the world or how exactly were alchemist were treated back in the day when faith was so heavily favored by religion. Could you imagine? Being treated like
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Dating all the way back to 325 b.c. alchemy is something that has captured the imagination of people for thousands of years, and It’s a very mysterious thing, alchemists believed not everyone deserved the knowledge of alchemy so they left crypted paintings or riddles that only other alchemists would be able to understand thoroughly. An example of this would be “The key to life and death is everywhere to be found, but if you do not find it in your own house, you will find it nowhere. Yet, it is before everyone's eyes; no one can live without it; everyone has used it. The poor usually possess more of it than the rich; children play with it in the streets. The meek and uneducated esteem it highly, but the privileged and learned often throw it away. When rejected, it lies dormant in the bowels of the earth. It is the only thing from which the Philosopher's Stone can be prepared, and without it, no noble metal can ever be created.” This is an on going riddle that an alchemist left behind and a ginormous debate all over the internet, personally I believe that this riddle is trying to say that love is the goal of all religions and perhaps the only things that can connect or bind all souls into one. The poor possess more of it because they rely on love more than the rich who can buy their happiness compared to the poor who look …show more content…
Most of my questions I've seem to ask I now know the answers to like how alchemy is an extremely complex practice that’s supposed to turn base metals/materials into very high-end valuable items such as gold. Or that alchemy also comes along with a very cryptic and secret language that today is still a language that is not deciphered. Alchemist were treated differently depending on where they were located on the earth. Some places would treat them as angels or miracle workers, others weren't so nice and would treat them as savages or a demon sent up from hell by satan. The people who treated them poorly believe’s tend to be highly favored religion. Now that I have answers to my past questions, it almost seems as if the answers have just raised up more questions for me. Alchemy is a hugely complex subject that you could just keep learning about on and on, if I had more time I would’ve really dived deep into the ways of it. Like who were known alchemists of the world or how alchemist viewed the world or how they viewed alchemy itself. If they believed it was good work or black magic? The questions are endless. Over the span of days of doing this assignment it started out really hard and frustrating because I couldn't really grasp the idea of
Dating all the way back to 325 b.c. alchemy is something that has captured the imagination of people for thousands of years, and It’s a very mysterious thing, alchemists believed not everyone deserved the knowledge of alchemy so they left crypted paintings or riddles that only other alchemists would be able to understand thoroughly. An example of this would be “The key to life and death is everywhere to be found, but if you do not find it in your own house, you will find it nowhere. Yet, it is before everyone's eyes; no one can live without it; everyone has used it. The poor usually possess more of it than the rich; children play with it in the streets. The meek and uneducated esteem it highly, but the privileged and learned often throw it away. When rejected, it lies dormant in the bowels of the earth. It is the only thing from which the Philosopher's Stone can be prepared, and without it, no noble metal can ever be created.” This is an on going riddle that an alchemist left behind and a ginormous debate all over the internet, personally I believe that this riddle is trying to say that love is the goal of all religions and perhaps the only things that can connect or bind all souls into one. The poor possess more of it because they rely on love more than the rich who can buy their happiness compared to the poor who look …show more content…
Most of my questions I've seem to ask I now know the answers to like how alchemy is an extremely complex practice that’s supposed to turn base metals/materials into very high-end valuable items such as gold. Or that alchemy also comes along with a very cryptic and secret language that today is still a language that is not deciphered. Alchemist were treated differently depending on where they were located on the earth. Some places would treat them as angels or miracle workers, others weren't so nice and would treat them as savages or a demon sent up from hell by satan. The people who treated them poorly believe’s tend to be highly favored religion. Now that I have answers to my past questions, it almost seems as if the answers have just raised up more questions for me. Alchemy is a hugely complex subject that you could just keep learning about on and on, if I had more time I would’ve really dived deep into the ways of it. Like who were known alchemists of the world or how alchemist viewed the world or how they viewed alchemy itself. If they believed it was good work or black magic? The questions are endless. Over the span of days of doing this assignment it started out really hard and frustrating because I couldn't really grasp the idea of