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- From: joshua@cpac.washington.edu (Joshua Geller)
- Newsgroups: alt.magick
- Subject: Re: alchemy (was: Re: Dracula the Alchemist)
- Date: 21 Jan 93 22:45:00 GMT
- Organization: Institute for the Study of Ancient Science
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- <1993Jan18.222515.405@news.uwyo.edu> <C16CFC.I6H@HQ.Ileaf.COM>
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- In-reply-to: rtravsky@news.uwyo.edu's message of 21 Jan 93 08:26:14 MST
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- In article <1993Jan21.082614.409@news.uwyo.edu> rtravsky@news.uwyo.edu (Rich
- Travsky) writes:
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- > In article <C16CFC.I6H@HQ.Ileaf.COM>, rap@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Roger Powell)
- > writes:
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- > > Life extension:
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- > > This one I can't really see. The thing is, life extension is perceived
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- > I suppose the thing to do here is try and decide just what is it whose
- > life is being extended: the physical body, or something incoporeal.
-
- the western literature is fairly explicit about this: the physical life
- is what is being extended. there are even said to be two forms of this.
- in one, the adept (who, curiously, all seem to be male; if anyone knows
- of a tradition of an immortal female adept they should please inform me)
- is seemingly 50 years old or so indefinitely. in the other, the adept
- allows himself to age until he's 70 or so, and then reduces his apparent
- age to 20 or so. this process involves the hair and teeth falling out
- and regrowing and the body going through sort of a metamorphosis in the
- space of a couple three weeks.
-
- see my previous remarks re skepticism.
-
- josh
-