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- From: joshua@cpac.washington.edu (Joshua Geller)
- Newsgroups: alt.magick
- Subject: Re: Alchemy
- Date: 22 Jan 93 09:45:15 GMT
- Organization: Institute for the Study of Ancient Science
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- In-reply-to: Thyagi@cup.portal.com's message of Thu, 21 Jan 93 17:24:07 PST
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- In article <74099@cup.portal.com> Thyagi@cup.portal.com (Thyagi Morgoth
- NagaSiva) writes:
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- > I've seen lots of postings here about the 'supposed' possibility of
- > changing the constitution ('transmuting') of one metal into another.
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- > I've also seen other more reasonable treatments of this as a
- > metaphor (deeply rooted in chemical processes BECAUSE of this
- > supposition, perhaps) for personal tranformation.
-
- > Until someone comes on here and claims to have done this or seen
- > evidence for it, why don't we simply treat it as an effective
- > magical metaphor? I.e. why don't we apply Occam's Razor a little and
- > suppose that people were engaging physical processes, identifying
- > themselves with their 'experiments' and then undergoing personal
- > transformation as a result?
-
- well, you would wait a long time to here a claim like that,
- especially from someone who could actually do it (assuming
- it is possible). my statements on alchemy and what alchemists
- do or are trying to do is based on ten years study of the
- subject; I suggest you do a bit more research before you
- venture to make definitions.
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- josh
-