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- From: ladislas@sobeco.com (Ladislas A.)
- Newsgroups: alt.magick
- Subject: Re: alchemy (was: Re: Dracula the Alchemist)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.093045.13913@sobeco.com>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 09:30:45 GMT
- References: <JOSHUA.93Jan18110540@bailey.cpac.washington.edu> <1993Jan18.222515.405@news.uwyo.edu> <C16CFC.I6H@HQ.Ileaf.COM> <1993Jan21.082614.409@news.uwyo.edu> <JOSHUA.93Jan21144500@bailey.cpac.washington.edu>
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- In <JOSHUA.93Jan21144500@bailey.cpac.washington.edu> joshua@cpac.washington.edu (Joshua Geller) writes:
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- >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.
-
- >josh
-
- The only woman-alchemist I know of is Marie La Juive (Mary the Jew). She
- lived in Alexandria in the IV century A.D.
-
- As for the Adept's process of 'transmutation', it's as I have read it.
- A story exists concerning the process, though it's more myth than observed
- fact. It comes from Nicolas Flamel's story. The story is about an apoticary
- and a friend who find a strange whiteish powder. The friend takes a spoonfull
- and dies. The apoticary, having taken only a tiny grain, becomes prey to an
- intense fever, looses hair, teeth and nails. As soon as the fever breaks,
- he begins growing back his hair and the rest. He looks younger and healthier.
-
- Ladislas.
-