1. Alchemy uses spiritual and philosophical approcah in explaining how and why things are the way they are. He gives answeres to questions that today might seem to have no specific answer. Alchemy explains the power of nature and the earth and today there is no way to prove something like that. However, in traditional science there is a specific reason and a specific way explaining why things are the way they are.
2. "Like cures like" was first said by a German physician Samuel Hahnemann. He believed that natural substances that produce similar symptoms in a healthy person can cure those same symptom in an ill person. The attempt is to ensure the underlying problem by own natural healthy power to cure them. Similarly Holistic Medicine looks at aspects such as emotional and spiritual well being. Holistic medicine also focuses on emotions and physical well-being to solve problems rather than uing different kinds of medicine to cure the body. The idea that "what is below is like which is above" is the same concept as holistic medicine that looks at the inner self and spiritual body to connect. Both in Tablet 2 and Holistic Medicine body and mind are connected.
3. Eventhough Alchemy today is not seen as a serious discipline However, the Elixir Youth and Philosopher's Stone look for similar things that Alchemist tried to seek. The philosophers stone is a legendary substance that is meant to turn inexpensice metal into gold. Elixir Youth also was good for life extantion as well as meant to slower the aging process, and fight of diseases. It is about the natural cure of the human body. Today we have similar approaches as the Philospher's Stone of turning inexpensive things into value. For example the continuous search for oil. If this was ones thought as very inexpensive today it is worth a lot. During Alchemist time having gold meant so much, it meant having everything and a person being rich. Similarly today a person who has a lot of oil, can be looked at as being really rich. Also similar to the Elixir Youth today scientists are trying to find natraul ways for people to live longer or even finding better medicines.
The Emerald Tablet
The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
The Precepts of Hermes, engraved upon the Emerald Tablet
1. Speak not fictitious things, but that which is certain and true.
2. What is below is like that which is above, and what is above is like that which is below, to accomplish the miracles of one thing.
3. And as all things were produced by the one word of one Being, so all things were produced from this one thing by adaptation.
4. Its father is the sun, its mother the moon; the wind carried it in its belly, its nurse is the earth.
5. It is the father of perfection throughout the world.
6. The power is vigorous if it be changed into earth.
7. Separate the earth from the fire, the subtle from the gross, acting prudently and with judgment.
8. Ascend with the greatest sagacity from the earth to heaven, and then again, descend to the earth, and unite together the powers of things superior and things inferior. Thus will you obtain the glory of the whole world, and obscurity will fly far away from you.
9. this has more fortitude than fortitude itself; because it conquers every subtle thing and can penetrate every solid.
10. Thus the world was formed.
11. Hence proceed wonders, which are here established.
12. Therefore, I am called Hermes Trismegistus, having three parts of the philosophy of the whole world.
13. That which I had to say concerning the operation of the sun is completed.
The Precepts of Hermes, engraved upon the Emerald Tablet
1. Speak not fictitious things, but that which is certain and true.
2. What is below is like that which is above, and what is above is like that which is below, to accomplish the miracles of one thing.
3. And as all things were produced by the one word of one Being, so all things were produced from this one thing by adaptation.
4. Its father is the sun, its mother the moon; the wind carried it in its belly, its nurse is the earth.
5. It is the father of perfection throughout the world.
6. The power is vigorous if it be changed into earth.
7. Separate the earth from the fire, the subtle from the gross, acting prudently and with judgment.
8. Ascend with the greatest sagacity from the earth to heaven, and then again, descend to the earth, and unite together the powers of things superior and things inferior. Thus will you obtain the glory of the whole world, and obscurity will fly far away from you.
9. this has more fortitude than fortitude itself; because it conquers every subtle thing and can penetrate every solid.
10. Thus the world was formed.
11. Hence proceed wonders, which are here established.
12. Therefore, I am called Hermes Trismegistus, having three parts of the philosophy of the whole world.
13. That which I had to say concerning the operation of the sun is completed.
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I agree with the oil and gold comparison that you had made. Oil isn’t expensive compared to some of the things that are sold today, but when a person consist a large amount of oil, they are considered to be wealthy. I also wanted to mention something of the first paragraph that you had written. When you had mentioned that magic had no way of finding a solution to, I don't agree with that statement. As a magician puts together an act, the act must be thought out carefully. This act may not be based on true abilities, but the slips that the audiences are unable to view are the explanations to the act.
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