The alchemy is one early form of chemistry. As we remember from the books and movies, alchemists were trying to change base metals into gold and find the elixir of youth. The science is an antonym of magic and I think that the definition of the alchemy is somewhere in between these two words. Magic is the human’s ability to control people, animals, filings, time and other natural things. However, alchemists were trying to find a method of transforming one thing into another without magic. It was not chemistry because it was not scientific experiments and it didn’t have an explanation.
"Like cures like," was first said by German physician Samuel Hahnemann and it derives from the principle number two on the Emerald Tablet. In this principle it says that “What is bellow is corresponding with what is above, and what is above corresponding with what is below”. The principal of holistic medicine is that mental and physical treatments should be interrelated for the best result. You can not be healthy physically if you have some mental problems, and vice versa. Basically in holistic medicine as in the principal number two it says that two things should work together to “accomplish the miracle of one thing”.
There is no evidence of Alchemy today, but there are other disciplines that are searching for elixir of youth. The genetic scientists are always coming with the ways to life healthier and longer. People can use a human clone to save and prolong the life of another, but there are a lot of ethical questions. Alternative medicines are wildly used today. I have heard the stories when alternative treatments worked very well and common medicine did not work at all. However, it seems like there are no researches that have been done in terms of philosopher’s stone. It happens because there are different values today, than there were back then.
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.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
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I also think that alternative medicines are widely used today but I also believe that it actually depends of your background. I’m from South America and back home we tend to actually rely on natural medicine before we take any drugs, for example if you have a stomach cramp we will drink some tea from some kind of plant that your mom knows. I think that alternative medicine doesn’t have the same importance or respect than traditional medicine does. People tend to forget natural things and go for the common drugs. I also agree that in order for a person to perform well, mental and physical health is very important and both need to work together.
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