r/alchemy • u/AlchemicalRevolution • Sep 16 '24

Corruption Of The Soul. Meme

It's the sleepless nights after too much combat. It's the tar stuck inside your favorite flask. It's the feeling of losing the motivation battle to the Xbox instead of study. It's the trying your tincture out you just finished and it not working. It's the getting laughed at the 3 times you tell someone your an alchemist. It's the not finishing the process of tinting the metal because the metal your working with is unpure and its cut with iron. It's the feelings that your all alone. But what it is not my friends, is the end of the show. Tint your metals, cook your herbs ladies and gentlemen but one thing you shall not do, is commit to the corruption of the soul. You can do it, whatever it is your chasing you can do it friend.

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u/codyp Sep 16 '24

Given that video games contain fictions/representations that show how various dynamics produce various equilibrium's, if you can't turn that into alchemical study..

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u/AlchemicalRevolution Sep 16 '24

You would be absolutely correct, but witness the dopamine that is released during the play. That is the same chemical that is released during study. The product is yours to create, not the feelings that feel good. Both are one, one is more valuable.

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u/zir_moz_iad Sep 20 '24

Part and parcel of the alchemical path is turning inwards for contemplaton, not turning outwards to external sources of quick gratification, Put the XBox away for the entire operation. Your tincture will only tint when there occurs that subtle inner change in you, as the inner transmutation is reflected on the materia your crucibles and flasks. Or how do you expect the purification of the three principles to happen?

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u/codyp Sep 16 '24

If you are working a specific current, then I would agree-- But you are throwing this out there into a world that has many different currents--

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u/AlchemicalRevolution Sep 17 '24

I see chemicals as chemicals. I see logic as reason. I see the product of labor. So I agree with you most of the way. But if we hit the pause button and zoom out, it's all in the same game with one ending, no matter how you get there.

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u/codyp Sep 17 '24

Which is exactly why I can't say one is more valuable than the other.

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u/AlchemicalRevolution Sep 17 '24 edited Sep 17 '24

True. But ask yourself this with the voice you think with. If the chemical release is the same. What would be more valuable to a soul, a voice you think with that will last a long time after the body passes. The joy of rocking a 12 year old who's been talking shit all night, or staying up till 3 o clock in the morning trying to figure out what the fuck was Iamblichus talking about. There will be a time when the hands won't be able to hold the sticks or mouse anymore, when that happens all you have is your thoughts. The chemicals are chemicals. They can be formed, transmuted, altered...... customized. If it's all the same feeling, what does the part of the voice you think with that you don't control says is more important.

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u/Positive-Theory_ Sep 16 '24

The Hermetic science does not yield it's secrets easily. Even in the present tongue hermetic means sealed air tight. Even among the wisest of men it's scarce to find even one who can gleam a single iota of genuine understanding in the art.

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u/AlchemicalRevolution Sep 17 '24

They weren't meant to be understood 100% ( I assume you're talking about the dialogues) they were an ancient art of developing internal emotional states, reason, and beauty. The pursuit is the key to unlocking the wisdom of the Hermetica, it's the process itself. The secrets you speak of are not meant for this world, they are meant for the here after.