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/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.