What is Alchemy? When we think of alchemy in general, what comes to our mind must be the image of a mad scientist surrounded by balloons filled with foam liquid, feverishly trying to turn lead into gold. There is a record of obscure formulas and processes of transformation of the nature of material substances, but the alchemists were written deliberately obscure, to hid their work by people who misunderstand and abusing it. Or if you like to play Mana Khemia, you’ll imagine what kind of Alchemist there. They’re able to extract some certain elements and turn it into a new different item and use it in a combat. Basically, true Alchemy involves the whole being of the alchemist. The transformation echoes of natural substances of a profound transformation of consciousness within the alchemist himself.

The Emerald Tablet, a hermetic text says it contains the essence of alchemy “work” states: “As above, so below. As below, so above.” And “this correspondence and the interaction of material and spiritual, inner and outer, body and spirit, which it as the central of alchemy.
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