User blog:Alchemist 8/Alchemy

This is a short presentation on alchemy. Keep in mind that not everything explained in here and information said is not enough for one to gain a full understanding of alchemy rather, the purpose of this post is to give my understanding of nature, give the reader an understanding of some factors of nature, and why these factors are in place, how to imitate it, and what you get after imitating it.

Some words or phrases used in this article will be in bold and it's my way of telling you, the reader that these words or phrases are not to be looked at lightly as they are important or will be taken up and explained later on in this post.

Alchemy is the art of imitating nature. When you copy what nature does inside a microcosm you'll get the end result of what nature was aiming for.

The goal of what most alchemists have sought for is called The Philosophers' Stone. Most of you have heard of it and for those who haven't and want to know what it is, The Philosophers' Stone is not like what most people believe it to be which is a magical rock that grants immortality, or a rock that requires magick. It's a gem that gives your body everything is lacking which results in prolonging age, supernatural strength and abilities. I know this may seem like a pseudo-science on first hearing but once you understand why and how alchemy works, you'll understand nature because alchemy is the art of imitating nature.

Why is the world round? '''Why is the heaviest and most dense objects underneath while the lightest and volatile of particles rest closer to the surface? '''

Before I go on let's make one thing clear. Although they both need each other, alchemy and nature alone are two separate things. It's natural for a husband and wife to come together and make a baby just like it's natural for grass to spring from the soil however, it is not natural if you are using dangerous and harmful chemicals that do not occur in nature to bring forth life as this will most definitely cause defects and it is not natural to bury plastic grass and expect plastic grass to spring forth... If you understand why something works in nature, you need the how otherwise you'll be unable to imitate the process.

In a microcosm everything is more literal and smaller almost like how you look at tiny organisms or bacteria that are invisible to the naked eye through a microscope and how you observe atoms respectively in biology rather then simply looking at the atoms through the naked eye and so, instead of staring at grass expecting to see how you can rearrange the components together inside a microcosm to make artificial grass... You should examine why and how grass was made there, and on top of the soil rather than growing underneath the surface.

The following will be an example of what happens in nature everyday, a brief explanation on why it happens and how, and what would happen if you were to imitate this one factor of what nature does (alchemy).

We have the ocean, we have the sun. I'll start with these two and gradually pull other necessities together.

During mid-day the sun heats up the surface of the ocean and when heated the water turns into water vapor which becomes too light to fall back to the ground ascends up in the air and condenses into the shape of a cloud. Since warm air can hold more water than cool air, at night when the sun is gone and the moon has come, the warm air becomes cooled which results in the re-condensation which means the moisture condenses to liquid - and so it rains. When it rains not only is water ascended upwards, there's also other foreign matter which includes but is not limited to soil, gas, chemicals, etc. Since the most volatile ascend upwards it only makes sense that the heaviest of objects stay on the ground (we have gravity to thank for this). Remember that the more easily dissoled a partcile is the higher the water will carry it. Wind cannot blow the forgein matters upwards with the mositure and keep it up there otherwise everywhere would consistently be a mess all the time... Rather, the more easily dissolved a particle is the higher the water will carry it. Some vodka companies put on their label that their product has been triple distilled this is only to assure the consumer that the product has less to none foriegn matter and is more clean.

To make it more clear, a reason why foriegn matter is dropped back down is because when the re-condensation occurs the components reattach themselves when it turns from solid to liquid or gas to liquid/solid and reattach themselves and during this process foreign matter that isn't equal weight or is simply not the same as what's being condensed will be let loose and the grasp that the moisture had on it will be loss during the condensation which results in the foreign matter either being dropped back down during condensation, or if not, it'll be dropped back down anyways when it rains. Over time since nature does this constantly all day long, eventually we'll result in the lightest of particles being closest and on the surface as oppose to the heaviest of objects which cannot be lifted upwards stuck at the very bottom or furthest away from the surface i.e nature arranging itself in order of density which you can see by taking a look at how the surface of Earth is soft soil and gets harder and grittier as you dig down.

You should now have a basic understanding on how the rain cycle works.

Next is the why;

Before I can explain why it works I must explain what energy / undetermined energy is so you can get a understanding (that makes sense) on why the rain cycle works.

What's on the top of our surface is not just the lightest of particles, it's also what's arranged according to it's solubility. Layering is a way nature uses to seperate the volatile from the gross.

Without layers according to density, solubility, etc there would be no life in any form that we would recognize (I'll elaborate later on). Consider this; the more volatile a substance is the easier it is for the particle to be broken down to have it's energy extracted. The layering which occurs due to this natural cycle allows for substances to be ordered according to how easily they're broken down. Plants grow in the top layer of the soil which also happens to be where the most easily decomposable has been placed from which they collect the easily-acessible energy to form into matter for their own use. I'll elaborate; when you eat your food you chew it in order to break it down into smaller pieces which ends up turning into mush which is then swallowed and broken down further in our stomachs so we can absorb the nutrients, and energy i.e when the process of breaking down a food occurs it won't stop breaking down until it breaks down to the smallest particle otherwise we cannot absorb the nutrients from our food. You cannot absorb the nutrients from an apple by swallowing it whole you have to break it down first, and your stomach breaks it down into the smallest of pieces small enough to absorb the components we can't see which is the nutrients and the energy which I have covered earlier when I mentioned looking at organisms through a microscope, and atoms respectively for biology rather then the naked eye.

I've mentioned earlier that the lightest of particles and the most soluble a substance is floats upwards with the moisture but what also ascends up is the energy that's attached to the moisture.. and then it rains back down on top of everything. We have energy in the air we breathe because as I said earlier, components are let loose when re-condensing back together or when they're poured back onto the surface the energy is used, and more energy is let loose. We breathe our air, and exhale carbon which the trees extract and make more oxygen. Energy is in everything and it's always being used and it's always being released.

The energy that is released becomes undetermined energy because it's not attached to any component or anything at all. Energy in the air we breathe is undetermined energy. Since the energy is already attached to the air it would have to be extracted (Our Lungs) which is then used up, we breathe out some carbon that still contains a bit of energy and the trees use that energy and the carbon to make more oxygen. The reason why we have energy in the carbon when we exhale is because our short breaths when awake are short and so our lungs do not have the strength and speed to extract every ounce of energy in such a short time this is why we get benefical effects with deep and rythmically breathing exercises.

When a leaf is on fire everything is being broken down and the moisture is rapdily escaping. The smoke contains the moisture and you can see the smoke ascending upwards. Since energy according to modern day science cannot be destroyed and since everything contains energy which is now backed up by science you ought to know that the energy isn't being destroyed but it's rather escaping but now since the leaf has been broken down everything has been freed up and is more volatile it's also more soluble and is now in a smaller form then it previously was prior to it burning up into ashes.

I'll explain further since it's very important that you understand; When a dead body is decaying the body is no longer using up the energy so it begins to rot which results in the moisture leaving it's body and eventually drying out. The unused energy is now being released while still being attached to the moisture, leaves the body and is now energy that is still tied to something, is now energy freed up.