Der Prozess der Transmutation folgte zuerst der Element Lehre, später wird aus den vier Stufen eine Trinität, als Nachbildung der göttlichen Teilung in Vater Sohn und Heiliger Geist. Im Laufe der Zeit wurde die Philosophie komplexer und Verband Elemente und Trinität zu einem sieben stufigen Prozess.

Alchemie ist eine sehr alte Naturwissenschaft, die erst im 17./18. Jahrhundert, durch die moderne Chemie und Pharmakologie, in der Wissenschaft abgelöst wurde.

Die Basis der europäisch-arabischen Alchemie bildet die Tabula Smaragdina, die auch in der Hermetik Anwendung findet. Grob wiedergegeben beinhaltet sie, dass Stoffe per Transmutation in andere Stoffe umgewandelt werden kann.

Es geht in der Alchemie nicht nur um die Erschaffung von Gold oder dem Stein der Weisen wie fälschlicherweise oft behauptet, sondern auch um Heilmittel, Lösemittel und neue Werkstoffe. Ausserdem ist der Philosophische Aspekt der Menschlichen Transmutation zu berücksichtigen.

In der Alchemie besteht Materie aus Eigenschaften und Prinzipien (Aristotelischer Hylemorphismus). Diese können entfernt und/oder zugefügt werden, wodurch ein Stoff in einen anderen umgewandelt wird.

Alchemisten haben unter anderem das Porzellan und das Schwarzpulver entdeckt. Auch der erste Phosphoreszenz Farbstoff ist der Alchemie zuzuschreiben.

Opus Magnum, das große Werk befasst sich mit der vollständigen Transmutation. Dabei ist die Umwandlung von Blei in Gold oder die Schaffung des Steins der Weisen Metaphorisch für die Umwandlung des Unwissenden Menschen in den Wissenden zu sehen. Abgebildet wird der Prozess in der Hermetik.

Paracelsus plädierte für die Herstellung von Arzneimitteln anstelle der Suche nach Gold. Er nennt diesen Bereich der Alchemie Spagyrik und begründet damit die Anfänge der Arzeneimil

Die chinesische Alchemie befasst sich, im Gegensatz zur europäisch-arabischen, in erster Linie mit der Suche nach der Unsterblichkeit. Das Alchemische Experiment und Ritual ist dabei ein Teil des Ganzen, unterstützt wird sie durch asketische Übungen, Körperbeherrschung und Meditation.

Die Bedeutung der Alchemie für uns liegt zum einen in der Vorläuferrolle moderner Naturwissenschaften aber der Philosophie. Besonders Deutlich wird das im Bereich der Chinesischen Medizin, in der wir heute noch Ideen und Verfahren der Spagyrik finden.

Heute wird die Alchemie nur noch in Form der Hermetik in diversen esoterischen und Okkulten Kreisen hoch gehalten. Wobei auch immer wieder Einflüsse der Tabula Smaragdina in Lebenshilfe und Psychologie zu finden sind.

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Union members not only earn higher median wages; they are more likely to have paid sick leave, short-term disability, and employer-provided child care. Giving people a voice at work - the ability to organize and negotiate for their fair share of the value they helped create - is absolutely essential to a growing, vibrant middle class.

I have been a journalist, off and on, since I was 17. I was a copy boy for the 'New York Times,' when it had an edition in Paris, in 1963. I sold the paper in the streets by day and tore wire copy off the tele-printer for the editors making up the edition by night.

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