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Principles of Alchemy « Thread Started on Jul 11, 2005, 10:25am »
Rules of the Alchemist
1. He should be discreet and silent, revealing to no one the results of his operations. 2. He should reside in a priate house in an isolated position. 3. He should choose his days and hours with discretion. 4. he should have patience, dilligence, and perserverence. 5. He should only use units of glazed earthenware to store unstable alchemical compounds in. 6. He should be sufficiently rich to bear the expenses of his art. 8. He should avoid having anything to do with princes or noblemen. 9. He should take caution to never deal in the affairs of human life or life in itself. 10. He should operate under the rules of Genesis and the restraints of the Gods.
(From the ancient Egyptian Text, The Emerald Tablet)
In ancient days, the great gods Osiris and Anubis headed the realms of Egypt, passing down their wisdom and guidance upon the race. Then, when the realm fell under chaos and anarchy, as the Gods slowly met brutal, bloody ends, from these two alone came a test to surpass all human knowledge: The Emerald Tablet. This text was a last enigm left of the dying breed of immortals, a glimpse into their own world for any who could translate it.
Many tried, and many failed. As time passed, the humans learned to move on, and their religions changed to a greater God. The tablet was lef tuntouched, untried, for over a thousand years, before it fell into the hands of the public, and to a lowly wandering monk. This monk began his travels across the deserts, seeking any who could read to him the words of the tablet, the words of the ancients long gone. In the end, he would have failed, had not a young man of fair face, Nicholas Flamel himself, happened upon this stranger.
"Oh good man, young scholar," begged the monk. "Please, please read for me this text if you will. I am blinded by the words, I have not the ability of the tongue in which they are flowing across this parchment."
"Generous monk, let me see that text of yours," Flamel replied, for indeed he was a scholar, as well as an aspiring alchemist, and enjoyed riddles and games above all else. As his hand touched the copy, the young man's eyes beamed and a smile shown bright in his face, a smile hidden behind a wall of sadness and tears streaming from the fountain of joy. "My Lord God.." whispered Flamel as his eyes roamed across the hardened vellum cover, across the deep emerald-set jewels of the entwining serpents eyes who slithered across the paper ina figure eight to return to their own tails. "By God's power...I've found it at last...the mystical gem lost in the sands of time, the Philosopher's Catalyst..."
So came the possession of the tablet into the hands of Flamel, the only man at the time with enough genious to read its tattered and mystifying pages. It is undoubtable that what he found within those pages was not only black magic and sorcery, for it is from this man that tales of witches and warlocks originate, don't you know, but also the secrets to the Philosopher's Stone itself. They say that once he had created it, Flamel himself vanished into time with his precious book and the world fell out of the practice of alchemy.
Yet, sometimes, you'll hear reports: some person has seen him, they've seen Flamel in the flesh, they know he still walks among us, just as he has always been, unchanged for time. Or perhaps a report will come in that a young brilliant scientist or scholar has dissapeared after beginning research on the stone, undeniably another one of its chosen. What remains truth: the secret of the stone has never been released upon the world. It lurks in secrecy, behind the myth of a book. A book of the very Gods which the practice defies.
Re: Principles of Alchemy « Reply #2 on Aug 26, 2008, 10:02am »
I understand completly and i will do my best to the full extent of my abillities to follow train and learn these principles of alchemy. Thank you for the provisions and the infomation provided.
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