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 Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 11:27 am
Its one of the things I haven't gotten to try out yet. I read in a book a while back that it WAS a form of magic just one that wasn't practiced very often. Whats your take on Alchemy? Is it good, bad, useful or useless?
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Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 9:24 pm
Alchemy can best be summed up as a spiritual science. There is a lot more to it than metallurgy and cryptic symbols. Alchemy employs forces that could be considered "magical" but I wouldn't really consider alchemy magic in any way except everything people do is magic.
Good and bad depend upon the intent of the practitioner. A gun can either provide food or kill your neighbor. And if it was useless I doubt it would have been practiced from Ancient Egypt all the way to the modern day.
I happen to be a member of the International Alchemy Guild, so this tends to be an area of great interest to me. xd
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Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 11:24 am
Obscurus Alchemy can best be summed up as a spiritual science. There is a lot more to it than metallurgy and cryptic symbols. Alchemy employs forces that could be considered "magical" but I wouldn't really consider alchemy magic in any way except everything people do is magic. Good and bad depend upon the intent of the practitioner. A gun can either provide food or kill your neighbor. And if it was useless I doubt it would have been practiced from Ancient Egypt all the way to the modern day. I happen to be a member of the International Alchemy Guild, so this tends to be an area of great interest to me. xd Coolies ^^ any recommended reading I should pick up? *knows some books are better than others*
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Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 7:41 pm
EvMechan11 Obscurus Alchemy can best be summed up as a spiritual science. There is a lot more to it than metallurgy and cryptic symbols. Alchemy employs forces that could be considered "magical" but I wouldn't really consider alchemy magic in any way except everything people do is magic. Good and bad depend upon the intent of the practitioner. A gun can either provide food or kill your neighbor. And if it was useless I doubt it would have been practiced from Ancient Egypt all the way to the modern day. I happen to be a member of the International Alchemy Guild, so this tends to be an area of great interest to me. xd Coolies ^^ any recommended reading I should pick up? *knows some books are better than others* by John Dee, The Book of Lambsprinck, and of course The Emerald Tablet (not really a book, but it condenses all of Hermetic thought into a very small space). All of these are quite old, but I'm certain they can be found online for free. When it comes to alchemy you want to start with the basics and then work your way up. The basics usually means reading the works of the great alchemists of the past.
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Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 8:41 pm
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Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 3:36 pm
Well, it's fairly archaic... It could be dangerous, but so is it's descendant, chemistry. It's highly unproven, but, supposedly, a man by the name of Nicholas Flammel, had success. He claimed to have created both the fabled Elixer of Life, and Philosopher's Stone. I would simply advise caution, as I would with anything else!
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Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 9:43 pm
Sotsu no Sendo Well, it's fairly archaic... It could be dangerous, but so is it's descendant, chemistry. It's highly unproven, but, supposedly, a man by the name of Nicholas Flammel, had success. He claimed to have created both the fabled Elixer of Life, and Philosopher's Stone. I would simply advise caution, as I would with anything else! Especially considering that traditional alchemical metallurgy involves toxic metals like lead, mercury, and antimony. Given, metallurgy isn't the only way to practice alchemy; it's just the most well known. That's why I highly suggest doing a great deal of research before undertaking any experiment. Understand the underlying principles and what is happening rather than just seeing it as a laundry list of mystical steps.
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Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 6:31 pm
Yes, but the only thing I would even try to search for is the creation of a homunculus, an artificial life form, which is actually fairly well portrayed in FMA, if I'm not wrong...Might be though...
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Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 7:39 pm
Sotsu no Sendo Yes, but the only thing I would even try to search for is the creation of a homunculus, an artificial life form, which is actually fairly well portrayed in FMA, if I'm not wrong...Might be though... I haven't seen enough Fullmetal Alchemist to really say how it compares to actual alchemy. I've only ever seen one reference to homunculi in my studies and it was a brief mention about how some alchemists were said to have helpers that they had created, but I want to say that these helpers were small, like miniature. I can't remember for sure though.
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Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 5:26 pm
OH THAT'S EVEN BETTER!!! XD THAT WOULD BE AWESOME, HAVING TINY HELPERS TO DO MY BIDDING!!!
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Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 9:40 pm
Sotsu no Sendo OH THAT'S EVEN BETTER!!! XD THAT WOULD BE AWESOME, HAVING TINY HELPERS TO DO MY BIDDING!!! I tend to think the process was like making a servitor, but I don't really know as I've never seen an actual process for making a homunculus.
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Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 8:36 am
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