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Originally Posted by james3wk
European Alchemists did not really want to turn iron into gold, they wanted to discover a way to turn an imperfect shell (called man) into their more divine metaphysical selves (a physical form of elightenment, which is blasphmeous no mater how you look at it). This is what made Alchemy so heretical to the various Christian churches.
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I always wondered why alchemy was/is considered heretical..
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Originally Posted by james3wk
Added to that, we have even, briefly, been able to make gold from lead. All of these process for transmutation are extrememly cost inefficient, though, so they have never been used more than once or twice.
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Looks like alchemy ( if we define it as the above..) doesnt have a particularly bright future quite as yet
