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**animilius** · 07-07-2012, 07:14 AM

Perhaps the lack of alchemy is due to hesychasm, which is the most sublime of alchemies: THe complete transmutation of mortality to immortality, of death, to life, of lead into the gold of the divine energies (by grace).

Much of the alchemical symbolism to me sounds very similar to what hesychasm DOES accomplish in the lives of the saints. Perhaps the paradigm requiring a need for alchemy disappeared?

07-07-2012, 07:14 AM	#13
animilius Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 555 Senior Member	Perhaps the lack of alchemy is due to hesychasm, which is the most sublime of alchemies: THe complete transmutation of mortality to immortality, of death, to life, of lead into the gold of the divine energies (by grace). Much of the alchemical symbolism to me sounds very similar to what hesychasm DOES accomplish in the lives of the saints. Perhaps the paradigm requiring a need for alchemy disappeared?
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