Energy as pure substance? Distilling and translating of substance to purity..
Alchemy!
I really want to start to learn about alchemy, but i do not know if this is too much of a challenge. There is so much out there.
I am finding the use metaphor in Thus Spoke Zarathustra to sometimes contradict the nature of the ideas presented. There is so much imagery of full and fluid life, where everything swells and blooms in rapture with itself - this is so beautiful to me, but i cannot help but find that only the beginning of life is discussed. Images of rotting are so often used to illustrate corruption. This does not make sense when placed alongside the image of death as an intrinsic part of life - the withering as the inversion of the blossoming. Rotting is the very action of translation - the very action that allows things to continue to swell ad infinitum. Indeed, the sweetness of rotting is just as sensual as the swelling - it is the freezing or prevention of rotting that forges corruption.
Which works perfectly alongside icy cold, pasteurised milk, or leather tanned with petrochemicals.
So.. is the consumptive/cathartic reaction a corruption of the experiential/expressive one?
Is stillness in itself a corruption of silence?
Alchemy!
I really want to start to learn about alchemy, but i do not know if this is too much of a challenge. There is so much out there.
I am finding the use metaphor in Thus Spoke Zarathustra to sometimes contradict the nature of the ideas presented. There is so much imagery of full and fluid life, where everything swells and blooms in rapture with itself - this is so beautiful to me, but i cannot help but find that only the beginning of life is discussed. Images of rotting are so often used to illustrate corruption. This does not make sense when placed alongside the image of death as an intrinsic part of life - the withering as the inversion of the blossoming. Rotting is the very action of translation - the very action that allows things to continue to swell ad infinitum. Indeed, the sweetness of rotting is just as sensual as the swelling - it is the freezing or prevention of rotting that forges corruption.
Which works perfectly alongside icy cold, pasteurised milk, or leather tanned with petrochemicals.
So.. is the consumptive/cathartic reaction a corruption of the experiential/expressive one?
Is stillness in itself a corruption of silence?
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