| | | | ‘A note to readers: Some readers have expressed concern about the direction of these posts. I understand the concern, but I want to be clear. I am not adopting a new religion. I am not asking anyone to follow Hermeticism. I am not deifying Hermes. I am not inviting readers into occult practice. My interest is not in Hermes. My interest is in alchemy as an early laboratory science, and its attempt, however symbolic and guarded the language they used, to understand matter, transformation, minerals, water, heat, and life. I came to this as a physician, not as a mystic. I was following scientific questions that began in chronic illness, cancer, agriculture, water, and biology. The deeper I followed them, the clearer it became that medicine often treats downstream failures while rarely asking what upstream conditions make physiology possible. So I am reading these ancient symbolic texts as possible records of natural processes: mineral transformation, water chemistry, charge, circulation, and the conditions that allow life to function. You may disagree with my interpretation. You may think I am wrong. Fair enough. But I am not confused about what I am doing. I am studying the created order and following evidence, patterns, and mechanisms wherever they lead.’ |
