H. P. Lovecraft's character Cthulhu is a gargantuan life-form that is clearly animal-like, if not a true terrestrial animal (his origins are presumed to be extraterrestrial). He is enormous, about the size of Godzilla or larger. If he is an air-breather -- and from the stories it's clear that his biochemistry requires oxygen, just as ours does ( Read more... )

In the body of an organism, enzymes act as catalysts which enable chemical reactions necessary to life that could not otherwise take place at the pressures and temperatures at which water is a liquid. Alchemy teaches that humans serve as enzymes within the body of the biosphere, the planetary life-system that includes all Earth's life, as well as ( Read more... )

Alchemy -- man as enzyme, doing things at low temperatures and pressures, over extended periods of time, that would otherwise take the core of a star to accomplish. Man as vitamin, a template bringing together imperfect materials and, by his slow, persistent, consistent actions, breaking them down, then putting them back together in alchemicaly ( Read more... )