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... )

On the Plutonian Smith-Gods (from J. C. Cooper, Chinese Alchemy:  The Taoist Quest for Immortality (New York: The Sterling Publishing Company, 1990), pp. pp. 73-77):

Two of the artificers most concerned with alchemy and necessary for its work were the miner and the smith. The miner operates in the early stages, bringing forth the ores, ( Read more... )