Quote Originally Posted by Antares View Post
only when you gain the power over energy or anything, the ability to transform it after you become conscious of this something follows. ... On cosmic level, you extend your ability to be conscious + affect the cosmos on all its levels
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Thus, consciousness always comes first, the alchemical endeavor follows.

As such, the universe is nothing but a great cauldron in which everything (energy) transforms into anything else ... You transform everything, and thus in the end: you transform self on all levels
Worth to compare with the text from the Emerald Tablet:

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That which is above is like to that which is below, and that which is below is like to that which is above, to accomplish the miracles of one thing.
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The father thereof is the Sun, the mother the Moon.
The wind carried it in its womb, the earth is the nurse thereof.
It is the father of all works of wonder throughout the whole world.
The power thereof is perfect.
If it be cast on to earth, it will separate the element of earth from that of fire, the subtle from the gross.
With great sagacity it doth ascend gently from earth to heaven. Again it doth descend to earth, and uniteth in itself the force from things superior and things inferior.
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This thing is the strong fortitude of all strength, for it overcometh every subtle thing and doth penetrate every solid substance.
Thus was this world created.
Hence will there be marvellous adaptations achieved, of which the manner is this.
For this reason I am called Hermes Trismegistus, because I hold three parts of the wisdom of the whole world.
That which I had to say about the operation of Sol is completed.