Whenever chemists combine metals and minerals

"Whenever chemists combine metals and minerals to create alloys,

they are able to reverse the process later, using certain

procedures to undo what was previously combined. But alchemists

claim they know of a mineral and a metal which combine to

mutually absorb each other, producing the basis for the substance

from which the philosopher's stone is extracted, and that this

matter can no longer be broken down, as the combination is

irreversible.

This theory can only be understood when transposed to another

context. A child comes into the world as the result of the

encounter between its father and mother. But, now, how do you

break this child down, so to speak, to get back to its father on

the one hand and its mother on the other? It is impossible. The

child is a new entity, the product of a combination, which cannot

be undone so as to get back to its two parents. Thus, the

philosopher's stone is the child born of a mystic union."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov