"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
