Greetings Dear Reader,
Because I study the ancient world for my fictional writing,
I come across much about the mystical and alchemical. As science and mysticism grew apart, that which
remained for some time was arcane and little understood by the masses.
One such thing was the belief that one could somehow
transform lead into gold. I first read
about this when I was seven. I read that
one of the ways in which alchemists attempted to do this was boiling lead. I spent an entire afternoon that summer boiling
some lead shot on my mum’s kitchen stove.
In my defense, I was left alone and had been told to read.
Years later, I read further about this and found that the
attempt to do this had resulted in heavy water and some terrific
explosions. Fortunately, my system was
not a closed one. Also, I did not spend
but a few hours boiling and replenishing the water. It is still true that I was determined to
create a pot full of gold beads.
The process, transmutation, has been successful on a very
narrow scale. The difficulty is that were
it successful on a larger and equitable scale, the value of gold would decrease
from the bounty of it that would exist.
When people describe heaven, they sometimes reference that the streets
are made of gold. This is not a statement
of affluence. It is a commentary on value.
In our world, gold is a treasure. In the Father’s world, it is simply a building
material. What is valuable is the
redeemed soul and the transmuted heart.
What we are meant to invest in is spiritual alchemy. We are to use love to transmute hatred to
even more love. We are to refine our
lives so that the dross is burned away, the elements that produce hatred are
inert, and that which remains is love.
I cannot change lead into gold. I can change anger into peace. I am able to transmute bad into good. The impossible idea of getting everything
back to good becomes possible and probable in the light of Christ. It is in the constant burning away of self so
that what remains is the love of Christ.
For now, Dear Reader, we do that in faith and hope. Those too will burn
away until all that remains is the love of Christ evidenced in the transmuted
souls of those he loves. This is the transmutation, the transformation that
produces the greatest value.
Wishing you joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every
writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a
homeowner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure
store.”
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