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Ele Willoughby, PhDMercury, final prompt for <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printerSolstice2425" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printerSolstice2425</a>, made me think of <a href="https://spore.social/tags/alchemy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#alchemy</a>. It is an element the alchemists favoured & felt was fundamental in their efforts to transmute base into precious metals, both in western & Chinese alchemy (from whence western alchemy emerged).This is my <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linocut</a> portrait of an <a href="https://spore.social/tags/alchemist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#alchemist</a> known as Master Geng (before ~975, 耿先生; Gěng Xiānshēng, sometimes Kêng Hsien-shêng). 🧵1/n<a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciart</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histsci</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#womenInSTEM</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a>

Ele Willoughby, PhDI’m excited to join <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printersolstice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printersolstice</a> - the element themes are a great fit for science stories I want to tell. But I have no time to carve now, so until I can catch up, here’s a the earliest recorded <a href="https://spore.social/tags/alchemist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#alchemist</a> for “gold”: Mary the Jewess (aka Maria Hebraea, Miriam, or Maria Prophetissa). She likely lived in 1st century Alexandria. Zosimos of Panopolis (~300 CE) relates that she wrote a treatise called 🧵1/n<a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#womenInSTEM</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#printmaking</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/reliefPrint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reliefPrint</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/alchemy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#alchemy</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MaryTheJewess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MaryTheJewess</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histsci</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a>

MalleusHi! Perhaps a Re-<a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/Introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Introduction</a> is in order since there's so many more people in this space to share stories and insights with.I'm an <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/Alchemist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Alchemist</a>. I manipulate symbols and materials to effect <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/transformations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#transformations</a> and thus transform myself. My practice was revealed to me in a series of trances by an ancient <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/goddess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#goddess</a> who has many historical forms. Some of these are the <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/Kemetic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kemetic</a> goddesses known as the Eyes of Ra. She recently revealed to me that she would like me to refer to her as <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/Hathor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hathor</a>. I'm not second guessing that advice.I'm a cis het old guy (58) happy married for 25 years. I adore women. Mostly from afar.Race- white, blue eyed ethnic jew.My technique is centered on an apparatus I built based on a design the goddess revealed. I later connected the components and operation symbolically to equipment and processes described in classic <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/Alchemy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Alchemy</a> sources. I'm a non-traditional Alchemist. I don't use a forge or do metallurgy. My device is electrical and uses a type of <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/crystal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#crystal</a> to focus energy. It can roughly be described as a type of lamp. The picture shows the output of my process. It's called a <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/Violograph" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Violograph</a>.It is commonly asserted, and I agree, that the coveted philosopher's stone refers to the practitioners themselves. As the goal of the process it is in reality the transformed person. This is done by separating the spirit and soul from the <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/body" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#body</a>, changing them and then re-uniting them in the body again. Carl <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/Jung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jung</a> has some interesting ideas on this.Politically- <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/anarchosyndicalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#anarchosyndicalist</a> and card carrying <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/Wobbly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wobbly</a>. I’ve been working at the same factory for 28 years.Other areas of interest besides the <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/occult" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#occult</a> are listed below.Music- I write songs, play electric <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/bass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bass</a> and <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/ukulele" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ukulele</a>. Not famous at all. A few faves- <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/Motorhead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Motorhead</a> <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/HankWilliams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HankWilliams</a> <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/CarolinaChocolateDrops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CarolinaChocolateDrops</a> <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/Budgie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Budgie</a> <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/JudasPriest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JudasPriest</a> <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/JohnnyWinter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JohnnyWinter</a> <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/BuddyGuy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BuddyGuy</a> <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/HotTuna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HotTuna</a> <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/WilliamElliotWhitmore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WilliamElliotWhitmore</a> <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/JackBruce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JackBruce</a>Art- <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/GustavKlimt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GustavKlimt</a> <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/JackKirby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JackKirby</a> <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/FrankFrazetta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FrankFrazetta</a> <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/ErnstFuchs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ErnstFuchs</a> <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/GilbertShelton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GilbertShelton</a>   Philosophy: <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/Plotinus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Plotinus</a> <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/HerbertSpencer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HerbertSpencer</a> (I know- cringe) <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/MaxStirner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MaxStirner</a> <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/Hegel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hegel</a> <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/Heraclitus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Heraclitus</a> <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/Iamblichus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Iamblichus</a>   Food: <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/glutenfree" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#glutenfree</a>, I'll take what I can get. Non-celiac.Drink- <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/pinotgrigio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pinotgrigio</a> wine spritzers mostly. A pinch of <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/weed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#weed</a> goes a looooonnnng way. After 45 years of smoking I'm a total lightweight now that it's legal here. That's <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/Chicago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chicago</a> (officially a suburb 10 miles outside city limits), btw.Everyone I’ve met here is awesome! Peace and Solidarity!<a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/findfriends" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#findfriends</a>

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