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Some problem of the gnostic philosophy shown on the example of Alchemy.
The concept of turning lead into gold I feel is widely misrepresented
Gold is usually associated with the Sun, which also is associated with God (lots of symbolism around light and the sun around Jesus and God), Lead on the other hand is associated with Saturn, the furthest planet from the sun you can see with the naked eye and thus is an opposite of God, Satan (quite some connections between Saturn and Satan actually)
Now turning lead into gold gets more possible interpretations. it could be
>turning your bad habbits, your satans, the lead, into gold, improving yourself.
>taking the bad habits and declaring that lead to be gold, following the inversed path of God, satanism
>taking saturn and making it your sun, making Satan your god (symbolically done by the USAs national seal for example which has the depcition of ra, an eagle holding up the solar disc, the sun, and inside a "star of david" formed by 13 smaller stars declaring Saturn their Sun
>generally taking the lowest state of anything (lead) and raising its state to something higher, to gold, symbolizing ascention.
now all of these are "legit" ways of the principle "lead into gold" and all are hermetic, transformational, but some are corrupted, and other are positive, but all are valuable options in gnosticism.
Similary there is the concept of uniting polar opposite believe to cause magic. You can have Sex, uniting the male and female creating a new life, or you cut your dick off and become a tranny, uniting the 2 in that way (Hermaphrodites) ultimately resulting in suicide and the genetic dead end being a unification of death and ruin.
Left Hand Path and Right Hand Path
However in Freemasonry its fairly obvious they go the negative path. At least when you reach the higher echolons. Lower ones are mostly useful idiots helping to disguise it as gentlemens club that they think it is.
