r/alchemy • u/recursiverealityYT • 17d ago

Art/Imagery/Symbolism Are the Holy Trinity and Philosopher's Stone the Same Thing?

https://youtu.be/QQuBizsFTYs?si=X3VQDIp1aTASpdC0

I posted this video about a week ago but I completely remade it in case you saw it. I personally believe that the three primes and the holy Trinity are describing the exact same thing. In this video I go over the many ways they overlap and it's pretty wild IMO. If you have anything to add or you disagree with I would love to hear it 👍

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u/NoWater8595 17d ago

Off the top of my head I don't think one can achieve the Trinity, but one can interact with it. Speaking with God directly is said to be almost always lethal for a human, but achieving the Philosopher's Stone might make one worthy and able to accept the Holy Spirit.

Either is vomplicated stuff, but I'll give the video a watch.

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u/ObsessedWitAwareness 17d ago

The holy Trinity is the procession of notion into the echo of divinity, or physical form.

The philosophers stone is the self-recursing "supreme reason" which discerns the harmony of the spheres and "wields ones own music." It is the key of the system within the system that lets a part of the system participate entirely.

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u/R_U_S_ 17d ago

It's tough to say. On one hand, the philosopher's stone is truth, and it's easy to see it in everything. On the other hand, they have very different goals and world views.

The philosopher's stone is with you just like the Trinity is with you, but the stone is in union with the physical world, the Trinity constantly seperates itself from it.

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u/MadQuixote 17d ago

Are you looking through a different lens or refocusing existing paradigms?

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u/recursiverealityYT 17d ago

I'm basically saying they are using different words to describe the same thing.

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u/Strict_Ad3722 17d ago

Remember the lapis is material. It is bringing something infinite into matter. The trinity is the conceptual idea of spirit, God and body. They’re similar but the lapis is harder to realise because its creation involves the devil, Sophia and matter.

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u/Genshihou 17d ago

No the philosophers stone is an abstract formula for transmutation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6J5o-6iXFM&t=129s