Could the rules outlining the process of innovation be woven into the framework of reality?
When we compare ourselves to the people of past civilizations it’s easy to discount their impact on our lives because most people today have little to no understanding of the foundations that were laid. The concept of writing, mathematics, and science itself all have building blocks that were first placed more than a millennium ago and we’ve continued to build upon the little that managed to make its way to Western Culture since their conception, as far back as 5,000 years ago. But what if those ideas had never been conceived? Then it goes without saying that nothing would be as we know it because nothing comes from nothing. Something would be here but it would look completely different from what we know today.
If you were to be asked what’s the greatest — most impactful invention to have ever been created, some would say perhaps the wheel, maybe the printing press, or even the light bulb. While these were all significant, they still exist on layers deposited in prior periods. In fact, it can be easily argued that the greatest foundational invention would have to have been the invention of the alphabet itself, which archeologists believe occurred when migrant workers from Cannan came together with the Egyptians at a temple in Serabit, Egypt, somewhere around 1820 BC. The temple was built to honor the Goddess of Turquoise known as Hathor, and the combined cultural collaboration sparked the creation of all of today’s alphabets from the Middle East to across the Arabic Mediterrane and Western Culture as a whole. It started with hyroglifs which essentially are symbols that represent products (barley, wheat, olive oil) being traded and taxed. The first step of discovering that invention could therefore be described as the process of creating symbols to represent objects being produced in the area. What’s interesting here is that because of trade and the rise of agriculture, both Egypt and Mesopotamia developed their own symbols at about the same time. The second process was to use the symbols not just as a representation of the objects but to use the sound made in the pronunciation of the objects the symbols represent. For example, the symbol for “bull” is and it’s pronounced “Alif”. The bull symbol, therefore, takes the “A” sound from “Alif”. By combining different symbols words can be created from the combination of those sounds and this simple, but the revolutionary process is known as the Rebus Principle. Once this occurred, it spread across the ancient world and now represents the building blocks for all written languages of the Middle East, Arabic Mediterrane, and Western Culture to name just three regions. Without Rebus, there is no written language.
While the Rebus principle and its foundational structure were derived organically, alchemy is a process that originated in the great temples of Egypt, by the ruling class. For millennia, man, having heard myths about alchemy, has pondered the possibilities of its use. We’ve been presented with the fairytale ideas of incantations and spells capable of turning hard metals such as lead (Pd) into gold (Au) within popular culture. Curious inventors since the 1400s have also been trying to discover the formula to do just that, but they’ve missed the base understanding of what alchemic processes actually work to transform. At its base, these processes were designed to transform thought into higher levels of thought, not necessarily metals into other metals.
Origin of the Alchemic Principle:
The concept of Mental Alchemy dates back to ancient beliefs when students traveled across the Mediterranean to countries from Greece to Egypt, in a quest for the knowledge of the ages. One such doctrine was known as the Universal Principles of Reality which, in 1908, was captured by “New Thought” pioneer William Walker as a compilation of 7 Hermetic principles we now know as the Kybalion. Before however moving on to further explain how the alchemist leverage these 7 principles, it is important to understand what is meant by the wisdom of the ages.
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