[ Saint-Germain takes out a pen and a small leather-bound notebook. She sets it on the bar, turns it so it's oriented towards Horatio Hargreeves. Writing upside-down is not an issue for her. ]
Tangible and intangible realities, what you might call the realms of science and magic, are more linked than strictly scientific thought would have you believe. [ She draws a circle inside of a circle, labels them "microcosm" and "macrocosm" - adds an equals sign, another two circles, labels them "physical" and "spiritual". ] "As above, so below." What affects the spiritual affects the physical, and vice versa. Even if the physical effect of the curse is a disconnect from the realm of universal language, the changes happen not within the material brain but within the conceptual one.
Yet, as they are linked, perfecting tangible forms can give us clues as to how to perform the same transmutation upon intangibles. Certain intangible energy concepts also refuse to affix to any material object not already made perfect.....
[ She sketches a human figure, surrounding it with various glyphs, showing energy attaching itself to the body, then taking the form of armor. ]
The perfect body is a stepping-stone. The end goal is the perfection and re-completion of the world. This is what mankind has developed using the knowledge that was left to us....the pinnacle of alchemic ideology and triumph of the human mind.
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Date: 2022-07-18 02:26 pm (UTC)[ Saint-Germain takes out a pen and a small leather-bound notebook. She sets it on the bar, turns it so it's oriented towards Horatio Hargreeves. Writing upside-down is not an issue for her. ]
Tangible and intangible realities, what you might call the realms of science and magic, are more linked than strictly scientific thought would have you believe. [ She draws a circle inside of a circle, labels them "microcosm" and "macrocosm" - adds an equals sign, another two circles, labels them "physical" and "spiritual". ] "As above, so below." What affects the spiritual affects the physical, and vice versa. Even if the physical effect of the curse is a disconnect from the realm of universal language, the changes happen not within the material brain but within the conceptual one.
Yet, as they are linked, perfecting tangible forms can give us clues as to how to perform the same transmutation upon intangibles. Certain intangible energy concepts also refuse to affix to any material object not already made perfect.....
[ She sketches a human figure, surrounding it with various glyphs, showing energy attaching itself to the body, then taking the form of armor. ]
The perfect body is a stepping-stone. The end goal is the perfection and re-completion of the world. This is what mankind has developed using the knowledge that was left to us....the pinnacle of alchemic ideology and triumph of the human mind.