Hey dear community, at the beginning I would like to welcome you all to my new contribution and hope you are all doing well and your day is full of interesting experiences! In this article I would like to talk about alchemy and hope you are able to expand your knowledge.

According to the ideas of the old alchemists, the human is one of the best creations and according to some views even a divine being which is just waiting to unfold the divine powers and according to the ideology, it is the task of the alchemists to complete the work of nature and so they should also improve humans and bring them into a higher spiritual state and to enlightenment. Humans can do much more than some would like to suspect and the alchemists recognized this and knew that they are full of hidden abilities, but unfortunately they often do not even know it, although a large part of the wisdom is already sleeping inside and just waiting for the awakening and to put it back into the actual true state. The shape of the human body is full of symbolism or hidden messages and if you look at the geometry of different parts of the body you can find numbers, dimensions or hints everywhere which are also associated with different celestial bodies and there are also some higher messages to be found which can often be seen in cryptic form and the alchemists were of the opinion that there is also a genetic code with which one could immediately recognize by characteristics who this human being actually is. In old drawings, humans are often depicted in different positions and with the combination with different geometric shapes, messages can be found in the center of the shapes and an example is a circle with the human in the center and two lines that run from left to right and from top to bottom you can see the four elements as well as different planets in this case. This example can also be related to other positions as well as geometric shapes or grids and each time the focus is on humans and by drawing different aids, certain symbols are expressed and many well-known alchemists have dealt intensively with this topic and refer a lot to the chaos or the original state of humans. The views have also occupied other scholars very much and even when it came to the inside of the body, the alchemists were of the opinion that a lot of symbolism could be found there and geometry of the inner as well as the outer part of humans were of great importance and also strongly influenced medicine in the later course.

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