Sunday, March 10, 2019
The Alchemists
The Alchemists
"Turn me into gold."
Kabir
They knew the hidden ways
of turning base substance
into gold.
With their alembics
and furnaces,
their formulas and incantations,
they refined the dross away
and sought only
the pure essence of
a new and precious element.
No one must know
their true purpose,
to transmute the lacking human
into the purified spirit
of the ultimate self.
And so they worked
in secret,
away from the prying eyes
of a threatening authority.
Their goal was much like
ours today––to reconfigure
our base human selves
into something more nearly perfect,
a being more like God.
Dorothy Walters
February 17, 2019
