Every transformation demands as its precondition “the ending of a world” – the collapse of an old philosophy of life.
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The subject of transformation is not the empirical man, however much he may identify with the old Adam, but Adam the Primordial Man, the archetype within us.
Perhaps because alchemy combines the ancient, Gnostic focus on the immaterial and transcendent soul, or spark, with the modern, scientific-like focus on the transformation of worldly matter, it serves to connect the two. Despite his professed closer kinship to alchemy.
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
