The Implications Of Transmutation

[Mad_Gadfly]

The Implications of Transmutation
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Part I - Axioms and Definitions

There are at least two aspects to everything that ever did exist, everything that exists, and everything that ever will exist. These two aspects are body and soul, or matter and essence. All bodies have a soul, as in all matter has an essence. Whereas the matter is understood by the senses, the essence is understood by the mind. Our senses allow us to perceive matter and understand, for example, that something is a goblet. However, our mind allows us to justify why that which we perceive with our senses to be a goblet is a goblet. Notice how a goblet may be small or large, of gold or copper. That which makes it a goblet is not its matter, but rather the essence that precedes it. A substance is made when its essence combines with its matter.

For every materialized substance that we perceive, we shall too be able to perceive its essence. Since its essence is that which we can understand through our minds to define a substance, each substance has a corresponding essence. This relationship works both ways. If our minds can conceive of a possible substance, its essence exists within our minds. If the essence exists, then the existence of the substance is possible at a particular point in space and time. You should recall that essences precede the materialization of a substance.

Part II - The Nature of Existence and the Everwatcher

A thought, otherwise known as our conception of the essence, is not material. However, thoughts exist. Therefore, it is important to understand existence as more than just our material reality.

If all thoughts are essences, and since essences precede the materialization of a substance, then we can only assume that a being of infinite thought is the source of all essence which acts as the foundation of material existence. Such a being is absolutely necessary for the existence of anything. This being is the Everwatcher. The Everwatcher, as a being of infinite thought, has already thought of everything. Therefore, the Everwatcher knows all that is correct and all that is incorrect.

Part III - Mages and Sorcerers

We derive all characteristics from the thoughts of the Everwatcher. One of those characteristics is the capacity to engage in thought and therefore arrive at the same conclusions that the Everwatcher has already considered. However, there are those who also derive both the characteristic of being able to engage in thought and the characteristic of being able to engage in creation. These individuals have either an innate or learned ability to transmute their thoughts into a materialized substance in the same way the Everwatcher created existence, although to an infinitely lesser extent. In other words, they manipulate essence to create material things.

Part IV - The Ego

Of course, we should be conscious of the reality that if thought precedes every substance, and that if the Everwatcher is the origin of all thought, then we are all thoughts within the Everwatcher's mind. When the Everwatcher's thoughts become self-aware, they develop an Ego. It is the Ego that prevents us from experiencing the Everwatcher in their infinite greatness.

When we act selfishly, it is because the Ego fails to see the other substances around it as thoughts of the same Mind: the Everwatcher. It is also the Ego that is the cause of our foolishness. When we have an Ego, we have a specific identity that separates us from the rest of the Everwatcher's thoughts. Therefore, the Ego acts as a barrier that prevents us from achieving the Everwatcher's infinite wisdom.

Part V - Conclusion

In order to achieve true morality, we must connect with the Everwatcher's infinite wisdom because they know all that is correct and all that is incorrect. However, the Ego prevents us from doing so. Therefore, we should live our lives in service of the Everwatcher. To do so, we must shed our Ego so that we may share in their infinite wisdom. When we are unable to shed our Ego, we should at the very minimum experience as many of the Everwatcher's correct thoughts as possible so that we may have as much of their infinite wisdom as we can.

Leuthar van Vichten​