Andro:
Point well taken. (I am not so good at using all the board's technical features yet, for example I have no idea how you managed to quote two people in one post window.)
As for how the stone works (apart from the Book of Aquarius explanation of it being concentrated "life energy" which is quite good), I've noticed from studying different alchemy recipes, that often a salt is joined to one or more metals. The salt is a metal and an acid combination that has found chemical equilibrium. By adding additional metals this balance is upset and cannot find equilibrium again unless additional acid(s) are added. It's rather like a group of neighbors on a snowy day, all needing to use but one snow shovel. This would make the substance very chemically active, as the ingredient in short supply, gets passed around.
How it works in the body: Humans are made of mostly gases (H2O & N) and a relatively small amount of minerals. Anything able to effect transmutations on substances many times it's weight would have effect on those ingredients that human bodies are made. However humans have absolutely no control of how ingredients are allocated internally, so a goodly amount must be handled by a Higher Source that's responsible for other unconscious, autonomic events of a given human pattern. A "Higher Self," if you will, and something none of us can take credit for.
Point well taken. (I am not so good at using all the board's technical features yet, for example I have no idea how you managed to quote two people in one post window.)
As for how the stone works (apart from the Book of Aquarius explanation of it being concentrated "life energy" which is quite good), I've noticed from studying different alchemy recipes, that often a salt is joined to one or more metals. The salt is a metal and an acid combination that has found chemical equilibrium. By adding additional metals this balance is upset and cannot find equilibrium again unless additional acid(s) are added. It's rather like a group of neighbors on a snowy day, all needing to use but one snow shovel. This would make the substance very chemically active, as the ingredient in short supply, gets passed around.
How it works in the body: Humans are made of mostly gases (H2O & N) and a relatively small amount of minerals. Anything able to effect transmutations on substances many times it's weight would have effect on those ingredients that human bodies are made. However humans have absolutely no control of how ingredients are allocated internally, so a goodly amount must be handled by a Higher Source that's responsible for other unconscious, autonomic events of a given human pattern. A "Higher Self," if you will, and something none of us can take credit for.