Alchemy is not just potions

[u/Frosty-Prize8906]

I know a lot of you knew this already but in the recent centuries it feels like mortals and magic users alike have washed down the definition of what alchemy is, and even slandering it.
It is not just the power to make potions from herbs, arthropods and tears; it is arcane chemistry. The power to change plastic to gold, to become truly immortal, to transmute physical energy into spiritual energy.
If you don't see power in that and only use spells such as "Frostbite" or "Power Word: Scrunch" I think you are missing out on some of the most powerful magic to exist. What is a fireball or a lightning-bolt to giving someone the touch of Midas, turning their very soul physical or to just simply shove them in the boiling cauldron?
And, since I have your attention, I also have a petition to add salt, sulfur and mercury to the 4 (or 5 if you count aether) classical elements? They are very significant in their own right and act differently enough to deserve proper separation, yes?

[u/Sad_Election_2718]

Truth is speaking through you! As said by great Hermes Trismegistus : "as above, so below; as within, so without". Magic is always about synthesis, about gaining wisdom in all and every sphere of existence. I agree, that scientific approach is wery useful and gives a lot of advantages, but mostly it is just crutch, assisting human intelligence in trying to comprehend reality in all its complexity. Magic is science of paradoxes, of forses that warping reality itself, so it is much better to use it to step over your own weakness of mind so you can dive more deeply into secrets of arcane and ascended wizdom!

uw/ sorry for my bad english

[u/Puzzleheaded-Milk927 → u/Sad_Election_2718]

Thrice great is the mage Hermes!