Alchemy is not only a means of understanding and transforming matter, it is also a means of understanding and transforming the Self. To know and Understand the Self is to also see through and destroy the False Ego implanted by the Conspiracy. This is why alchemy is an illegal and Forbidden pursuit, despite its necessity in attaining Liberation from the Conspiracy.

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