Full Metal Alchemist and HP

[Tonks]

Saitaina wrote:
>
> The alchemy in FullMetal Alchemist is as ours would be if we 
continued on that course of science (and you know...it actually 
WORKED).  It's the shifting of matter to create something of equal 
or lesser value.
> 
> Basically using the materials at hand to create something else 
made of the same materials (a rose to another flower of the same 
size, water to ice, elements to their other states).
> 
(snip)

> As for the pendant, none of the symbols really mean anything bad, 
most are the traditional elemental symbols, some are arrays used by 
various cast members for their alchemy (There's one for Fire, 
there's one for whatever the heck Armstrong does with the Earth, one 
for agricultural uses that pops up, so on).  There are two that are 
distinctive though, and have seperate meanings then the others.  The 
(snip)


Tonks:
Thank you very much for the information. I did buy the pendant. I 
recognize the symbols as those of Western Alchemy as follows: The 2 
triangles are the symbol for water and fire which when united become 
the union of opposites with is God. They also form what we would 
recognize as the Star of David. The wings with the crown at the top 
are symbolic of the hermaphrodite which is the stone, also a union 
of opposites. As you can see from the following there is also a 
symbol that sounds a lot like Fawkes.

>From the "Rosarium Philosophorum": 


"we are as one united naturally,
With master ease the mountain swallowed down,
The four cam forth, one yet again to be,
In our complete and more than perfect stone.
And six in trinity bethought, 
To an essential substance brought.
And who can reach this kind of thought
A power by God Himself is taught,
All sickness can he bring to naught
In human body and retort.
Without God's help no man may build,
Self knowledge too must be fulfilled.
A fountain rises from my earth,
And brings two rivers there to birth,
One flows towards the rising sun,
The other where it sets doth run.
Two eagles rise, their feathers burn,
So naked down to earth return,
And yet again are feathered there,
The sun and moon its subjects were."

The stone is God (or the image of Christ in the human being). You 
take the 4 elements which were once one and combine them until they 
are again united into one, which is God.  Alchemy is the science of 
God written in very symbolic form to confuse those who were not 
seeking truth but riches. The gold is not real gold, but spiritual. 

I am so very happy to be able to get such a pendant, even if it does 
say "Full metal Alchemy" all over it.


Saitaina wrote:
> If life hands you lemons, you should make lemonaide...and then try 
to find someone whose life has handed them vodka.

Tonks:
LOL! Love it!! I am going to use that one. ;-)

Tonks_op