philosopher's stone, alchemy, violet flame

[Diana_Sirius_fan]

No: HPFGUIDX 116307


I found this interesting infomation regarding the philosopher's stone 
on www.thevioletflame.tripod.com.  The violet flame was very 
important to the ancient Egyptians.  The website says:

"The violet flame is a tool of transformation.  In alchemy, base 
metals are transformed into gold and this is symbolic of what the 
violet flame does.  The alchemy of self-transformation.  The violet 
flame has the capacity to bring this transformation by transmuting 
negative elements within ourselves. It has a unique ability to 
transform fear into courage, anxiety into peace and hatred into 
love.  
The coveted philosopher's stone -'the stone which is no stone' was 
not physical, but spiritual, and created out of fire.  Some 
alchemists did discover the secret. The stone was a self-transforming 
fire that would lead their souls upward, by drawing up to the spirit 
all qualities which dragged downward and opposed the spiritual 
essences.  In the process, the 'hard and refractory materials' in 
their bodies would be transmitted into a rare and more luminous 
material.  The alchemist would become 'like the gods' pursuing the 
gold of the wise and not the vulgar metal.  
Transmutation was not just a process that turned base metals into 
gold, but a spiritual process which raised the soul into a state of 
unity with the divine."  
  
My first thought was that this is the secret that Voldie used so he 
didn't die in PS but then I realized that it is a spiritual process 
and it couldn't be.  Then I thought it was interesting that at the 
end of PS, Harry had the stone and he could be 'like the gods' 
pursuing the gold of the wise (Dumbledore).  

Diana