Alchemy and Renaissance

Alchemy and Renaissance
For a human being to progress, the people need to go back to the before to know what it is about in order to move forward. Janus, god of gates, doors the beginning and the ending. Also use for the word January where it looks back at the previous year and look ahead to the New Year. The humanist (learn about the science of building the character of a human being) took philosophy to ground their wisdom, rhetoric (art of communication), Plato (moving forward) and gaining the access of many reference they learn how to synthesize (to form by combining parts or elements) and interpreted Vitruvius, shape of the circle as the heaven man which is equivalent to the heaven. The square which represents the 4 elements of the four humors:








(Wikipedia)
When one suffers from an imbalance, that person personality and physical health will be affected.
Eventually art came as medicine and people began to ponder and think about the body.
(What is the body? how do we become heavenly, what is he really people cannot see, oculus of imagination, imagination is a plane that is between heaven and earth, when you are there you are in between human and the cosmic)
Earth layer
Moon layer
Super Celestial layer
In Renaissance period, people was obsessed with the good life, human body was an obsession. The question on what affects the body leads to the four humours and the Hippocrates uses the idea for medicine and soul was see as the important component for health. The soul merges with the body, without the soul it is like having a human body with no life force.

Kimiya-yi sa'ādat [The Alchemy of Happiness]
Aether (classical element) ‘material that fills the region of the Universe above the terrestrial sphere’
Spiritual alchemist, who free themselves from the body head to the celestial heaven world perhaps it is the sight, sound and smell, the incense they release, the alchemical could be said that it allows one to be able completely feel the imagined.
The smell also leads to the discovery of aroma therapy.
The alchemy had also strive for a balance to the body (balance of the four humours), the symmetry, the strive for beauty.





The soul, spirit and the body are seen as the trinity of the body. Medicine for the spirit and the spirit is important because it impacted imagination. The soul was like ether that spread through the earth, we have some intelligence from the star and the body. The spirit when move into the body, dark and opaque it got stuck, the spirit got a confuse state Phaedrus, unless purified, it will drag down the soul to hell or some lower incarnation.
In the super celestial level, the spirit is connected to the light, the eyes have the will to see, the eye can choose to see and register in mind such as the feng shui, ‘poisonous wind’ & by seeing the right things can help to tune back the soul.
It is believed that certain things attract different powers from different god, therefore the above affects what is below. E.g if need girl friend you need the Venus (god of love),certain plants will be drawing the energy, souls of the Venus. If form right images it can aid the power of god or heavens, design to attract celestial forces or astrological forces.
Alchemist also tried to draw new ideas from architecture, certain areas such as geometry as it reveals the entire cosmos.
How Alchemy relates to Games Design:
The idea that that giving certain objects a specific powers which draws in the power of god and by mix and combine objects together to create a new special formula power for the soul, is like finding certain items in game that is needed to used to make new epic powerful skills for the new character.
The idea of having an equation where you use it to generate new formula is seen and is mainly often using in the assets of games in the industry. Perhaps when go by form and content, where the bottle is use to represent the form and the drink is use to represent the content, the idea will be in mix into the same bottle to create the next formula.