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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 5252454" data-attributes="member: 1125">Yes the Panacea was the ultimate cure all and could prolong life. However following Eastern (Daoist Alchemy) Immortality also required an internal transformation of energiesActually not transmutation of lead into gold, that was a by-product and metaphor. The purpose of the Philosophers Stone was purification and 'perfection' of any substance so that its pure aether form was released from mundane matter. It may have been an early attempt at a matter-energy transfer<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The Golem was infact considered a lesser impure creation (it was mud and mindless) True alchemist following attempted to create Hommonculus which was intelligent enough to be given instructions and 'think'anthroparion were similar to hommonculus but imbued with a 'spirit' and could also have animal as well has human formThe Arcanum Experiment was the final transformation of ALchemy and was a transformation of self from mundane flesh to an immotal spiritual form - that might be an option (ie achieving godhood)Also don't forget the lesser elixris like the Universal Solvent (and the problem of how do you contain the universal solvent?)</blockquote>