Alchemy , a part of the Occult Tradition, is both a philosophy and a practice with an aim of achieving ultimate wisdom as well as immortality, involving the improvement of the alchemist as well as the making of several substances described as possessing unusual properties.... , the alleged primitive formless base of all matter, given particular manifestation through the influence of forms
Substantial form
A theory of Substantial forms asserts there are things called Forms , and they are what organizes matter and makes it intelligible. Substantial forms are the source of order, unity, and identity of objects.... . The concept is sometimes attributed to Aristotle
Aristotle
Aristotle was a Greeks philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, Poetics , theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology and zoology.... , but apparently emerged after his lifetime, out of errors of interpretation.
