09-03-2025, 11:14 AM
The Synthetic Dream: Transhumanism as Myth, Machine, and Control
"Alchemy was never really about lead. It was about man. The crucibles and furnaces, the retorts and alembics, were props in a drama of transformation: matter redeemed, base metal transfigured into gold, mortality into immortal tincture. The philosopher’s stone was never simply wealth; it was the key to transfiguration. Eternal life, incorruptibility, the body as vessel to be purified and reborn. In that smoke and fire, the first prototypes of the posthuman were dreamed. The Hermeticists and Rosicrucians refined this myth into liturgy. Their manifestos promised ascent, illumination, a breaking of human limits through secret knowledge. Their adepts imagined orders of perfected men—illuminati—whose heightened being justified their rule. What the alchemists staged in secrecy, the Rosicrucians broadcast as destiny: humanity, perfected by hidden technē, rising toward the divine. Replace “tincture” with “upload,” “order” with “platform,” and the symmetry is undeniable. Transhumanism is the Rosicrucian fantasy stripped of incense and replated in UX chrome."
https://socialecologies.wordpress.com/20...d-control/
"Alchemy was never really about lead. It was about man. The crucibles and furnaces, the retorts and alembics, were props in a drama of transformation: matter redeemed, base metal transfigured into gold, mortality into immortal tincture. The philosopher’s stone was never simply wealth; it was the key to transfiguration. Eternal life, incorruptibility, the body as vessel to be purified and reborn. In that smoke and fire, the first prototypes of the posthuman were dreamed. The Hermeticists and Rosicrucians refined this myth into liturgy. Their manifestos promised ascent, illumination, a breaking of human limits through secret knowledge. Their adepts imagined orders of perfected men—illuminati—whose heightened being justified their rule. What the alchemists staged in secrecy, the Rosicrucians broadcast as destiny: humanity, perfected by hidden technē, rising toward the divine. Replace “tincture” with “upload,” “order” with “platform,” and the symmetry is undeniable. Transhumanism is the Rosicrucian fantasy stripped of incense and replated in UX chrome."
https://socialecologies.wordpress.com/20...d-control/