The ancient Greeks did not have a general word for “matter,” only words for specific types of matter. Aristotle took the word for lumber and adapted it to mean matter, in general. In alchemy it is also called the “First Matter,” is the source of the four elements, and is identical to the “Philosopher’s Stone.”
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Rick de Yampert, author of the new Crows and Ravens.
I was gobsmacked the time I looked out my living room window at the woods behind my Palm Coast, Florida, home and saw a crow hanging upside-down in...