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**Maturity is almost impossible to transmit rationally, but is a very compelling concept aesthetically**.

It is learned by seeing others grow the courage to make meaningful decisions, and accept the duty and power and consequences that flow from them. It teaches a mastery that cannot simply be taught through abstract school lessons.

**Without traditions it is still easy for us to form opinions, but difficult to form convictions.**

A mythological education is distinct from the common school subjects. It builds in the mind intuition for second-order effects, for the first lesson a child learns from one hundred stories is that every thing you do will have unintended consequences

^^**Alchemy was the last honest science, because it purported to seek things, and the others purport to know things.**^^

**However it is a mortal sin to confuse the concept of consensus with science, for consensus is statement of politics, and speaks nothing of truth.**

**Modern science is drunk on both certainty and consensus, with all the grave mistakes to show for it. The inventor of the lobotomy was awarded a Nobel Prize, never rescinded**, which is telling not only of modern science but also the nature of awards.

Alchemy comes from a time when people considered science a process and a philosophy, and **took allegories seriously enough to learn from them.**