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(Hey! Sorry this is kind of a mess right now. I wanted to write it super quick to get my ideas down but I'll polish it later!)
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WHAT IS TRANSITION?

An idea that's been particularly resonant for thousands of years is the idea that the essence of a human being has three distinct components.

Plato believed in three souls: the LOGISTICUM, that was the home of reason, the THYMOIDES, that was the home of temper, and the desire for recognition, and the EPITHYMETICUM, the home of lust, hunger, all the bodily desires. This distinction was also present in early Christianity, as the trichotomy between the SPIRIT, SOUL, and BODY, Paracelsus later borrowed this into his three primes of MERCURY, SULFUR, and SALT. Freud called them EGO, SUPEREGO, and ID, and today we call them GENDER, PRESENTATION, and SEX. Another thing Plato believed is that "a soul can be declared just only if all three parts agree that the logisticum should rule".

This, I believe, is the foundation of transition. Just as phaenomena are imperfect embodiments of ideas into matter, our identity is the most real part of ourselves there is, hidden and locked away within a body that can at most only approximate to that form, if not discard it completely. We are taught to treat that body as a king that defines us as people, that shapes how we think and act, what we should like. The Demiurge teaches us that we are inseparable from our flesh, and that we'll never be able to be different from what fate has written us to be. A line of thinking designed to keep us trapped and hopeless, that an unfortunately high number of people have fallen for.

The truth is that there is no salvation. No higher force to wait for to lift us off our feet and away from the hell we find ourselves in. There is, however, a way out. And the way out is, as Plato said, to dethrone the body and let the spirit rule. To discover our inner divinity and use it to form ourselves in our own image. Not a false god's, our image.

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Transmutation is the process through which the prima materia is reformed into closer alignment with its form. It can be "pneumatic", "social" transition that changes the soul, or "somatic", "medical" transition, that changes the body. Transmutation can be further divided into the disciplines of ARGYROPOEIA and CHRYSOPOEIA, which differ mainly on the kinds of techniques, surgeries, and alchemical agents used (e.g. oestrogen v. testosterone), but are broadly about transmuting iron to silver and copper to gold.

Of course, mind that most transitions will be a mixture of argyropoeic and chrysopoeic, both because the base matter isn't always iron or copper, and because the spirit can have an infinite diversity of identities that doesn't always have to correspond to a demiurgic binary ideal of gender. Transition isn't from a male body to a female one or vice versa, but rather it's from the body you have to the body you want. Many modern heresies, like transmedicalism and 4trannerism, diverge at this axiom, and as a result fall victim to demiurgic bioessentialist ideas. Don't let yourself get deceived by such kinds of lies.

There are three stages to any transition: NIGREDO, the gnosis, which leads to ALBEDO or CITRINITAS, the transmutation, and RUBEDO, unity of all three parts. These stages are further divided into a total of twelve:

NIGREDO:

Calcination: The gnosis itself, the point at which one realizes the disconnect between their self and the rest of their being. The "cracking of the egg".
Solution: The existing false structures of the fated body and soul are dissolved away to truly grasp the nature of the spirit, by means of substracting the sources of dysphoria.
Separation: At the end of the process, a complete understanding of the spirit is gained. The nature of who one is and what they wish to become through their transmutation.

ALBEDO or CITRINITAS

Conjunction or Cibation: The soul is brought in line with the spirit, by choosing your own name, choosing your own pronouns, dressing, styling oneself, speaking in gender-affirming ways, changing the way others perceive you into the way you wish to be perceived.
Putrefaction or Sublimation: The body is slowly sculpted into form by alchemical means. The most salient example being hormonal elixirs like oestrogen and testosterone.
Congelation or Fermentation: The sculpting of the body is finalized by chirurgical means. (Top / bottom surgery, FFS, etc)

RUBEDO

Exaltation: The spirit, soul, and body are finally brought together into unity, in the spirit's image. All three parts agree that the spirit should rule, and as such one becomes fully emancipated from the chains of the material world.
Multiplication: The gift of gnosis is delivered to the world, so anybody that needs it may realize they do so they too may embark upon the same journey. Crack all the eggs, crack them all.
Projection: Others undergoing their own transmutation are aided in getting the means to do so. Like this.