Before us is a remarkable video: the moment a dam finally opens. For years it locked everything tight, and now, at last...
Reluctant, and it seems with a curse, Something starts emerging from the hole. A multi-ton surge of filth, more like half-set concrete.
You expected water, right? It’s a dam after all. Surprise!
Time passes, and the mudflow only grows stronger. Now it’s thinner, so the stream shoots farther. As the mix clears, the fountain turns bluer and more transparent.
Look at it now and there’s no doubt what the dam was holding all this time.
Major changes move in the same way, especially the ones stuck for years. Even if what once flowed inside was prana, qi, or heavenly nectar, a long pause twists it into its opposite.
Not the whole substance, only the part desperate to break free. TMud's core? Still H2O molecule. Just packed with the wrong things.
British social anthropologist Mary Douglas nailed it: "Dirt is matter out of place." Not evil, not harmful, not demonic — just off-script.
If you’ve watched others go through transformations, or lived through your own, you’re not surprised. This is exactly how it works.
The alchemists left us a strict order of the Great Work:
Nigredo (blackness) — the loss and breakdown of old forms.
Albedo (whiteness) — cleansing and brightening of essence.
Citrinitas (yellowness) — crystallization of a new design.
Rubedo (redness) — the fusion of opposites and embodiment.
A master of transformation never condemns the dirt. He welcomes it with joy.
Yours sincerely,
-Alexander
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