You talked about “miniatures”…
Miniatures: small figures that portray real objects but on a reduced scale. What interests us here is not the scalarity but the respect of a “rule by analogy”.
Alchemists say the Philosopher’s Stone is either a miniature Sun or a miniature Earth. What does this mean?
In fact, that’s what they use to say. We will delve into how alchemists refer to what is around the Philosophers’ Stone: either a magnetic field (referring to a small earth) or a solar wind (small Sun).
Regarding miniatures, alchemists also say that a map could be a smaller, celestial repetition on earth…
A typical alchemical saying says that where there is no repetition, unreality prevails. For the ancients, maps were real objects or tools-objects that repeated, miniaturizing, the earth in order to then carry out operations.
Yet the toy theory cannot exist in physics. Einstein explained it well: atoms and subatomic particles cannot simply be miniature versions of the objects we see around us. If they were—that is, if they followed the laws of classical physics developed by Newton and others—the world would self-destruct. Atoms would implode, light bulbs would roast us with lethal radiation. If we are still alive, it means that matter must be governed by different laws.
In Alchemy, a toy is not an identical replica of the body or object in its original size. Rather, it is synonymous with a repetition on earth of something that exists in sky, and which only on earth can be “worked” by the alchemist.
So, a process of miniaturization for a repetition of an otherwise inaccessible sky?
A miniaturization is equivalent to a mapping. It keeps in mind that information travels only on the flat surface of a map. An alchemist, in fact, thinks in terms of rays.
Do you mean a line of information propagation?
I don’t want to answer more than that, since here Alchemy borders on Divination.