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The goal of inner alchemy is the same as that of outer alchemy!
It's about taking lead and turning it gold.
To 'translate' you take lead, your physical body which is 'corrupted' and turn it into gold, a 'resurrected' pure body, you might notice some Christian allegory here.
It's about perfecting yourself as much as possible.
Carl Jung wrote about it too in his writtings on Alchemy and how it corresponds to bis model of Psychology.
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I see! That makes a lot of sense I guess I was overlooked the fact that alchemy is 'improving ' the materials and not just changing them. I'll add the Carl Jung but you're talking about to the reading list. Thank you for the explanation!