Do You Know the Answer to this Ancient Riddle?



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Although this Riddle is Ancient in Origins, the translation of this question was taken from The Alchemy Lab, though they provide no correct answer.
I personally believe that any answer you choose is the most correct for you, and indicates your level of progression within the spiritual world.

The link above leading to The Alchemy Lab contains the same Riddle, but with a Hint relating to the Emerald Tablet of the Egyptians!

Also, for those who are interested in Alchemy and/or Metaphysics, here is a free Personal Alchemy Quiz which may help to explain your level of progression within the spiritual world.


Note: Nicolas Flamel was a real person who lived during the 15th Century, and was accreddited with having created the Real Philosopher's Stone. He is not just a character from J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series books!

 

 

 

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I guessed soul but what is the real answer?

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Basically, your answer could (should) change through time, and that change signifies your progression within the spiritual reality of the universe.

Most importantly, you should choose that answer which YOU feel is most correct for you, and not be influenced by the choices of others.

There is in the end however, 1 correct answer, and that, well, that is the Secret of Life! Isn't it?
(It's not a big secret though, when you find the answer you will understand!)

Remember: To be happy is to be successful in life!

 

 

 

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I think its matter but its sounds weird when its next to all those choices there. But when it says 'the poor possess it more than the rich', I think its Love. The rich grows selfish, as everyone knows because in thoes little kid's movie the rich guy always seems decieving and evil. But the last few lines got me confused....

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I agree with above sentence, and I think it is the best answer to this riddle.

Well, my answer is laughter . Without it my life wouldn't exist as it does right now.

It is more important than gold, money or success.

Money makes us work.
Gold makes us greedy.
Success makes us (too) proud.

But laughter makes us alive.

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This makes me think it's love because the people who are learned are stereotyped into them only caring for their work and nothing else (thus showing showing no love for others)

But that was the first thing that came answer that came to my head so I voted for that but if you think about it there are other things on the list which could well be the meaning.

The meaning is not known and forever should be kept that way (unless you believe it's 52 )

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All very good answers! And yes, all answers on the list could potentially fit the riddle.. In fact, when I first saw the riddle (without having a list of choices) I assumed it was referring to Fire! (which is an Alchemical Substance nonetheless!)

But I should note that the answer IS known, and I shall post it here in time, but for now I am interested in seeing the opinions of others!

(cmat, I think the answer you were thinking of is 42, from "The Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy" am I correct?)

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I would have to say that it would be love for multiple reasons.

My first point comes from the very beginning of the riddle. It states that this object, whatever it is, is the key to life. To my understanding and belief, birth and children should be a product of love and affection and a child cannot be conceived without it. (Strictly from an idealist point of view, I know perfectly well that a child can be produced from something as horrible as rape, but in an ideal situation, a child comes from love.)

The riddle continues to say that if you cannot find this in your own home, then you shall find it nowhere. I feel that if you do not experience and receive love as a child or even as a young adult, it is difficult to both understand and distribute it to other people from yourself, because you have no understanding of experience with it.

"...Children play with it in the streets." I understand this as growth and maturity in that as a child grows to a young adult, feelings, particularly love, become a very big and important part of his life. He begins experimenting (playing in the streets) with his own emotions and the emotions of others in an attempt to develop a strong relationship with someone.

Where it says that the meek and uneducated esteem it highly and that the rich and learned throw it away I feel that the riddle is saying that because the learned have a different thought process and often wish to be in control of their lives, feelings become a very difficult issue for them. This is because feelings are difficult to control unlike the thought process and thus love becomes more of a hazard than a blessing to them.

Finally, "When rejected, it lies dormant in the bowels of the earth." This to me is a direct relation to love and its nature. Simply, when a person experiences rejection or a lack of love, love (among other feelings) begins to represent something that they do not like and therefore to prevent further possibility of loss of love, they choose not to love and bury it within themselves (similar to lying dormant in the bowels of the earth).

I don't know though. These were just some of the connections that I saw, but I doubt any one answer is perfectly correct. This is very interesting though, to see other people's ideas and beliefs.

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I have to agree with the answer of Love though some of the other answers may work. I won't repeat what other people have said (or try not to repeat) though I felt the same way about the riddle when reading over it and reading the comments previous to mine.

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I will bet for 'INNOCENT" for many reasons, being innocent can save life yet brings death to anyone.

Child and poor posses this morethan the rich one. It says that only those who lack of knowledge and understanding has more of it that the rich.

But the privileged and learned often throw it away. It says that when someone who's educate well, less posses this rather than those who lack of educations.

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