The Blue Rose Manuscript - Roots, Branches and Offshoots - Precursor

Precursor: A substance from which another is formed, especially by metabolic reaction

 

You can think of precursors as the ancestors of an event. Everything that is has evolved from something else, which also evolved from something else. The universe is a giant chain reaction still in progress. What you are looking at right now is a step in a very complicated sequence of transformations that started at the beginning of time.

I am not talking only about matter itself, which is a good example, but about everything: events, concepts, physical laws. 

Every happenstance is born from the interaction of a series of factors, its precursors. 

Change one of those factors and its structure becomes fundamentally different. 

Good students of the laws that govern existence don’t limit themselves to observing these interactions, they understand and anticipate the results of the reaction, and, if possible, they seek the elements which, mixed, will yield the results they desire. 

These elements can be anything: the right timing, a certain level of need or curiosity, spreading the word, the right state of mind. 

Everything is a reactant in your alchemical cauldron, the world itself is your laboratory.