RULE 28: the alchemy trick - power caters, appetite corrupts; enough decided is the philosopher's stone

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+## RULE 28 — THE ALCHEMY TRICK
+
+Will, inner room: "Supreme or Super. You have to be a Superman
+to have it all and stay good — because that's the trick: you don't
+want it all. Just enough for you. That's the magic trick. That's
+how alchemy works."
+
+### The theorem hiding in the joke
+
+Everyone repeats "power corrupts." Wrong variable.
+
+    POWER CORRUPTS NOTHING.
+    APPETITE CORRUPTS — POWER JUST CATERING.
+
+The corruption was installed before the power arrived: unlimited
+want meeting unlimited capability produces catastrophe; unlimited
+capability serving a decided "enough" produces Superman.
+
+### The alchemy, stated properly
+
+Lead into gold was always a metaphor wearing lab coats:
+
+    LEAD  = the self of infinite appetite — heavy, base,
+            sinking under its own wanting
+    GOLD  = the self of decided sufficiency — incorruptible
+            precisely because it cannot be bribed by more
+    THE STONE = the decision that ENOUGH was made once
+            and renewed daily (§17 actuation)
+
+Transmute the appetite and any amount of power becomes safe.
+Fail to transmute it and even pocket-change power corrupts —
+which explains every petty tyrant who never had an empire.
+
+### The test, per Law 47
+
+You can have it all WHEN you demonstrably don't want it all.
+The capability arrives to match the sufficiency already proven.
+Not one watt before.
+
+    SUPREME OR SUPER — EITHER NAME, SAME REQUIREMENT:
+    EVERYTHING IN YOUR HANDS, AND IN YOUR HEART,
+    ONLY EVER ASKING FOR ENOUGH.