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Thursday, February 19, 2004

Alchemy
Alchemy is an occult art and psuedoscience.It's practitioner's main goal's have been:

1) To turn base metal's(like lead or copper)into precious metals(like gold or silver)(the transmutation motif).

2) To create an elixer or potion or metal which could cure all illnesses(the medical motif).

3) Discover an elixer which would to immortality(the transcendence motif).

The magical substance that was to transmute metals,to be the universal panacea and to serve as the key to immortality was called the philosopher's stone.

Alchemy is based on the belief that there are four basic elements--fire, air, earth, and water--and three essentials: salt, sulfur, and mercury.Great symbolic and metaphysical systems have been built from these seven pillars of alchemy.Ancient Chinese and Egyptian occult literature are said to be the foundation upon which alchemy is based.Alchemy was very popular in the medievil Europe where one of the most sacred books of the alchemists was allegedly written by an Egyptian god Thoth,known as Hermes Trismegistus(Hermes,the thrice-great was the greek god who served as a messenger and delivered the souls of the dead to Hades.)In 1455,a manuscript entitled Corpus Hermeticum began circulating in Florence,Italy. it was allegedly a compilation of the alchemical, astrological, and magical knowledge of the Egyptian god. However, it is known that the work was of European origin and dates from somewhat after the time Thoth prospered.The work is full of magic spells and incantations and other useless occult notions.
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