The lost Book of Alchemy Released

Alchemy like many similar practices is symbolic. The philosopher's stone is a concept, not a thing, unless your last name is Elric (preferably first names Edward or Alphonse.) Alchemy is not a recipe book or a chemistry set.

There'll be more and more of this muck sloshed out until we get this stupid 2012 thing behind us.

Here's a summary of the entire metaphysics aisle at your local bookstore. Ready? Don't blink...

"All things are equivalent therefore all things are divine including you, and there is no difference between you and the cosmos."

Look at all the time I saved people :)

 

Ah Alchemy, started as Caelme by Greek priests, they studied weather patterns, herbs for medicine and invented the first man made poisons, also a long lost chemical compound called simply "Greek fire" was invented. Eventually Caelme was driven underground as it started to contradict the gods.
Some how the works was latter discovered and continued on by a group of Arabs, they called it simply The Caelme or in ancient Arabic Al Caelme. They continued on the lines of simple scientific discovery. During the Crusades this work was discovered by the Europeans, who called it alcamy, the church outlawed it, calling it witchcraft. Some Europeans continued the work, a lot of stigma was created about what was being done at this time. Although it is commonly passed around that Alchemists tried to turn lead to gold, that is not all they did, in Europe Alchemy had become basically the primitive form of chemistry, not a lot in the way of real discoveries came out of this, but it did set the ground work for chemistry.

Alchemy was never about the fountain of youth, or some stone, or anything to do with magic, it was early science. What Alchemy was got twisted around because of the time it was labelled as witchcraft. So I'm sorry to tell you but you but you've been had, although if you like reading fictional books about the fountain of youth I would highly recommend The Sanctuary by Raymond Khoury, in short it's about peoples greed in searching for immortality, it spans several hundred years but the main part of the story is held in modern times, also includes a secret society :) It's a good book anyway and you don't have to make any potions to enjoy it :)

 

Perhaps, but who cares, we get so little to talk about here that alchemy is as good a subject as any :)

 

Hehe, I agree with ALL the above posts!

Bring it on!

jay :)