Stanley Struble

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A Brief History of Alchemy offers an overview of the fascinating world of alchemy, from its origins in Ancient Egypt under Pharaoh Khufu to the present, but not before discussing famous men such as Saint Thomas Aquinas, Paracelsus, Roger Bacon, and Isaac Newton, all of which were involved in this field. The book gives us an understanding of the history of alchemists, true practitioners who unified experimentation with spiritual perfectionism. In Ancient Egypt it was practiced by priests who controlled the medicine and led religious rituals. Today the practice has fulfilled the most precious dreams of past practitioners by creating life and immortality and by transmuting substances into others. The author fills with book with not only historical facts, but with an entertaining and reader friendly writing style that facilitates our understanding of the men, researchers, and thinkers usually always Christians who borrowed from ancient philosophies such as Hermeticism, Gnosticism, Pythagoreanism, and the school of Jonia, so as to create a transcendent vision of their discipline. Their efforts and experiments were no more than a material manifestation of their true and constant quest for inner illumination / La increíble historia de la disciplina que ha combinado la superstición y la ciencia en busca de la Piedra Filosofal, el Elixir de la Vida, Sigue a los alquimistas a lo largo de más de cuatro mil años, de Europa al Extremo Oriente y desde Egipto hasta la Revolución Industrial.