Alchemy

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Al-Khemiya from the African dark soil. An arabic word meaning dark art from this land.

Alchemy has a long history of development. Its exact origins are unknown but it has existed in Africa, the Arab world, China, Greece and most of Europe.

Many modern alchemists have now changed abandoned its form as proto-chemistry in favour of using it as a form of transpersonal psychology. However, other modern alchemists still practice many of the physical processes, such as spagyrics, as part of their spiritual growth.

Associated with Ouroboros in medicine and Isaac Newton in science.

1 The Alchemical Process
2 List of Suggested Alchemists
3 See also
4 External Links

The Alchemical Process

Both spiritual alchemy and physical alchemy concerns itself with the transmutation of base metals into gold. In spiritual alchemy, this is seen as a metaphor for turning something ordinary into something extraordinary. In physical alchemy, it is still seen as a metaphoric process, but the actions involved in the physical process, and the physical process itself, are also seen as meditative and contemplative.

Gold is said to be the most highly evolved material in the physical universe.