An introduction to the most significant English exponents of the alchemical mysteries of the pre-Enlightenment era. By tradition alchemists observed a discreet silence about the processes of their art, but they still passed on to posterity an enduring legacy, for which we owe them a great spiritual debt. It is, however, a veiled and encoded legacy, for even at their clearest these texts are often most obscure – and deliberately so, for the alchemists kept their secrets hidden from the greedy and the casually curious.
An introduction to the most significant English exponents of the alchemical mysteries of the pre-Enlightenment era. By tradition alchemists observed a discreet silence about the processes of their art, but they still passed on to posterity an enduring legacy, for which we owe them a great spiritual debt. It is, however, a veiled and encoded legacy, for even at their clearest these texts are often most obscure – and deliberately so, for the alchemists kept their secrets hidden from the greedy and the casually curious.