Alchemical Traditions -Aaron Cheak

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Spanning the world's artistic, scientific, and religious traditions, alchemy has embraced and continues to embrace the complete spectrum of existence. From metallurgy to metaphysics, or gold-making to god-making, alchemy pervades the technical and the hieratic arts in order to provide a living phenomenology of the one, single, elusive process that acts through all things.

Despite this all-pervasive purview, alchemy continues to be conceived as either proto-chemistry or proto-psychology. The present volume seeks to redress this false dichotomy by exploring alchemy as a quintessentially integral phenomenon. Opening wide the full spectrum of alchemy-from east to west, in history and practice, from antiquity to the avant-garde-the present work seeks to penetrate as deeply as possible, within the bounds of a single volume, into the transfiguring spiritual intensity that underpins the perfection of life,…