How a study of alchemiy can help your achieve your goals in life

such as death, eternity and resurrection.  They believed the power of the human mind was so strong  there was nothing that could not be accomplished

Because of the durability of gold and its amazing quality of permanence, Alchemists believed by changing inferior base metals into gold by secret chemical processes, they would discover the “philosopher’s stone”. This would provide them with the “elixir of life”, a mysterious substance that would cure illnesses, lengthen life and perhaps grant immortality.

Although the Alchemists finally failed in their attempts to transform inferior base metals into gold, the scientific world owes a great deal to these medieval scientific discoverers.

Not only did these medieval scientific investigators influence the development of scientific study in the field of chemistry, they also made a significant contribution to psychology and philosophy.

JUNG’S ASSESSMENT OF THE IMPORTANCE OF ALCHEMY.

The eminent psychologist Jung recognized the role spiritual and psychological influenced played in the work of the alchemists and made the following favorable comments about alchemy in his essay “The Ego and the Unconscious”.

“It would be an unpardonable depreciation of value if were to accept
the current view and reduce the striving of the alchemists to the level
of the smelting furnace. Certainly this aspect belonged to it. It
represented the beginnings of early chemistry. But it also had a
spiritual side which from the psychological standpoint must never
be underestimated….”

It is also interesting to reflect on the fact

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