[caption id="attachment_542" align="alignleft" width="340"] Portrait of alchemist Nicolas Flamel by the French painter Balthazar Montcornet from the 17th century.[/caption] At the core of any legend, there's a dream. Such as a dream to turn any metal into gold, whether by touch or by other means, and
[caption id="attachment_505" align="alignleft" width="340"] Sir Isaac Newton • Portrait by Godfrey Kneller (painted in 1689). Location: Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge[/caption] Most people nowadays think about the apple, the tree and the law of gravitation when the name »Newton« is mentioned. But, let's start
[caption id="attachment_209" align="alignleft" width="340"] The Great Work - Illustration in Dom Pernety's "Dictionnaire Mytho Hermétique", a seldom remembered book with enormous impact on alchemy and hermetic philosophy[/caption] “Adepts do not run after gold and silver” wrote French polymath Dom Pernety more than 300 years ago, referring to
