[caption id="attachment_542" align="alignleft" width="340"] Portrait of alchemist Nicolas Flamel by the French painter Balthazar Montcornet from the 17th century. The French scribe is the epitome of Alchemy and his legendary possession of the Philosopher's stone appears in esoteric literature such as the alchemical novel »The
[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
