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Anonymous
I LOL's as well. But, the books aside, Emo Anon is right. Alchemy did develop as a path of western enlightenment. Some groups practiced it mainly for that purpose, such as the Rosicrucian Order. In this system, the alchemical process of refining elements to allow their true essence to come forth was used as a metaphore for refining the self. Alchemy, in many ways was proto chemistry, and like much western protoscience, was beleived to have a mystical element. And that's my two cents.
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