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A Brief Introduction to Medieval Alchemy - Paul Ferguson - 10-29-2026
Olivia Wetzel.
"Far from being about greed, ‘cauldrons, sorcery, mysticism [the modern definition of mysticism, at least] and magic,’ alchemy has always been a deeply religious practice, and was considered an outward manifestation of the inward progression of a soul being cleansed from a base state of sin and rising to a pure, edenic state, through prayer, fasting, and rightly ordering oneself."
https://olivia173.substack.com/p/a-brief-introduction-to-medieval