10-29-2026, 10:54 AM
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...o-medieval
"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...o-medieval