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ALCHEMY, FROM THE CAPTURE OF A SOUL BY THE EGYPTIAN GNOSTICS TO THE SEARCH OF A PANACEA IN EUROPE: FIFTEEN CENTURIES OF RESEARCH ON HUMAN FERTILIZATION
By Didier Maintenant
The diversity of treatises grouped in the "alchemical" corpus has caused a misleading amalgam, still prevalent today: alchemy would be a practice based on the belief of being able to transform a vile metal into gold. The objective of this publication is to demonstrate that such motivation could not be attributed to Egyptian craftsmen so renowned for their ancestral know-how. Its conclusion will then make the link with the probable alchemical practice of the Gnostics (or followers of Hermes).
https://www.academia.edu/115863816/ALCHE...TILIZATION
By Didier Maintenant
The diversity of treatises grouped in the "alchemical" corpus has caused a misleading amalgam, still prevalent today: alchemy would be a practice based on the belief of being able to transform a vile metal into gold. The objective of this publication is to demonstrate that such motivation could not be attributed to Egyptian craftsmen so renowned for their ancestral know-how. Its conclusion will then make the link with the probable alchemical practice of the Gnostics (or followers of Hermes).
https://www.academia.edu/115863816/ALCHE...TILIZATION