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THE GREAT WORK | Episode 1: The Black Earth - A History Of Alchemy Documentary Series
"Where did alchemy begin? Episode 1 of THE GREAT WORK, a documentary on the history of alchemy, starts in ancient Egypt, the Black Land of Kemet. It covers Alexandria, Mary the Jewess, Zosimos, Hermes Trismegistus and the Emerald Tablet. We visit the workshops of Egyptian metalworkers and dyers. We follow the art to Alexandria in Roman Egypt, where Greek philosophy met the furnace. There we meet the first alchemists whose names survive: Mary the Jewess, whose inventions are still used in laboratories, and Zosimos of Panopolis, who recorded his strange visions of transformation. The episode ends with Hermes Trismegistus, the "Thrice-Great", and the Emerald Tablet: "as above, so below"."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2pPY6_WR9Y
"Where did alchemy begin? Episode 1 of THE GREAT WORK, a documentary on the history of alchemy, starts in ancient Egypt, the Black Land of Kemet. It covers Alexandria, Mary the Jewess, Zosimos, Hermes Trismegistus and the Emerald Tablet. We visit the workshops of Egyptian metalworkers and dyers. We follow the art to Alexandria in Roman Egypt, where Greek philosophy met the furnace. There we meet the first alchemists whose names survive: Mary the Jewess, whose inventions are still used in laboratories, and Zosimos of Panopolis, who recorded his strange visions of transformation. The episode ends with Hermes Trismegistus, the "Thrice-Great", and the Emerald Tablet: "as above, so below"."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2pPY6_WR9Y