Alchemy As a Key to Social Regeneration

    Well, I'm certainly happy to see all here today, and you look very well-contented and everything, we hope we'll have here a nice day.

    This morning we have a subject that I think is of more or less vital importance in these times. But we have to begin by going back to one of the earliest concepts that we have in the world of science — and that is the transmutation of metals.

Esoteric Alchemy: The Transmutation of Attitudes

    Raymond Lully, who was one of the great early alchemists, once pointed out that the great tragedy of the concept of alchemy was the transmutation of metals. Basil Valentine, a monk of St. Bennett, had the same thought when he wrote into one of his books, "WOE TO THE GOLD MAKERS!"