A chemist with a lifelong interest in the occult takes the reader through the byways of older thought: the medieval mind, Pythagoras and his philosophy, medicine and magic, superstitions about birds, the powder of sympathy that was supposed to heal wounds at a distance, talismans, ceremonial magic, architectural symbolism, and the quest for the philosopher’s stone with its sexual imagery.
A sympathetic but critical guide to beliefs long abandoned, for readers fascinated by alchemy and the history of ideas. Download the free EPUB.