Alchemy, Mysticism and Modem Science

We shall here quote the opinions of two modem writers, as to the significance of Alchemy one a mystic, the other a man of science. Says Mr. A. E. Waite, If the authors of the Suggestive Inquiry and of Remarks on Alchemy and the 

Alchemists [two books putting forward the transcendental theory] had considered the lives of the symbolists, as well as the nature of the symbols, their views would have been very much modified they would have found that the tiue method of Hermetic interpretation lies in a middle course but the errors which originated with merely typographical investigations were intensified by a consideration of the great alchemical theorem, which, par excellence, is one of universal development, which acknowledges 

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For the most part, the alchemists were chiefly engaged with the carrying out of the alchemislic theory on the physical plane, i.e., with the attempt to transmute the base metals into the noble ones some for the love of knowledge, but alas the vast majority for the love of mere wealth. But all who were worthy of the title of alchemist realised at limes, more or less dimly, the possibility of the application of the same methods to man and the glorious result of the transmutation of man s soul into spiritual gold. There were a few who had a 

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