Divine art

Lacinio, Giano. The new pearl of great price a treatise concerning the treasure and most precious stone of the philosophers Or the method and procedure of this divine art with observations drawn from the works of Arnoldus, Raymondus, Rhasis, Albertus, and Michael Scotus, first published by Janus Lacinius, the Calabrian, with a copious index. rhttp //www.ebrary.com1. 

Hamilton, Gertrude R. Thomas Vaughan and the Divine Art of alchemy. Cauda Pavonis 4, no. 2 (Fall 1985) 1-3. 

It is amazing that alchemy, once called the Divine Art or Sacred Science, has fallen into such obscurity that it is now only remembered as the primitive beginnings of modern chemistry. And yet, alchemy lies at the root of every Western Esoteric tradition as well as many of the arts and sciences, including medicine and pharmacology. Alchemy has been called "The Mother of all Science and Wisdom."... 

You really are what you eat. By using these Seven Basics over time, their refined and spiritualized matter become part of you and in turn you become more refined and spiritualized. It is said that the attitude of the artist, more than the process itself, is what makes alchemy "The Divine Art." This attitude and energy becomes transferred to the matter being acted upon and affects the outcome of the operation. The energy is released again within us from the Elixir in a more noble state. 

From the very beginnings of the Divine Art of alchemy, its esoteric practitioners used every known device of cryptic expression, allegory, and m tic and symbolic representation in order to vaile their secrets with mistic speech, lest, as they put it, the clodhopper might turn from his plough in order to cultivate the more allurii Soil of the Sages. 

From the very beginnings of the Divine Art of alchemy, its esoteric practitioners used every known... 

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