Alchemical Traditions: From Antiquity to the Avant-Garde

Spanning the world's artistic, scientific and religious traditions, alchemy has embraced and continues to embrace the complete spectrum of existence. From metallurgy to metaphysics, alchemy engages the technical, fine and hieratic arts in order to provide a living phenomenology of the one, single, elusive process that acts through all things. Ultimately-in its guise as ars transmutationis - alchemy penetrates to the heart of the transfiguring spiritual intensity that underpins the perfectio...