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time, the impact and influence of alchemy can be easily traced in published records to places
throughout the world from ancient Egypt in 4,000 B.C. to early civilizations in the Eastern
Mediterranean, and later Greece. From these places, alchemy s sphere of influence traveled in a great
clockwise arc to what is now the eastern Arabian Peninsula, the Indus Valley, China, Tibet and across
the northern tip of the African continent to Europe and eventually to the United States in the 1700 s.
Most of the people involved in alchemy have been and remain unknown and unheralded people
practicing the art in the privacy of their laboratories. There have been well known alchemists described
in the literature Flamel and Paracelsus to name just two. It would surprise and even shock most
people to learn that Issac Newton was an accomplished alchemist before he turned his interest to
gravity as revealed in White s The Last Sorcerer.
In their recent book, Monument to the End of Time, Weidner & Bridges offer readers the intriguing
possibility that alchemy split into three fragments with the collapse of the ancient world in the first
millennium. The first is the internal transformation of the alchemist that merged with and became a
driving force in experiential mysticism. The second is the physical transformation which, by itself, led to
metallurgical and proto-chemical experimentation and, in the hands on some, forgery. The third,
transformation of time, became the closely guarded secret of Christianity, Judaism and Islam.
Thus separated into three formerly interrelated parts, alchemy lost, for many, its unified approach to
our experience of life and its central place in our understanding of who we are. Now, when we search
for alchemy in the evolving landscapes of cultures across our globe and ask, Where is alchemy, four
possible answers are possible: nowhere, here, there and everywhere.
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