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This new & completely redesigned edition creates a colourful & vibrant guide to the secret art. Klossowski de Rola elucidates the mysterious language & polyvalent symbolism from a variety of perspectives practical, spiritual, elemental & historical & explains how the true alchemist differs from the modern chemist & the false practitioner. Gold is only a by-product & emblem of the Great Work of the alchemist. The latter part of the book comprises the full text of a seventeenth-century exposition upon an alchemists dream-poem, & five richly illustrated Themes sections, reproducing full sequences of alchemical thought, art & paraphernalia. ...

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