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VIRTUAL TOMB OF THE QUANTUM ACHEMIST

Tradition has it that the word "alchemy" comes from the Egyptian term "Khme" designating the "black earth" of Egypt, but the knowledge of the alchemists would originate in Mesopotamian alchemy. For the Greeks and Egyptians, alchemy would have been taught to men by the god Hermes "Trismegistus". In general, alchemy touches on the understanding of first things and their generation, which brings it closer, if not by methods, at least by aspiration, to certain applications of modern chemistry. In addition, alchemy is always intimately associated with ideological, philosophical, metaphysical and occult considerations. Alchemical transmutation therefore also represents a spiritual awakening. Then the intermediate sciences flourished, if it is permitted to speak thus: astrology, alchemy, the old medicine of the virtues of stones and talismans, sciences which today seem to us chimerical and charlatan. Their appearance, however, marked an immense progress at a certain day and made an epoch in the history of the human mind. The close connection which exists between the intellectual power and the material power of man is found throughout history: it is the secret feeling of this connection wh

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