Alchemy - The Great Work By Cherry Gilchrist

Cherry Gilchrist surveys Western alchemy from its early origins through its seventeenth-century flowering and later developments. She considers both the work with substances and the symbolic transformation of the practitioner.

The narrative explains alchemical imagery and the relationship among physical, psychological, and spiritual aims. With a foreword by Mark Booth, it offers a concise historical introduction to the tradition rather than instructions for unsafe chemical experimentation. ISBN: 9781578635856.