John Michael Greer on Eliphas Lévi and alchemy

[Paul Ferguson]

"Let’s start with some basics. If we take the writings of the alchemists at face value, Lévi’s brief summary of the goals of alchemy—“to be always rich, ever young, and never die”—is, as he says, the point of all those labors.  This goal is to be reached by creating a mysterious substance, the Stone of the Philosophers, which prolongs human life indefinitely, cures all diseases, and can convert other metals into pure gold."

https://www.ecosophia.net/the-ritual-of-...hapter-12/