“Alchemy is an erotic science, involved in buried aspects of reality, aimed at purifying and transforming all being and matter.”

— Jim Morrison

The Lords and the New Creatures: Poems (1969), The Lords: Notes on Vision
Context: Few would defend a small view of Alchemy as "Mother of Chemistry", and confuse its true goal with those external metal arts. Alchemy is an erotic science, involved in buried aspects of reality, aimed at purifying and transforming all being and matter. Not to suggest that material operations are ever abandoned. The adept holds to both the mystical and physical work.

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