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This article is a great start and intro to alchemy:
http://www.occult-mysteries.org/alchemy.html


>Alchemy changes the character of things, and raises them up into higher states of existence. To exercise this power, not mere mechanical labour, but artistic skill is required.

—Franz Hartmann

>“To grasp the invisible elements; to attract them by their material correspondences; to control, purify, and transform them by the living power of the Spirit—this is true alchemy.

>As the fowl produces a chicken with wings and legs out of the small microcosm contained in the shell of an egg, so the arcana of Nature are ripened by the processes of alchemy. Natural alchemy causes the pear to ripen, and produces grapes on a vine. Natural alchemy separates the useful elements from the food that is put into the stomach, transforms it into chyle and blood, into muscles and bones, and rejects that which is useless. A physician who knows nothing of alchemy can only be a servant of Nature, however well he may be versed in the science of external things; but the alchemist is her lord. If the physician cannot infuse vitality into decaying parts, he cannot effect a cure, but must wait until Nature accomplishes the task; but he who can guide the power of life can guide and command Nature.”

— Franz Hartmann,The Life of Paracelsus

>First there should be the invocation of God, flowing from the depth of a pure and sincere heart, and a conscience which should be free from all ambition, hypocrisy and vice, as also from all cognate faults, such as arrogance, boldness, pride, luxury, worldly vanity, oppression of the poor, and similar iniquities which should all be rooted out of the heart—that when a man appears before the Throne of Grace, to regain the health of his body, he may come with a conscience weeded of all tares, and be changed into a pure temple of God cleansed of all that defiles.“

— Basil Valentine

>The more pure thou art in heart and mind, by so much quicker shall you perceive those high secrets we teach, and which are entirely hid from the discernment of the vicious and depraved…
—Francis Barrett, The Magus

>>16838007
http://www.occult-mysteries.org/books.html
This is a list of occult books that are given a short review. Some are free to read online or download

http://www.thegoldenstar.org/index.html
Heres a book that contains truth.