What Is the Goal of an Alchemist?
by Rubellus Petrinus What would one be looking for that would motivate them to study alchemy? Most people think of alchemists as “gold makers”, probably because of the great masters testimonies as to the transmutation abilities of the Philosophers Stone. Those reports seem so sincere that they motivate us to press on with the study and practice of alchemy. But we see the transmutation as not the end of the work, but as the proof of the Universal Medicine. This is the main reason for our quest, as you will see. That which we look for is not the transmutation of Mercury or Lead as described by Philalethes in the Open Entrance to the Closed Palace of the King and by Flamel in Le Brvire. In this day and age, it would only make sense to make gold in great amounts as Flamel describes in Le Brvire, or in a way that makes alchemy a fact of science: So, if you intend to make a lot of gold, dear nephew, which is never advisable because it can bring inconvenience and damage, put one hundred thous
