What is Alchemy?
<p>The Philosopher’s Stone is a hypothetical perfect substance that could supposedly transmute any substance into the most ideal form of itself. It could turn lead into gold, cure any disease, prolong life, encourage the fertile growth of plants, and other such miraculous feats. A simple way of describing it might be crystallized divinity — God in a bottle. It was desirable enough for most alchemists to relentlessly pursue its creation. The exact process of making it varies, sometimes drastically, between different authors — they may be operating on different theory, or they may create different subdivisions of the process with a different number of stages, or they may interpret the allegorical imagery in different ways. The process of making the Philosopher’s Stone, and the nature of the Stone itself, was also intentionally described in the most cryptic terms possible and layered with obfuscating metaphorical imagery. But it did usually follow a similar basic pattern:</p>
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