The Effluents of Deity: Alchemy and Psychoactive Sacraments in Medieval and Renaissance Art

by Carl A.P. Ruck

The prime doctrine of alchemy was that what was above mirrored what was below. From this it follows that manipulating what was below could exert a profound influence upon the realm above. Alchemy was a dual process in which physical and chemical or metallurgical changes had a parallel spiritual aspect, both personal and cosmic, so that the transformations occurred also within the retort of the body of the practitioners of the art, who sought to transmute...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 161163041X
• ISBN13: 9781611630411
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.