Magnum Opus
True obsessions last a lifetime
August 30, 1782 - Paris I got into an argument today at the university. I defended the value of alchemy, which most of my peers view as a relic, surpassed by modern science. It may well be so. Yet I can't help but note a lot of them are also devout Christians. And what is God's creation if not a great alchemical work? What is the Creation of Man if not transmogrification, the transmutation of clay into living flesh? It is...