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Welcome to the world's greatest mystery. It has everything: clues and ciphers, red herrings and consciously enigmatic jokes. There are villains, victims and heroes littering the plot line, along with unreadable books, inscrutable monuments and strange unearthly figures who flit along through the ages as if they had a purchase agreement on eternity. At the heart of the great mystery story interwoven through the whole tapestry of human history lies the gnostic science of alchemy. In truth, it little resembles our modern view of a deluded proto-science practiced by mercury-crazed visionaries. Intellects as great, and as widely differing, as Isaac Newton, Leonardo DaVinci and Carl Jung have found important truths within alchemy's surreal perspective. Newton in fact wrote more on alchemy, although much of it...