Essential Alchemical Readings
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: June 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780766175822
Subjects: Philosophy of religion; Religious; Philosophy
First sentence: AFTER spending the best part of my life in the study of the liberal arts and sciences, and in the company of wise men and judicious scholars, I was compelled, as the result of my observation of mankind, to arrive at the melancholy conclusion that the hearts of most persons are set either on ambitious and vainglorious projects, on sensual pleasures, or on the accumulation of wealth by all and any means; and that few care either for God or for virtue.