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AFTER THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF CIVILIZATION, ARE WE AT LAST READY TO ACCEPT A NEW WAY OF LOOKING AT THE WORLD?
With startling insight, Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, acclaimed authors of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, turn back the pages of our intellectual history to uncover the magic and alchemy that have always been part of our lives a part which they believe is even more important in this modern scientific age.
The unifying thread, they reveal, is Hermeticism, a body of esoteric teaching which flourished in Alexandria two thousand years ago and was never entirely destroyed. The Elixir and the Stone traces this fascinating tradition - a parallel to today's holistic thought - from Egyptian times, through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the present.
With it at last comes a true context for those shadowy alchemists and magicians who have haunted our thoughts for centuries. With it, too, comes an 'alternative' way of looking at the world- and the possibility of a figure other than Christ who defines our civilization.
ISBN:9780140247930
