What if someone could make gold from anything? Impossible right. Imagine what the world could have been like had someone found a way to do this. Centuries ago, great thinkers like Leonardo Da Vinci had tried and failed at it.
Alchemy was a science that tried to turn normal metals like lead and iron into gold, it was the beginning of what we call today chemistry. Birds were thought to be the symbols of alchemy. Phoenix, Raven, White Swan, Peacock, and Pelican corresponded to an inner experience and inner dimension of spiritual being. The alchemist or the poet who observed the birds saw an image of the human soul going through a development that freed it from the earthly things, because the birds took flight between the physical and spiritual worlds and, if they landed, they landed on the Tree of Life or the Stone of wisdom.
Gold was of great value in the olden days when a kingdoms fate depended on the amount of gold present in the treasury. Great wars were fought and lives were lost because of this metal.
What would have happened if some scientist had been successful at alchemy? Gold would have become just an everyday metal just like iron or aluminium, wars would not have been fought for it, countries and continents would not have been conquered and thousands of lives would not have been lost for it.
We should thank alchemy because it had given birth to chemistry which has made life easier for us. We are able to use a plastic bucket, receive vaccines for diseases and do many more things.
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