Five English Alchemists

An introduction to the most significant English exponents of the alchemical mysteries of the pre-Enlightenment era. By tradition alchemists observed a discreet silence about the processes of their art, but they still passed on to posterity an enduring legacy, for which we owe them a great spiritual debt. It is, however, a veiled and encoded legacy, for even at their clearest these texts are often most obscure – and deliberately so, for the alchemists kept their secrets hidden from the greedy and the casually curious.