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that alchemy was not the science of making gold but a SPIRITUAL SCIENCE OF REGENERATION AND A SACRED ART DEVOTED TO INTERPRETING THE MYSTERIES OF GOD and life. When we speak of alchemy in Masonry our reference is to the second group.” Remember Hermes, Mercury, and Thoth which we covered earlier? These are synonyms for Satan says occultist Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. The Masonic book, A Bridge to Light, declares: “The 28th Degree is purely philosophical and the most mystical of all. The tenets of NUMEROLOGY, ASTROLOGY AND ALCHEMY ARE EXPLAINED.” Mysteries of Mind, Space and Time states: “It was natural to suppose that, if a MAN COULD MAKE HIMSELF TRULY GOD-LIKE, he would gain the power to transform baser metals into gold, by exactly the same processes that they underwent in the Earth. This belief was expressed on the Emerald Tablet, a record said to have been inscribed by the god Thoth, who was supposed to have taught the ancient Egyptians the sciences and the art of writing. (The Greeks identified Thoth with one form of their god Hermes—Hermes Trismegistos, the ‘thrice-great.’ Hence the term ‘hermetic art’ for alchemy.) “All these various strands came together: the primitive belief that the search for a way to transmute base metals into gold involved a succession of god-like actions developed into the belief that an IMPORTANT PART OF ALCHEMY WAS THE ATTEMPT TO BECOME LIKE GOD— ‘as above, so below.’ From this, no doubt, stems the conviction that the FINAL RESULT OF THE ALCHEMICAL QUEST WAS TO ACHIEVE ETERNAL LIFE.... “At the lower levels of Taoist practice, the mixing of yin and yang could be achieved by controlled sexual intercourse; the more advanced mystics practised various meditative procedures, designed to bring about a kind of ‘distillation’ of yang within the body. These practices were commonly known as ‘sexual alchemy.’” [Italics in the original; Caps and boldface added]