True Alchemy Is The False Alchemy Invented By Freemasons: Historiographical Deconstruction of Speculative Hermeticism
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) April 22, 2026 I. Paduano
This academic essay analyzes, through the lens of modern the history of science and Western esotericism, the complex and paradoxical relationship between historical alchemy, a discipline based on rigorous laboratory practice, known as chrysopoeia and forerunner of modern chemistry, and the so-called "spiritual alchemy", an allegorical superstructure devoid of any empirical implication. The...