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**portoskins** · 09-26-2007, 08:49 AM

Thank you, Mike. This is all absolutely true. I've mentioned the years 1000 to 1200 only as an example (and in relation to the previous posting) but the fact remains that alchemy does not seem to have been practised anywhere in the Eastern Orthodox lands after roughly 1000 AD! This is strange not only in comparison with the Western flowering of alchemy between c. 1130 and 1700 AD, but also with its parallel development in the Islamic countries, Turkey included. It is as if Orthodoxy - which is otherwise very open to the ideas of transmutation, transsubstantiation, perfecting, deification, etc. - for some strange reason rejected this philosophical path.

09-26-2007, 08:49 AM	#5
portoskins Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 386 Senior Member	Thank you, Mike. This is all absolutely true. I've mentioned the years 1000 to 1200 only as an example (and in relation to the previous posting) but the fact remains that alchemy does not seem to have been practised anywhere in the Eastern Orthodox lands after roughly 1000 AD! This is strange not only in comparison with the Western flowering of alchemy between c. 1130 and 1700 AD, but also with its parallel development in the Islamic countries, Turkey included. It is as if Orthodoxy - which is otherwise very open to the ideas of transmutation, transsubstantiation, perfecting, deification, etc. - for some strange reason rejected this philosophical path.
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