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they had a formidable professor, Lucien Ferrero, who must have one of the most experienced and knowledgeable noses in France, and who has personally created more than two thousand perfumes. He had come from Grasse to take the class through its paces, to train young noses in good habits, and, with a little luck, to discover talent that could be
... See morePeter Mayle • Encore Provence: New Adventures in the South of France (Vintage Departures)
The boy was becoming more and more convinced that alchemy could be learned in one’s daily life.
Paulo Coelho • The Alchemist
Alchemy was a slowly evolving, loosely knit, and not mutually exclusive group of Gnostic and Hermetic theories concerning human origins and the dichotomy of spirit and matter. Its roots reached back deep into time, to at least Dynastic Egypt and the slow accumulation of jealously guarded secrets of processes for dyeing fabric, gilding metals, and
... See moreTerence McKenna • Food of the Gods
The path to lasting wealth and abundance is to do your life’s work, follow the spiritual laws of money, work with energy and magnetism to attract what you want before you take action, and live a life that is loving and joyful to you.
Duane Packer • Creating Money: Attracting Abundance (Earth Life Series Book 5)
Alchemy itself has been seen as gold making, Self-making, and God making, and there are also the divides between phenomena and noumena, limit and transcendence, mechanism and vitalism, thought and being, image and idea, spirit and nature, soul and spirit, ontology and history, absolutism and relativism.