When1: 1
When2: 100
Who: Hermes Trismegistos or Hermes the Thrice Great
What: alchemist
Where: Chenoboskion, Egypt/Nag Hammadi, Egypt/Alexandria, Egypt
works\ Emerald Tablet [1 to 100: translated by Ficino in 1463]
Detail: He began Alchemy and Hermetism or Hermetic philosophy.
Chenoboskion is on Nile River west bank in Upper Egypt.
Nature has interconvertible and mixable elements: earth or solid, fire or energy, air or gas, water or liquid. Metals relate to body parts. Gold represents longevity. Sulfur, as fire and spirit, and mercury, as water and soul, make minerals and metals. Gold has value, because it does not rust and does not change with heat, alkali, or acid. All metals can grow into gold. Philosophers Stone, Elixir of Life, or Red Tincture can change base metal into gold.
Epistemology
Using reason can make people like gods, by removing misconceptions {twelve madnesses} and perceiving the order of nature.
Metaphysics
God is beyond human conception.
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