Five English Alchemists

An introduction to the most outstanding English exponents of the Alchemical Mysteries of the pre-enlightenment era. By tradition alchemists, as described herein, have observed a discreet silence about the processes of their art, but some chose to pass on to posterity their knowledge. It is, however, a veiled and encoded legacy, for even at their clearest their texts are often most obscure - and deliberately so, for the alchemists recognised the need to keep their secrets hidden from the greedy and the casually curious. Yet, in spite of its mystery, perhaps because of it, alchemy continues to fascinate many of the great minds of successive generations and it is yet possible for the dedicated student to penetrate the symbolic veil of the Secret Art.