In this full-color eBook edition, a leading researcher in the field reveals the actual meditations used by alchemists and provides considerable evidence that psycho-spiritual alchemy was practiced many centuries before the Renaissance—contrary to what some modern academics believe.

A primary tool in the work of the alchemists was a unique kind of meditation based on the light of Mind. They gradually learned how to work with this light to discover the "First Matter"—of objects, their own mental states, and their very souls—and transmute them into something new and more perfect. Thousands of years ago, alchemists realized the light of the One Mind of the universe is reflected in their own minds and bodies, and they began to develop a physico-spiritual technology based on the universal principles of transformation.

Most of us share the same deep yearning of the alchemists to connect to the energies behind creation and change—that is the true source of alchemy. The mystery of the cosmos is something we all sense at some time in our lives. Or, in the words of Albert Einstein: "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science."

Includes Table of Contents, extensive Bibliography of Spiritual Alchemy, and dozens of Internet Resources for further research.