Showing posts with label alchemy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label alchemy. Show all posts

Friday, July 20, 2012

Credit Alchemy!

… or the Alchemical Roots of the Financial Revolution. Not just alike in opacity and aim (gold from base material whether metal or sweat), credit and alchemy are  more connected historically, than you might imagine. 
When the philosopher Baruch de Spinoza received word of a successful transmutation of lead into gold in December of 1666, he quickly sought to quell his skepticism by personally visiting the adept, and the visit left him fully convinced of the veracity of the adept’s account.
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