China: the golden rod to immortality
India: the way of tantra and mercury
Roman Egypt: the white and the yellow arising from blackness
The Islamic world: balance and magic numbers
Mediaeval Europe: translations, debates and symbols
The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: pretension, fraud and redeeming the world
The Rosicrucian episode and its aftermath
Theology wearing a mask of science: the later seventeenth century
Alchemy in an age of self-absorption: the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
A child of earler times: the twentieth century.
