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It is evident that congruent quests unfolded in tandem in ancient India, China, and Egypt thousands of years ago. These civilizations all sought to transform lead or other elements into gold and attain immortality by manipulating and purifying myriad types of matter.
Though their aims and procedures correspond in interesting ways, their specific alchemical procedures sprang up independently of one another.
“In the second century A.D., Egyptian craftsmen in Alexandria were the first alchemists who tried desperately to convert metal into gold. Almost simultaneously and independently, the Taoist monks (not pure alchemists but religious magicians) believed gold to be a miraculous medicine and they, too, sought to produce it, not for wealth but for perpetual youth and immortality,” wrote acupuncturist Joseph P. Hou, Ph.D., in his book “Healthy Longevity Techniques.”...