This guy writes plainly without the usual phylisophical riddles. Of course there is no book that discloses everything nor a step by step. This is on material alchemy (see alchemy types).
Title - The Golden Calf, Which the World Adores, and Desires
Author
Johann Friedrich Schweitzer or Sweitzer, usually known as Helvetius (January 17, 1630 – August 29, 1709) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Friedrich_Schweitzer
YouTube audiobook https://youtu.be/Icn0jm_VwP0?si=UV5w5FF_tfprWlf0
Book form link with text to speech option. https://archive.org/details/thegoldencalfwhi14641gut
Alchemy types
Alchemy was coopted along the way by those that could think abstractly but lacked enough knowledge of nature's workings, matter, and biology to understand it. It was originally material alchemy, then later came spiritual alchemy, then Jung's mental alchemy.
But if you acquire the wisdom and experience to transmit base metal to gold, then your understanding of what everything in the universe is made of (including your self) and changed by,, covers the later forms of alchemy and makes your possibilities limitless. To where staying in the slave systems and living high making gold would be inconceivable.
The way I lean on alchemy can be found openly explained in several of old posts. . And Zues' horse Pegasus who conquered the ancient city of Troy while pulling a wagon lode of stone .
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