Martin, a missionary to China, published an article in the China Review, in which he offered evidence to show that alchemy was known and practiced in China at least three hundred years before the Christian Era, and that it entered Europe by way of Byzantium and Alexandria. He, indeed, passes from death to death who here finds the least shadow of variety." So long ago as 1879, Dr. Fundamental tenet of alchemy is the declaration of the Emerald Tablet: "That which is below is as that which is above, and that which is above is as that which is below, for the performance of the miracles of the One Thing." There can be little doubt that the Emerald Tablet, as we have it, is a relatively modern work, although it is attributed to Hemes Trismegistus but exactly the same doctrine is taught in the Hindu Katha Upanishad: "As below so above, as above so below he passes from death to death who finds here the least shadow of variety. Alchemy and, the Hermetic science and practice may be traced to a much earlier period.
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