My grandpa used to polish nickels with mercury and I also remember playing with liquid mercury balls (with bare hands!) on my grandma’s plastic tablecloth . Yep. My mom and grandma were smoking, nearby.
I’m struggling with the notion that Alchemy is ‘active feminism’; and that the Simple Solution is: having Men admit (to themselves and the whole world, in no uncertain terms) that they MUST become more like Women IN ORDER TO EVOLVE.
I’m curious… how many ‘witches’ were actually Alchemists?