A medieval teaching whose followers were looking for a philosopher’s stone.

Alchemy. One of the oldest sciences. It was believed that if you reveal its secrets, then the forbidden fruit will disappear and the Garden of Eden will appear. One of the goals was to turn all possible substances into gold, and the most important was the search for the philosopher’s stone. There are different versions of its properties, someone believed that he would return youth or cure a terrible disease, and someone believed that he would give immortality. Later, when they began to study substances and their properties, science appeared – chemistry, and alchemists became scientists. Alchemy has remained a mystery with many encrypted symbols.