He continues to say that “Salvation in the Manichaean sense...

He continues to say that “Salvation in the Manichaean sense means to oppose in all spheres of life the fatal mixture of light and darkness and to free the light from dark particles. The Manichaean natural history, especially alchemy, aims at the great work of salvation.” Let us now turn to the wealthy and the worldly class. According to Martin,[^12] “Emperor Ts'in-She-Hwang (B. C.

220), the builder of the great wall of China, is the earliest historical sovereign who became a votary of alchemy.” There are a few more Chinese emperors who believed in alchemy; a couple of them had to pay with their lives for trying alchemical drugs. In the life of…