William Butler Yeats and Alchemy
There are adepts outside of what is called alchemy who have
achieved great things in these areas and there are alchemists
before Socrates and Aristotle, or Da Vinci and Newton; who all
true experts know were alchemists. For any author or journalist
who would produce a TV documentary on the subject and not even
interview a hermeticist (much less an alchemist) it is obvious
their intent is not to educate. So when you see Time/Life videos
doing that kind of show I hope you know you are being fed lies.
In February, 1925 Yeats wrote this in Capri.