Alchemy

 While the Hindus don't pay much attention to alchemy, they are not totally ignorant about the subject. We also find that people who are intelligent are open to alchemy , while ignorant people shun it. The legacy of Muslim rule over India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 1Alphonse: Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something back. You must first sacrifice something in order to gain. This is the first law of Equivalent Exchange in alchemy. In those days we believed this to be the only and only truth.Hiromu Arakawa, Fullmetal Alchemist, (2003)Above all any relationship, it is to be treated as suspicious, and is dependent in any way on religion, as the prodigies of Livy are not less so, all that is to be found in the authors of natural magic or alchemy, or such authors, that appear, every one of them to have an unconquerable appetite for falsehood and fable.