Songs of the Philosophers' Stone

The dictionary defines the philosophers’ stone as a sort of catalytic agent the alchemists sought that would be capable of transforming base metals into gold. The alchemists and mystics knew the idea of the philosophers’ stone to be an allegorical reference to a spiritual rather than a physical transformation. It was this spiritual transformation they were really looking for. What they wanted was a method, a procedure, by which they might transform their own spiritual metal into the gold of mystical enlightenment.

The poems in this little book comprise my "mystical enlightenment."