Usually alchemy is associated with the images of retorts, stoves, laboratories or root of mandrake. But the universe of златодельческой iconography is much wider: she is rich in the symbols and allegories, related to the customs and religions of different cultures. In an order to see the real world of the past in enigmatic miniatures, we will accomplish an enthralling trip on Ancient China, mysterious India, will leave in the country of pharaohs, to Greek to the sages, Arabic caliphes and European heretics, and also we will not go round attention contemporaneity. From this book you know, as yoga is related to the great doing, why arabs ate mummies, why alchemy Shakespeare, Ньютон or Goethe, was interested in and for what in the USSR obtained a philosophical stone. Decrypting mystic images, symbolizing finding the alchemists of supercapabilities, we will open for itself the new measuring world histories.Sergey Зотов is a cultural anthropologist, junior scientist of library of duke of August (Вольфенбюттель, Germany), graduate student of the Уорикского university (Great Britain), laureate of bonus "Enlightener" for the best seller "Suffering middle Ages. Paradoxes of christian iconography".A publishing layout is stored in the format of PDF A4.