Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.