: The book decodes the surreal, symbolic prose of Western alchemists through the lens of Tantric "twilight language"—a coded vocabulary for esoteric practices.
In a broader sense, a "Tantric Alchemist" is a practitioner who views the body and its energies as a laboratory for spiritual transformation. The Tantric Alchemist
: Levenda uses the life of Thomas Vaughan , a 17th-century Welsh alchemist, to argue that Western alchemy and Indian Tantra are fundamentally the same. : The book decodes the surreal, symbolic prose