![]() ![]() ![]() While at University in 1965-69, he became interested in esotericism and occult spirituality, and began reading the vast tomes of Theosophy, Anthroposophy and related mystical traditions. Early in his life he developed an interest in chemistry and mathematics which he later studied at University. McLean was born and brought up in Glasgow, in the West of Scotland. Though an enthusiast and promoter of interest in the various facets of alchemy, he feels that the subject can best be studied using a scholarly methodology, and he now bases his approach entirely on the original manuscripts, texts and imagery of alchemy and not on the wild speculations of the present day esotericists and popularisers. Originally influenced by depth psychological and esoteric views on alchemy, since the late 1980s McLean has become more focused on a scholarly perspective on the subject. In 1995 he began the Alchemy Website, which provides thousands of pages of texts, articles, bibliographical, historical and scholarly analysis, as well as an extensive library of images found in alchemical books and manuscripts - well over 100 megabytes of information. In 1978 he founded the Hermetic Journal which he published until 1992 during which time he also started publishing the Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks, a series of thirty two editions (to date) of key source texts of the hermetic tradition. ![]() ![]() Adam McLean (1948-) is a well known enthusiast and authority on alchemical texts and symbolism. ![]()
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