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Seeking the Recipe, Austin Chronicle, August 15, 2003

Hermetic Studies has been marginalized academia since the enlightenment. Can a UT professor and grad student editing a journal change that?

You might think that a periodical devoted to the study of alchemical thought from ancient Egypt to Harry Potter could easily get money -- when the universe resonates with the harmony of aligned planets, go salvage some hubcaps, pop-tops, and old bullets and transmute them into gold to pay the printer. Barring that, why not ride the pop-culture groove that's allowed J.K. Rowling, James Redfield, and Umberto Eco to make gold of their own?

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