User:Jtwsaddress42/Projects/Project 7/Sections/Chapter 6/Phase I - The Alchemists - Seeking Transformations of Spirit via Transformations of Matter


 * Huge cross-cultural library/database of Material Observations and Ritual accumulates over time along the ancient trading routes uniting the African, European, and Asian Continents as traders and travelers traverse the ancient world.
 * The Printing Press - Broad dissemination of Literature stimulates Intellectual Ferment
 * The Crisis of Ritual and Demonstration - multiple and diverse claims to ritual truths with inconsistent outcomes when others replicate the ritual.