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What is Grigory Skovoroda's alchemy, how and why is it possible? At first glance, profane and stereotypical: nonsense. Where is Skovoroda, and where is alchemy? Where are the dark, mysterious vaults of Faustian chambers, and where are the commonplace "flute and sheep" that are "more precious than a king's crown"? The second view, at the level of literal reading, is that everything is simple and everything has already been said, because Skovoroda spoke out directly against "making gold". However, a third view is also possible, as Hryhorii Savych urged us not to stop at literal readings, but to learn the invisible from the visible. And it is here, at the level of symbols and emblems, that this amazing phenomenon, the mysterious alchemy of Hryhorii Skovoroda, will be revealed to us, where both the mysterious art of Hermes and the elusive, Mercury-like Ukrainian philosopher-traveller turn out to be different from what they seemed at a superficial glance; where the abyss calls the abyss, and the mystery itself looks at the seeker from unknowable and incomprehensible depths...