Having not read any hermetic texts before I began my journey, I was delighted to read much later that the ancient alchemists of China, India and Egypt, all held the same belief as myself. Namely that behind the reality of our world lay an overall unity where ultimate truth could be unveiled using ones intuition and divine spark of illumination. This belief was based on a deep knowing that the heart had an intelligence and logic that could at times for surpass that of the mind and actually see the natural magic at work. They were also aware that the human being is a cosmos in miniature, thus they believed that the stars did not just reside in the heavens, but also within us all. This I found to be profoundly true, though I would describe it more as having a genetic memory of that very first star birth.