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That's kind of amazing, honestly.
She is basically right.
Yeah, a lot of 'Alchemy' did involve essentially proto-Chemistry, but a whole hell of a lot of it was also ....basically, a way to hide being a heretic of one kind or another.
What we now call Philosophy and Religion... were not really distinct concepts back then, they were interwoven.
And it is absolutely true that a good deal of 'Alchemists' had... very esoteric ideas about spirituality, and they did offer the kind of mundane, materialistic outer meaning, vs the exclusive, spiritual, inner, hidden meaning, in their texts....where the metals and such do sort of transmute (hah) into having analagous conceptual meanings.
You also have to remember that just literacy itself was not as commonplace as it is today, and you might literally be the only person within 500 miles who has an actual copy or translation of a specific text.
You could not have had the Rennaisssance without the preservation and translation of many texts done by many 'Alchemists'.
If anyone is interested, I strongly recommend the youtuber Esoterica.