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Did the name change really help with broader appeal?
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Are there many religious sects which take issue with philosophy, but are fine with sorcery? I would have thought the name change would have caused more problems in that aspect.
No clue.
My theory doesn’t hold up to a web search, but honestly at the time the book was exploding here in Canada it was commonly talked about as the pagan or similar word offending primarily in the US.
"The philosopher's stone is a mythic alchemical substance." Alchemy (the fake science or the philosophical research) can be easily seen as witchcraft.