The Esoteric Principles and Sacred Nature of Alchemy     Greetings, my name is Jim Johnson.  In deciding how to describe this group I had to come up with a Home Page Headline and I decided that in the beginning this will be about "The Transmutation of Fear - Stepping into the Unknown". Well, I also wanted to call the Home Page "Understanding the Sacred Nature of what holds us back". I like both of these as descriptive titles for the Home Page.         What is Alchemy? 1. a form of chemistry …