Alchemy is great.  It essentially is trasforming from a lower state to a higher state.  Bitcoin can be considered an example, Satoshi transfomred inert hard drives into precious numbers, and digital gold, via proof-of-work.  Jung and Newton were also great alchemists.

I'm studying one of the great unsolved alchemical texts, which says something similar, and also about language, mathematics and the geometry of conic sections:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monas_Hieroglyphica