These are the Seven Hermetic Principles... the backbone of Alchemy, which used precious metals as a metaphor for the internal state of an individual; thus, lead to gold = base to enlightened.

Science is a lot like Moses in the desert. It'll take a long time, but it'll get there eventually. I don't think it's possible to reshape ideologies according to these anymore. A glaring example would be All is Masculine & Feminine. If you live in North America and tell a girl to be more feminine, you may as well be picking a fight, but society will continue to indoctrinate them to be as masculine as possible.