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Alchemy n: a medieval chemical philosophy or art, having as its asserted aims the transmutation or transformation of base metals into gold. the discovery of the panacea, and the preparation of the elixir of longevity.

 


Alchemy emerged in China and in Egypt during the early centuries of this era. In China it was associated with Taoist philosophy and purported to transmute base metals into gold by use of a 'medicine'.

ALCHEMY IN THEORY
Alchemy is called the Royal Art (Ars Regia). Of this there are three basic types.

Alchemy Links
- 90 megabytes online of information on alchemy in all its facets.

Alchemy Alchemy is an ancient art especially practiced in the Middle ages primarily to discover a substance that would transmute common or base metals into gold or silver, and to find a means of definitely prolonging human life.

Alchemy and Alchemical Practices
Alchemists acknowledge the unity of matter, and in this respect are in agreement with the most eminent of official scientists.

Alchemy in Finland
by Heikki Lehtosaari
Some kings of Sweden (Gustaf III in particular) had their own alchemists, or at least they supported people like Palmstruch and Gumpertz to find the stone.

lead into gold in the attempt to garner worldly wealth lost sight of the true goal of alchemy; and those who kept sight of alchemy's spiritual end tended to de-emphasize physical experimentation.

ALCHEMY, the secret art of the land of Khem, is one of the two oldest sciences known to the world. The other is astrology. The beginnings of both extend back into the obscurity of prehistoric times.

Alchemy and Its Exponents
IS the transmutation of base metals into gold possible? Is the idea one at which the learned of the modern world can afford to scoff? Alchemy was more than a speculative art: it was also an operative art.

ALCHEMY
Meaning:
"Alchemy is a bridge between Earth and Heaven, matter and spirit, the solid and the fluid, the visible and the invisible, bringing the horizontal and the vertical together." ~ J. Ramsay.

Introduction to Alchemy
The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
The Stone of the Wise by Edward Kelly ...

Alchemy, in Arabic Ul-Khemi, is as the name suggests, the chemistry of nature. Ul-Khemi or Al-Kimia, however, is really an Arabianized word, taken from the Greek chemeia from chumos "juice," extracted from a plant.

Alchemy
Ancestor to modern Chemistry, Alchemy was concerned with the processes of the transmutation and purification or distillation of the soul or spirit, ...

ALCHEMY is the practice of transmutation of base metals into precious metals (e.g., gold or silver) with the aid of an esoteric substance called the "philosopher's stone".

Alchemy
Mediaeval precursor of Chemistry, Alchemy concentrated on turning base metals into gold.

Alchemy Home Page
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John Dee's Mystical Experiments ...

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In alchemy, the metal gold not only represents a standard of external value in collective culture, but stands as a symbol of purity among the other metals because it is naturally brilliant, warm to look at and feel.

Psychology and Alchemy (1944)
Any number of answers would have been possible. Any person of clever and versatile mind can turn the whole thing around and show how I projected my subjective contents into the symbolism of the Hexagrams.

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The French scholar Festugiere divided the Hermeticum into "popular Hermeticism"--astrology, alchemy and the occult arts--and "erudite Hermeticism, ...

There is no legend of three Grand Masters in Alchemy; there is no Substituted Word; and there is no Master of the lodge, for there is no need of ritual procedure among all its cloud of witnesses.

Nature takes that rotting corpse and throws over it her earth and falling leaves, until she has covered it, and then, by her wondrous alchemy, out of pollution, out of disintegration, she brings new life, new colour, and new form, ...

Kabala resonates with alchemy because alchemy is also based on this formula. For example, if alchemy explains the Below then astrology explains the Above, because it also conforms to the formula. But what reconciles the Above and the Below?

See also: Philo, World, Magic, Spirit, Ritual