Quotes About Alchemy

As with alchemy, it's never the result that matters; it's the time spent on the process, the discipline of repetition.

Time hates love, wants love poor,/but love spins gold, gold, gold from straw.

The alchemist pulled his gaze back to Vorcan

Language is the alchemy of transforming a thought into a word, and the word into a new reality.

Alchemy posed as a sacred science, whereas chemistry came into its own when substances had shed their sacred attributes.

The sexual classification of ores and stones was maintained in the alchemical writings and lapidaries of the Middle Ages;

Without us, the harvest would not ripen in the fields; without our millstones the corn would not turn to flour; nor the flour to bread by stirring and baking. Let us then cooperate with nature in its mineral as well as in its agricultural labours, and treasures will be opened to all. Alchemy, we shall see, takes its place in the same spiritual category: the Alchemist takes up and perfects the work of Nature, while at the same time working to 'make' himself.

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Alchemy was not an embryonic chemistry; it was a discipline bound up with a different system of significances and pursuing a different end.

He was a thing of books and alembics to me, library and laboratory.

Fear and work weren't all bad, as companions went. They were both better than loneliness, and the deeper fears, the worse ones that I knew would come true: that I wouldn't see my mother and father for ten years, that I'd never live again in my own home, never run wild in the woods again, that whatever strange alchemy acted on the Dragon's girls would soon begin to take hold of me, and make me into someone I wouldn't recognize at the end of it.

Knowing how to make a potion that will heal the lining of your stomach after you've accidentally drunk some lyesmoke-infused apple juice is its own reward, really.

La magia es tan sólo una extensión de la física

I let the remainder of the morning drift by between the alchemy of the music and the perfume of books

Had many men spent but half that time in secret prayer, that they have spent in seeking after the philosopher's stone, how happy might they have been!

If silence is golden, then Zen may be called an alchemy that transforms all things into gold by purifying them in the fire of the negation of all words and letters, names and concepts, logical methods and theoretical systems...

We are, all of us, crippled and twisted. Most of us strive desperately to keep our grotesqueries out of sight and mind. Our suffering is transformed by an alchemy of the soul into addiction, ulcers, strokes, hatred, even war.

Perhaps because alchemy combines the ancient, Gnostic focus on the immaterial and transcendent soul, or spark, with the modern, scientific-like focus on the transformation of worldly matter, it serves to connect the two. Despite his professed closer kinship to alchemy

For two personalities to meet is like mixing two chemical substances: if there is any combination at all, both are transformed.

The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection, in which are reflected the mythologems, i.e., the archetypes. In this vision astrology and alchemy, the two classical functionaries of the psychology of the collective unconscious, join hands.

For gold in phisik is a cordial,Therefore he lovede gold in special.

La experiencia de ese año de enfermedad le infundió un ardiente deseo de vivir, como si el premio por el sufrimiento fuera haber descubierto la piedra filosofal, la esquiva sustancia de los alquimistas capaz de transformar el plomo en oro y rejuvenecer.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

When alchemists were talking about turning lead to gold, they were talking about turning a leaden consciousness, which most of us exist in during our lives, into a golden consciousness, which is a much better place to be.