Quotes About Alchemy

because in the Dissolving, the fire should be light always, in the Sublimation mean, in the Coagulation temperate, continual in the Whitening, and strong in the Rubification.

This wash is excellent, what is it?" "Thistle, artemisia, celery, sulfur. Magic.

There is nothing you can throw at me that I cannot metabolize, no thing impervious to my alchemy.

Annie] Sprinkle is a many-gendered mother of the heart. And many-gendered mothers of the heart say: Just because you have enemies doea not mean you have to be paranoid. They insist, no matter the evidence marshaled against their insistence: There is nothing you can throw at me that I cannot metabolize, no thing impervious to my alchemy.

which, according to San Juan, is the mystery of the great alchemistical transmutation; the attainment of the true stability of the psychic life. Without this internal stability, all other labor is in vain.

seems incredible to them that metals and characters

Sacred chemistry is a meta-chemistry.

Sulphurous and Nitrous Foame   They found, they mingl'd, and with suttle Art,   Concocted and adusted they reduc'd   To blackest grain, and into store conveyd:   Part hidd'n veins diggd up (nor hath this Earth   Entrails unlike) of Mineral and Stone

The essence of pearl mixed with essence of men and a curious dark residue was precipitated.

A mage's soul is forged in the crucible of the magic

There are five elements: earth, air, fire, water and garlic.

Everything has its limit--iron ore cannot be educated into gold. - 1906

the more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair. Gratitude will act as an elixir that will gradually dissolve the hard shell of your ego—your need to possess and control—and transform you into a generous being. The sense of gratitude produces true spiritual alchemy, makes us magnanimous—large souled. —Sam Keen, philosopher

There's a way that the force of disappointment can be alchemized into something that will paradoxically renew you.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

The Major and Minor Arcana into which the deck is divided are "arks," or containers that, according to the American Heritage Dictionary, "hold the great secret of nature that alchemists sought to find," the concealed knowledge of the self.

The hotter the furnace the finer the gold.

In short, Sweet Leaf is a plant which will draw out the fire.

I cannot explain how it begins, or why it happens, what strange alchemy puts such things in motion.

with a particular history, in a particular place and local culture, perhaps informed by a particular mood or thought. This means we also have to mix in human agency, the part played by people's own reactions. Altogether, it's an enigmatic alchemy of often transitory influences and impulses. As a result, there is little observable order.

Transform metal into gold

Nicholas Flamel

First, you had to get a badger drunk on wine filtered through camphor and blended with a compound of gold, seed pearls, and coral.

I'm not a magician. I'am an alchemyst, a man of science, though perhaps not the science you would be familiar with.