In April of 1772 Monsieur Geoffroy made a report to the Royal Academy of Sciences, at Paris, on the alchemic cheats principally of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
It should not be inferred that the alchemist set about his task of assisting nature in a haphazard way, and without training in the various alchemic laboratory methods.
Under stress of his strong alchemic convictions, Thomas Dalton placed his head on the block by order of the virtuous (?
For it is not a new substance: but itsalchemic polarity is changed, and it is converted.
The will of God is the alchemic crucible: and the dross which is cast therein is matter.
I had got," he said, glancing at his last chapter, "to where the alchemic experiments and diabolic evocations have proved unavailing.
Des Hermies, who is well acquainted with the underworld of science, maintains that more than forty alchemic furnaces are now alight in France, and that in Hanover and Bavaria the adepts are more numerous yet.
He was thinking of an old man who had installed an alchemic laboratory on the fifth floor of a house in the rue Saint Jacques.
Wash from the dross of life thy hands, as the Path's men of old, And winning Love's alchemic power, transmute thyself to gold.
When mortal hearts are black and cold, that which transmutes them into gold Is the alchemic stone we hold from intercourse Of dervishes.
If we reflect that in this symbolism the cross expresses a penetration, the alchemic symbol [Symbol: mercury] is explained.
Armed with this explanation we can venture to look for the alchemic hieroglyphs in our parable.
In this connection belongs also the ancient alchemic symbol of the philosopher’s egg.
And what I must supply in addition to thealchemic theories of the time of their prevalence in the west, the reader will learn incidentally from the following analysis.
What I have stated about the beginnings of alchemy is sufficient in amount to enable the reader to understand the following exposition of the alchemic content of the parable.
I will indicate a few points of this iron-clad order in the alchemic doctrine.
And all the while that alchemic progenitor of mine kept up his mysterious winking and nodding.
There was in it an alchemic power analysis cannot define.
That is the life of the thing; by no possible means can you obtain that volatile principle--that alchemic force--except contained in genuine old ale.
Who knows--but, in some happy hour, The God whose strange alchemic power Wrought her of dust, again may turn To woman this immortal urn.
In view of what we found above as the mean position of the metals in the alchemic triad, it is significant that they, precisely, should play so outstanding a role as electrical conductors.
We may therefore say that there are metals which from the alchemic point of view more nearly resemble sulphur, others more nearly phosphorus, whilst others again hold an intermediary position between the extremes.
At first sight, it does not seem as if the two counter-substances represent the required alchemic counter-poles to resin and glass.
We remember that it was the different relationship of sulphur and phosphorus to reduction and oxidation which led us to envisage them as ur-phenomenal representatives of the alchemic polarity.
This process suffers a certain alteration through the presence of the second metal, which sets up an alchemic tension between the two.
The asymmetry of the crystal, due to a one-sided working of the forces of crystallization, plays the same role here as does the alchemic opposition between the two bodies used for the production of frictional electricity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "alchemic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
