And it seems strange that of all Sciences, that of medicine should have so completely failed to grasp this living truth, since every atom of medicine administered, invariably acts upon this alchemical principle.
Anticipating such mental questions, we reply that in medicine, from the alchemical view, we are occupying a wholly different standpoint; i.
Thus, here is where the knowledge of the alchemical attributes of plants, as applicable to man, can be most beneficially utilized.
Nothing is more wonderful or mysterious, than, the same alchemical processes, which, are hourly being enacted within our own bodies.
They fail to fulfill the requirements of the alchemical law of life for the support of life--in other words, biogenesis.
We may, indeed, not difficultly trace it throughout the history of alchemy, giving rise to what I may term "The Phallic Element inAlchemical Doctrine".
One of those facts, amongst many others, that appeared to confirm the alchemical doctrines, was the ease with which iron could apparently be transmuted into copper.
In many alchemical books there are to be found pictorial symbols of the putrefaction and death of metals and their new birth in the state of silver or gold, or as the Stone itself, together with descriptions of these processes.
And in hisalchemical speculations BACON was much in advance of his contemporaries, and stated problems which are amongst those of modern chemistry.
The last three chapters are written in an alchemical jargon of which even one versed in the symbolic language of alchemy can make no sense.
Some Characteristics of Mediaeval Thought," and the two essays on Alchemy, have appeared in The Journal of the Alchemical Society.
What relevant facts were known supported alchemicaland astrological hypotheses.
Salt," the principle of solidity and resistance to fire, corresponding to the body in man, plays a comparatively unimportant part in alchemical theory, as does its prototype in mystical theology.
That on the Continent it had descended through the Rosicrucians in an alchemical form seems more than probable.
In the alchemical version of the Rose-Croix degree referred to above the Ineffable Name is actually invested with magical powers as in the Jewish Cabala.
This will be a richer result to him than was ever produced by your alchemical experiments, good Signor Domingo Lamelyn.
A lute lay beside him on the floor, and there were several astrological and alchemical implements within reach.
There was something of the eternal recurrence in him, an alchemical consciousness of all in all.
He therefore rejected the alchemical faith that gold alone is free from sulphur, and commenced experiments with solutions of sulphate of iron in support of the theory that gold contains iron and sulphur.
A society exists to-day the object of which is to further the knowledge of alchemical science.
In this dilemma he turned to Prelati, his remaining alchemical assistant.
At this stage thealchemical argument becomes very ultra-physical.
That attempt sufficed, at any rate, to show the vagueness of the ideas which these terms were intended to express, and to make evident the inconsistencies between the meanings given to the words by different alchemical writers.
The alchemicalview of nature still forms the foundation of systems of ethics, of philosophy, of art.
The alchemical writers constantly harp on this theme: follow nature; provided you never lose the clue, which is simplicity and similarity.
As examples of the alchemicaldescription of these gates, I give some extracts from A Brief Guide to the Celestial Ruby.
At a later time the idea helped to establish the alchemical doctrine that sulphur and mercury are the Principles of all things.
I propose in this chapter to try to analyse the alchemical conceptions of Elements and Principles, and in the next chapter to attempt some kind of description of the Essence.
The mortification of metals is represented in alchemical books by various images and allegories.
Mention is made in many alchemical writings of a mythical personage named Hermes Trismegistus, who is said to have lived a little later than the time of Moses.
The eighth sentence is rendered in many alchemical books as follows: "Ascend with the greatest sagacity from the earth to heaven, and then again descend to the earth, and unite together the powers of things superior and things inferior.
Similarly the alchemical Elements and Principles were useful class-marks.
The outcome of this purely materialistic interpretation of the three alchemical concepts was not the acquisition of wisdom, or, as Schwartz certainly had hoped, of gold, but of .
At his lower pole these forces co-ordinate the ether and physical organizations in a manner corresponding to the function of the 'sulphur'-pole of the alchemical triad.
But one among them was not an account-book, but a book of alchemical and other tracts in another sixteenth-century hand.
Another of the masked men opened a curious little casket that I perceived was surmounted by an alembic and other alchemical figures, and embossed with an Oriental design.
Be that as it may, at every opportunity I covertly acquainted myself with suchalchemical lore as could be obtained either by purchase or by correspondence with others whom I found to be pursuing investigations in the same direction.
The much abused alchemical philosophers existed upon a plane, in some respects above the level of the science of to-day.
Under the infatuation of that alchemical manuscript, I strove to show the world that I could and would do that which might never benefit me in the least, but might serve humanity.
I have my alchemical laboratory in a cellar under my house where the Bishop cannot see it.
Haddo was thought to be immersed in occult studies for the performance of a magical operation; and some said that he was occupied with the Magnum Opus, the greatest and most fantastic of alchemical experiments.
He has a minute knowledge of alchemical literature, and there is no book I have heard of, dealing with the black arts, which he does not seem to know.
It was one of the greatest alchemical mysteries, and, though mentioned under the name of The Red Lion in many occult works, was actually known to few before Paracelsus, except Hermes Trismegistus and Albertus Magnus.
Whatever they were I have turned into a pathway which will lead me from them and from the Order of the Alchemical Rose.
This definition of man is the same | definition that we find in the | magico-alchemical tradition which is | in general refuted by Bacon.
But he borrows from the | magico-alchemical tradition the idea | that man can attempt to make himself | the master of nature.
Isolated as I was, modern science had produced no impression upon me, and I laboured as in the Middle Ages, as wrapt as had been old Michel and young Charles themselves in the acquisition of demonological and alchemical learning.
Line: 13 tincture] Said to be used here in an alchemical sense for 'gold'.
Line: 77 Heat ad Octo] An obviouslyalchemical phrase which I have not interpreted.
Known by the name of Doctor Lamb, and addicted toalchemical and philosophical pursuits, this venerable personage was esteemed by the vulgar as little better than a wizard.
The metallic bodies were described in the works of alchemists by the planet under whose influence they were supposed to operate, and known by the alchemical symbol of that planet.
Thus, Ben Jonson's hero runs riot with glowing anticipations of what the alchemical magisterium can effect.
Westminster Hall all term times as long as he lived, and in the vacations devoting himself to alchemical and Rosicrucian speculation.
He submitted them to all the learned savants and alchemical adepts he could get hold of: they proved to be no wiser than himself, while some of them actually laughed at Abraham's posthumous publication as worthless gibberish.
It is true enough that he dabbled in alchemy, and probably he made his alchemical experiments useful in connection with his usurious transactions.
The practical common-sense of Englishmen never took very kindly to the alchemical delusion, and Chaucer very faithfully describes the contempt with which it was generally regarded.
Like most of the mediæval physicians, he indulged in alchemical and astrological speculations; but they proved to Pietro d'Apono neither pleasurable nor profitable.
Paragraph 45 was sort of a mysterious alchemical article explaining a secret of life.
The dull, leaden color of Saturn, with his apparently heavy and slow motion, seemed to fit him for association with lead, and we still have the saturnine ointment as a reminder of old alchemical times.
But these processes do not enable us to fix mercury in the alchemical sense; the accomplishment of that still remains an unsolved problem, and it is more than likely that it will remain so.
One alchemical writer says: "Would to God that all men might become adepts in our art, for then gold, the common idol of mankind, would lose its value and we should prize it only for its scientific teaching.
Some years before he had read many of the wonderful alchemical books of the later Middle Ages, and had suspected that something other than the turning of lead into gold was intended.
Amid these harassing anxieties and unseemly disputations with the unruly Fellows, Dee’s alchemical studies were not neglected.
In 1581 he formed the disastrous friendship with Kelly, whom he took into his service as an assistant in his alchemical and astrological labours.
Carter disliked alchemical philosophers as much as he hated Popish recusants, and denounced the Warden’s intercourse with the spirit world as a scandal upon the Church.
Quintessence, a combination of light and gold, inAlchemical work, 773-m.
Alchemical teachings conceal their meaning in many cases, 792-m.
Alchemical philosophy receives some explanation in the Kabala, 741-u.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "alchemical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
