Chemistry deals with inanimate substances, alchemy with the principle of life itself.
According to the Rosicrucians, who may be supposed to have known something about it, alchemy was the science of guiding the invisible processes of life for the purpose of attaining certain results in both the physical and spiritual spheres.
Truly it is sovereign alchemy and excellent flux for blending contradictions is our love, exclaimed the jay.
But, like so many master-minds of the Middle Ages, he was unable wholly to resist the fascinations of alchemy and astrology.
It was in the early years of the fourteenth century that the two pseudo-sciences of alchemy and astrology, the supposititious sisters of chemistry and astronomy, made their way into England.
As certificates of their qualifications, most of the candidates have enclosed specimens of their skill inalchemy and cabalism.
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And let these charred walls be left to the alchemy of time, and nature will clothe them in richer loveliness.
We see the alchemy of Providence at work all round about us," he exclaimed, pushing his fingers through his hair until it stood up all on end, an aureole of white.
His terminology and symbolism were as old as mythology, and were the warp and woof of the nature philosophies and the alchemy of his day.
He was the inheritor of the vocabulary and symbolism of alchemy and astrology, and he was obliged to force his spiritual insight into a language which for us has become largely an antique rubbish heap.
It must, however, be stated in defence of Rudolph that alchemy was by no means, in his day, an utterly discredited science.
More questionable was Rudolph's taste for chemistry and astronomy, or rather for alchemy and astrology.
His taste for alchemy attracted many to Prague who were supposed to be adepts in that science.
And the worst of alchemy is, that it always allures on its victims: one gets so near and so near the object,--it seems that so small an addition will complete the sum!
Alchemy and astrology at rest, no imperious duchess, no hateful Bungey, his free mind left to its congenial labours!
This was one of the many quacks who gulled men during that twilight through which alchemy was passing into chemistry.
In matters of faith, astrology has by no means yet given place to astronomy, nor alchemy become chemistry, which knows what to seek for and how to find it.
Such are the Divine, spiritual principles upon which the higher Alchemy of life is based.
The Alchemy of stones and gems attracts our next attention.
So with those, from which the word Alchemy is derived.
Alchemy and astrology--twin sisters--were the parents of the modern offspring, known in chemistry and astronomy as exact science.
Organic Alchemy deals exclusively with living, organic things, and in this connection differs from the Alchemy of inorganic matter.
Herein we see the harmony of the two words, Alchemyand Chemistry.
It seems, then, that the conviction that alchemy must be impossible was a delusion: but we do not mention it.
Great advantage will result: at the worst we are but in the alchemy of some new chemistry, or the astrology of some new astronomy.
He met Eirenaeus Philalethes (see note 254 above) in America and learned alchemy from him.
Alchemy looks up since the chemists have found perfectly different substances composed of the same elements and proportions.
There is the same relation between science and religion that there is between astronomy and astrology, between alchemy and chemistry, between orthodoxy and common sense.
Clearly, here was a Marta different from any yet precipitated by the alchemy of war.
The dreadful alchemy of war had made her a stranger to herself.
Not until after his death was his treatise on alchemy found, and even then it was for a long time not known where and when he lived.
And as this proved in astrology that there could be only seven planets, so it proved in alchemy that there must be exactly seven metals.
And when alchemy in its old form had been discredited, we find scriptural arguments no less perverse, and even comical, used on the other side.
He said, "You who have lived and wandered through our own peculiar valleys look backwards now and learn the alchemy of thought.
He did not dream how ardent and masculine his gaze was, nor that the warm flame of it was affecting the alchemy of her spirit.
In the alchemy of his brain, trigonometry and mathematics and the whole field of knowledge which they betokened were transmuted into so much landscape.
And if to this we add his pursuits of alchemy and astrology, with the formidable and various apparatus supposed to be required in these pursuits, we shall no longer wonder at the results which followed.
But alchemy must therefore be an atheistical science.
