Notes

These notes are collected from posts related to the tag Alchemy.

The alchemical panacea

As well as knowledge Faust might seek immortality

Potions can fulfill all of our alchemical and Faustian aspirations

The elixir of life also known as elixir of immortality

The search for secret/hidden/lost knowledge still goes on today…

Philosophers are sworn, aye, every one….

It is scarcely surprising that in the atmosphere of superstition….

From the bottom of our hearts we ought to thank the modest men who held in their hands the magical Emerald Formula

A hollow stick – take heed, sirs, and beware!

…by our pure and chaste country Jerusalem!

The preparation of silver and gold.

Art about alchemy was popular among the middle class of northern Europe from the late 1600s through much of the 1800s

With the Reformation another spirit arose and legends took a different form.

Thus, as science steadily continued to uncover and rationalize the clockwork of the universe

There was a hissing sound and a slight effervescence

The Paracelsians were quick to offer an alchemical interpretation of Genesis

I made a projection of my divine powder

has each one of us signed with the blood of his human nature….