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adj. - Related to or concerned with the medieval science and speculative philosophy whose aims were the transmutation of the base metals into gold

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  • Which is to say, bluntly and for those with ears to hear, that to work the Wheel of Fortune you need to work two things, not one as is the common practice in alchemical...
  • Here are high-rez scanned pages from Isaac Newton's "alchemical" notebooks where he recorded his chemistry experiments.
  • He was also frequently cited by Carl G. Jung in illustrating the transformative dynamics of the psyche's "alchemical" individuation process.
  • In "The Secret Rose" are two "alchemical" tales and in "The Tables of the Law" (1904), two others of like subject.
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