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 circles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference

Here are high-rez scanned pages from Isaac Newton's "alchemical" notebooks where he recorded his chemistry experiments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: April 2, 2006 - April 8, 2006 Archives] Reference

He was also frequently cited by Carl G. Jung in illustrating the transformative dynamics of the psyche's "alchemical" individuation process.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-11-01] Reference

In "The Secret Rose" are two "alchemical" tales and in "The Tables of the Law" (1904), two others of like subject.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irish Plays and Playwrights] Reference

In the room that he called the "alchemical," Ian, disengaging himself, turned and put both hands on Alexander's shoulders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foes] Reference

"I wanted to see if Steven had some kind of alchemical laboratory in the basement.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Darker Place]

The alchemical writings abound in such allegories.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference

Nature addresses the alchemical worker in the following words.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference

At this stage the alchemical argument becomes very ultra-physical.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference

Inasmuch as the alchemical Essence was thought of as the Universal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference

In trying to attach definite meanings to the alchemical accounts of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference

But the alchemical method found it easier to begin by introspection.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference

A careful examination of the alchemical argument shows that it rests on.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference

Similarly the alchemical Elements and Principles were useful class-marks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference

Hence, gold was more perfect in the alchemical scale than any other metal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference

"Gold is the intention of Nature in regard to all metals," said an alchemical writer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference

All competing to compound the greatest alchemical transformation upon the teeming host.    From Wordnik.com.  [E (novel extract)] Reference

Many accounts are given by alchemical writers of the agent, and many names are bestowed on it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference

The mortification of metals is represented in alchemical books by various images and allegories.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference

It was impossible to express the alchemical ideas in any language save that of far-fetched allegory.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference

The alchemical view of nature still forms the foundation of systems of ethics, of philosophy, of art.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference

In order for it to work its alchemical magic, there must be an internal space to hold this received love.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wendy Strgar: Transformative Alchemy of Love] Reference

In the last chapter I tried to describe the alchemical view of the interdependence of different substances.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference

The alchemical explanation was superficial, theoretical, in the wrong meaning of that word, and unworkable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference

The theory of phlogiston was extraordinarily simple, compared with the alchemical vagaries which preceded it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference

We then saw in these three systems representatives of the three alchemical functions - 'sulphurous' in the metabolic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man or Matter] Reference

They thought there was a machine to convert the lead into gold, or an alchemical process organized by a secret formula.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spell For Chameleon]

By these experiments the theory of Phlogiston was destroyed; and with its destruction, the whole alchemical apparatus of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference

At a later time the idea helped to establish the alchemical doctrine that sulphur and mercury are the Principles of all things.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference

She was standing motionless in the middle of a room crowded with books, alchemical apparatus, and arcane objects of unknown function.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conqueror's Moon]

The transmutation of the baser metals into gold thus came to be the practical test of the justness of the alchemical scheme of things.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference

The alchemical writers constantly harp on this theme: follow nature; provided you never lose the clue, which is simplicity and similarity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference