To the alchemist there was no such thing as heresy, while to the Church there was no such thing as an unheretical alchemist. |
The alchemist experiences death, life, rebirth, witnesses the magical properties of transmutation in the bain-marie as well as her own bodymind. |
Instead he is modeling himself on the party's alchemist who rebuilt the welfare state and ran a budget surplus in a time of penury. |
To be an alchemist at this time was a precarious profession, a calling that required great political skill. |
He was also the author of a number of Paracelsian and iatrochemical texts and clearly a practising alchemist. |
He was linked by marriage to the celebrated physician and alchemist Robert Fludd. |