| To conjure power, a medieval alchemist would enclose himself in a magic circle filled with geometric pictograms symbolizing inner realities. |
| They called that unknown liquid the alkahest. Alkahest was a word made up by the sixteenth-century alchemist Paracelsus. |
| As a leader of the party, he was a wizard, a conjurer, a magician, an alchemist. |
| To be an alchemist at this time was a precarious profession, a calling that required great political skill. |
| The alchemist experiences death, life, rebirth, witnesses the magical properties of transmutation in the bain-marie as well as her own bodymind. |
| To the alchemist there was no such thing as heresy, while to the Church there was no such thing as an unheretical alchemist. |
