| 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. |
| 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 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. |
| Fifteenth-century physician and alchemist Paracelsus said alchemy's role was developing medicines and extracts from healing plants. |
