| They called that unknown liquid the alkahest. Alkahest was a word made up by the sixteenth-century alchemist Paracelsus. |
| To be an alchemist at this time was a precarious profession, a calling that required great political skill. |
| The famed British sculptor, still at work at 88, is a kind of alchemist, transmuting a range of materials and playing with our perceptions. |
| The alchemist experiences death, life, rebirth, witnesses the magical properties of transmutation in the bain-marie as well as her own bodymind. |
| He was also the author of a number of Paracelsian and iatrochemical texts and clearly a practising 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. |
