What is Alchemy?????

Question

Just in a short answer, what is alchemy?

Answer 1

The search for the Philosophers Stone,that can turn Base Metals into gold.

Of course.

Answer 2

Very early chemistry.Basically transmuting certain metals and the search for immortality.

Answer 3

changing something into another item

Answer 4

Alchemy is something different to each practicioner - each and every master alchemist can no better define it than his peer, the only way which we may compare them is in terms of results, which, too, are different to everyone.

To me, Alchemy is the art of transformation, the recognizance and utilization of the divine pattern and function which permeates all things within and without - the study of everything applied in a spiritual way. The techniques and various equipment and methods we use are merely symbols, much like the alchemic language, to various patterns and processes found in transformation and different states of being. These are used to show us how those things happens physically so we can apply them to our emotions, our mentality, our soul, our spirit, and eventually reach the perfection of gold.

Answer 5

In the history of science, alchemy refers to both an early form of the investigation of nature and an early philosophical and spiritual discipline, both combining elements of chemistry, metallurgy, physics, medicine, astrology, semiotics, mysticism, spiritualism, and art all as parts of one greater force.

Answer 6

In his Alchemical Catechism, Paracelsus clearly denotes that his usage of the metals was a symbol:

Q. When the Philosophers speak of gold and silver, from which they extract their matter, are we to suppose that they refer to the vulgar gold and silver? A. By no means; vulgar silver and gold are dead, while those of the Philosophers are full of life.

So, you see, alchemy is more the transformation of the golden and silvery aspects of one's soul. The main purpose of alchemy is rising the soul to a higher state, attempting to unite it with the Supreme Inteligence.

Answer 7

The power to change ones surrounding. Such as turning metal to gold

Answer 8

to turn something ordanary into somehting special i.e. rocks into gold