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​Welcome to your virtual and quick tour through the ages, back to a time when farming was important and science was taking its first baby steps into the ever changing world. It's infant stage is alchemy. Watch as this little infant stage grows and spreads to many regions into the world and how it, and its' practitioners change overtime.

Welcome to the world of alchemy.

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What is Alchemy?  As I know, many of you visiting my site may not have a great understanding of alchemy and it's processes. Alchemy is an ancient path of spiritual purification and transformation; the expansion of consciousness and the development of insight and intuition through images. Alchemy is as much an art as it is a science. It is a science because it dealt with mixing chemicals together and watching stars and dreams in order to find out how to make lead into gold or create eternal life. It is an art because the alchemists used symbols in order to communicate their ideas to other alchemists in a way that those who did not know the symbols could not read them. It was practiced world wide when it was in its prime and lost strength overtime as the science had laws placed on it that made it hard for alchemists to get jobs. 

​What was the Purpose of Alchemy?

Alchemy had many different purposes in each area that it was practiced in. It's two main purposes were to make lesser metals like lead and copper into gold and to create the "elixer of life"/the Philosopher's Stone. Within this page, both the Egyptian and the European alchemists had nearly identical ideals in their desire to turn lead to gold while the Chinese wanted not only that, but also wanted the "elixer of life" to live for all eternity. Many experiments were done and some gold making experiments had some form of success in each area, but the elixer was all but a myth to these people. Many a good Chinese alchemist died by drinking strange mixes that he created in hopes of it being the elixer. Many of these mixtures contained high levels of mercury and sulfur in them because those elements were the most important to the alchemical world.

​ Philosopher's Stone?

The Philosopher's Stone ([]) is in a category all on its own. This stone is the most powerful thing that the alchemists have ever imagined. It possesses the ability to create gold from lesser metals, give eternal life, and much more beyond the imagination of these ancient scientists. This was what all alchemists would set out to make. The process for making this stone, however, is very complex and has never been achieved by any alchemist but Nicholas Flamel. Flamel is a European alchemist who was very well known by the alchemical world. He, and a few of his close friends, preformed many trials and, according to legend, created the Philosopher's Stone. No one knows for a fact if they did or not but, not soon after they created it, Flamel went missing and was presumed dead. His fellow alchemists and friends took the secret of this achievement to their grave.

Philosopher's Stone: [] The formula that is used to make the Philosopher's Stone is called the Emerald Formula which is located on the Emerald Tablet. Each alchemist had a copy of this tablet in their place of work at all times to use as a reference when performing their experiments. The formula contains 7 steps and each step is placed into two categories, Below and Above. The first 4 steps are considered the Below steps because they deal with a raw substance that came from the Earth and is impure as impure can be to the alchemist. The last 3 are the Above steps because they deal with the substance that has now been through many purification processes and is now almost completely pure. These steps lead to the final product, the Philosopher's Stone or the elixer of life (depending on what ingredients the alchemist uses).

The Emerald Formula, artistic rendering. []