A secret method of finding the way back to god/dess which became, in the process of discovery, the sciences and the liberal arts.
It was considered that god/dess did not desire that man as a whole know the secrets of alchemy, but that the alchemist must leave behind at least one pupil that knew the secrets. Many books on alchemy began with "my dear son" in the hopes that the alchemists son could somehow decode what he had said. Alchemists that had no son, considered their pupils their sons.
There were few female alchemists during the middle ages which were a time of renaissance for magick and alchemy, but there were some, and there were more female alchemist in Egypt and other lands than in Europe. People call these times the dark ages and yet they brought on, and formed the basis, for the renaissance. There are several kinds of alchemy, all of which are refereed to in texts like "Alchemy and Mysticism" and "The Hermitic Museum". It has been a rule, until modern times, that no book should contain the entirety of magick or alchemy. These books come very close. Books like "Finnigan's Wake" are the exception to the rule and give all the secrets (if you can read more than 6 pages of Finnigan's Wake, however, you're doing very well) and buried in the 600 pages are all the secret words and states of being needed to practice alchemy, and more! *new* (AND now: the wonderful 3 book series on mystic alphabets "The Key of It All" must be included here (a must have) as it really is as close as one gets, to the true keys, on this plane, served up in print!).
I can say that alchemy is both an inner and an outer transformation which allows man to co-create with god/dess and goes with the grain of nature instead of against it..
I can also say alchemy is called "the magnum opus" or great work and it is the search for the lapis (the only other microcosmos, other than man "livingstone i presume") not for riches.
Alchemy acts on the body, the soul (which must be rescued), the spirit, the mind and by doing these things the universe and beyond. Magick can assist the alchemist, but magick is not alchemy. Alchemy is also not chemistry. It is perhaps the only philosophers' art that utilizes everything man can know, but does not require knowing everything. It includes the kabala.
Harold uses alchemy and magick to transform the waters he offers in the LUXSource-ry.
There are many ways to describe the alchemic process. Harold's favorite is the seven (7) steps to alchemy with the eighth step being lead to gold and start over with another being or level. The steps can be summed up in the words melt and solidify. Another set of words are solute (liberate the internal components) and coagulate (recombine after separating out the dross). See Spygyric
Some steps or alchemic processes:
We can only give clues
here: what is baseline? What is zero? What is imagination? Who are you? What do you see
when you look in a mirror? What is outside? What is inside? Where are you? Why? How?
The male & female, Positive and Negitive, hint: magnet, coil, spiral, spin
The Three Steps of Alchemy (three moving elemental system ) refers to all the 3's. Click here for a handy chart.
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congrats! you've found a hidden clue: looking for the egg of the philosophers? try the mirror
held by the hermaphrodite in the rebus...harold
new clue: when do magnets
attract? when do they repel? like attracts like?
See also, The Emerald Tablets
Alchemy clues: