Are there any books on alchemy

More alchemy books Related Genres. History Of Science Esoterica Pseudoscience. Read ». Do not send them to the garbage. Alchemize them. Groups Tagged "Alchemy". The only example I know of alchemy in the real world is reading.

When we read, brain circuitry designed to process visual, linguistic and conceptual information is activated simultaneously and letters on a page become ideas and even pictures and sounds in the mind almost at once. Learning to read is hard work, but the process, once mastered, is really almost like magic. Alchemical transformation is the goal of literature itself. That character is actually something of a cheat, even though he does manage to perform the transmutation of lead into gold.

He follows a recipe, spills some blood and makes something new, but spoiler alert! The hero, though, is a librarian. Reading in the dusty depths of the archive, he puts together the story of a lost civilization, reclaims its language and then joins a band of travelers in their quest to restore that world. He takes the raw materials he has found on the shelves of the library, in the pages of ancient books, and turns them into stories — and then into a new life.

Auberge Nicolas Flamel is right: That is alchemy. Portsmouth Climate Festival — Portsmouth, Portsmouth. But this page does not only contain alchemical secrets. The hieroglyphic composition in the lower panel is coherent enough to show that it was ultimately copied from an actual ancient monument.

While distortions have crept in, the shapes of the hieroglyphs are not complete fantasy, unlike those of the interpolated pseudo-hieroglyphs mentioned further above. Monuments of Amenemhat II are rare and his stela is lost, so the exploits of our medieval alchemist hold value to modern Egyptology.

British Museum, , Only the top of the left-hand sceptre 18 has made it into our 18th-century manuscript, but its identity is unmistakable. The very fact that a hieroglyphic inscription from around BC can still, in part, be read in an 18th-century copy of a 13th-century Arabic text testifies to the care Arabic scribes took in copying and recopying earlier manuscripts through the centuries.

The inclusion of an authentic hieroglyphic text in the Book of the Seven Climes also demonstrates the interest in Egyptian antiquities taken by some medieval Arabic scholars. We plan to study the other manuscripts of the Book of the Seven Climes and search for the sources of its illustrations.

It might even reveal further authentic hieroglyphic texts. Egypt: faith after the pharaohs at the British Museum closed on 7 February, It was generously supported by the Blavatnik Family Foundation.