Alchemy is an influential philosophical tradition whose early practitioners ' claims to profound powers were known from antiquity.

In Esoteric Christianity, theurgy usually is the practice of trying to gain the knowledge and conversation of one's Higher Self, or Inner God, to teach one spiritual truths and wisdom from God that one couldn't learn from man ( see Alchemy, Kabbalah, and Theosophy ).

Alchemy, which was at its high point in the late 16th century when Goldwasser appeared, held gold to have many desirable medical properties ; while modern medicine disputes this, native gold is known to be non-toxic to humans and to pass through the digestive tract unchanged, unlike most other heavy metals.

In the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, it is stated that " Of all human opinions that is to be reputed the most foolish which deals with the belief in Necromancy, the sister of Alchemy, which gives birth to simple and natural things.

In his work on the history of religion, Eliade is most highly regarded for his writings on Alchemy, Shamanism, Yoga and what he called the eternal return — the implicit belief, supposedly present in religious thought in general, that religious behavior is not only an imitation of, but also a participation in, sacred events, and thus restores the mythical time of origins.

Alchemy — The Operation of the Sun: is not simply the changing of physical lead into physical gold.

Another product range of the Agop factory is Istanbul Alchemy.

* Late 12th century: The great Buddhist educational centre at Nalanda, India, ( the origin of Buddhism ) where various subjects were taught subjects such as Buddhism, Logic, Philosophy, Law, Medicine, Grammar, Yoga, Mathematics, Alchemy, and Astrology, is sacked, looted and burnt by Islamic invaders.

Also, Trek is starting to provide bike shops with funds to start recycling old tubes to be sent to Alchemy Goods in Seattle, Washington, to be made into bags, seat bags, and panniers.

He operates the Coquette Records label and is also a member of the group Christine 23 Onna ( now titled Acid Eater, with Toda Fusao from Angel ' in Heavy Syrup ), Maso is also the manager of Jojo Hiroshige's Alchemy Records store.

Alchemy also enables a character to ' imbue ' armor and weapons with special magical abilities, such as a damage spell which is triggered when an enemy strikes a character's armor, or a spell which heals a character whenever the character chooses to trigger the spell.

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It is also attributed to Randolph " Affectional Alchemy and How It Works " ( c. l870 ).

The initial development of the technology in the United States is generally credited to John Todd, and evolved out of the bioshelter concept developed at the now-defunct New Alchemy Institute.

In this game the player takes the role of Felix as he strives to complete Saturos and Menardi's original objective to restore Alchemy to the world of Weyard, and joining them early on is a Mercury Adept named Piers, a mysterious young man whose ship Felix's party uses to explore the world throughout their journey.

He is at odds with the heroes of the original Golden Sun, led by the young Venus Adept warrior Isaac, who pursue him across the World, Weyard under the belief that Alchemy would potentially destroy Weyard if unleashed.

Knowing that restoring Alchemy is what must be done to actually save the world, Felix sets out to climb and activate Jupiter Lighthouse.

Alex is there, however ; he took advantage of everyone else's quests so that he would gain immense power for himself from the light of the Golden Sun, a manifestation of Alchemy itself.

* Red water, a fictional liquid in the Fullmetal Alchemist series — see Alchemy in art and entertainment

Funded by Arts Council England it offers four Alchemy Artist Fellowships, curates artist interventions in the permanent galleries and facilitate artists research and the loan of the Manchester Museum's collections for contemporary art projects.

He has cited Hammer Film Productions, the art of Joseph Vargo, Alchemy Gothic, and Keith Parkinson, the books of Steven King, Tales From the Crypt comics, and Role-playing games as sources of inspiration.

* Alchemy in art and entertainment

Mental Transmutation ( also described as Mental Alchemy, the Art of Mental Chemistry, and the Art of Polarization ) refers to the art of changing and transforming one's own mental states and conditions, as well as influencing those of others.

Each of the four 6-song EPs of the Alchemy Index features significantly different styles, based on different aspects of the band's musical aesthetic which reflect the elemental themes of fire, water, air and earth, both lyrically and musically.

Alchemy is used with a cylinder and a crystal, and can be used to create temporary walls, summon golems and a number of spells resembling magic ( water / ice, fire / fire, wind / lightning and clay / neutral ) according to the crystal used.

Reggie sets fire to the room and hallways and the trio are greeted at the back entrance by Alchemy, who has procured an abandoned hearse.

* Performed as himself in a video installation created by artist Edgar Arcenaeux called The Alchemy of Comedy ... Stupid.

Gerald Gardner's use of ' athame ' probably came from modern French versions of the Key of Solomon, probably via Grillot de Givry's Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy ( 1931 ), who misinterpreted the term as applying to the main ritual knife, as shown by his index entries " arthane " or " arthame ".

As can be seen from these first Black Masses and Satanic Masses appearing in the U. S., the creators drew heavily from occult novelists such as Dennis Wheatley and Joris-Karl Huysmans, and from non-fiction occult writers popular in the 1960s, such as H. T. F. Rhodes ( who provided a title in his 1954 book The Satanic Mass ), and Grillot de Givry ( author of the popular illustrated book Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy ).

In his second appearance he hypnotized Doctor Alchemy, who was trying to go straight, into helping him.

This is a ritual designed to invoke the Egyptian god, Thoth, the deity of wisdom, writing, and magic who figures large in the Hermetica attributed to Hermes Trismegistus upon which modern practitioners of Alchemy and Ceremonial Magic draw.

The animatronic costumes used for the characters were created by Alchemy II, Inc., headed by Ken Forsse who later created the toy sensation Teddy Ruxpin.

Soros said in The Alchemy of Finance that Niederhoffer was the only one of his managers who retired voluntarily from trading for him while still ahead.

Prior to their arrival in Perigord, Mike awakens to find that Reggie has picked up a hitchhiker named Alchemy ( Samantha Phillips ) who eerily resembles the nude apparition.

As of 2010-01-10, the successor organization to the New Alchemists has a web page up as the " New Alchemy Institute ".

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab has a perfumed oil scent named Brisingamen.

The current three visualizations are Alchemy, which was first introduced in version 9, Bars and Waves, which has been used since version 7, and Battery, introduced in version 8.

His work has been deeply concerned with both the history of surrealism ( writing a forward for Max Ernst and Alchemy: A Magician in Search of Myth ) and of the radical labor movement in America, for instance, writing a biography of Joe Hill.

But now Saturos ' remaining travelling companion, Felix, has taken the rest of Saturos ' group and now sets out on a journey of his own to complete Saturos ' original objective to activate the remaining two Lighthouses, for lighting all four will achieve the restoration of the powerful force of Alchemy to Weyard.

Acoustic Alchemy has produced two DVDs:

, he has produced two albums: Alchemy and Vibrant.

More dangerous for Black is 8. Ng5, the Alchemy Variation, where Black has to be careful not to fall for various sacrifices on e6 and f7, but White probably does not get enough compensation for the pawn after 8 ... Bg6 9. Ne2 Bd6.

* The Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab has a perfume called " Herbert West " in its A Picnic in Arkham collection.

At one time, soft ( soda lime and lead ) and hard ( borosilicate ) glasses had distinctly different looking palettes, but demand by soft-glass artists for the silver strike colors, and the development of the bright, cadmium based ` crayon colors ' by Glass Alchemy in the boro line, has diminished the distinctions between them.

Kachru has authored and edited over 25 books and more than 100 research papers, reviews and review articles. He has been on the editorial board of journals such as Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural development, International Journal of the Sociology of Languages, Asian Englishes and Linguistics and the Human Sciences. Alongwith authoring the prize-winning The Alchemy of English: The Spread, Functions and Models of Non-Native Englishes, Kachru is also the associate editor for Contributor to the Cambridge History of the English Language and the acclaimed The Oxford Companion to the English Language.

The organization has now taken this and Local Alchemy to six other countries through its international programme.

Cleis Press has also published a number of books on transgender issues, including Patrick Califia's Sex Changes: Transgender Politics and Loren Cameron's Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits.