What is "alchemic"

Usage examples of "alchemic".

The outcome of this purely materialistic interpretation of the three alchemical concepts was not the acquisition of wisdom, or, as Schwartz certainly had hoped, of gold, but of .

At first sight, it does not seem as if the two counter-substances represent the required alchemic counter-poles to resin and glass.

The asymmetry of the crystal, due to a one-sided working of the forces of crystallization, plays the same role here as does the alchemic opposition between the two bodies used for the production of frictional electricity.

We may therefore say that there are metals which from the alchemic point of view more nearly resemble sulphur, others more nearly phosphorus, whilst others again hold an intermediary position between the extremes.

This process suffers a certain alteration through the presence of the second metal, which sets up an alchemic tension between the two.

In view of what we found above as the mean position of the metals in the alchemic triad, it is significant that they, precisely, should play so outstanding a role as electrical conductors.

We then saw in these three systems representatives of the three alchemical functions - 'sulphurous' in the metabolic, 'saline' in the nervous, 'mercurial' in the mediating rhythmic system.

At his lower pole these forces co-ordinate the ether and physical organizations in a manner corresponding to the function of the 'sulphur'-pole of the alchemical triad.

The plant, too, is characterized by a threefold structure, root, stem with leaves, and florescence, which in their way represent the three alchemical functions.

We passed through two more of the alchemic workshops, and then reentered the dark tunnels.

Despite strong opposition from Winter-is-Chill and his toadies, I managed to introduce power cells into their culture, replacing a grossly inefficient alchemic system they had until then employed.

CINNABAR FIELD (Chinese dantian] The Inner Cinnabar is the alchemic elixir which the Taoist and Martial Arts adept distils.

Cinnabar Field is the name given in Taoist, alchemical and Martial Arts terminology to the area in the lower abdomen, where all energy is stored.

The riders pushed between them and the rock and methodically rode them from the escarpment, the animals dropping silently as martyrs, turning sedately in the empty air and exploding on the rocks below in startling bursts of blood and silver as the flasks broke open and the mercury loomed wobbling in the air in great sheets and lobes and small trembling satellites and all its forms grouping below and racing in the stone arroyos like the imbreachment of some ultimate alchemic work decocted from out the secret dark of the earth's heart, the fleeing stag of the ancients fugitive on the mountainside and bright and quick in the dry path of the storm channels and shaping out the sockets in the rock and hurrying from ledge to ledge down the slope shimmering and deft as eels.

Lao Tzu put me in his alchemic stove and cooked me with holy fire.