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Alchemy Books
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Alchemy & Mysticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,159 ratings — published 1996
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as alchemy)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,651,292 ratings — published 1988
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)
by (shelved 88 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.02 — 563,458 ratings — published 2011
Psychology and Alchemy (Collected Works 12)
by (shelved 78 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,531 ratings — published 1944
Alchemy: An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.37 — 867 ratings — published 1981
Real Alchemy: A Primer of Practical Alchemy (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.12 — 401 ratings — published 2006
The Alchemyst (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as alchemy)
avg rating 3.86 — 168,403 ratings — published 2007
The Forge and the Crucible: The Origins and Structure of Alchemy (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.15 — 803 ratings — published 1956
The Alchemist's Handbook (Manual for Practical Laboratory Alchemy)
by (shelved 46 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.03 — 207 ratings — published 1960
Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.30 — 34,063 ratings — published 2019
The Secrets of Alchemy (Synthesis)
by (shelved 44 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.09 — 506 ratings — published 2012
Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.22 — 240 ratings — published 1960
Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.24 — 17,583 ratings — published 1912
Mysterium Coniunctionis (Collected Works 14)
by (shelved 36 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.55 — 475 ratings — published 1956
Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.54 — 194,066 ratings — published 2002
The Emerald Tablet: Alchemy for Personal Transformation (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.17 — 362 ratings — published 1999
Le Mystère des Cathédrales (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as alchemy)
avg rating 3.93 — 638 ratings — published 1926
Alchemical Studies (Collected Works 13)
by (shelved 29 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.45 — 381 ratings — published 1966
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
by (shelved 29 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,034,494 ratings — published 1998
The Magician (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #2)
by (shelved 28 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.10 — 101,796 ratings — published 2008
Alchemised (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.34 — 272,732 ratings — published 2025
Middlegame (Alchemical Journeys, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.00 — 32,324 ratings — published 2019
The Accidental Alchemist (Accidental Alchemist Mystery #1)
by (shelved 25 times as alchemy)
avg rating 3.81 — 9,195 ratings — published 2015
Splendor Solis: The World's Most Famous Alchemical Manuscript (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.34 — 98 ratings — published 1582
The Alchemy Reader: From Hermes Trismegistus to Isaac Newton (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.00 — 56 ratings — published 2003
Quicksilver (Fae & Alchemy, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.31 — 931,824 ratings — published 2024
The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as alchemy)
avg rating 3.90 — 719 ratings — published 1616
The Hermetic Tradition: Symbols and Teachings of the Royal Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.14 — 580 ratings — published 1931
Shadow of Night (All Souls, #2)
by (shelved 23 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.08 — 275,032 ratings — published 2012
The Iron Witch (The Iron Witch, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as alchemy)
avg rating 3.45 — 9,829 ratings — published 2011
Anatomy of the Psyche: Alchemical Symbolism in Psychotherapy (Reality of the Psyche)
by (shelved 23 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.55 — 333 ratings — published 1985
Jung and the Alchemical Imagination (The Jung on the Hudson Book series)
by (shelved 22 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.32 — 207 ratings — published 2000
This Dark Endeavor (The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as alchemy)
avg rating 3.82 — 12,088 ratings — published 2011
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane (The Physick Book, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as alchemy)
avg rating 3.73 — 59,180 ratings — published 2009
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Alchemy: The Magic and Mystery of the Ancient Craft Revealed for Today (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.18 — 235 ratings — published 2008
The Path of Alchemy: Energetic Healing and the World of Natural Magic (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.06 — 189 ratings — published 2006
The Apothecary (The Apothecary, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.07 — 15,361 ratings — published 2011
On Becoming an Alchemist: A Guide for the Modern Magician (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.27 — 292 ratings — published 2008
Alchemical Active Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.31 — 296 ratings — published 1979
The Black Sun: The Alchemy and Art of Darkness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.14 — 244 ratings — published
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The Hermetic And Alchemical Writings Of Paracelsus [2-in-1] (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.16 — 64 ratings — published 1894
Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,124 ratings — published -300
Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens: Sources of an Alchemical Book of Emblems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.49 — 85 ratings — published 1617
Liesl & Po (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as alchemy)
avg rating 3.84 — 10,445 ratings — published 2011
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,588,808 ratings — published 1997
The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.29 — 6,687 ratings — published 1928
The Necromancer (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #4)
by (shelved 18 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.13 — 70,902 ratings — published 2010
The Book of Life (All Souls, #3)
by (shelved 17 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.21 — 221,947 ratings — published 2014
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (Montague Siblings, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.02 — 146,631 ratings — published 2017
The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.30 — 349,812 ratings — published 2006
“I'm going to ask a rather odd question," said Islington. "It is not very like me to give credit to such things, however -" and he made a motion with his fingers that tied the four of us together. "What do you make of this?" He was right about there being something, what I had sensed at dinner a few weeks back. Remembering the very thoughts I had after our dinner weeks ago, I glanced from face to face. Pierce shrugged. Islington waited. It was Hawkes who gave voice. “Alchemy.” I shivered. That mythical pursuit that turns disparate elements to gold. None of us questioned the veracity of his statement. We stood in the dark, feeling that something beyond the ordinary was working on our behalf. "Alchemy," murmured Islington. Pierce added nothing, but the lights of the Cleopatra were bright enough to show a curious smile. They looked towards me. "So heaven has thrown me in with you lot?" Islington said he wasn't certain my coming into his life was the work of heaven, Pierce made some comment under his breath as to weather it be heaven or fate, and Hawkes, well, he simply lifted an eyebrow and said "Good night all."" ― Beth Brower, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4”
― The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, vol. 7
― The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, vol. 7
“Mephistopheles' contentious, often ambiguous relationship to Faustus is a reference to tantra just as it is to alchemy. It resembles the shifting tactics of a guru who varies his approach to his pupil in order to dissolve his resistances and prepare him for wider states of consciousness. Both Faustus and the tantric aspirant stimulate and indulge their senses under the guidance of their teachers who encourage them to have sexual encounters with women in their dreams. Both work with magical diagrams or yantras, exhibit extraordinary will, "fly" on visionary journeys, acquire powers of teleportation, invisibility, prophecy, and healing, and have ritual intercourse with women whom they visualize as goddesses. The tantrist [sic] is said to become omniscient as a result of his sacred "marriage," and Faustus produces an omniscient child in his union with the visualized Helen, or Sophia.”
― The Gnostic Faustus
― The Gnostic Faustus
