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Alchemy Books
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Alchemy & Mysticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,168 ratings — published 1996
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as alchemy)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,682,940 ratings — published 1988
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)
by (shelved 88 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.02 — 565,885 ratings — published 2011
Psychology and Alchemy (Collected Works 12)
by (shelved 79 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,568 ratings — published 1944
Alchemy: An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.37 — 872 ratings — published 1981
Real Alchemy: A Primer of Practical Alchemy (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.12 — 403 ratings — published 2006
The Alchemyst (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as alchemy)
avg rating 3.86 — 168,781 ratings — published 2007
The Forge and the Crucible: The Origins and Structure of Alchemy (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.15 — 809 ratings — published 1956
The Alchemist's Handbook (Manual for Practical Laboratory Alchemy)
by (shelved 48 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.03 — 209 ratings — published 1960
Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.30 — 34,116 ratings — published 2019
The Secrets of Alchemy (Synthesis)
by (shelved 44 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.10 — 513 ratings — published 2012
Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.24 — 245 ratings — published 1960
Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.25 — 18,008 ratings — published 1912
Mysterium Coniunctionis (Collected Works 14)
by (shelved 36 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.56 — 476 ratings — published 1956
Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.54 — 195,395 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
Alchemical Studies (Collected Works 13)
by (shelved 29 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.46 — 387 ratings — published 1966
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
by (shelved 29 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,039,671 ratings — published 1998
Le Mystère des Cathédrales (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as alchemy)
avg rating 3.92 — 643 ratings — published 1926
Alchemised (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.32 — 306,717 ratings — published 2025
The Magician (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #2)
by (shelved 28 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.10 — 102,025 ratings — published 2008
Middlegame (Alchemical Journeys, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.00 — 32,457 ratings — published 2019
Quicksilver (Fae & Alchemy, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.31 — 961,123 ratings — published 2024
The Accidental Alchemist (Accidental Alchemist Mystery #1)
by (shelved 25 times as alchemy)
avg rating 3.81 — 9,241 ratings — published 2015
Splendor Solis: The World's Most Famous Alchemical Manuscript (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.33 — 100 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
The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as alchemy)
avg rating 3.91 — 726 ratings — published 1616
The Hermetic Tradition: Symbols and Teachings of the Royal Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.14 — 584 ratings — published 1931
Shadow of Night (All Souls, #2)
by (shelved 23 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.08 — 276,166 ratings — published 2012
The Iron Witch (The Iron Witch, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as alchemy)
avg rating 3.45 — 9,826 ratings — published 2011
Anatomy of the Psyche: Alchemical Symbolism in Psychotherapy (Reality of the Psyche)
by (shelved 23 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.54 — 335 ratings — published 1985
The Path of Alchemy: Energetic Healing and the World of Natural Magic (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.07 — 190 ratings — published 2006
This Dark Endeavor (The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as alchemy)
avg rating 3.82 — 12,104 ratings — published 2011
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane (The Physick Book, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as alchemy)
avg rating 3.73 — 59,278 ratings — published 2009
Alchemical Active Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.30 — 300 ratings — published 1979
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 — 236 ratings — published 2008
Jung and the Alchemical Imagination (The Jung on the Hudson Book series)
by (shelved 21 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.33 — 207 ratings — published 2000
The Apothecary (The Apothecary, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.07 — 15,423 ratings — published 2011
On Becoming an Alchemist: A Guide for the Modern Magician (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.27 — 293 ratings — published 2008
The Black Sun: The Alchemy and Art of Darkness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.14 — 250 ratings — published
Liesl & Po (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as alchemy)
avg rating 3.85 — 10,448 ratings — published 2011
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,656,491 ratings — published 1997
The Hermetic And Alchemical Writings Of Paracelsus [2-in-1] (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.16 — 64 ratings — published 1894
Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,169 ratings — published -300
Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens: Sources of an Alchemical Book of Emblems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.44 — 87 ratings — published 1617
Bloodlines (Bloodlines, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.20 — 191,883 ratings — published 2011
The Necromancer (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #4)
by (shelved 18 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.13 — 71,084 ratings — published 2010
The Book of Life (All Souls, #3)
by (shelved 17 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.21 — 222,937 ratings — published 2014
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (Montague Siblings, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.02 — 147,031 ratings — published 2017
The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as alchemy)
avg rating 4.30 — 352,961 ratings — published 2006
“The water beneath the Temple was both actual and metaphorical, existing as springs and streams, as spiritual energy, and as a symbol of the receptive or lunar aspect of nature.
The meaning of that principle is too wide and elusive for it to be given any one name, so in the terminology of ancient science it was given a number, 1,080. Its polar opposite, the positive, solar force in the universe, was also referred to as a number 666.
These two numbers, which have an approximate golden-section relationship of 1:1.62, were at the root of the alchemical formula that expressed the supreme purpose of the Temple. Its polar opposite, the positive, solar force in the universe, was also referred to as a number 666. Not merely was it used to generate energy from fusion of atmospheric and terrestrial currents, but it also served to combine in harmony all the correspondences of those forces on every level of creation.”
― The Dimensions of Paradise: Sacred Geometry, Ancient Science, and the Heavenly Order on Earth
The meaning of that principle is too wide and elusive for it to be given any one name, so in the terminology of ancient science it was given a number, 1,080. Its polar opposite, the positive, solar force in the universe, was also referred to as a number 666.
These two numbers, which have an approximate golden-section relationship of 1:1.62, were at the root of the alchemical formula that expressed the supreme purpose of the Temple. Its polar opposite, the positive, solar force in the universe, was also referred to as a number 666. Not merely was it used to generate energy from fusion of atmospheric and terrestrial currents, but it also served to combine in harmony all the correspondences of those forces on every level of creation.”
― The Dimensions of Paradise: Sacred Geometry, Ancient Science, and the Heavenly Order on Earth
“Content are the souls who submit to the winding strands of fate.
Blessed are those who dare to spin their own.”
― The Dagger and the Flame
Blessed are those who dare to spin their own.”
― The Dagger and the Flame












