Alkahest

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February 24th, 2005 at 12:07 pm alkahest, when I read your quote: “despite having armpit-length hair”, my first thought was “huh? armpit hair is short…” ❋ Unknown (2005)

Nor shall I expatiate on the alkahest of that mad scoundrel, Paracelsus, with which he pretended to reduce flints into salt; nor archaeus or spiritus rector of that visionary Van Helmont, his simple, elementary water, his gas, ferments, and transmutations; nor shall ❋ Unknown (2004)

We have discovered the political alkahest or universal solvent of the alchemists, and with it we reduce at once the national characteristics of foreigners into our well-known American compound. ❋ Various (N/A)

Satisfied with this announcement of the discovery of the philosopher's stone, I now inquired about the sublime alkahest or universal solvent, and whether he had succeeded in deciphering the enigmatical descriptions of the ancient writers on that most curious topic. ❋ Various (N/A)

She must bring down the spirit of the sun and blend it with her own -- for wheat partakes of the _alkahest_. ❋ Will Levington Comfort (1905)

This, with tree-planting and culture, would double, for the soil seemed to contain the miraculous properties of _alkahest_. ❋ Will Levington Comfort (1905)

He avowed his belief in the philosopher's stone, the water of life, and the universal alkahest; and maintained that there were but two principles of all things, -- which were, condensation, the boreal or northern virtue; and rarefaction, the southern or austral virtue. ❋ Charles Mackay (1851)

In the course of a few years, he became desperately addicted to the study of alchymy, and thought of nothing but the philosopher's stone, the elixir of life, and the universal alkahest. ❋ Charles Mackay (1851)

Rupecissa and Sacrobosco having fallen into their hands, they were persuaded, from reading them, that highly rectified spirits of wine was the universal alkahest, or dissolvent, which would aid them greatly in the process of transmutation. ❋ Charles Mackay (1851)

Some of them preferred cementation; others sought the universal alkahest or dissolvent; and some of them boasted the great efficacy of the essence of emery. ❋ Charles Mackay (1851)

He discoursed learnedly upon projections, cimentations, sublimations, the elixir of life, and the universal alkahest; and on the death of Delisle gave out that the secret of that great adept had been communicated to him, and to him only. ❋ Charles Mackay (1851)

alkahest, when I read your quote: “despite having armpit-length hair”, my first thought was “huh? armpit hair is short…”? ❋ Unknown (2005)