i am an alchemist and i need more info on it. can anyone tell me more about it?

Answer 1

You should, then, read The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo (I wish there were emoticons around)

Answer 2

The reason why you need to ask for more information is that all alchemists kept their secrets to themselves and didn't share them. If everyone else was also an alchemist they would ignore answering your question and expect you to figure it out yourself.

Keeping everything secret also allowed the alchemists to not reveal that they really did not know how to convert lead into gold, although several claimed they could. This allowed them to get small fortunes from ignorant rules who wanted an easy way to make gold.

Alchemists were also sometimes thought of as dealing with the devil. This is silly but alchemists had to be careful that they didn't get accursed of black magic.

Today we understand why alchemy doesn't work.

It was not a science. It was just secret mumbo jumbo. The alchemist wrote their discoveries in a code that is often not understandable by others. They made claims that were false. They also thought that there were only four elements: fire, air, water, and earth. This was because the Aristotelians said that there were only four elements and ridiculed Democrates' idea of atoms. There were many elements (we know that there are 91 natural elements today). They never accomplished their goal of converting lead into gold because they didn't understand that both lead and gold are elements and you cannot convert one element into another element by chemical means.

Answer 3

You're an alchemist and yet you turn to Yahoo Answers for more info on alchemy? What the heck? Sounds like you are a loser.

Answer 4

so, you're going to spend the rest of your life trying to turn lead into gold? some how, I just don't think so....
Alchemy refers to both an early protoscientific and an early philosophical discipline, both combining elements of chemistry, metallurgy, physics, medicine, astrology, semiotics, mysticism, spiritualism, and art. Alchemy has been practiced in Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, Persia, India, and China, in Classical Greece and Rome, in the Islamic empire, and then in Europe up to the nineteenth century — in a complex network of schools and philosophical systems spanning at least 2500 years.

Western alchemy has always been closely connected with Hermeticism, a philosophical and spiritual system that traces its roots to Hermes Trismegistus, a syncretic Egyptian-Greek deity and legendary alchemist. These two disciplines influenced the birth of Rosicrucianism, an important esoteric movement of the seventeenth century. In the course of the early modern period, as mainstream alchemy evolved into modern chemistry, its mystic and Hermetic aspects became the focus of a modern spiritual alchemy, where material manipulations are viewed as mere symbols of spiritual transformations.

Today, the discipline is of interest mainly to historians of science and philosophy, and for its mystic, esoteric, and artistic aspects. Nevertheless, alchemy was one of the main precursors of modern sciences, and we owe to the ancient alchemists the discovery of many substances and processes that are the mainstay of modern chemical and metallurgical industries.
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Answer 5

Alchemy centered on turning lead into gold.

If a modern alchemist could turn bullets into food...

Answer 6

Google.com and Wikipedia are your best sources.

As for turning lead into gold -- Scientists did that a few years. They didn't do it with chemistry, but they did it with radiation.
It is really really expensive, though!

Answer 7

If you are an alchemist already wouldn't you be able to answer this question yourself...let us know the answer is when you do find out PLEASE ;-)

Answer 8

When you manage to turn base metals into gold don't forget your pals on Yahoo Answers......lol

Answer 9

if you are one wouldn't you know about it?

Answer 10

are or wish.