The Spirit of Alchemy

By R.J.R. Rockwood

Michael Maier is a fourteen-year-old boy who is out of school for the summer. His parents are professors at the University, so Michael is home alone during the day. Michael spends his time in the family library, trying to make sense of his grandfathers books on alchemy.
One day a nude, semi-transparent figure identifying himself as the Spirit of Alchemy appears and offers to explain the seven steps of alchemy. In a toilet that his grandfather used as an alchemical mini-lab, the Spirit explains the alchemy to Michael and demonstrates the procedures. Using telepathy and telekinesis to move objects, the Spirit appears dressed and able to speak in what sounds like a normal voice.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Nov 10, 2017
• ISBN: 9781543464832

R.J.R. Rockwood

Dr. Robert John Remington Rockwood has a B.A. in English and German and an M.A. In English and Russian from the University of Miami; a Ph.D. in English and Linguistics from the University of Florida; and he has done advanced study in historical linguistics at the University of North Carolina. For the year 1973-1974 he was a Fellow of the Medieval Institute of Western Michigan University. Dr. Rockwood has served on the full-time faculty at Florida Southern College, Florida Keys Community College, Georgia Institute of Technology and University of Florida. From 1978 through 2001 he worked as an industrial technical writer, editor, and web designer at such companies as Lockheed Martin, Unisys, NCR, and Talus. Starting in 2002 he taught online courses for the University of Phoenix. The Body Dies but the Spirit Lives, 2nd Edition, Revised and Expanded (2020) is his twelfth book published by Xlibris. The others are: • Leopardo da Gotcha (2002) • The Passing of Merlin Zauber (2005) • The Last Ant (2007) • Dillon's Rocking Bear Invisibility Chair (2013) • I Don't Talk to Earthlings (2016) • Owen Often Beside Himself (2016) • The Primrose Path (2016) • The Spirit of Alchemy (2017) • The Eternal Life Ministry of Teenage Michael Maier (2018) • The Rhetoric of Inner Space: Student Writing Based on Dreams (2019) • The Body Dies but the Spirit Lives On (2019) Dr. Rockwood lives in Roswell, Georgia, a northern suburb of Atlanta. His e-mail address is [e-mail].

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CONTENTS

Dedication

Foreword

Cover Art

Chapter 1   Granddad’s Library

Chapter 2   Granddad’s Alchemical Mini-lab

Chapter 3   Calcination

Chapter 4   Dissolution

Chapter 5   Separation

Chapter 6   Conjunction

Chapter 7   Fermentation

Chapter 8   Distillation

Chapter 9   Coagulation

Chapter 10 Wise Michael Maier

Dedication

This book is dedicated to all who have been puzzled by the symbolism and hidden meaning that characterize alchemical texts. The Spirit of Alchemy presents a straightforward description of the seven-stage alchemical procedure, which presents a sympathetic-magic path toward psychological and intellectual transformation.

Foreword

I have personally been fascinated by alchemy for the past fifty years. My 1972 doctoral dissertation at the