ALCH-401 Lessons

Welcome back students to another wonderful year of Alchemy! As you all may know by now, I'm Professor Rosenquist and I will be taking you on this fascinating journey! This year we will concentrate on a branch of alchemy known as Hermetic alchemy. It's quite interesting and more focused on the spiri…

Hello and welcome back to another week of Alchemy! I take it your year has been going well so far? Anyway, on to this lesson. Today we will be going over the beginning of the Great Work, and then discussing each phase of it. Let's get started! Chaos Control Most of you are probably familiar wit…

Hello my esteemed students. I am delighted to welcome you back to yet another week of Alchemy! I enjoyed reading your essays from last week! I would like to remind you that the Great Work takes a long time to complete and many alchemists can't even get to the Rubedo stage before the end of their li…

Hello again and welcome back! Can you believe we're already on Lesson Four? Time truly has gone too fast for my liking. Your midterm will be next week, and it will cover information from today and all the previous lessons. Be sure to study for it before you come to class next time.How are your tran…

Hello hello! I hope you are all ready for your midterms today! As I mentioned last week, the midterm will not include the information taught in today's lesson. That being said, I won't bog you down with too much information right before your midterm. We will be going over more symbolism today. Let'…

Welcome everyone! How do you think you did in your midterm? I don't believe I made it too difficult, however if you do have any questions about your grade, feel free to send me or any of my PAs an owl or email as always. As was briefly mentioned in the first lesson, symbols and art served a spec…

Hello again my young alchemists in training! I'm pleased to see your progress so far on your transmutations. I can even tell that some of you have been done for a while so you're itching to turn in that last log! Well, that won't be for a while so do hold on to them for the time being. Today we wi…

Here we are now at the penultimate lesson of the year. I absolutely cannot believe this year flew by so fast and we're almost done with this chapter of the lovely art of alchemy. That being said, your final is coming up. After reading this lesson, there will be a review assignment along with the as…

Good day to all of you! Today is a special day as you all may know as it's our last lesson together in Alchemy 401! I would like to take a moment to say that it's been an absolute joy to explore Hermetic alchemy with all of you and I do hope you consider taking Alchemy next year. We will proceed wi…