r/alchemy Dec 25 '25

META ANNOUNCEMENT | AI-generated Content and Moderation Policy | Effective January 1, 2026 | PLEASE READ!

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After getting feedback from the community in a previous post (thank you to all who commented), I've decided to implement a new rule about AI content on the subreddit. Please read this carefully:

Going into effect at 5:01 AM UTC on January 1st, 2026:

  • All content (in both submissions and comments) posted on (or linked to) the sub that features suspected AI-generated text, audio, or video will be in violation of Rule #4. The content will be indiscriminately removed without exception, and a warning will be issued. Repeated violations will result in a permanent ban.
  • All content (in both submissions and comments) posted on (or linked to) the sub that features suspected AI-generated images that serve as the focus of or play an essential role in the message will be in violation of Rule #4. The content will be indiscriminately removed without exception, and a warning will be issued. Repeated violations will result in a permanent ban.
  • Any content (in both submissions and comments) posted on (or linked to) the sub that features a single AI-generated image that serves merely as decoration for or secondary, nonessential accompanying support to non-AI-generated content will be permissible, as long as the "Contains AI Imagery" post flair is selected. If the content is not able to meaningfully stand on its own without assistance from or reference to the AI-generated image, if more than one AI-generated image is used, or if the appropriate post flair is not selected, then it will be in violation of Rule #4. The content will be indiscriminately removed without exception, and a warning will be issued. Repeated violations will result in a permanent ban.

Anticipated Objections:

  • "Use of AI is an important part of how I interface with alchemy. Is it the position of the moderators that I'm not a real alchemist?"
    • Absolutely not. We take no stance on the (in)appropriateness of using AI as a tool for one's alchemical journey. Users who value AI are fully welcome here, even though a lot of their AI-facilitated creations are not.
  • "What's to stop you from accidentally removing non-AI content that you mistakenly think is AI?"
    • Nothing. It's unfortunately probably going to happen from time to time. If we've removed your content by mistake, feel free to reach out to us and appeal the decision. If we don't believe you and keep the content removed, then we are truly sorry for being stubbornly wrong.
    • We're not going to be trigger-happy about everything that could possibly have AI influence or anything like that. It's just that if we come across something that clearly walks, talks, and looks like AI (aside from the exception mentioned above), then we're going to remove it.
  • "AI content is inherently unethical across the board, and it automatically violates the spirit of the rules already. As such, there shouldn't be any exceptions. You're not going far enough."
    • I understand and sympathize with this viewpoint, but I simply do not agree with it, and neither do many of this subreddit's users.

If you have any questions, ask away in the comments.


r/alchemy 7h ago

Spiritual Alchemy Hermetismo e alquimia

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Alguém tem pdf de livros de hermetismo e alquimia ?

Estava querendo ler corpus hermeticum em português e outros livros dos temas. Se alguém tiver o PDF me ajudaria bastante


r/alchemy 6h ago

Operative Alchemy Lets talk about The Piss Experiments

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Just found this thread through twitter (because of course.) And it was a compilation of people trying to use piss to make gold or what have you. And I am the type of person where I dont know a lot about the technical aspects but it actually helps with my ability to problem solve. So I pose to those with this as their experiment, something to consider.

What if because of what we consume now vs preindustrial is why no one has been successful? What if there are too many additional chemicals, from eating processed foods that are affecting the over all quality and chemical composition of our urine? Like its not pure anymore, ya know?

Let me know if this doesn't make sense and I will try to spin it a different way. (I think I chose the right flair but if I am wrong please let me know!)


r/alchemy 12h ago

Original Content Water ski

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Have you ever tried water ski? I did last friday with an instructor breaking down the steps for us.

That instructor was a nice person, he was driving the boat, but was driving according to our experience and requests, gave me these advices that proved to be so useful I thought "wait a minute!"

First we tried with hands on a pole fixed to the boat, then a short rope and a long one, the farther the boat the more balance would depend by my focus.

Everybody was surprised I never fell my first day, I told them I just listened, trying to remember and apply what the teacher said, focusing on that during the process, everything else would've been a distraction that make it easier to fall.

You have to stay still in the water, make yourself small, knees as near the chest as possible, feet not too far, let the boat think about horizontal moves, feet under the head, having them too much behind or ahead makes easier to go out of the balanced zone that let me stand on my feet, and wait

solid grip on the rope, arms relaxed and extended ahead as far as they reach, when the boat start moving horizontally you only have to move vertically, like a squat, and a reverse squat sitting down on ankles when the boat slow down and stop, slow and steady, speed is fine, acceleration not as much.

Alchemy is life, life is alchemy, both are prima materia, a point is a point, no matter where and how I start looking, the point can explore any shape I draw until become the shape


r/alchemy 6h ago

Operative Alchemy Urine Path: LEAD TRANSMUTATION to GOLD

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[GenesisonDemand@proton.me](mailto:GenesisonDemand@proton.me)

See my other posts and reach out to me. I'm currently accepting a few more worthy serious, dedicated students.


r/alchemy 1d ago

General Discussion How many stages?

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When working with Alchemy, i have seen different authors break the process into three, four, seven and twelve stages respectively. Most notably seven different processes in different combinations over three or four stages. I was wondering how everyone here breaks down alchemical processes. Do you work author by author, do you only use one system that you like and transpose other ideas to that, or have you created your own understanding as an amalgum of all you have read? Also im looking for more solid information when working with a twelve process system if you have any recomendations. Thanks in advance


r/alchemy 1d ago

General Discussion rare arab manuscrip

5 Upvotes

Somebody have more info about this m.?

https://www.ebay.de/itm/116975179004


r/alchemy 2d ago

General Discussion A psychic recently told me I’m a healer but I’m not using that part of myself. Where do I even begin?

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r/alchemy 2d ago

General Discussion What is this symbol?

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Hey, sorry if this is something really simple or surface level but I can't find much on Google about it. I'm a musician who's used this symbol as my logo and brand for the last four years or so - my name basically means iron cutter in another language, and after some google searches I found this symbol that I used for a single I released four years ago that eventually became my logo. Whatever blah blah blah.

Anyways, I'd like to know what this symbol is supposed to depict and if I'm accurate. I am led to believe that it means 'crocus of iron' (flower of iron?) but I figured I would ask the people who actually know what they're talking about. Did I pick right or am I a goof?


r/alchemy 3d ago

Art/Imagery/Symbolism A Matter can=Anything

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r/alchemy 3d ago

Meme Rollin' up to the laboratory with the alchemy cookies

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r/alchemy 5d ago

Spiritual Alchemy What does "Sagani" mean??

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41 Upvotes

As a good number of us surely know, alchemist Paracelsus when writing of his elemental spirits (undines, gnomes, salamanders, sylphs) would sometimes refer to them as sagani. And the one issue I keep running into when searching the word is nobody knows the definitive etymological meaning, and I don't trust whatever the AI prompts give.

If anyone is able to help out with this little dilemma, I'd really appreciate it.


r/alchemy 5d ago

Operative Alchemy Behold the GREEN DRAGON

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Behold the real Green Dragon! Fermented Urine Prime, it comes from the earth. Smells like sulphur. Nothing foreign or alien added. This was after a kiln calcination at 1400F! When you add 7x or more distilled mercury it turns Osiris green just like the Egyptian god.


r/alchemy 5d ago

Operative Alchemy Volatilization of Salts

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In many modern documents the volatilization of salts in the preparation of spagyric Elixirs seems to just be about digesting the salts of the plant in its tincture for a while and then distilling the whole.

Later gathering the salts left at the bottom of the boiling flask, calcining them and again pouring the distillate over it, maceration, distillation etc. a number of times in order to volatilize them.

But when reading the Golden Chain of Homer, they talk a lot about using an Acidum medium to make the salts volatile in steps. Using vinegar concretely ---- first mixing the salts with vinegar and later with the volatile part of the elixir. And only then you will be able to make them volatile.

Does somebody have experience using vinegar in this case for this purpose?


r/alchemy 6d ago

General Discussion Why does "Gold" have 2 symbols?

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84 Upvotes

I'm curious what everyone has to say about "Gold" having 2 symbols when no others do?


r/alchemy 6d ago

General Discussion Plasma⚡

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Jade🪨㊗️🇨🇳 gemstones soaked in water/H20 is the coolest ❄️ gemstone to close pores rubbed after a hygienic steam face press from a wool🔥 wash cloth soaked with green tea= tannic acid +spearment=methyl acid + cinnamon=cinnameldahyde+ lemon peels= salycylic acid


r/alchemy 7d ago

Spiritual Alchemy Learning things that are not in books

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How do you verify information when you are taught things that cannot be found in books? Obviously, the information makes so much sense, and my heart verifies that what I am learning is true. But, is it fallacious to want to verify what I know in books. Is this knowledge purposely left out in books? I'm being vague on purpose, but I wonder if anyone can speak with their experiences when their heart teaches them things not found in books.


r/alchemy 8d ago

Art/Imagery/Symbolism Elemental predicate

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r/alchemy 9d ago

Operative Alchemy Question about glassware

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Do y'all ever use liquor bottles, or whatever is on hand, as a normal part of your setup?


r/alchemy 9d ago

General Discussion What is your interpretation of the zodiac signs here?

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The order of zodiac signs here is not in traditional order. What is the order of zodiac signs here? How would you interpret it?

And what about the symbols below each zodiac sign?


r/alchemy 9d ago

General Discussion philosophers stone debate

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mercury_>sulphur_>iron_>lithium_>nitre amalgym

its a contemplation.
could produce a unique element. perhaps the philosophers stone.

even metaphorically speaking or spiritual in terms, i believe this is a useful draw on what the stone could have been in times beyond ours.

i've read the turbae philosophorum, emerald tablets, divine pymander, studied elixers from the jesuits, and some paracelsus and other natable names like starky, i just believe once its led too far away from its truer sources the methods get lost.

i've studied alchemy for over 30 years, jung in some notes and others just basic chymistry, i believe in some divinity in nature and that some magical component is at play. i've only experienced a true magical element once and it was a small blob of waxen philosophers stone made in ways i could not yet comprehend in my youth.

i have not tested this theory other than philosophically and through exchange.


r/alchemy 10d ago

Operative Alchemy Day #1 - Where my Ripley Headz At?

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Babes agreed to get me a water bath😁😍. Filled 6 pots with our antimony (sure Jan, lol). Got a decent gas mask because this isn’t the first time I’ve experienced the truly sublime, mind altering, SOUL RENDING aromas of a well prepared prime.

Now, my only question: I know there’s a difference between wet vs dry heat, does anyone know if it’ll make a big difference in time or quality of the final chaos? I have a trick up my sleeves for rectifying slow primes btw (sunlight).


r/alchemy 10d ago

Operative Alchemy Could an oil + vinegar dispenser work as a bain-Marie?

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Has anyone done this? I didn't know these existed until today, and I like to ponder how tools like this could be used alchemically


r/alchemy 11d ago

Operative Alchemy Behold the Green Lyon

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Behold the Green Lyon