Outline of alchemy

Branches

• Alchemy and chemistry in medieval Islam
• Chinese Alchemy
• *Neidan
• *Processing
• Iatrochemistry
• *Spagyric
• New Age
• Psychoanalysis
• *Analytical psychology
• **Individuation
• *Metacognition
• Rasayana

  Influences

• Aristotelianism
• Esotericism
• *Western Esotericism
• **Esoteric Christianity
• Gnosticism
• Hermeticism
• Humorism
• Metallurgy
• *History of metallurgy in the Indian subcontinent
• Platonism
• *Neoplatonism
• Pseudoscience
• Pythagoreanism
• Taoism
• Stoicism

  Related fields

• Anthroposophy
• Astrology
• Ayurveda
• Homeopathy
• Kayaku-Jutsu
• Magic, magick
• Moxibustion
• Tay al-Ard
• Yoga Nidra

  Concepts

• Alchemical elements - Primarily the four Classical elements of:
• * Fire
• * Water
• * Earth
• * Air
• * For variations see: Wu Xing • Mahābhūta • Five elements
• Alchemy in art and entertainment
• Alkahest
• Anima mundi
• Chrysopoeia
• Filius philosophorum
• Takwin
• *Homunculus
• Philosopher's stone
• *Cintamani
• *Elixir of life
• *Panacea
• Prima materia
• *Yliaster
• Septenary of the seven metals and Classical planets in Western alchemy
• * Lead • tin • copper • iron • mercury • silver • gold
• * Saturn • Jupiter • Venus • Mars • Mercury • Moon • Sun
• Tria Prima
• * Salt • mercury • sulfur
• * Body • soul • spirit
• Unity of opposites or coincidentia oppositorum
• *Hieros Gamos
• *Rebis

  Processes

• Nigredo
• Albedo
• Citrinitas
• Rubedo

• Calcination
• Ceration
• Cohobation
• Congelation
• Digestion
• Distillation
• Fermentation
• Filtration
• Fixation
• Multiplication
• Projection
• Solution
• Sublimation

  Symbolism

• AGLA
• Monas Hieroglyphica

• Suns in alchemy
• Undine

• Porta Alchemica
• Serpent
• *Caduceus
• *Ouroboros
• *Nehushtan

  Scientific connections

• Biological transmutation
• Chemistry
• Historicism
• Nuclear transmutation
• Obsolete scientific theories
• Physics
• Scientific method
• Synthesis of noble metals

  Substances of the alchemists

• phosphorus • sulfur • arsenic • antimony
• vitriol • quartz • cinnabar • pyrites • orpiment • galena
• magnesia • lime • potash • natron • saltpetre • kohl
• ammonia • ammonium chloride • alcohol • camphor
• sulfuric acid • hydrochloric acid • nitric acid • acetic acid • formic acid • citric acid • tartaric acid
• aqua regia • gunpowder
• blue vitriol • green vitriol • vinegar • salt

Apparatus

• Alembic
• Retort
• *Retort stand

• Aludel
• Crucible
• *Hessian crucible
• Cupels
• Mortar and pestle

• Athanor
• Bain-marie
• Sand bath

  Alchemy organizations

• Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica
• European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism
• Freemasonry
• Rosicrucianism

  Alchemical texts

• Axiom of Maria
• Alchemical Studies
• Aurora consurgens
• Buch der heiligen Dreifaltigkeit
• Cantong qi
• Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz
• Hermetica
• *Corpus Hermeticum
• *Emerald Tablet
• The Hermetical Triumph
• Fasciculus Chemicus
• Kimiya-yi sa'ādat
• Musaeum Hermeticum
• Mutus Liber
• Rosary of the Philosophers
• Splendor Solis
• Theatrum Chemicum
• Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum
• The Mirror of Alchimy
• Turba Philosophorum

  Journals

• Ambix
• Aries
• Hermetic Journal

  Alchemists

• Hermes Trismegistus - by tradition, the founder of Western alchemy.
• Wei Boyang - authored the earliest known book on theoretical alchemy in China.
• Zosimos of Panopolis - a Gnostic mystic who wrote the oldest known books on Western alchemy.
• Khālid ibn Yazīd - credited with bringing alchemy to Arabia.
• Jābir ibn Hayyān - notable for takwin, sulfur-mercury theory, and emphasis on experimental science.
• *Pseudo-Geber
• Roger Bacon - influenced the reintegration of alchemy and Christianity.
• Paracelsus - developer of iatrochemistry.
• Robert Boyle - alchemist critical of Paracelsus, credited as the father of modern chemistry.
• Mary Anne Atwood - key figure in the occult revival of alchemy.
• Carl Jung - merged alchemy and psychoanalytic thought.