Alchemist Terms

Question 1

Personal legend and four obstacles

Answer 1

Calling from God, focus on the journey yourself

Follow your dreams despite the obstacles

1: impossible- parents want him to be a priest
2: love- didn’t want to leave Fatima
3: fear of defeats- gets robbed & thinks about quitting
- Turning himself in the wind
- Englishman: fear of failing alchemy
4: fear of realizing what might be at the end- crystal merchant,
doesn’t want to go to Mecca because he will have
nothing to live for after, if it lets him down

Question 2

Urim and thummium

Answer 2

Help determine omens

Black, yes
White, no

Question 3

Soul of the world

Answer 3

Equated with God and connects all things together

Question 4

Elixir of life

Answer 4

Gives people who find it the ability to live for a long time

Question 5

Master work

Answer 5

Term that refers to the elixir of life and Philosophers stone as a whole

Question 6

Emerald tablet

Answer 6

Instructions engraved to complete the master work of all alchemy

Question 7

Language of the world

Answer 7

Love, everything in universe tied together

Question 8

Principle of favorability

Answer 8

Refers to each persons personal legend starts with a stroke of luck

Question 9

Philosophers stones

Answer 9

What allows alchemist to turn lead into gold