“These groups are the Magicians, Hermetics skilled in the lore of the arcane. They flourished in the first gardens of magic and philosophy from our great mother in Atlantis, Egypt, and China, to the daughter realms in the Orient, and then India and Greece. Long have there been true magicians, but they were far less common before Aizai, and ever was their order secret even to the lesser sages, and so too were they dispersed. They are the powerful ones who were awakening morsels of immaterial greatness in our world. Had they but united, they could have easily taken over the world a millennium before your time. Yet they cared not to rule the world, but rather transform it. Unite the physical and nonphysical wonders into a state of contentment, awaken the long-slumbering immaterial sphere, and thus jolt to awareness the physical sphere from its mindless indolence. But surely, this should not have taken so long, that encyclopedic visage of yours cries. And you are right: it should not have taken so long. What is now Aizai might have been alive and well in the days of Christ…oh, and you and I would have been born into such a land. But we are forgetting the Great Magi.”
   -Paulo de la Costa Santamiguero

The Alchymist, in Search of the Philosopher’s Stone, discovers Phosphorus, and prays for the successful conclusion of his operation, as was the custom of the ancient chymical astrologers (Joseph Wright of Derby: 1734-1797)

An Alchemist in His Study (Egbert Van Heemskerk I: 1610-1680)


Interior with an Alchemist (Thomas Wyck: 1616-1677)

"A Soul Wanderer never knows. He wanders; he makes his own path through the
heights of the universe."

-Sio Larwick


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Mary-Jean's books

The Printer's Devil
The Crystal Cave
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Lost Prince
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Hobbit
Rise of the Darklings
The Fire King
Clockwork Angel
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
The Lost World
Around the World in Eighty Days
The Sum of All Men
Brotherhood of the Wolf
Wizardborn
The Lair of Bones
Sons of the Oak
Worldbinder
The Wyrmling Horde


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