Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. - Carl Jung -/- It is said that Alchemists used stories to encrypt their chemical formulas, but Jung believed that instead they were using the physical formulas, as a catalyst to relay symbolism from the collective unconscious: "When the alchemist speaks of Mercurius, on the face of it he means quicksilver (Mercury), but inwardly he means the world-creating spirit concealed or imprisoned in matter." ('Psychology and Alchemy' by Carl Jung) -/- You should also know, the Alchemist's purpose was finding a way to transmute Lead into Gold.