Aquarian Crossword 5

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Special theme: ALCHEMY

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1. The art or science of changing one chemical element into another [13]
9. Oxford museum founded by a 17th century alchemist [9]
10. "The thirteenth moon but sets the soul -- ---" (W.B. Yeats) [2, 3]
11. "...and with strange ---- even death may die" (H.P. Lovecraft) [4]
12. "All things arose from this one thing by a single ---" (quotation from 35 across) [3]
14. Agreement or harmony [6]
16. School of alchemy founded by Theophrastus Philippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim [11]
19 & 22. "-- above, -- below" [2, 2]
23. Place in Somerset where John Dee reputedly found the Philosopher’s Stone [11]
26. Saint ------ Aquinas, mediaeval theologian known as Doctor Angelicus [6]
28. Type of poem, such as Shelley’s To the West Wind [3]
29. Gemstone famous for its iridescent appearance [4]
32. Diminutive angels common in renaissance art [5]
33. Contemporary of Shakespeare who wrote many plays, including The Alchemist [3, 6]
35. The Tabula Smaragdina of Hermetic alchemy [7, 6]
1. "The fortress near the ------ will fall when the king is locked up inside" (Nostradamus, Century 8 Quatrain 37) [6]
2. Person born in the capital city of Greece [8]
3. Michael ----, mediaeval alchemist who was reputed to have occult powers [4]
4. In Aikido training, the person being thrown (i.e. the attacker) [3]
5. Mary ---- Atwood, Victorian author of A Suggestive Enquiry into the Hermetic Mystery [4]
6 & 7. Seventeenth century mathematician and scientist who wrote extensively on the subject of alchemy [5, 6]
8. Indian province [7]
13. Traditional board game, of which the Enochian form uses alchemical symbolism [5]
15. ---- Gustav Jung, author of Psychology and Alchemy [4]
17. "The cherub with his flaming -----" (Blake: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell) [5]
18. French abbot or other cleric [4]
20. A specific form of a chemical element [7]
21. A Modest --------, satirical pamphlet by Jonathan Swift [8]
24. German poet whose most famous work is Faust [6]
25. Extraterrestrials come from another one! [6]
27. ----- Bailey, neo-theosophist who founded the Arcane School and the Lucis Trust [5]
30. In Kabbalah, the Sacred Marriage is represented by the union of ---- (father) and Imma (mother) [4]
31. Small Scottish island where Saint Columba founded a monastery in 563 AD [4]
34. Land to the East of Eden where Cain lived in exile [3]

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