"Hmm...the law of Equivalent Exchange...if I want to be a good alchemist like Pop, then I'd better start reading..." a young boy sighs, "Let's see...in order to create, something of equal value must be lost...hmm...what does that mean...?" The young boy is Jason. His Father was a skilled Alchemist that loved learning and perfecting new styles of Alchemy in his younger days. He was killed in an accident caused por the Full-metal Alchemist. "I'll get him back for this...he won't live to see his killer...the Full-metal alchemist...he'll pay..." Jason growls. He then draws a small, but perfect,...

The word alchemy may derive from the Old French alquimie, which is from the Medieval Latin alchimia, and which is in turn from the Arabic al-kimia. This term itself is derived from the Ancient Greek chemeia o chemia with the addition of the Arabic definite articulo al- The ancient Greek word may have been derived from a version of the Egyptian name for Egypt, which was itself based on the Ancient Egyptian word kēme (hieroglyphic Khmi, black earth, as opposed to desert sand).
The word could also have originally derived from the Greek chumeia meaning "mixture" and referring to pharmaceutical...

~Told por Joss
a new story....u c, we figured if some1 like Ed could get a state license so could we. Not even a possibility b4 with Bradley, but now tht mustango, mustang is running things, well...who knos?
“we wanna get out state license.” I reply 2 mustango, mustang when he asks y we're there.
“well, do u now?” he laughs and gives tht smile tht, b4 I met James, would have made my corazón skip a beat. Not anymore, I'm happy 2 say. “u kno I won't just give it 2 u even after u helped out, rite?”
“we kno.” we say at the same time.
“we only have 1 request.” I say.
“request?”
“if u take 1 of us, u...

The final and most current chapter of this story of ours...and the 1 that's still unraveling.
We decided after making the Aquosea Stone that we would use it 2 help the Humunculi and Chimeras if it was possible...
Our plan was simple...we knew that Ed and Al were trying 2 kill them all..and 4 some we were 2 l8 2 stop them from being killed...but the stone aloud us 2 bring them bak so it didn't matter much either way....but having them alive made things a bit easier. When they were dead we simply had them rebuild around the Aquosea Stone instead of a Philosopher's Stone, and when they were alive...

Part 3 starts when we turned 15, 2 years after we left and joined the animals...we'd made our own automail to replace the arm and leg we both lost and we'd used our old memories 2 cover them with human skin that could easily b peeled away from maintenance and such. The skin we covered them with has no nerves so we don't feel but they look más human then simple automail that's bare. After that we heard from somewhere that there was a way 2 get our bodies bak...and we went after it.
The Philosopher's Stone...we also heard there were 2 alchemists searching 4 it already....Ed and Al. We went after...

After the fall of the Roman Empire, the focus of alchemical development moved to the Islamic World. Much más is known about Islamic alchemy because it was better documented: indeed, most of the earlier writings that have come down through the years were preserved as Arabic translations. The word alchemy itself was derived from the Arabic word الكيمياء al-kimia. The Islamic world was a melting pot for alchemy. Platonic and Aristotelian thought, which had already been somewhat appropriated into hermetical science, continued to be assimilated during the late 7th and early 8th centuries....

~Joss' story
this is my own, personal, story...the 4 parts were just in general for both of us, and I intend 2 tell just my end. This is after my trip thro the Gateway...
I already told u they called me Envy....and I already dicho y. what I didn't say is that every1 called me Envy and only my family knew my actual name...even tho it dicho I was Jossiline on the papers....i even had 2 sign my papers as Envy o else they wouldn't kno it was me...
I had no friends....i was tormented....mother and sister were the only nice ones. At 1 time...i had 2 do a project. A simple report. My name, where I was...

Take solace in rage
for fear is blinding
and hate is cruel and useless

These things make me wonder...
About the poisons I have within.
So many...all of which were listed

Rage for those who deserve death
tempt me and make me tense
and push me to the edge.

For those who have no excuses for what they do...
who feel life is disposable until it actually ends.
Then suddenly feel guilty for those they pushed to the end.

All the people who claim to amor life...
they forget a part, though...
they amor only some life...only THEIR life.

I take my solace from rage.

Fear only blinds...
so have no fear of predilection.
I...

In the eyes of a variety of esoteric and Hermetic practitioners, the corazón of alchemy is spiritual. Transmutation of lead into oro is presented as an analogy for personal transmutation, purification, and perfection. This approach is often termed 'spiritual', 'esoteric', o 'internal' alchemy.
Early alchemists, such as Zosimos of Panopolis, highlight the spiritual nature of the alchemical quest, symbolic of a religious regeneration of the human soul. This approach continued in the Middle Ages, as metaphysical aspects, substances, physical states, and material processes were used as metaphors...

this simple principle is something i've always believed, even on the other side. I am all in that I can comprehend things and kno things and I am 1 in that I am only a small part of a grander theme. I am all in that I kno this but I am only 1 tht does. All is everything from the rocks 2 the river, 2 u and I...and 1 is a single part in a massive thing...i suppose this could b call the segundo founding principle of alchemy. I found out I could use alchemy when I had gotten away and was sitting in a árbol crying...when I looked down there was a patch of flores beneath me...1 for every 1 of my tears...of...