As used by its most distinguished representatives, alchemical literature possesses a suggestive language, rich in allegories, homophony and word-play which, often through the mediation of Jakob Böhme's theosophical works, has had a profound effect on the poetry of Romanticism (Blake, Novalis), the philosophy of German idealism (Hegel, Schelling) and modern literature (Yeats, Joyce, Rimbaud, Breton Artaud).
Many voices, even from within their own ranks, were raised against the 'obscure idioms' of the alchemists. And their own account of their communication technique hardly sounds more encouraging: ''Wherever we have spoken openly we have, actually, said nothing. But where we have written something in code and in pictures we have concealed the truth.'' (Rosarium Philosophorum, Weinheim edition, 1990)
(ALCHEMY & MYSTICISM, Alexander Roob, Taschen 2006)
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