The causing of any sort of mysterious sudden transmutation.
Any elaborate transformation process or algorithm.
The premodern and early modern study of physical changes, particularly in Europe, Arabia, and China and chiefly in pursuit of an elixir of immortality, a universal panacea, and/or a philosopher's stone able to transmute base metals into gold, eventually developing into chemistry.
Obscure thoughts and speculations.
A transcendental union of soul or mind with the divine reality or divinity.
The beliefs, ideas, or thoughts of mystics.
A doctrine of direct communication or spiritual intuition of divine truth.