1/19/15 Red Alert: Alchemy (in the Underground Weapons Market?))

[Sherriann]

In Hermeticism, both the transmutation of common metals into gold and the universal panacea symbolized evolution from an imperfect, diseased, corruptible, and ephemeral state toward a perfect, healthy, incorruptible, and everlasting state, so the philosopher's stone then represented a mystic key that would make this evolution possible. Applied to the alchemist himself, the twin goal symbolized his evolution from ignorance to enlightenment, and the stone represented a hidden spiritual truth or power that would lead to that goal. (Wiki)

Crystal was in the January 13 run and quartz was in the January 18 run.