So, first thing we're gonna learn is Alchemical Symbols. We use this symbols to denote some elements and some compounds. This symbols are unique, and you will need to remember them, to use the formulas and recipes for Elixirs.

Three Primes

According to our friend Paracelsus, the three primes are Salt , Mercury , the fluid connection between High and Low. , and the last Sulfur omnipresent spirit of life .

Four Basic Elements 

Western Alchemy makes the use of the Helenic symbols. Pay attention, because they are sometimes hidden.

Earth 
Water 
Air 
Fire 

Seven Planetary Metals

Seven metals for the Seven Planets. That's how we use it. Seven metals for seven deiteis too, all figuring heavily in alchemical symbolism. Although the metals occasionally have a glyph of their own, the planet's symbol is used most often, and the symbolic and mythological septenary is consistent with Western astrology. Although the metals occasionally have a glyph of their own, the planet's symbol is used most often, and the symbolic and mythological septenary is consistent with Western astrology. So, here we go:

Gold is for the Sun (or Sol, in alchemy) 
Silver is for the Luna (moon) 
Copper is for Venus ♀ or 
Iron is for Mars 
Tin is for Jupiter 
Mercury (the quicksilver) is for Mercury 
Lead is for Saturn 

Mundane Elements

Antimony 
Arsenic 
Bismuth 
Boron (no symbol)
Magnesium  ⊛
Phosphorus (no symbol)
Platinum ☽ ☉
Potassium (no symbol)
Stone 
Sulfur 
Zinc (no symbol)

So, after you lerned a few symbols, I'm going to give you, dear student, the symbols for the Alchemichal Processes.

The alchemical magnum opus was sometimes expressed as a series of chemical operations. In cases where these numbered twelve, each could be assigned one of the Zodiac signs as a form of cryptography. The following example can be found in Pernety's 1758 Mytho-Hermetic Dictionary:

Calcination (Aries) 
Congelation (Taurus) 
Fixation (Gemini) 
Dissolution (Cancer) 
Digestion (Leo) 
Distillation (Virgo) 
Sublimation (Libra) 
Separation (Scorpio) 
Incineration (Sagittarius) 
Fermetarion (Capricorn) 
Multiplication (Aquarius) 
Projection (Piscio)