03-05-2023, 04:39 AM
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That figure sitting on the tail is really intriguing. Brandishing a double-edge sword and the tables of the Law (symbols of the New and Old Testaments, or a religious version of the allegory of Justice?…), wearing the papal tiara but clad in worldly, secular clothes, and sitting backwards on a dragon, like a male 'Whore of Babylon'.
Wouldn’t be the first time an alchemical publication is layered with religious pamphleteering.
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That figure sitting on the tail is really intriguing. Brandishing a double-edge sword and the tables of the Law (symbols of the New and Old Testaments, or a religious version of the allegory of Justice?…), wearing the papal tiara but clad in worldly, secular clothes, and sitting backwards on a dragon, like a male 'Whore of Babylon'.
Wouldn’t be the first time an alchemical publication is layered with religious pamphleteering.
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