12-06-2022, 11:12 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-06-2022, 11:18 AM by Adam McLean.)
Hermes with a winged helmet and heels, holds a caduceus in his left hand and a key marked 'I close' in his right.
Attached to his left arm is a key marked 'I open'.
He stands upon a circle, around which is labelled the Animal, Vegetable, Mineral and Starry realms.
Inside the circumference is Materia Prima, Magnesia, Lapis and Chaos, and within this is a square with the four elements labelled each on one of the sides.
Within this is a triangle with Agens, Patiens and Quinta Essentia; at the vertices are salt, sulphur and mercury, and its edges are labelled on the outside - separation, dissolution and depuration, and on the inside - soul, spirit and body.
From Johann de Monte Raphaim, (probably a pseudonym), Vorbothe der am philosophischen Himmel hervor-brechenden Morgen-Röthe.
Hamburg: zu finden bey Samuel Heyl, 1716.
Attached to his left arm is a key marked 'I open'.
He stands upon a circle, around which is labelled the Animal, Vegetable, Mineral and Starry realms.
Inside the circumference is Materia Prima, Magnesia, Lapis and Chaos, and within this is a square with the four elements labelled each on one of the sides.
Within this is a triangle with Agens, Patiens and Quinta Essentia; at the vertices are salt, sulphur and mercury, and its edges are labelled on the outside - separation, dissolution and depuration, and on the inside - soul, spirit and body.
From Johann de Monte Raphaim, (probably a pseudonym), Vorbothe der am philosophischen Himmel hervor-brechenden Morgen-Röthe.
Hamburg: zu finden bey Samuel Heyl, 1716.
Adam McLean