675 Hans Karl von ECKER und ECKHOFFEN [1754-1809].
Freymäurerische Versammlungsreden der Gold- und Rosenkreutzer des alten Systems; mit zwölf eingedruckten Vignetten.
8° Amsterdam 1779
Ferguson Nat Union Cat
[Illustrations:-
12 engravings by Hejonagogerus Nugir, as the frontispiece of the books and at the headings of the various chapters. See also Birkholz, 'Der Compass der Weisen', 1779.
1. Engraving on title-page. 70x95mm. A king stands before his throne shaking the hand of a courtier who points to a drawing of a grand palace held up by a mason. On the ground beside him are the tools of the mason's craft.
2. p5 67x78mm. A man kneels in prayer before a mountain. The name of God in a radiant triangle shines in the clouds above. A cone of light descends upon the Earth, Sun, Moon and stars. In this cone of light is the Christ child.
3. p37 66x86mm. Christ preaches to his twelve disciples. "I am the salt of the earth".
4. p57 68x85mm. Three men kneel in prayer before a table on which a book stands open. From the radiant triangle of God in the clouds above three rays descend on the figures below.
5. p79 71x76mm. A man sits in his study reading a book of religion and nature. The radiant triangle of God appears in clouds, together with the ten tablets of the law of Moses.
6. p113 66x85mm. A woman with winged crown and bearing a sceptre leads a mason with apron across an open plain filled with briars and various snakes and dragons. Their goal is a domed temple with six columns, at the centre of which a candle burns, its flame a triangle of light.
7. p143 67x85mm. A king kneels in prayer beside a rectangular altar, his crown and sceptre lying before him on the ground. On the altar a lamb is being sacrificed in flames. In the sky above, the name of God blazes in a triangle of light in a circle of clouds.
8. p163 65x85mm. In the darkness of night a woman with bare breasts walks, holding a disc with a hexagram and a bunch of fruits. She is pursued by two men with lamps. Based upon Michael Maier's 'Atalanta fugiens' emblem 42.
9. p183 70x85mm. A woman holding a cornucopia under her arm and a solar disc in her left hand, lead a muzzled lion. Behind her, a man holding a caduceus in his right hand holds a veil or cloth above her head. On the right a mason with apron stands in a circle in which a hexagram is inscribed. He gazes skywards and holds a stick in his left hand.
10. p219 67x87mm. Moses holding a rod stands looking up at Noah's Ark set on the top of a high mountain on the left. Beside him a goat or calf burns in flames, while at his feet are the tablets of the Law. From a mountain on the right a stream of water emerges. In the background is an Egyptian pyramid, and the tents of the Israelites. At the foot of a pillar inscribed with Hebrew letters is stone tablet inscribed "Trismegistus'.
11. p239 67x63mm. In a circular dark space, rays of light descend from a sphere of light above. Below is the reference Genesis i. v. 2. This image occurs in the 'Janitor pansophus' from the 'Musaeum hermeticum'.
12. p255 88x82mm. The sea is framed between two rocky outcrops with palm trees. In the sea is a globe from the top of which flames emerge. High in the clouds above rays of light descend, together with flames of fire moving downwards. Between these flames is a circle of clouds within which is a hexagram.]