Emblems from a German Alchemical Manuscript, Fidelis Werner, 1794. Source: University of Freiburg…
Puritan alchemists founded America; sounds like bad fiction but it’s fact. As befits a young republic, the history of the earliest origins of American Metaphysical Religion amounts to a long…
Emblems from Sammlung Alchymistischer Schriften (Collection of Alchemical Writings), 18thC. The different colors & symbolic images represent stages of the alchemical process & the composition acts as…
Diagrams of Alchemical Processes from Das Buch mit Sieben Siegeln, Anonymous, ca. 1700. From Manly P Hall’s Collection of Alchemical Manuscripts, Box 4.MS 19.
Of all the myriad forms of visual theology that draw upon the Western traditions of art history, perhaps no medium is quite as neglected as the emblem. The books that contained these small, symboli…
From a pdf I found for free online of the Salvator Tugini 1868 edition
Wikipedia on Suns in Alchemy
Emblems from Sammlung Alchymistischer Schriften (Collection of Alchemical Writings), 18thC. The different colors & symbolic images represent stages of the alchemical process & the composition acts as…
Alchemical emblem 2, Atalanta Fugiens, Michael Maier, 1618. Depicted on bottom: Romulus nursed by a wolf and Jupiter nursed by a goat. The “Child of the Philosophers”, referring to either the…
VITRIOL is an acronym for Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem which translates into “Visit the interior of the earth, and by.....
