The sun orbiting the earth is the Ecliptic (7). The astronomical sun stands here for magnetization and the external influences, or signatures, we need to observe. The moon is also very important in this phase since solar beams are preferably gathered from a less dangerously pulsing astronomical moon, represented with equal solar honor in nineteen engravings. In the frontispiece, the cameo seems quite in a peripheral placement to represent better that we often gather the sun through the astronomical moon.
We can also observe the earth’s eclipse or the shadow formed by every obstacle preventing solar beams. This can be interpreted in more than one single meaning. It may stand either for our black putrefaction phase, making a terrestrial salt out of the solar beam, or the solar light spectrum polarization. Each of them is an Alchemy key and axiom. In Philosophia Reformata number nineteen, we can notice the same shadows or earth eclipse caused by man and woman. The following cameo will say something about who they are.
In this Philosophia Reformata frontispiece cameo, there is a recurrent alchemical iconography: Sun and Moon are thrashing with sticks what may seem a winged dragon, that’s to say, Secret Fire/Primitive Mercurius to be extracted from raw matter. Here, the Sun and Moon stand for our alchemical operation of Solve et Coagula. Moon/woman dissolves and volatilizes, while man/Sun, on the contrary, sublimes and fixes. One is getting water, the other earth. These are the main alchemical and chemical tools for our work. Philosophia Reformata nineteen shows a man/Sun and a woman/Moon getting hold of the alchemical globe/earth to point at the same concept.
Father and Mother are synonymous with the Sun and Moon, indicating their seminal capabilities. That’s to say they’re taking part in Mercurius Duplicatus and hoping for an alchemical birth.
In Philosophia Reformata picture nineteen, we have discovered that two significant couples of Sun Moon, that’s to say, Astronomical and Solve et Coagula tools, are working on another couple man/Sun and woman/Moon, or our Philosophical Egg. The first two, or our Secret Fire/Mercurius, have finally been fixed and duplicated in an Egg.
Finally, the last cameo presents the same Atalanta Fugiens number twenty-one circle/Egg iconography as aforementioned, except that if we attentively look at the circle in Philosophia Reformata Frontispiece cameo, we can notice we are before a 3D circle, a sphere, or unquestionably an Egg. So much more evident than a brick wall.
Below Atalanta Fugiens emblems forty-five and twenty-five can now finally be unified in the intelligible and comprehensive Philosophia Reformata number nineteen. J. Daniel Mylius provided a real mind-mapping for the father Sun and mother Moon (8).
- See also Codex Marcianus Ouroboros;
- See also Atalanta Fugiens and Mercurius Duplicatus;
- On the topic, see also Basilius Valentinus Azoth, or Introitus Apertus chapter two;
- See also Cabala Mineralis and the three Salts Enigma;
- See aso Atalanta Fugiens and the Golden Apples;
- See also Basilius Valentinus and Solve et Coagula tree;
- See also San Miniato Sun Path or the Sky as Seen from Earth , Pietro Perugino and the Lady of the Wind , Santi Pupieni and the Raising Black-New Moon ;
- For other meanings on Sun-Moon symbology, see also Two Stars in a Venetian Geocentric Sky and Sun & Moon at the Turn of the First Millennium ;