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LabyrinthDesigners & the Art of Fire

Alchemy works translations, commentaries, and presentations of hidden evidence in myths, art, nature, science history

  • Classical Alchemy
    • The State of the Art
    • An Intriguing Case
    • Opus Magnum Scheme
    • Turba Philosophorum’s Ambition
    • Areas of Interest
    • Index of the Names
    • Articles
    • Lexicon
  • Anatomy of an Alchemical Machine
  • The Primitive Music
  • Boschius’s Ars Symbolica

Boschius’s Ars Symbolica, Circles or Closure around the fixed point

Unus non sufficit orbis

A single one can not provide a whole circle/world.

“X.” – Jakob Bosch aka Boschius, Symbolographia sive de arte symbolica, 1702, class 2, emblem CMLXIV 964.

Exsilio non transilio

I don’t run away from my condition.

“X.” – Jakob Bosch, Symbolographia, class 3, MCII 1102.

Redit labor actus in orbem

The work done returns to the circle/world.

“X.” – Jakob Bosch, Symbolographia, class 3, DXIX 519.

Quando è perfetto amor chiude sè stesso

When love is perfect it closes itself

“X.” – Jakob Bosch, Symbolographia, class 2, LII 52.

Minimus Intimus

The smallest is also the most secret.

“X.” – Jakob Bosch, Symbolographia, class 3, CXXX 130.

Omnis in unum

Each in one.

“X.” – Jakob Bosch, Symbolographia, class 3, DCL 650.

  • Classical Alchemy
    • The State of the Art
    • An Intriguing Case
    • Opus Magnum Scheme
    • Turba Philosophorum’s Ambition
    • Areas of Interest
    • Index of the Names
    • Articles
    • Lexicon
  • Anatomy of an Alchemical Machine
  • The Primitive Music
  • Boschius’s Ars Symbolica

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