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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, Polaris

Prestat tot millibus una

It offers many benefits to thousands of people.

“X” – Jakob Bosch aka Boschius, Symbolographia sive de arte symbolica, 1702, class 2, emblem DCCLXV 765.

In motu immobilis

Moving, still.

“X.” – Jakob Bosch, Symbolographia, class 3, CMLXXIV 974.

Ne’rigori più bella

More beautiful in the cold.

“Deeper/higher from the cold.” – Jakob Bosch, Symbolographia, class 3, MLXXXIII 1083.

Qui me non aspicit errat

Whoever doesn’t look at me is wrong.

“X.” – Jakob Bosch, Symbolographia, class 1, CLII 152.

Frigetque trahitque

It Cools and drags.

“X.” – Jakob Bosch, Symbolographia, class 2, CDLVII 457.

Mas veiante ningun

No one is more vigilant.

“X.” – Jakob Bosch, Symbolographia, class 1, CCXCIV 294.

Monstrat iter

It show the route.

“X.” – Jakob Bosch, Symbolographia, class 2, CMVII 907.

Aspicit unam

It looks at one.

“X.” – Jakob Bosch, Symbolographia, class 2, XXI 21.

Numquam occidit

It doesn’t kill at all.

“X.” – Jakob Bosch, Symbolographia, class 1, DXI 511.

Nunquam spectata fefellit

It never disappoints when you look at it.

“X.” – Jakob Bosch, Symbolographia, class 3, CCCLXIX 369.

Rectores regit

It rules the rulers.

“X.” – Jakob Bosch, Symbolographia, class 3, DCCCLXVIII 868.

Sto dum cuncta moventur

I stand still while everything moves.

“X.” – Jakob Bosch, Symbolographia, class 2, CDLXXXIII 483.

Resibunt irae

They will resist the fury of the elements and the deities.

“X.” – Jakob Bosch, Symbolographia, class 3, 959.


Iter parat tutum

The path is arranged towards safety.

“X.” – Jakob Bosch, Symbolographia, class 1, 585.


Immota videtur. Vel tardior in speciem longe est velocior

It seems immobile. That is, even though it appears slower, it is much faster.

“X.” – Jakob Bosch, Symbolographia, class 3, 946.


Vis arcana trahit

The mysterious force attracts.

“X.” – Jakob Bosch, Symbolographia, class 2, 769.


Certa Regit quia fixa polo est

It governs with certainty because it is fixed at the pole.

“X.” – Jakob Bosch, Symbolographia, class 1, 154.


Cancellarius eiusdem senatus, stellam habens pro tessera

The chancellor/keeper of the door of the same senate, having a star for/as/in exchange for a dice/board/password.

“X.” – Jakob Bosch, Symbolographia, class 2, 1071.


Et stella polaris acum nauticam ad se convertens

And the North Star causes the needle of the nautical compass to orient itself towards it.

“X.” – Jakob Bosch, Symbolographia, class 1, 374.

  • 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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