Is the skull a banned symbol of Life? Why was it often hidden under the OMO hieroglyph? Fortunio Liceti, in his compilation on ring gems, unravels the evidence.
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Symbola Aureae Mensae and the Supreme Purpose
In Symbola Aureae Mensae, Michael Maier uses a supreme hunter, Maria Prophitissa, and a systematic thinker, Aquinas, to reveal his knowledge of alchemical fumes.
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Circuit of fumes. The Hortulus Hermeticus engraving number 6 proposes a technical exposition consistent with Mary the Prophetess but the philosophical one.
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Two different drinks. One for the Spirit and blood for the Soul. Gentle the first, unexpectedly cruel the second. The Ripley Scroll shows all the dripping.
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Das Buch der heiligen Dreifaltigkeit, or Book of Holy Trinity, puts on display a strange wheel. The iconographic theme of our Secret Fire, or Sun in the Earth.
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