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

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Ripa Cesare

Cesare Ripa: Wheels, Spindles and Celestial Pointers

by Iulia Millesima

In Iconologia del cavaliere Cesare Ripa Perugino, Perugia 1765, the image of Cosmography is found with a strange use of Wheel and Spindle. There are two ways of interpreting this image: alchemical and philosophical. Both speak of operations between heaven and earth.

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Cesare Ripa & the Two Canons of Beauty

by Iulia Millesima

In Cesare Ripa’s Iconologia, we find two different canons of feminine beauty: a bearded and an ineffable one, which may fit with our two kinds of Mercurius.

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Cesare Ripa & the Hot Frozen Ouroboros World Machine

by Iulia Millesima

Cesare Ripa’s iconology of the Ouroboros world machine fits our main alchemical tools: hot and frozen. The real dichotomy.  The real Father and Mother.

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