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ALCHEMY - ROSARIUM PHILOSOPHORUM - CONJUNCTION. A much printed alchemical series, the Rosarium Philosophorum consists of a complex text around 20 highly distinctive woodcut prints. The imagery is alchemical, but well disguised behind the hieros gamos, or sacred marriage, sexuality and various Christian symbols. They each relate to the alchemical stages, viewed from a Christian standpoint - perhaps written in the late 15th century by one of the early Rosicrucian schools. Although the text and related images appeared in mediaeval manuscripts, it was not printed until 1550, in a German edition, as part of the De alchimia opuscula, by which time it consisted of 20 woodcuts. The authorship has always remained uncertain, though it has been suggested that it was compiled by Arnold of Villanova, in the 13th century. Jung has argued, from iconographic points relating to the four distinctly religious images, that, in its present form at least, the illustrations do not go back beyond the 15th century. The book was reprinted, with different cuts, many times: a great deal of the meaning of text and images may be gleaned from the later version of the images, and a truncated text, published as part of Johann. Daniel Mylius, Philosophia Reformata, 1622 (the 22 engravings based on the cuts begins at the 29 engraving in the series, though the old numbering is adopted- that is to say, after the 28 engravings the Rosarium series are numbered in sequence from 1 to 22). Plate 5. Now we see the beginning of alchemical Conjunction (as the Latin text puts it, this is Conjunction or Coitus). The Sun and the Moon come together, to make the phenomenon of the eclipse, in which both Sun and Moon lose their identities (This eclipse explains why the lunar face is fully round - the same size the Sun, which it is to occult). The King is in top in this embrace, but the Queen is more powerful, for she is beginning to transform the male into her own volatile soul nature. The couple.

ALCHEMY - ROSARIUM PHILOSOPHORUM - CONJUNCTION. A much printed alchemical series, the Rosarium Philosophorum consists of a complex text around 20 highly distinctive woodcut prints. The imagery is alchemical, but well disguised behind the hieros gamos, or sacred marriage, sexuality and various Christian symbols. They each relate to the alchemical stages, viewed from a Christian standpoint - perhaps written in the late 15th century by one of the early Rosicrucian schools. Although the text and related images appeared in mediaeval manuscripts, it was not printed until 1550, in a German edition, as part of the De alchimia opuscula, by which time it consisted of 20 woodcuts. The authorship has always remained uncertain, though it has been suggested that it was compiled by Arnold of Villanova, in the 13th century. Jung has argued, from iconographic points relating to the four distinctly religious images, that, in its present form at least, the illustrations do not go back beyond the 15th century. The book was reprinted, with different cuts, many times: a great deal of the meaning of text and images may be gleaned from the later version of the images, and a truncated text, published as part of Johann. Daniel Mylius, Philosophia Reformata, 1622 (the 22 engravings based on the cuts begins at the 29 engraving in the series, though the old numbering is adopted- that is to say, after the 28 engravings the Rosarium series are numbered in sequence from 1 to 22). Plate 5. Now we see the beginning of alchemical Conjunction (as the Latin text puts it, this is Conjunction or Coitus). The Sun and the Moon come together, to make the phenomenon of the eclipse, in which both Sun and Moon lose their identities (This eclipse explains why the lunar face is fully round - the same size the Sun, which it is to occult). The King is in top in this embrace, but the Queen is more powerful, for she is beginning to transform the male into her own volatile soul nature. The couple.
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ALCHEMY - ROSARIUM PHILOSOPHORUM - CONJUNCTION. A much printed alchemical series, the Rosarium Philosophorum consists of a complex text around 20 highly distinctive woodcut prints. The imagery is alchemical, but well disguised behind the hieros gamos, or sacred marriage, sexuality and various Christian symbols. They each relate to the alchemical stages, viewed from a Christian standpoint - perhaps written in the late 15th century by one of the early Rosicrucian schools. Although the text and related images appeared in mediaeval manuscripts, it was not printed until 1550, in a German edition, as part of the De alchimia opuscula, by which time it consisted of 20 woodcuts. The authorship has always remained uncertain, though it has been suggested that it was compiled by Arnold of Villanova, in the 13th century. Jung has argued, from iconographic points relating to the four distinctly religious images, that, in its present form at least, the illustrations do not go back beyond the 15th century. The book was reprinted, with different cuts, many times: a great deal of the meaning of text and images may be gleaned from the later version of the images, and a truncated text, published as part of Johann. Daniel Mylius, Philosophia Reformata, 1622 (the 22 engravings based on the cuts begins at the 29 engraving in the series, though the old numbering is adopted- that is to say, after the 28 engravings the Rosarium series are numbered in sequence from 1 to 22). Plate 5. Now we see the beginning of alchemical Conjunction (as the Latin text puts it, this is Conjunction or Coitus). The Sun and the Moon come together, to make the phenomenon of the eclipse, in which both Sun and Moon lose their identities (This eclipse explains why the lunar face is fully round - the same size the Sun, which it is to occult). The King is in top in this embrace, but the Queen is more powerful, for she is beginning to transform the male into her own volatile soul nature. The couple
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