tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85458012893044737052024-03-13T11:55:28.558-04:00Alchemical MusingsLaura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8545801289304473705.post-37783006479758953222017-02-05T01:01:00.004-05:002017-02-05T01:47:00.383-05:00Dress Like An Alchemist 14From Stoltzius's <b><i><a href="http://alchemuses.blogspot.com/2017/01/library.html">Viridarium chymicum</a></i></b>. You can also find these images in the <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/38299630@N05/albums/72157679862367236">Dress Like An Alchemist Flickr album</a>.<br />
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Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8545801289304473705.post-81657218016460114452017-02-04T23:17:00.002-05:002017-02-05T01:47:15.835-05:00Dress Like An Alchemist 13From the Zurich <b><i><a href="http://alchemuses.blogspot.com/2017/01/library-aurora-consurgens.html">Aurora Consurgens</a></i></b>. You can also find these images in the <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/38299630@N05/albums/72157679862367236">Dress Like An Alchemist Flickr album</a>.<br />
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Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8545801289304473705.post-90529355935897219042017-02-04T22:55:00.000-05:002017-02-05T01:47:26.245-05:00Dress Like An Alchemist 12From the <b><i><a href="http://alchemuses.blogspot.com/2017/01/library-ripley-scrolls.html">Ripley Scroll</a></i></b> (via <b><a href="http://dpg.lib.berkeley.edu/webdb/dsheh/heh_brf?CallNumber=HM+30313">Berkeley</a></b>). You can also find these images in the <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/38299630@N05/albums/72157679862367236">Dress Like An Alchemist Flickr album</a>.<br />
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<br />Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8545801289304473705.post-69367180038369876972017-02-04T22:49:00.001-05:002017-02-04T22:51:11.193-05:00Dress Like an Alchemist 11From the <b><i><a href="http://alchemuses.blogspot.com/2017/01/library-splendor-solis-alchemical.html">Splendor Solis</a></i></b> in the <b><a href="http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/ILLUMIN.ASP?Size=mid&IllID=60590">British Museum</a></b>. You can also find this image in the <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/38299630@N05/albums/72157679862367236">Dress Like An Alchemist Flickr album</a>.<br />
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Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8545801289304473705.post-46416248579860703152017-02-04T21:36:00.002-05:002017-02-05T01:47:46.389-05:00Dress Like an Alchemist 10An alchemist, after an engraving by or after Pieter Bruegel, the elder. L0017680 Credit: <b><a href="https://wellcomeimages.org/">Wellcome Library, London</a></b><br />
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<br />Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8545801289304473705.post-68726291253109676482017-02-04T21:13:00.002-05:002017-02-04T21:44:45.473-05:00Dress Like an Alchemist 8An alchemist making gold. Oil painting by Hendrik Heerschop, 1665. L0015579 Credit: <a href="https://wellcomeimages.org/">Wellcome Library, London</a><br />
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Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8545801289304473705.post-46835167710124063772017-02-04T20:52:00.000-05:002017-02-04T20:53:07.045-05:00Dress Like an Alchemist 7Title: <b><i>La toyson d'or = The Golden Fleece</i></b><br />
Author: Salomon Trismosin (<b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splendor_Solis">Wikipedia: Splendor Solis</a></b>)<br />
Edition: 1612<br />
Online Source: <b><a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100236852">Hathi Trust</a></b><br />
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The frontispiece plus two addition portraits (<b><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=gri.ark:/13960/t40s0hb10;view=1up;seq=61">here</a></b> and <b><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=gri.ark:/13960/t40s0hb10;view=1up;seq=80">here</a></b>).<br />
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<br />Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8545801289304473705.post-27131728809106687312017-02-04T20:36:00.001-05:002017-02-04T20:36:34.679-05:00Dress Like an Alchemist 6Title: <b><i>De distillatione = About Distillation</i></b><br />
Author: Giambattista Della Porta (<b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giambattista_della_Porta">Wikipedia</a></b>)<br />
Edition: 1608<br />
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<br />Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8545801289304473705.post-86188573419764548462017-02-04T19:56:00.003-05:002017-02-04T19:56:26.494-05:00Dress Like an Alchemist 4From the <b><i>Hermetico-Spagyrisches Lustgärtlein = Hermetico-Spagyrical Pleasure Garden</i></b> of 1625. See this <a href="http://alchemuses.blogspot.com/2017/02/dress-like-alchemist.html">blog post</a> for more info.<br /><br /><a href="http://diglib.hab.de/drucke/nd-779/start.htm?image=00242">Wolfenbüttel: Herzog August Library p. 242</a><br /><br />You will also find this image at the <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/38299630@N05/albums/72157679862367236">Dress Like an Alchemist Flickr album</a>.<div>
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Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8545801289304473705.post-73915533103230956972017-02-04T19:51:00.002-05:002017-02-04T19:51:47.639-05:00Dress Like an Alchemist 3From the <b><i>Hermetico-Spagyrisches Lustgärtlein = Hermetico-Spagyrical Pleasure Garden</i></b> of 1625. See this <a href="http://alchemuses.blogspot.com/2017/02/dress-like-alchemist.html">blog post</a> for more info.<br /><br /><a href="http://diglib.hab.de/drucke/nd-779/start.htm?image=00210">Wolfenbüttel: Herzog August Library p. 210</a><div>
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Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8545801289304473705.post-89360373501752793142017-02-04T18:24:00.003-05:002017-02-04T18:24:52.875-05:00Dress Like an Alchemist 2From the <b><i>Hermetico-Spagyrisches Lustgärtlein = Hermetico-Spagyrical Pleasure Garden</i></b> of 1625. See this <b><a href="http://alchemuses.blogspot.com/2017/02/dress-like-alchemist.html">blog post</a></b> for more info.<br />
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Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8545801289304473705.post-76685778742019126332017-02-04T18:10:00.001-05:002017-02-04T20:37:32.136-05:00Dress Like an Alchemist 1Title: <b><i>Hermetico-Spagyrisches Lustgärtlein = Hermetico-Spagyrical Pleasure Garden</i></b><br />
Author: Lucas Jennis, engraver (<b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_Jennis">Wikipedia</a></b>) and Johann Grasshoff (<b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Grasshoff">Wikipedia</a></b>)<br />
Edition: 1625<br />
Online Source: <b><a href="http://diglib.hab.de/drucke/nd-779/start.htm">Wolfenbüttel: Herzog August Library</a></b><br />
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Here is the link for this particular image: <b><a href="http://diglib.hab.de/drucke/nd-779/start.htm?image=00113">page 113</a></b>; see also this page at the <b><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=gri.ark:/13960/t5n883g3t;view=1up;seq=114">Hathi Trust</a></b> (badly damaged).<br />
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I've added this to the <b><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/38299630@N05/albums/72157679862367236">Dress Like an Alchemist Flickr album</a></b>.<br />
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This daily create prompt was inspired by Kafka's <b><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metamorphosis">Metamorphosis</a></i></b>.<br />
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Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8545801289304473705.post-36357253745234805202017-02-04T00:01:00.003-05:002017-02-04T00:01:56.390-05:00Latin Alchemy Daily Create: Tabula Smaragdina (4)Here's another quote from the <b><i><a href="http://alchemuses.blogspot.com/search/label/Tabula%20Smaragdina">Tabula Smaragdina</a></i></b>, which has a great <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Tablet"><b>Wikipedia article</b></a> containing the Latin text plus two English translations... including Isaac Newton's translation! This passage continues to discuss the "unum," the one thing, and it recalls an emblem we saw earlier in <b><i><a href="http://alchemuses.blogspot.com/2016/12/latin-reader-5-nutrix-ejus-terra-est.html">Atalanta Fugiens</a></i></b>:<br />
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<i>Isaac Newton</i>: The earth is its nurse.<br />
<i>Theatrum Chemicum</i>: Its nurse is the earth.<br />
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I added this to the <b><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/38299630@N05/albums/72157675993980224">Latin Alchemy Flickr album</a></b> too. :-)</div>
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(Latin text via <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Tablet">Wikipedia</a></b> from Chrysogonus Polydorus, Nuremberg 1541):<br />
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Verum, sine mendacio, certum et verissimum:<br />
Quod est inferius est sicut quod est superius, et quod est superius est sicut quod est inferius, ad perpetranda miracula rei unius.<br />
Et sicut res omnes fuerunt ab uno, meditatione unius, sic omnes res natae ab hac una re, adaptatione.<br />
Pater eius est Sol. Mater eius est Luna, portavit illud Ventus in ventre suo, nutrix eius terra est.<br />
Pater omnis telesmi totius mundi est hic.<br />
Virtus eius integra est si versa fuerit in terram.<br />
Separabis terram ab igne, subtile ab spisso, suaviter, magno cum ingenio.<br />
Ascendit a terra in coelum, iterumque descendit in terram, et recipit vim superiorum et inferiorum.<br />
Sic habebis Gloriam totius mundi.<br />
Ideo fugiet a te omnis obscuritas.<br />
Haec est totius fortitudinis fortitudo fortis, quia vincet omnem rem subtilem, omnemque solidam penetrabit.<br />
Sic mundus creatus est.<br />
Hinc erunt adaptationes mirabiles, quarum modus est hic. Itaque vocatus sum Hermes Trismegistus, habens tres partes philosophiae totius mundi.<br />
Completum est quod dixi de operatione Solis.Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8545801289304473705.post-66319527923019241662017-02-01T20:11:00.001-05:002017-02-01T20:11:23.725-05:00Latin Alchemy Daily Create: Tabula Smaragdina (3)Here's another quote from the <b><i><a href="http://alchemuses.blogspot.com/search/label/Tabula%20Smaragdina">Tabula Smaragdina</a></i></b>, which has a great <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Tablet"><b>Wikipedia article</b></a> containing the Latin text plus two English translations... including Isaac Newton's translation! This passage continues to discuss the "unum," the one thing, and it recalls an emblem we saw earlier in <b><i><a href="http://alchemuses.blogspot.com/2016/12/latin-reader-4-ventosa-alvus.html">Atalanta Fugiens</a></i></b>:<br />
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<i>Isaac Newton</i>: The wind hath carried it in its belly.<br />
<i>Theatrum Chemicum</i>: The wind bore it in the womb.<br />
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Verum, sine mendacio, certum et verissimum:<br />
Quod est inferius est sicut quod est superius, et quod est superius est sicut quod est inferius, ad perpetranda miracula rei unius.<br />
Et sicut res omnes fuerunt ab uno, meditatione unius, sic omnes res natae ab hac una re, adaptatione.<br />
Pater eius est Sol. Mater eius est Luna, portavit illud Ventus in ventre suo, nutrix eius terra est.<br />
Pater omnis telesmi totius mundi est hic.<br />
Virtus eius integra est si versa fuerit in terram.<br />
Separabis terram ab igne, subtile ab spisso, suaviter, magno cum ingenio.<br />
Ascendit a terra in coelum, iterumque descendit in terram, et recipit vim superiorum et inferiorum.<br />
Sic habebis Gloriam totius mundi.<br />
Ideo fugiet a te omnis obscuritas.<br />
Haec est totius fortitudinis fortitudo fortis, quia vincet omnem rem subtilem, omnemque solidam penetrabit.<br />
Sic mundus creatus est.<br />
Hinc erunt adaptationes mirabiles, quarum modus est hic. Itaque vocatus sum Hermes Trismegistus, habens tres partes philosophiae totius mundi.<br />
Completum est quod dixi de operatione Solis.Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8545801289304473705.post-2893103676844829862017-01-31T23:29:00.000-05:002017-02-01T09:44:53.519-05:00Latin Alchemy Daily Create: Tabula Smaragdina (2)Here's another quote from the <b><i>Tabula Smaragdina</i></b>, which has a great <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Tablet"><b>Wikipedia article</b></a> containing the Latin text plus two English translations... including Isaac Newton's translation!<br />
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In this passge, the Tabula discusses the <i>res una</i>, the "one thing," and where that <i>res una </i>comes from:<br />
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<i>Isaac Newton</i>: The Sun is its father, the moon its mother.<br />
<i>Theatrum Chemicum</i>: The father of it is the sun, the mother the moon.<br />
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I added this to the <b><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/38299630@N05/albums/72157675993980224">Latin Alchemy Flickr album</a></b> too. :-)</div>
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(Latin text via <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Tablet">Wikipedia</a></b> from Chrysogonus Polydorus, Nuremberg 1541):<br />
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Verum, sine mendacio, certum et verissimum:<br />
Quod est inferius est sicut quod est superius, et quod est superius est sicut quod est inferius, ad perpetranda miracula rei unius.<br />
Et sicut res omnes fuerunt ab uno, meditatione unius, sic omnes res natae ab hac una re, adaptatione.<br />
Pater eius est Sol. Mater eius est Luna, portavit illud Ventus in ventre suo, nutrix eius terra est.<br />
Pater omnis telesmi totius mundi est hic.<br />
Virtus eius integra est si versa fuerit in terram.<br />
Separabis terram ab igne, subtile ab spisso, suaviter, magno cum ingenio.<br />
Ascendit a terra in coelum, iterumque descendit in terram, et recipit vim superiorum et inferiorum.<br />
Sic habebis Gloriam totius mundi.<br />
Ideo fugiet a te omnis obscuritas.<br />
Haec est totius fortitudinis fortitudo fortis, quia vincet omnem rem subtilem, omnemque solidam penetrabit.<br />
Sic mundus creatus est.<br />
Hinc erunt adaptationes mirabiles, quarum modus est hic. Itaque vocatus sum Hermes Trismegistus, habens tres partes philosophiae totius mundi.<br />
Completum est quod dixi de operatione Solis.Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8545801289304473705.post-25942241280884770512017-01-28T13:15:00.002-05:002017-01-28T13:51:34.444-05:00Latin Alchemy Daily Create: Tabula Smaragdina (1)I am so grateful to Alan and Mia for prompting me to take up a new Latin project (something I honestly thought I was never going to do again), but this Latin alchemy thing has totally captivated me... and eventually it is going to turn into a Latin Alchemy Reader for Latin students and teachers (let's say before I turn 60 years old ha ha). As part of the #NetNarr adventure, instead of using the daily creates from the class (which are indeed very cool!), I'm going to try to do a Latin daily create so that I can start building up a body of stuff I can (re)use later. A big part of what I will need to be making are Latin vocabulary graphics, like animated gifs with Latin words that are going to be important for reading about alchemy, along with quote posters with memorable quotes, and so on.<br />
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One of those obvious quote sources will be the <b><i>Tabula Smaragdina</i></b>, which has a great <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Tablet">Wikipedia article</a></b> containing the Latin text plus two English translations... including Isaac Newton's translation, which is fun to see. So, I'll start my Latin Alchemy Daily Creates by doing some quote posters from the Tabula. Here is the first one:<br />
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<i>Isaac Newton</i>: That which is below is like that which is above.<br />
<i>Theatrum Chemicum</i>: Whatever is below is similar to that which is above.<br />
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Whoo-hoo: I started a <b><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/38299630@N05/albums/72157675993980224">Latin Alchemy Flickr album</a></b> too. :-)</div>
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(Latin text via <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Tablet">Wikipedia</a></b> from Chrysogonus Polydorus, Nuremberg 1541):<br />
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Verum, sine mendacio, certum et verissimum:<br />
Quod est inferius est sicut quod est superius, et quod est superius est sicut quod est inferius, ad perpetranda miracula rei unius.<br />
Et sicut res omnes fuerunt ab uno, meditatione unius, sic omnes res natae ab hac una re, adaptatione.<br />
Pater eius est Sol. Mater eius est Luna, portavit illud Ventus in ventre suo, nutrix eius terra est.<br />
Pater omnis telesmi totius mundi est hic.<br />
Virtus eius integra est si versa fuerit in terram.<br />
Separabis terram ab igne, subtile ab spisso, suaviter, magno cum ingenio.<br />
Ascendit a terra in coelum, iterumque descendit in terram, et recipit vim superiorum et inferiorum.<br />
Sic habebis Gloriam totius mundi.<br />
Ideo fugiet a te omnis obscuritas.<br />
Haec est totius fortitudinis fortitudo fortis, quia vincet omnem rem subtilem, omnemque solidam penetrabit.<br />
Sic mundus creatus est.<br />
Hinc erunt adaptationes mirabiles, quarum modus est hic. Itaque vocatus sum Hermes Trismegistus, habens tres partes philosophiae totius mundi.<br />
Completum est quod dixi de operatione Solis.Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8545801289304473705.post-3869529304381294872017-01-27T10:37:00.003-05:002017-01-27T10:37:52.463-05:00Library. Camerarius. Symbola et EmblemataTitle: <b><i>Symbolorum et Emblematum Centuriae Quatuor = 400 Symbols and Emblems</i></b><br />
Author: <b>Joachim Camerarius</b> (<b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Camerarius">Wikipedia</a></b>)<br />
Edition: 1668<br />
Online Source: <b><a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100073002">Hathi Trust</a></b><br />
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These are not alchemy books, but they are emblem books from the natural world, and as such you will see a lot of overlap in the symbolic and emblematic language. Camerarius published four books of emblems — plants, animals, birds, and reptiles — 100 emblems in each book, with each emblem accompanied by a Latin distich along with an essay in Latin. Later, these four books were then collected into a single volume, <b><i>Symbolorum et Emblematum Centuriae Quatuor</i></b>, which is what I have listed above. To find the single volumes, with much higher quality page scans, visit the <a href="http://www.digital-collections.de/index.html?c=autoren_index&l=en&ab=Camerarius%2C+Joachim+%26lt%3B1534-1598%26gt%3B"><b>University of Munich Digital Library</b></a>: <a href="http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0002/bsb00028232/images/index.html?id=00028232&groesser=&fip=xseayawxdsydeayasdasewqeayaewqen&no=3&seite=5"><b>plants</b></a> — <a href="http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0002/bsb00028233/images/index.html?id=00028233&groesser=&fip=xseayawxdsydeayasdasewqeayaewqen&no=3&seite=5"><b>animals</b></a> — <a href="http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0002/bsb00028235/images/index.html?id=00028235&groesser=&fip=xseayawxdsydeayasdasewqeayaewqen&no=3&seite=5"><b>birds</b></a> — <a href="http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0002/bsb00028237/images/index.html?id=00028237&groesser=&fip=xseayawxdsydeayasdasewqeayaewqen&no=3&seite=5"><b>reptiles</b></a>.<br />
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Here is an example where Camerarius (<b><a href="http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0002/bsb00028237/images/index.html?id=00028237&groesser=&fip=xseayawxdsydeayasdasewqeayaewqen&no=20&seite=179">reptiles 83</a></b>) includes a symbol beloved of the alchemists also: the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros" style="font-weight: bold;">ouroboros</a>:<br />
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<i>Rebus in humanis adeo in se cuncta recurrunt,</i></div>
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<i> Finis ut unius sit caput alterius.</i></div>
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In human affairs, (in humanis rebus) all things (cuncta) revolve into one another (recurrunt in se) such that (adeo us) the tail-end of one thing (finis unius) is the head-start of another (sit caput alterius).</div>
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I made a poster for this one as part of my <b><a href="http://distichalatina.blogspot.com/2012/07/res-in-se-recurrentes.html">Latin distich project</a></b>:</div>
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Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8545801289304473705.post-81646548641761135452017-01-26T13:07:00.002-05:002017-01-26T15:23:35.022-05:00Library. Books by Arthur Edward Waite.Since I mentioned A. E. Waite in the Twitter chat last night, I thought I would include a list of his books for the Library entry today. His books are in the public domain and they give a great perspective on the re-discovery of alchemy in the 19th and early 20th century by people interested in the mystical, spiritual, and psychological dimensions of alchemy. Some other time I'll check to see if there are other works of his online that I did not find at the incredible Hathi Trust!<br />
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<i>Author</i>: Arthur Edward Waite (<b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._E._Waite">Wikipedia</a></b>)<br />
<i>Titles with links to Hathi Trust online editions:</i><br /><ol>
<li><a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007693538?type%5B%5D=author&lookfor%5B%5D=%22Waite%2C%20Arthur%20Edward%2C%201857-1942.%22&ft=ft"><b>Hathi</b></a>. A lyric of the fairy land, and other poems. 1879.</li>
<li><a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100327047?type%5B%5D=author&lookfor%5B%5D=%22Waite%2C%20Arthur%20Edward%2C%201857-1942.%22&ft=ft"><b>Hathi</b></a>. Israfel; letters, visions and poems. 1886.</li>
<li><a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008881787?type%5B%5D=author&lookfor%5B%5D=%22Waite%2C%20Arthur%20Edward%2C%201857-1942.%22&ft=ft"><b>Hathi</b></a>. The mysteries of magic: a digest of the writings of Eliphas Lévi. 1886.</li>
<li><a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000584018?type%5B%5D=author&lookfor%5B%5D=%22Waite%2C%20Arthur%20Edward%2C%201857-1942.%22&ft=ft"><b>Hathi</b></a>. The real history of the Rosicrucians founded on their own manifestoes, and on facts and documents collected from the writings of initiated brethren. 1887.</li>
<li><a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006606795?type%5B%5D=author&lookfor%5B%5D=%22Waite%2C%20Arthur%20Edward%2C%201857-1942.%22&ft=ft"><b>Hathi</b></a>. A soul's comedy. 1887.</li>
<li><a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012189202?type%5B%5D=author&lookfor%5B%5D=%22Waite%2C%20Arthur%20Edward%2C%201857-1942.%22&ft=ft"><b>Hathi</b></a>. Elfin music: an anthology of English fairy poetry. 1888.</li>
<li><a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001486595?type%5B%5D=author&lookfor%5B%5D=%22Waite%2C%20Arthur%20Edward%2C%201857-1942.%22&ft=ft"><b>Hathi</b></a>. Lives of alchemystical philosophers based on materials collected in 1815 and supplemented by recent researches. 1888.</li>
<li><a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/002990450?type%5B%5D=author&lookfor%5B%5D=%22Waite%2C%20Arthur%20Edward%2C%201857-1942.%22&ft=ft"><b>Hathi</b></a>. The book of black magic and of facts; including the rites and mysteries of Goëtic theury, sorcery, and infernal necromancy. 1890.</li>
<li><a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012348137?type%5B%5D=author&lookfor%5B%5D=%22Waite%2C%20Arthur%20Edward%2C%201857-1942.%22&ft=ft"><b>Hathi</b></a>. The Hermetic museum, restored and enlarged: most faithfully instructing all disciples of the sopho-spagyric art how that greatest and truest medicine of the philosopher's stone. 1893.</li>
<li><a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009262717?type%5B%5D=author&lookfor%5B%5D=%22Waite%2C%20Arthur%20Edward%2C%201857-1942.%22&ft=ft"><b>Hathi</b></a>. The triumphal chariot of antimony. By Basilius Valentinus. With the commentary of Theodore Kerckringius. 1893.</li>
<li><a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005716070?type%5B%5D=author&lookfor%5B%5D=%22Waite%2C%20Arthur%20Edward%2C%201857-1942.%22&ft=ft"><b>Hathi</b></a>. A new light of mysticism : Azoth; or, The star in the east. 1893.</li>
<li><a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001381914?type%5B%5D=author&lookfor%5B%5D=%22Waite%2C%20Arthur%20Edward%2C%201857-1942.%22&ft=ft"><b>Hathi</b></a>. The hermetic and alchemical writings of Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombast, of Hohenheim, called Paracelsus the Great. 1894.</li>
<li><a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007663777?type%5B%5D=author&lookfor%5B%5D=%22Waite%2C%20Arthur%20Edward%2C%201857-1942.%22&ft=ft"><b>Hathi</b></a>. The new pearl of great price : a treatise concerning the treasure and most precious stone of the philosophers, or, the method and procedure of this divine art. 1894.</li>
<li><a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007693537?type%5B%5D=author&lookfor%5B%5D=%22Waite%2C%20Arthur%20Edward%2C%201857-1942.%22&ft=ft"><b>Hathi</b></a>. Lucasta, parables and poems. 1894.</li>
<li><a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010095819?type%5B%5D=author&lookfor%5B%5D=%22Waite%2C%20Arthur%20Edward%2C%201857-1942.%22&ft=ft"><b>Hathi</b></a>. Alchemy the turba philosophorum; or, Assembly of the sages, called also the book of truth in the art and the third Pythagorical synod; / an ancient alchemical treatise. 1896.</li>
<li><a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000582825?type%5B%5D=author&lookfor%5B%5D=%22Waite%2C%20Arthur%20Edward%2C%201857-1942.%22&ft=ft"><b>Hathi</b></a>. Devil-worship in France; or, The question of Lucifer; a record of things seen and heard in the secret societies. 1896.</li>
<li><a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000586047?type%5B%5D=author&lookfor%5B%5D=%22Waite%2C%20Arthur%20Edward%2C%201857-1942.%22&ft=ft"><b>Hathi</b></a>. The doctrine and literature of the kabalah. 1902.</li>
<li><a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100379628?type%5B%5D=author&lookfor%5B%5D=%22Waite%2C%20Arthur%20Edward%2C%201857-1942.%22&ft=ft"><b>Hathi</b></a>. A book of mystery and vision. 1902.</li>
<li><a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001382861?type%5B%5D=author&lookfor%5B%5D=%22Waite%2C%20Arthur%20Edward%2C%201857-1942.%22&ft=ft"><b>Hathi</b></a>. Studies in mysticism and certain aspects of the secret tradition. 1906.</li>
<li><a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006677855?type%5B%5D=author&lookfor%5B%5D=%22Waite%2C%20Arthur%20Edward%2C%201857-1942.%22&ft=ft"><b>Hathi</b></a>. Strange houses of sleep. 1906.</li>
<li><a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100607881?type%5B%5D=author&lookfor%5B%5D=%22Waite%2C%20Arthur%20Edward%2C%201857-1942.%22&ft=ft"><b>Hathi</b></a>. Steps to the crown. 1907.</li>
<li><a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006929196?type%5B%5D=author&lookfor%5B%5D=%22Waite%2C%20Arthur%20Edward%2C%201857-1942.%22&ft=ft"><b>Hathi</b></a>. The hidden church of the Holy Graal, its legends and symbolism considered in their affinity with certain mysteries of initiation and other traces of a secret tradition. 1909.</li>
<li><a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100321570?type%5B%5D=author&lookfor%5B%5D=%22Waite%2C%20Arthur%20Edward%2C%201857-1942.%22&ft=ft"><b>Hathi</b></a>. The secret tradition in Freemasonry and an analysis of the inter-relation between the craft and the high grades. 1911.</li>
<li><a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000584266?type%5B%5D=author&lookfor%5B%5D=%22Waite%2C%20Arthur%20Edward%2C%201857-1942.%22&ft=ft"><b>Hathi</b></a>. The secret tradition in Goëtia, The book of ceremonial magic including the rites and mysteries of Goëtic theurgy, sorcery and infernal necromancy. 1911.</li>
<li><a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009026708?type%5B%5D=author&lookfor%5B%5D=%22Waite%2C%20Arthur%20Edward%2C%201857-1942.%22&ft=ft"><b>Hathi</b></a>. The history of magic, including a clear and precise exposition of its procedure, its rites and its mysteries, by Éliphas Lévi. 1913.</li>
<li><a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007693353?type%5B%5D=author&lookfor%5B%5D=%22Waite%2C%20Arthur%20Edward%2C%201857-1942.%22&ft=ft"><b>Hathi</b></a>. The collected poems of Arthur Edward Waite. 1914.</li>
<li><a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000584904?type%5B%5D=author&lookfor%5B%5D=%22Waite%2C%20Arthur%20Edward%2C%201857-1942.%22&ft=ft"><b>Hathi</b></a>. The works of Thomas Vaughan :Eugeniys Philalethes. 1919.</li>
<li><a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001064008?type%5B%5D=author&lookfor%5B%5D=%22Waite%2C%20Arthur%20Edward%2C%201857-1942.%22&ft=ft"><b>Hathi</b></a>. A new encyclopædia of freemasonry (ars magna latomorum) and of cognate instituted mysteries; their rites, literature and history. 1921.</li>
<li><a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011683143?type%5B%5D=author&lookfor%5B%5D=%22Waite%2C%20Arthur%20Edward%2C%201857-1942.%22&ft=ft"><b>Hathi</b></a>. The book of the Holy Graal. 1921.</li>
<li><a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008733840?type%5B%5D=author&lookfor%5B%5D=%22Waite%2C%20Arthur%20Edward%2C%201857-1942.%22&ft=ft"><b>Hathi</b></a>. Raymund Lully, illuminated doctor, alchemist and Christian mystic. 1922.</li>
<li><a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001916328?type%5B%5D=author&lookfor%5B%5D=%22Waite%2C%20Arthur%20Edward%2C%201857-1942.%22&ft=ft"><b>Hathi</b></a>. Saint-Martin, the French mystic, and the story of modern Martinism. 1922.</li>
<li><a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001415029?type%5B%5D=author&lookfor%5B%5D=%22Waite%2C%20Arthur%20Edward%2C%201857-1942.%22&ft=ft"><b>Hathi</b></a>. Lamps of western mysticism; essays on the life of the soul in God. 1923.</li>
<li><a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007704430?type%5B%5D=author&lookfor%5B%5D=%22Waite%2C%20Arthur%20Edward%2C%201857-1942.%22&ft=ft"><b>Hathi</b></a>. The life of Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, the unknown philosopher, and the substance of his transcendental doctrine. 1901.</li>
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And yes, this is the Waite of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rider-Waite_tarot_deck">Rider-Waite tarot deck</a>. :-)<div>
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Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8545801289304473705.post-68298087862663404852017-01-25T19:33:00.001-05:002017-01-25T19:33:58.790-05:00Quotation from Alchemy by E. J. HolmyardAfter the wonderful chat this evening (thank you, Alan and Mia!), I wanted to share a quote from <b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Alchemy-Dover-Books-Engineering-Holmyard/dp/0486262987"><i>Alchemy</i> by E. J. Holmyard</a></b>, which is an excellent book for people interested in the history of alchemy (I read the Kindle, which was $9.99, and there are even cheaper used copies for sale). Holmyard is mostly interested in alchemy as a precursor of modern science, but he is very sympathetic to its spiritual and cultural dimensions also. Anyway, I thought this passage was very useful re: alchemy's distance from magic, and I really enjoyed reading the whole book:<br />
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The worker should in short look upon the mere transmutation of base metals into gold as a secondary object, subsidiary to the transmutation of the soul. This emphasis is repeated by countless alchemical authors, and it is perhaps significant that, as Sherwood Taylor was the first to point out, alchemy was remarkably free from the taint of black magic, invocations of demons, necromancy, and other evil practices contemporaneous with it for practically the whole period during which it flourished. Exceptions to the rule can be found, but the moral tone of mystical alchemy is very high, in Greek, Muslim, and Christian writings alike. The alchemists could find examples of transmutation in the Bible, such as the conversion of water into wine, and biblical imagery is frequently to be met with in symbolic alchemical works; but that and similar practices are used in both directions. That is to say, on the one hand the fact that apparently miraculous changes have scriptural or other authoritative support is taken to confirm the possibility of material transmutation, while on the other hand the operations of practical alchemy are interpreted as having a theological or mystical application. Classical and other mythology served alchemical purposes, often suffering considerable sea-changes, and the whole language of symbolic alchemy presents as colourful an imagery as would be difficult to match elsewhere.</blockquote>
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Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8545801289304473705.post-74407301306002392502017-01-25T16:48:00.002-05:002017-01-25T17:39:30.460-05:00Library. Splendor Solis: Alchemical Treatises of Solomon TrismosinTitle: <b><i>Splendor Solis: Alchemical Treatises of Solomon Trismosin</i></b><br />
Author: "J. K." (see <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splendor_Solis">Wikipedia</a></b> for more on Splendor Solis)<br />
Edition: 1920<br />
Online Source: <b><a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100761783">Hathi Trust</a></b><br />
Online Source: <b><a href="http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=7881&CollID=8&NStart=3469">British Museum</a></b> (for an illuminated ms. in color)<br />
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We are very fortunate that there is a convenient English edition of <i>Splendor Solis</i> that you can read online, while being able to see a beautiful German manuscript version with colored paintings. Here is what Wikipedia says about the book:<br />
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The author of the manuscript was considered to be a legendary Salomon Trismosin, allegedly the teacher of Paracelsus. The work itself consists of a sequence of 22 elaborate images, set in ornamental borders and niches. The symbolic process shows the classical alchemical death and rebirth of the king, and incorporates a series of seven flasks, each associated with one of the planets. Within the flasks a process is shown involving the transformation of bird and animal symbols into the Queen and King, the white and the red tincture. </blockquote>
Below I have made an animated gif using the images from the <b><a href="http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=7881&CollID=8&NStart=3469">British Museum</a> </b>online manuscript.<br />
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You can read <b><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo1.ark:/13960/t54f2bs5h;view=1up;seq=89">J.K.'s description of the 22 images</a></b>, and you can also ponder his contention that they mirror the cards of the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_Arcana">Major Arcana of a Tarot deck</a></b>, which also number 22.<br />
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Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8545801289304473705.post-6060806329398229682017-01-24T14:00:00.000-05:002017-01-24T14:00:59.922-05:00Latin Reader (12): Arbor inest hortis Sophiae<hr />
<b>OH MY GOSH</b>: look what Sandy Brown Jensen has done with this! It's a beautiful story to go with the beautifully re-colored image: <b><a href="http://sandybrownjensen.tumblr.com/post/156318537407/the-greenhouse-an-alchemical-fable">The Greenhouse: An Alchemical Fable</a></b>. A must-read! :-)<br />
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I already did Emblem VIII (about the egg), so today I can move on to<b> <a href="http://digital.slub-dresden.de/werkansicht/dlf/1419/47/0/">Emblem IX</a></b> from Michael Maier's <a href="http://alchemuses.blogspot.com/search/label/Atalanta%20fugiens"><b>Atalanta fugiens</b></a>: <b><i>Arbor inest hortis Sophiae</i></b>. It features a famous mythological motif — golden apples — and the alchemical quest to extend human life (a very modern obsession also).<br />
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<b><i>Arborem cum sene conclude in rorida domo et comedens de fructu eius fiet iuvenis.</i></b><br />
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<b><i></i></b>Enclose a tree (arborem conclude) with an old man (cum sene) in a dewy house (in rorida domo) and by eating from its fruit (comedens de fructu eius), he will become young (fiet iuvenis).<br />
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For a hand-colored version, see <a href="http://www.alchemywebsite.com/prints_series_atalanta.html">Adam McLean's website</a>: <a href="http://www.alchemywebsite.com/images/AF09.jpg">Emblem IX</a>.<br />
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And here's the poem:<br />
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<b>Arbor inest hortis Sophiae dans aurea mala,</b><br />
<b>Haec tibi cum nostro sit capienda sene;</b><br />
<b>Inque domo vitrea claudantur, roreque plena,</b><br />
<b>Et sine per multos haec duo juncta dies:</b><br />
<b>Tum fructu (mirum!) satiabitur arboris ille</b><br />
<b>Ut fiat juvenis qui fuit ante senex.</b><br />
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In the gardens of Wisdom (hortis Sophiae) there is a tree (arbor inest) bearing golden apples (dans aurea mala); you should take this tree (haec tibi sit capienda) together with our old man (cum nostro sene) and let them be enclosed (claudantur) in a house made of glass (inque domo vitrea) and full of dew (roreque plena). Allow these two to be together there (sine haec duo juncta) for many days (per multos dies); then — amazing! — (tum mirum!) that man will be fed (satiabitur ille) by the fruit of the tree (fructu arboris) so that he who was previously old (qui fuit ante senex) will become young (fiat iuvenis).<br />
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The commentary rejects the idea of literally regaining youth, while offering various allegorical interpretations, plus some funny observations, like this one:<br />
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Marsilio Ficino (Marsilius Ficinus) in his book about preserving the lives of scholars (in libro de studiosorum vita conservanda) writes that to attain long life (scribit ad aetatem longam attingendam) it is useful (utile esse) to suck the milk daily (ut quis lac exugat quotidie) from the breasts (ex uberibus) of a woman who is young and beautiful (cuiusdam feminae pulchae et iuvenis), while instead others praise (cuius vice alii laudant) eating the flesh of vipers (viperinam carnem comestam). But honestly (sed sane) these remedies are more taxing (haec media sunt rigidiora) than old age itself (ipsa senectute).<br />
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And now for your listening pleasure — a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTmDlhltR0OFYS_adC3J4imqsAXxNe_Co">choral performance</a> or just the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvdLjWKhtJcOfjQAE-Fxs_sfhIHfPQ4xT">musical fugue</a>:<br />
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And the following is a list of the emblems I have completed so far:<br />
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<a href="http://alchemuses.blogspot.com/2016/12/latin-reader-4-ventosa-alvus.html">Emblem I</a>: Portavit eum ventus in ventre suo<br />
<a href="http://alchemuses.blogspot.com/2016/12/latin-reader-5-nutrix-ejus-terra-est.html">Emblem II</a>: Nutrius ejus terra est<br />
<a href="http://alchemuses.blogspot.com/2017/01/latin-reader-6-vade-ad-mulierem.html">Emblem III</a>: Vade ad mulierem<br />
<a href="http://alchemuses.blogspot.com/2017/01/latin-reader-7-conjunge-fratrem-cum.html">Emblem IV</a>: Conjunge fratrem cum sorore<br />
<a href="http://alchemuses.blogspot.com/2017/01/latin-reader-8-appone-mulieri-super.html">Emblem V</a>: Appone mulieri super mammas bufonem<br />
<a href="http://alchemuses.blogspot.com/2017/01/latin-reader-10-seminate-aurum-vestrum.html">Emblem VI</a>: Seminate aurum vestrum<br />
<a href="http://alchemuses.blogspot.com/2017/01/latin-reader-11-pullus-nido-volans.html">Emblem VII</a>: Pullus a nido volans<br />
<a href="http://alchemuses.blogspot.com/2017/01/latin-reader-9-accipe-ovum.html">Emblem VIII:</a> Accipe ovum<br />
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Emblem IX: Arbor inest hortis Sophiae<br />
<a href="http://alchemuses.blogspot.com/2016/12/latin-reader-3-de-secretis-naturae.html">Emblem XXXVI</a>: Lapis projectus</div>
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