Comments on: Geometry of the Opus Alchymicum http://unurthed.com/2007/10/21/geometry-of-the-opus-alchymicum/ Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:14:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Alchemist as Anthropos « Unurthed http://unurthed.com/2007/10/21/geometry-of-the-opus-alchymicum/comment-page-1/#comment-100 Alchemist as Anthropos « Unurthed Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:53:21 +0000 http://unurthed.com/?p=178#comment-100 [...] October 29th, 2007 Back from a particularly rectifying weekend. Hence an etching from Basil Valentine’s 1603 Occulta philosophia, again reproduced in Fabricius (see previous post). [...] [...] October 29th, 2007 Back from a particularly rectifying weekend. Hence an etching from Basil Valentine’s 1603 Occulta philosophia, again reproduced in Fabricius (see previous post). [...]

]]> By: M. http://unurthed.com/2007/10/21/geometry-of-the-opus-alchymicum/comment-page-1/#comment-99 M. Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:12:12 +0000 http://unurthed.com/?p=178#comment-99 The epigram underneath Emblema XXI reads: -Around the man and woman draw a ring, From which an equal-sided square springs forth. From this derive a triangle, which should touch The sphere on every side: and then the Stone Will have arisen. If this is not clear, Then learn Geometry, and know it all- A truly enlightening image: The male & female are the primordial duality/conflict. Drawing a circle around them means accepting the fruitful dialectic of the Yes/No, and the beginning of the Work. From this Work spring forth the BALANCED SQUARE of Four Elements (The Four Zoas in Blakean symbolism), creating the Harmonious Man. The four are indeed the visible/material expression of the Tria Prima, which must be separated and unified to create the last circle, the ONE-IN-THREE, the Perfect Stone. The epigram underneath Emblema XXI reads:

-Around the man and woman draw a ring,
From which an equal-sided square springs forth.
From this derive a triangle, which should touch
The sphere on every side: and then the Stone
Will have arisen. If this is not clear, Then learn Geometry, and know it all-

A truly enlightening image:

The male & female are the primordial duality/conflict. Drawing a circle around them means accepting the fruitful dialectic of the Yes/No, and the beginning of the Work. From this Work spring forth the BALANCED SQUARE of Four Elements (The Four Zoas in Blakean symbolism), creating the Harmonious Man. The four are indeed the visible/material expression of the Tria Prima, which must be separated and unified to create the last circle, the ONE-IN-THREE, the Perfect Stone.

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