Claude Paradin - Symbola heroica (1600) [x]
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Robert Fludd, Diagram of Sunlight in Various Stages Through a Prism, 1626
Christelyke aandachten of vlammende ziel-zuchten (1735).
Jacobus Typotius - Symbola diuina & humana (1601) [x]
> Engraver: Aegidius Sadeler.
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Devious detail from
Rogier van der Weyden, The Last Judgment , 1445-50.
Paleolithic hand stencils from the cave at Lascaux, France. 25-30,000 years old.
Lyon - BM - ms. 0439 f. 014. Apocalypsis figurata. Northern France, c.1450.
Vaticinivm (1601).
“The Rose surmounts the thorny cross, the whole resembling the sign of Venus in which the solar circle triumphs over the cross of matter. We may interpret the motto as saying that “spiritual knowledge gives solace to souls,” of whom bees are a venerable symbol.“ - Joscelyn Godwin, in Robert Fludd: Hermetic Philosopher of Two Worlds
DAT ROSA MEL APIBUS - THE ROSE GIVES THE BEES HONEY
THE SOLAR CIRCLE TRIUMPHS OVER THE CROSS OF MATTER
Joachim Frizius’s Summum Bonum, adopted for Robert Fludd’s Clavis
Satan organizing and monitoring the proper functioning of the 2021 Hell games. Vie de Jésus-Christ. Jean Pichore et Jean Colombe enlumineurs ~ 15th century. BnF • via Bibliothèque Infernale on FB
Human anatomy cross section John Arderne, De arte et de phisicali cirurgia, England ca. In 1425. Stockholm, Kungliga Biblioteket, X 118 - Copy
Philosophia imaginum id est sylloge symbolorum amlissima, 1695
Michael Maier. Arcana Arcanissima hoc est Hieroglyphica Aegyptio-Graeca. 1614.