Description: Engraving of a Behmenist alchemical diagram from The Philosophical Epitaph of WC Esq London 1673Inspired by the illustrations to early editions of Jacob Boehmes works this alchemical diagram from The Philosophical Epitaph of WC Esq represents a Pythagorean or rather Copernican universe in which Man located between the celestial and elemental spheres revolves around a solar God The rudiments of alchemysulphur stones plants metals saltstand above the primeval chaos and the infernal fire in which Satan resides They are elevated by mercury which points directly towards the divine This is evidently a spiritual as well as a natural questdescription from Solomon Secrets Arts The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment by Paul Kleber Monod Yale University Press
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