Alchemist at his Studies by David Ryckaert, Mid 17th Century 🌹

The Crowning of Nature, Johann Conrad Barchusen, 16th Century🏵️

Painting of an Alchemist from the 17th Century Flemish School🏵️

Pyramid of Lions - Andreas Libavius, Alchmyia Frankfurt 1606

The Alchemist by Sir William Fettes Douglas

In comparison to Dame Nature, the alchemist is a blind, benighted old man. Her footprints are clear enough, but he needs a lamp, stick, and spectacles to follow them.

The Eye of God - The separation is taking place as the One sacrifices Unity in order to fertilize the cosmic egg.

This emblem combines alchemical, Rosicrucian, and Masonic symbolism. The conjoined serpents represent the Solve et Coagula, the rotation of the fixed and the volatile. At the center of the Seal of Solomon is the mystic rose, framed by a set square, divider, and ruler.

“Our dew, our matter, is celestial, spermatic, dewish, electric, virginal, universal.” De Alchimia, Leyden, 1526

Ora et Labora - The alchemist’s ubiquitous motto referred to the method of using prayer and meditation to supplement practical or laboratory work. In the Rosicrucian Digest, Volume 100, Number 2 2022.🌹

The Alchemist, 1651

In a vision of the Zechariah the four winds appear in the form of four chariots pulled by horses of various colors. There are correspondences in the elements, humors and four stages of the hermetic work to these four directions and colors. Philosophia Sacra, Frankfurt, 1626

Inspired by Jacob Böhme, painter P.O. Runge created a mystical color theory: blue = God the Father, red = the Son, yellow = the Holy Spirit—expanded on a sphere by light and darkness into a sacred quintet of elements.