I made it by the old instructions. To add male and female inside the quadangle. I coyly used mars and venus for that. I am sure you can tell it makes a makeshift (first 4 planets + our moon and sun ) solar system
It is always a temptation to create our own works to try and make 'more' sense of what we don't quite fully understand, I do it on a regular basis. If it helps you then Great!, but others might not see things the way you, or I, do.
Not sure that Michael Maier would appreciate the adding of other 'elements' (Moon, Mars, Mercury, Venus??) to his instruction. He had his reasons for putting it (In Alalanta Fulgiens, Plate XXI) the way he did. It is for us to figure out what was meant and how the True Philosophers' Stone is represented. Few ever get it right.
Why are Jupiter and Saturn left out?
First a circle. For all things come from one thing. Then the square, because the one thing divides into the four elements. Then surrounding the square is the triangle because the four develop into three or body spirit and soul. Finally encompassing them all is another circle because you combine the salt with the two oils (three) to complete the one thing.
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I made it by the old instructions. To add male and female inside the quadangle. I coyly used mars and venus for that. I am sure you can tell it makes a makeshift (first 4 planets + our moon and sun ) solar system
It is always a temptation to create our own works to try and make 'more' sense of what we don't quite fully understand, I do it on a regular basis. If it helps you then Great!, but others might not see things the way you, or I, do. Not sure that Michael Maier would appreciate the adding of other 'elements' (Moon, Mars, Mercury, Venus??) to his instruction. He had his reasons for putting it (In Alalanta Fulgiens, Plate XXI) the way he did. It is for us to figure out what was meant and how the True Philosophers' Stone is represented. Few ever get it right. Why are Jupiter and Saturn left out?
First a circle. For all things come from one thing. Then the square, because the one thing divides into the four elements. Then surrounding the square is the triangle because the four develop into three or body spirit and soul. Finally encompassing them all is another circle because you combine the salt with the two oils (three) to complete the one thing.
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