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).
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more plates are online at the John Martin Rare Book Room at the University of Iowa.
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
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Human anatomy cross section John Arderne, De arte et de phisicali cirurgia, England ca. In 1425. Stockholm, Kungliga Biblioteket, X 118 - Copy