Sunday, June 7, 2015

Emblem XXI from Atalanta Fugiens


 

...From the alchemical book of emblems, epigrams and musical fugues "Atalanta Fugiens" (Atalanta in Flight) published in 1617 (about 400 years ago) by Michael Maier we receive this information:

     Make of the man and woman a Circle, of that a Quadrangle, of this a Triangle, of the same a Circle and you will have the Stone of the Philosophers.

Notice that within these simple geometric forms, within the central circle we see male and female together (like yin and yang), unified...
 

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