Rosarium Philosophorum ALCHEMICAL
cited in 20 emblems
The Rosarium Philosophorum (Rose Garden of Philosophers) is a major fourteenth-century alchemical compilation attributed to Pseudo-Arnald of Villanova, widely circulated in manuscript and print as a compendium of practical and symbolic alchemical wisdom. De Jong (1969) shows that Maier draws from the Rosarium the geometric circle-square-triangle formula central to Emblem XXI and the sapiential-biblical framework of Emblems XXVI and XXVII, where Proverbs is accessed not directly but through the Rosarium's mediation. Tilton (2003) further argues that the Rosarium's Aristotelian elemental transmutation scheme, rather than a Paracelsian reading, best explains Maier's use of these emblems.
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Emblem I NIGREDO
His nurse is the Earth
The wind carried it in its belly.
Emblem II NIGREDO
Its nurse is the Earth
Its nurse is the Earth.
Emblem III ALBEDO
Go to the woman who washes the sheets
Go to the woman who washes the sheets and do as she does.
Emblem VI ALBEDO
Sow your gold in the white foliated earth
Sow your gold in the white foliated earth.
Emblem XI ALBEDO
Emblem XI
Make Latona white and tear up the books.
Emblem XII ALBEDO
Emblem XII
Make Latona white and tear up the books.
Emblem XIV NIGREDO
Emblem XIV
This is the dragon that devours its own tail.
Emblem XV ALBEDO
Emblem XV
Let the work of the potter, consisting of dry and wet, teach you.
Emblem XIX NIGREDO
Emblem XIX
If you kill one of the four, every body will be dead immediately.
Emblem XX ALBEDO
Emblem XX
Nature teaches Nature, Nature conquers Nature, Nature rules Nature.
Emblem XXI RUBEDO
Circle-square-triangle-circle formula
Make a circle out of a man and a woman, out of this a square, out of this a triangle, make a circle, and you will have the Philosopher's Stone.
Emblem XXI RUBEDO
Circle-square-triangle-circle formula
Make a circle out of a man and a woman, out of this a square, out of this a triangle, make a circle, and you will have the Philosopher's Stone.
Emblem XXIV NIGREDO
Alchemical King (garbed)
The wolf devoured the king, and after the wolf had been burnt, it returned the king to life.
Emblem XXVI RUBEDO
Lady Sapientia / Tree of Life
The fruit of human wisdom is the Tree of Life.
Emblem XXVII CITRINITAS
Companion to Sapientia sequence
He who tries to enter the Philosophical Rose-garden without the key is like a man who wants to walk without feet.
Emblem XXX RUBEDO
Emblem XXX
The Hermaphrodite, lying in darkness like a dead man, needs fire.
Emblem XXXIII NIGREDO
Hermaphrodite lying in darkness needs fire
The Hermaphrodite, lying in darkness like a dead man, needs fire.
Emblem XXXIV RUBEDO
Celestial conception / hierogamy
He is conceived in the bath and born in the air, but having become red he walks upon the waters.
Emblem XXXVII CITRINITAS
Emblem XXXVII
Three things are sufficient for mastery: white smoke, that is water, the green Lion, that is the Ore of Hermes, and stinking water.
Emblem XLI NIGREDO
Emblem XLI
Adonis is killed by a boar, and Venus, rushing up to him, painted the roses red with her blood.