Solomonic / Biblical Wisdom Tradition (Proverbs) BIBLICAL
cited in 14 emblems
The Solomonic wisdom tradition, centered on the Book of Proverbs and its personification of Wisdom as a tree of life, provides the religious-philosophical foundation for the sapiential dimension of Atalanta Fugiens. De Jong (1969) demonstrates that the motto of Emblem XXVI derives from Proverbs 3:18, though Maier receives this biblical text not through direct exegesis but through the mediating tradition of the Rosarium Philosophorum. The unusually dense scriptural marginalia of Emblems XXVI and XXVII signals that Maier intends these central emblems as a theological grounding for the entire alchemical enterprise.
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Emblem IX NIGREDO
Emblem IX
Fix the old man to the tree in the garden of the dew, and the old man becomes young again.
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 XIX NIGREDO
Emblem XIX
If you kill one of the four, every body will be dead immediately.
Emblem XXIII CITRINITAS
Emblem XXIII
It rains gold when Pallas is born at Rhodes.
Emblem XXV NIGREDO
Emblem XXV
The Dragon does not die, if it is not killed by its brother and sister, that is to say by Sol and Luna.
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 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 XXXVI NIGREDO
Emblem XXXVI
The Stone has been thrown on to the earth and lifted on to the mountains, and it dwells in the air and feeds in the river.
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.
Emblem XLII RUBEDO
Emblem XLII
What Nature, Reason, Experience and Reading teach you, let that be the fire, the vessel, the water and the earth.