The second stage: purification by washing, sublimation, and distillation. The Moon presides; phlegmatic constitution restored; matter purified to lunar silver. In Atalanta Fugiens this is the washerwoman of Emblem III, the whitening of Latona (XI–XII), the white-lead cooking of Emblem XXII, the sowing of gold in white earth (VI).
Atalanta Fugiens emblems classified to Albedo 11
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Emblem III
Go to the woman who washes the sheets
Go to the woman who washes the sheets and do as she does.
Emblem VI
Sow your gold in the white foliated earth
Sow your gold in the white foliated earth.
Emblem XI
Emblem XI
Make Latona white and tear up the books.
Emblem XII
Emblem XII
Make Latona white and tear up the books.
Emblem XIII
Dropsical ore washed in Jordan
The ore of the philosophers is dropsical and wants to be washed seven times in the river, just as Naaman the leper washed in the Jordan.
Emblem XV
Emblem XV
Let the work of the potter, consisting of dry and wet, teach you.
Emblem XX
Emblem XX
Nature teaches Nature, Nature conquers Nature, Nature rules Nature.
Emblem XXII
Emblem XXII
When you have obtained the white lead, then do woman's work, that is to say: cook.
Emblem XXXV
Emblem XXXV
As Ceres accustomed Triptolemus, and Thetis Achilles, to endure fire, so the artist does with the Stone.
Emblem XXXIX
Emblem XXXIX
Oedipus, having conquered the Sphinx and having killed his father Laius, married his mother Jocasta.
Emblem XLIII
Emblem XLIII
Listen to the screech owl's voice, which it produces it self, and the water and do not heed any bird that cries in the evening.
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Aurora Consurgens
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Aurora Consurgens
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Splendor Solis
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Splendor Solis
File:Splendor solis das grosse waschfest vor der stadt 1531.jpg
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