The transitional third stage between albedo and rubedo: the matter takes on a golden hue as solar virtue infiltrates the lunar substance. Yellow bile, choleric vigor, dawn light, the rising sun. Often elided in later texts as Jung favored a triadic schema, but historically attested by Maier, Mylius, and the Rosarium tradition.
Atalanta Fugiens emblems classified to Citrinitas 11
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Emblem VII
Young bird flying from nest and falling back
A young bird flies up from the nest and falls back into the nest again.
Emblem X
Emblem X
Give fire to fire, Mercury to Mercury, and that is enough for you.
Emblem XVI
Winged and wingless lion
The feathers one lion has not, the other has.
Emblem XVII
Fourfold fire-ball
A fourfold fire-ball controls this work.
Emblem XVIII
Emblem XVIII
Fire likes making things fiery, but not, like gold, making gold.
Emblem XXIII
Emblem XXIII
It rains gold when Pallas is born at Rhodes.
Emblem XXVII
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 XXIX
Emblem XXIX
Just as the Salamander lives in the fire, so also the Stone.
Emblem XXXVII
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 XLVI
Emblem XLVI
Two eagles meet, the one from the East, the other from the West.
Emblem XLIX
Emblem XLIX
The Philosophical Child acknowledges three fathers, just as Orion.
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