The fourth and final stage: the white stone is reddened by fermentation with gold to produce the Philosopher's Stone or Red Tincture. Sol presides; sanguine vitality perfected; the chemical wedding consummated; the Rebis-hermaphrodite achieved. In Atalanta Fugiens this is the staining of white roses by Adonis's blood (XLI), the standing hermaphrodite (XXXVIII), the multiplication of the Stone.
Atalanta Fugiens emblems classified to Rubedo 11
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Emblem XXI
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 XXVI
Lady Sapientia / Tree of Life
The fruit of human wisdom is the Tree of Life.
Emblem XXX
Emblem XXX
The Hermaphrodite, lying in darkness like a dead man, needs fire.
Emblem XXXI
King transformation continued
The king, swimming in the sea, calling in a loud voice: He who saves me will receive a great reward.
Emblem XXXII
Emblem XXXII
As coral grows under water and, exposed to the air, gets hard, so also the Stone.
Emblem XXXIV
Celestial conception / hierogamy
He is conceived in the bath and born in the air, but having become red he walks upon the waters.
Emblem XXXVIII
Standing hermaphrodite
The Hermaphrodite, born of two mountains, of Mercury and Venus.
Emblem XL
Emblem XL
Make one water out of two waters, and it will be the water of holiness.
Emblem XLII
Emblem XLII
What Nature, Reason, Experience and Reading teach you, let that be the fire, the vessel, the water and the earth.
Emblem XLV
Emblem XLV
Sol and his shadow complete the work.
Emblem XLVIII
King Duenech receives potion
The king, fallen ill from drinking, is restored to health by a physician.
Across the broader corpus 4
Plates from other emblem books tagged with rubedo-phase processes.
Aurora Consurgens
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GEBER SUMMA — COAGULATION VESSEL
Summa Perfectionis Magisterii
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Mutus Liber
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Splendor Solis
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