Forwarded from Orphic Inscendence
"Wise Man", Maxfield Parrish (July 25, 1870 – March 30, 1966), American
Forwarded from Portal Ibis
Textus varii ad medicinam spectantes, c. 1280-1420, Biblioteka Jagiellońska, BJ Rkp. 837 IV
Forwarded from Portal Ibis
"I am the true green and golden lion, without cares; in me lies hidden all the secret [knowledge] of the philosophers."
"Leo Viridis (The Green Lion). It is Mercury (☿): and you should know that it is cold and moist. From it, God created all minerals. For it is the element and the Spirit, fleeing from the Fire (△)... it is the foundation in every body, raising it up, illuminating and converting it from one state to another; from color to color. It is the Living Water and the Water of Death, and the Virgin's Milk. And its operations are one way when it is alive, and another when it is dead. And it is the Dragon."
Art: Miscellanea Alchemica XXI, c. 1746, Wellcome Historical Medical Library
"Leo Viridis (The Green Lion). It is Mercury (☿): and you should know that it is cold and moist. From it, God created all minerals. For it is the element and the Spirit, fleeing from the Fire (△)... it is the foundation in every body, raising it up, illuminating and converting it from one state to another; from color to color. It is the Living Water and the Water of Death, and the Virgin's Milk. And its operations are one way when it is alive, and another when it is dead. And it is the Dragon."
Art: Miscellanea Alchemica XXI, c. 1746, Wellcome Historical Medical Library
'Seeing you in a grave, I am timid and frightened at your sight and I shed tears from my heart, bringing to my mind the debt that all people have to pay: that is, death, so I will suffer such an end. Ah, death, who is the one who can avoid you?’
St. Sisoes the Great at the tomb of Alexander the Great
from the Church of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary, Koukouli, Greece
1788
St. Sisoes the Great at the tomb of Alexander the Great
from the Church of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary, Koukouli, Greece
1788