Venus and Mercury, c. 1823 by Pierre Nolasque Bergeret

"Nature praises me. Of her I am born; her I follow. She knows me, and I know her. The light which is in her I have beheld in her; outside, too, I have proved the same in the figure of the microcosm, and found it in that universe."

— Paracelsus, The Treasure of Treasures for Alchemists

Art: Geheime Figuren der Rosenkreuzer, manunoscript 1943 (M308), Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica Collection

Lux Lucens in Tenebris, Splendor Solis, Angelus Lucis, c. 1584

Mia Bergeron — Ursa
2025

"The Star in the East", Frederic Edwin Church (May 4, 1826 – April 7, 1900), American

Venus and Mercury, c. 1823 by Pierre Nolasque Bergeret

Evelyn de Morgan - The Field of the Slain (1916)