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It's the symbol of the Perfect Red King, which (to me) means Transformation; I relate the three arrows to be Man, Woman and God (or Spirit, in the Center). Fire is Purification, and, by which, we are Transformed into what you are finally meant to Be.
The union of Red King and White Queen is often called the chemical marriage. In illustrations, it is depicted as courtship and sex. Sometimes they are garbed, as if they have just been brought together, offering each other flowers.
The symbols used in alchemical writing and art to represent this red stage can include blood, a phoenix, a rose, a crowned king, or a figure wearing red clothes. Countless sources mention a reddening process; the seventeenth dictum of the 12th century Turba Philosophorum is one example:
A red man came out of a bog of rotted corpses and was greeted by a red queen. It differs from the alchemical text, the Splendor Solis , where the queen is white. In the alchemical text the red man represents the Moor who will impregnate the Queen and bring about a new king in the form of a prince.
20 sie 2014 · The union of Red King and White Queen is often called the alchemical marriage. In illustrations, it is depicted as courtship and sex. Sometimes they are garbed, as if just starting to be brought together, offering each other flowers.
2 gru 2023 · While the nigredo involved putrefaction and albedo distillation, the rubedo occurs through sublimation under the influence of fire, that is, the Spirit. It is symbolized by the phoenix or a pelican, an egg, a red rose, or a crowned king.
The Rebis (from the Latin res bina, meaning dual or double matter) is the end product of the alchemical magnum opus or great work.