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It is the concluded philosopher's stone. The triangular sign with three radiating arrows designates the philosophical sulfur. Alchemical treatises and iconography use an encrypted code that makes them unintelligible for a current reading. The first great job is to understand the code and apply it.
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.
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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:
Rebis from Theoria Philosophiae Hermeticae (1617) by Heinrich Nollius. The Rebis (from the Latin res bina, meaning dual or double matter) is the end product of the alchemical magnum opus or great work.
3 lip 2019 · In alchemical illustrations, the red king and the white queen also sometimes represent sulfur and mercury. Sulfur and mercury are described as originating from the same original substance; one might even be described as the opposite gender of the other--for example, sulfur is the male aspect of mercury.
20 sie 2014 · Because Mercury, or the White Queen, is so fluid, she needs an active force to define and shapes her – this force is the male principle of sulphur known to alchemists as the Red King. The union of Red King and White Queen is often called the alchemical marriage.
