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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.
14 paź 2016 · In alchemical ideology, the Red King represents the masculine – fire, the sun, sulfur. He is active and volatile. In his quest for a stabilizing, balancing energy he seeks the White Queen. She is represented by water, the moon, mercury, receptive and fixed.
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.
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.
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:
The Red King is also the Fire God, the Demiurge (second monad) who came out of the One. The Primordial Fire of Creation. The Magician, Arcana 1, of the Rider Waite Tarot also represents the Fire God.
The White Queen is associated with the moon and holds a protractor, which represents the White Queens association with the physical world. The Red King is associated with the sun and holds a compass (the drawing circles kind, not the points north kind) which is used to chart the stars and represents the Red Kings mastery over the celestial realm.
