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The Red King is sulfur -- the active, volatile and fiery principle -- while the White Queen is mercury -- the material, passive, fixed principle. Mercury has substance, but it has no definitive form on its own. It needs an active principle to shape it.
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 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:
30 maj 2017 · The classical alchemical allegories of the Red King and White Queen, whose union represents the conjoining of opposites to create a whole, are personified in the Splendor Solis. The text describes the alchemical death and rebirth of the King, illustrated by a sequence of 22 elaborate images, framed by highly decorated borders.
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.
23 lip 2018 · These essences are ultimately reduced to two opposites, often described as the red king and the white queen. The rubedo, or reddening stage is when the true transformation occurs: the revelations previously uncovered is brought to reality, and a true union of opposites occurs, manifesting in a truly united being ultimately aware of and in ...
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.
