Designatio Pyramidum Petrosarum Triumphalium

Heinrich Khunrath, 1609 “Designatio Pyramidum Petrosarum Triumphalium illarum, de Humido Radicali aut Primigenio Catholico Mundi hujus.” Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae, the caption engraved beneath the plate, its opening.

Heinrich Khunrath, 1609 “Esa. 65 v. 17, 2 Pet. 3. 13, Apoc. 21. 1.” Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae, the same caption, the scriptures it cites.

Symbolica, 2026 Khunrath's Latin, put into English here: The Design of those Triumphal Rocky Pyramids, concerning the Radical or First-born Universal Moisture of this World. The three scriptures named are the ones that promise a new heaven and a new earth. The text carved on the rock is the Tabula Smaragdina, the Emerald Tablet of Hermes, given in Latin with the German beneath under the heading Auff Deutsch. The caption is transcribed here only in part.

The motifs the picture carries, filed by role. The marks on the picture itself come with the entry.

1. 1The Triangle and the Pyramidcentral motif as it reads here: Designatio Pyramidum Petrosarum Triumphalium
2. 2Firesecondary motif
3. 3The Watersecondary motif
4. 4The Treesecondary motif
5. 5The Sun and the Moonsecondary motif

A great rock cut as a pyramid, its face carved with the text of the Emerald Tablet in Latin and German, flames along its top, a river and a mill at its foot, a town and a lake behind, figures of the learned reading it. By eye

Not yet decoded: the motifs are tagged by eye and the readings above are quoted from their sources. The marks on the picture and the sourced notes come with the entry.