Occultum Lapidem, the Philosopher's Stone
Fire as the central motif. From The Secret Teachings of All Ages.
Key · 1 motif
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- Primary motif
The picture
A double-headed eagle stands in flames at the heart of a many-faceted white crystal, on a dark blue ground crossed by rays; Fire as the central motif, by eye. By eye
Readings quoted
Hall, 1928 “The Philosopher's Stone is an ancient symbol of the perfected and regenerated man whose divine nature shines forth through a chain of purified and unfolded vehicles.”
Hall, 1928 “To the mystic, the Philosopher's Stone is perfect love, which transmutes all that is base and raises all that is dead.”
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By eye The central motif, the flames the double-headed eagle stands in, at the heart of the crystal.
Symbolica Hall's caption reads the Stone as a whole, the perfected man and the love that transmutes, and does not name the flames or the eagle in them. Observed on the plate, and left unread rather than guessed.
Also carrying Fire
5 works, 3 with it as the central motif. The symbol.
By the same hand
In the same series
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