The regenerate man, Ora and Labora lettered on his arms, with the Book and its seals

Heinrich Khunrath, 1609 “Cognitio. Amor. Spes. Phantasia. Sensus exteriores. Sensus interior. Simplicitatem. Similitudo. Mens. Familiaritas. Intellectus. Et Ternarius per Spiritus Sanctus, Quaternarius.” Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae, lettered in the rings, read in part.

Paullus van der Doort, 1609 “Dei gratia inventor: Paullus vander Doort Antwerp: sculpsit.” Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae, the signature on the rim.

Symbolica, 2026 Khunrath's Latin, put into English here. On the man: Pray. Work. In Christ. In the book: Worthy is Jesus alone to take the Book and to open its seals, Hallelujah, which is the Apocalypse, chapter five, with the Lamb's name written in Hebrew. On the rays: the fear of God, temperance, humility, justice, patience, fortitude, mercy, prudence, kindness, chastity. On the ribbon: fear God, and keep his commandments. In the rings: knowledge, love, hope, imagination, the outer senses, the inner sense, simplicity, likeness, mind, familiarity, understanding, and the Three through the Holy Spirit, the Four. This is the plate that puts Khunrath's two words on a body: Ora on one arm and Labora on the other, the same pair that the Citadel's caption gives as praying theosophically and working physico-chemically. Much of the smaller lettering, in Latin, Greek and Hebrew, is not yet transcribed. Read again at the size of the archive's image, the man stands inside a triangle whose three sides are lettered Seek first the Kingdom of God and his justice, and all these things shall be added to you, and the rings about him read Wisdom incarnate; the drops from the glory are ten streams, not six, and the ribbon under his feet begins Fear God.

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1. Primary motif
2. 1The Divinethe glory at the top with the Name, raining the virtues down as lettered streams of drops, and the Book with its seals at the left
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4. 2The Triangle and the Pyramidthe man with Ora and Labora on his arms and Christo on his body, standing inside a triangle lettered Seek first the Kingdom of God

A circle of lettered rings, and inside it a square holding a standing man lettered Christo on his body and Ora and Labora on his arms, framed by a triangle lettered with seek first the Kingdom of God, an open book with its seals at the left, the tablets of the Law at the right, and the virtues raining down as lettered drops from the Name in a glory at the top. By eye

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