Theorem XVIII: the monad within the egg

John Dee, 1564 “Ex duodecimo et decimotertio Theorematibus nostris colligi potest, Caelestem Astronomiam, inferioris esse quasi Parentem et Magistram.” Monas Hieroglyphica, Theorem XVIII, its opening.

John Dee, 1564 “Talem ad amussim nostrae Monadis conspiciemus Anatomiam: in Naturae lumine vitaque sese sic nobis semper ostendentem.” Monas Hieroglyphica, Theorem XVIII, on the figure.

Symbolica, 2026 Dee's Latin, put into English here: From our twelfth and thirteenth Theorems it can be gathered that celestial Astronomy is as it were the Parent and Mistress of the inferior. And: we shall see exactly such an Anatomy of our Monad, showing itself to us thus always in the light and life of Nature. The egg is the vessel of the work with the heavens drawn inside it, and Dee reads his glyph along its axis.

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

1. 1The Vesselcentral motif as it reads here: Theorem XVIII: the monad within the egg
2. 2The Heavenssecondary motif
3. 3The Sun and the Moonsecondary motif

An egg drawn in outline with the orbits of the planets inside it as dotted rings, the monad standing along its axis. 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.