Typosis Arcis Pri-materialis

Heinrich Khunrath, 1609 “Typosis Arcis Pri-materialis, Catholicae, Naturalis, et Materia et Forma totaque Constitutione ac Esse sui Mercurialis, validissimae, Magnesia, quasi Magnes-Jah, vel magnum Aes-Jah, dictae; in qua Sola et Una Jehova Medicinam Catholicam, seu Lapidem Philosophorum Universalem, summum videlicet Naturae Bonum, proposuit.” Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae, the caption engraved beneath the plate, its opening.

Heinrich Khunrath, 1609 “Theosophice Orando et Physico-chymice Laborando.” Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae, the same caption, further on.

Symbolica, 2026 Khunrath's Latin, put into English here: The Figure of the Citadel of First Matter, universal, natural, most strong in its whole mercurial being, called Magnesia, as it were the Magnet of God; in which alone the one Jehovah set forth the Universal Medicine, or Universal Stone of the Philosophers, the highest good of Nature. And further on, the pair of words the whole book turns on: by praying theosophically and by working physico-chemically. The caption runs to many more lines, in Latin and German, and 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 Heavenscentral motif as it reads here: Typosis Arcis Pri-materialis
2. 2The Triangle and the Pyramidsecondary motif
3. 3The Watersecondary motif

A citadel drawn in plan as a many-pointed star inside a ring, set in a landscape of sea and shore, every wall lettered, figures of the learned at its gates. 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.