Allegories, Myths, and Metaphors

The Alchemist in Life, Literature and Art, Thomas Nelson, London, 1947, pp. 56-91. 

The author is grateful to Dr. Alfred Bader for making this photographic reproduction available and providing permission to reproduce it in black and white, as well as in color. 

Amiable reader, you behold three nurslings of the wealthy Art who by their studies have achieved the Stone. Cremerus in the middle, Norton himself on the left, Basil, lo, is seen on the right. Pray read their writings and search for the arms of Vulcan you who wish to pluck the apples of the Hesperian ground. 

FIGURE 80. Engraved tide page from Francesco Colonna s Le Tableau Des Riches Inventions (Paris, 1600 [after 1610]) (courtesy of The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University). The figure depicts the rising of the Phoenix beginning in chaos. 

SxCbalcognphia Pauli lacobi,impenris LvcRllNlliS. Anno A4.Dc7x VIII. 

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