The Rosarium Philosophorum

In the Rosarium philosophorum Belinus had recalled the manner in which Saturn had dismembered his body, but he went to his mother (a type of Isis) to request that she collect up the parts and re-assemble him. ... 

Mylius version of the. Rosarium philosophorum series. rhttp //www.levi tv.com/alchemv/mvlrosar.htmll. 

Translation of the "Rosarium Philosophorum" From a Manuscript in the Ferguson Collection At Glasgow University... 

Voss, Karen. "The Hierosgamos theme in the images of the Rosarium philosophorum." In Alchemy revisited, ed. Z.R.W.M. von Martels, 144-153. Leiden ... 

In Giovanni Lacinius, Pretiosa margarita novella... Venice, 1546, there is a section Collectanea Lacinii ex Amoldo de Villa Nova, which is a summary of the Rosarius of Arnold de Villa Nova. This text obviously influenced the 1550 edition of the Rosarium philosophorum."... 

Nuttall, John. The Rosarium Philosophorum as a universal relational psychology Jung and object relations. Psychodynamic Counselling 6, no. 1 (Feb 2000) 79-100. 

Perrie, Walter. By Moon and Sun. Edinburgh Canongate Publishers, 1980. 92p. Poetry imbued with alchemical symbolism. Includes woodcuts from the Rosarium Philosophorum throughout the text... 

In the early alchemical texts (and in particular the Rosarium philosophorum ), this picture of soul alchemy is developed in parallel with descriptions of what was a sore physical process. Thus it was that the soul development of the alchemist went hand in hand with an actual physical operation, and this operation, the details of which have not been wholly lost, involved colour and form changes within a sealed flask, isomorphic to the inner changes of soul alchemy, described by these bird symbols. Thus we had a physical process which involved a blackening, a whitening a rapid iridescence of colours, a circular distillation stage, and a final sublimation. Part of the task of modern alchemy must be to rediscover this physical process, and explore its further ramifications. 

Figure 3. Processes depicting the separation and return of the spiritual part of the dissolved body of gold and silver, from the Rosarium Philosophorum (Frankfurt, 1550). The captions read (left to right) Here the four elements divide [while] the soul nimbly separates from the body and Here the soul springs downward and revives the purified corpse. ... 

See CW 16, 1403, for Jung s discussion of the Mercurial Fountain in the first plate of the Rosarium Philosophorum. This fountain has three pipes, and out of one flows the lac virginis. 

In Psychology of the Transference, Jung discusses an image of the hermaphrodite from another famous alchemical treatise of the sixteenth century, the Rosarium Philosophorum (CW16 ][ ][525-37). 

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