The Mercurial dragon, which is an image of Man. The three heads combine Moon, Sun and Mercury, the latter acting as a mediator for the first two. This triadic image is the occult representation of mankind, which is hermaphrodite, the Spirit and Soul being mediated by the mercuric principle. From the 1612 edition of Martin Rutland's Lexicon Alchemiae.

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