SYMBOLS - OCCULT ART - ROSICRUCIANS - SPIRALS One of a series of influential occult engravings by William Law, in explication of the principles in the arcane thought of the Rosicrucian, Jacob Boehme, from The Works of Jacob Behmen, The Teutonic Theosopher, Vol 1, 1764. Plate 2 - which is a literal textual continuation of plate 1, and which develops the Three Properties or Principles (the Salt, Sulphur and Mercury of the alchemical tradition) that emerge from the act of creation (the manifestation, so to speak, of the Trinity at the centre of the previous plate). This expansion of the primal
SYMBOLS - OCCULT ART - ROSICRUCIANS - SPIRALS One of a series of influential occult engravings by William Law, in explication of the principles in the arcane thought of the Rosicrucian, Jacob Boehme, from The Works of Jacob Behmen, The Teutonic Theosopher, Vol 1, 1764. Plate 2 - which is a literal textual continuation of plate 1, and which develops the Three Properties or Principles (the Salt, Sulphur and Mercury of the alchemical tradition) that emerge from the act of creation (the manifestation, so to speak, of the Trinity at the centre of the previous plate). This expansion of the primal triangle is in terms of extended circles, which each have their centres at the apex of the triangle. No. 1 in this sequence is that associated with the planet Saturn, as is said by Boehme to express itself through Harshnesss, Magnetical Attraction. No. 2 in this sequence is that associated with the planet Mercury, and is said to express itself through Bitterness, Stinging Motion. No 3 in this sequence is that associated with the planet Mars, and is said to express itself through Anguish, Whirling Wheel. [continuation sentence A] these three first Properties of Nature. In the Fourth it makes that Great Conjunction between the Eternal Liberty and this Dark Restless NatureÃÃ [This sentence is continued in the next plate - in our text at B] [continuation sentence Z] confounded, but as it were Parallel with it) through these three first Dark, Fighting, Whirling and all Rest-less Properties of Nature andÃÃ [This sentence is continued in the next plate - in our text at X] The quotations are from William Law's An Illustration of the Deep Principles of Jacob Behmen, the Teutonic Theosopher. *** Local Caption *** General;image;Colour;Illustration;Esoterica;paranormal
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