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Circuli rome4/3/2023 ![]() PS Since I have been to Prague, the Europen XVIth century center for alchemy, before I left I read Peter Marshall, The Magic Circle of Rudolph II. The each iscription is put as a remark to an emblem of a chemical symbol that was normally associated to a platet: Saturn/lead Jupiter/tin Mars/iron Venus/copper Moon/silver Mercury/mercury.ĭid I deserve the Philosopher's Stone, now? :-)) Ciao Daniela On the bottom, that's the best because the iscription can be read from the right as from the left without changing the meaning: SI SEDES NON IS (= if you sit down, you don't go ahead) EST OPUS OCCULTANT VERI SOPHI APERIRE TERRANT UT GERMINET SALUTEM PRO POPULO (= It's the great occult work of the wise man opening the earth so that the salvation of the people goes to seed). On right & left sides: FILIUS NOSTER MORTUUS VIVIT REX AB IGNE REDIT ET CONIUGIO GAUDET OCCULTO (= Our son, dead, lives, comes back as king and enjoy the occult marriage) SI FECERIS VOLARE TERRANT SUPER CAPUT TUUM EIUS PENNIS AQUAS TORRENTIUM CONVERTES IN PETRAM (= if you will have the earth soared above your head, with your feathers you could turn the waters of the streams into stones) DIAMETER SPHERAE THAU CIRCULI CRUX ORBI NON ORBIS PROSUIT (= the diameter of the sphere, the tau-greek letter- of the circle are not of any use to the blind) QUANDO IN TUA DOMO NIGRI CORVI PARTURIEN ALBAS COLUMBAS TUNC VOCABERIS SAPIENS (= when in your house the black crows will give bith to white doves, then you can title yourself wise) QUIS SCIT COMBURERE AQUA ET LAVARE IGNI FACIT DE TERRA COELUM ET DE COELO TERRAM PRETIOSAM (who knows how to burn with the water and wash with the fire, makes the earth an heaven and the heaven a precious earth/stone if referring to the Philosopher's Stone) AZOT ET IGNIS DEALBANDO LATONAM VENIET SINE VESTE DIANA (= with the purification of Latona through the nitrogen and the fire, Diana appears clothless/naked) On the entablature: HORTI MAGICI INGRESSU ESPERIUS CUSTODIT DRACO ET SINE ALCIDE COLCHICAS DELICIAS NON GUSTASSET JASON (= The entrance of the magic garden is guarded by the 'espero' drake and without Hercules' desire Jason couldn't relish the Colchis' pleasures) then in Hebrew RUACH ELOHIM=Divine Spirit Ok, Let start from the top wheel stone with the compass: TRIA SUNT MIRABILIA DEUS ET HOMO MATER ET VIRGO TRINUS ET UNUS (=3 are the miracolous things, God and the man and the Mother Virgin and trine and one) CENTRUM IN TRIGONO CENTRI (= put the core at the triangle's core) Ahh, Mike, you know that I will accept your challanges all the times! But I warn you, you could be the looser :-) I had the best scholars on alchemy as my university professors! Anyway I beg you to be lenient with my ugly translations from Latin
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