Genesis in Alchemical Engravings - Mutus Libet

We find in the first plate :

21.11.82. Neg:
93.82.72. Neg:
82.81.33. Tued:

gives :

Genesis 28: 11 and 12
Genesis 27: 28 and 39
Deuteronomy 33: 18 and 28

Genesis 28: 11 and 12
11 And he came to a certain place, and stayed there that night, because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place to sleep.

12 And he dreamed that there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven; and behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it!

Genesis 27: 28 and 39
28 May God give you of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and wine.

39 Then Isaac his father answered him: "Behold, away from the fatness of the earth shall your dwelling be, and away from the dew of heaven on high.

Deuteronomy 33: 18 and 28
18 And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out; and, Issachar, in thy tents.
28 Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of Jacob shall be upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall drop down dew.

Another translation here by Rawn Clark.

I let you meditate :)

Genesis in Alchemical engravings - St Didier

From the Hermetical Triomph, by Limojon de Saint-Didier, engraving found in an old german edition.

Genesis : 2.6

But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

Ninth Picture of L'Hermetisme dans la vie de Swift et ses Voyages by Eugene Canseliet

Copyright, Fata Morgana 1983.

This is the last image to analyse. This one seems clear in many aspects. This is the separation of the Caput from the Corpus or Regulus, the Mercurius comes from the earth, and goes into the Caput (maybe this is the other sense).

Iron is clealy pointed. It seems fire is coming out of the earth also. In the background, there is a stright line, maybe a separation between the sky and the water.

The regulus is molded in this shape after the pouring in a special crucible.

(From the int site : les Amis de l'alchimie)

Eight Picture of L'Hermetisme dans la vie de Swift et ses Voyages by Eugene Canseliet

Copyright, Fata Morgana 1983.

We are here after the Black Regimen, the Spiritus is callen and attracted by the Caput, this one is on the surface of the Bath.

We are told that Tartar and Niter (on the right and on the left top corners), are elements of this Spiritus, creating the acid and alcaline parts.

The bath contains a Fire, a Spirit and a Salt, represented by the flames, the bird and the cubic stone.

Seventh Picture of L'Hermetisme dans la vie de Swift et ses Voyages by Eugene Canseliet

Copyright, Fata Morgana 1983.

All these images are details of the First picture.
This is in my opinion a picture of the chaotic stage (black background) of the Materia used in the Opus Magnum.
We see the mineral subject, containing the hidden quintaessencia (black 5 pointed star) and also source of the Water of the Sages.

On the left, the antimony symbol containing a little flake, maybe allegorical of the inner Spiritus, Niter, or Mercury it contains. On the left a sphere seemingly representing the Mercury in another form, from the mineral suject.

Sixth Picture of L'Hermetisme dans la vie de Swift et ses Voyages by Eugene Canseliet

Copyright, Fata Morgana 1983.

The Hat is here the Caput Mortuum, still containing some black seed (it is grey and having a black ribbon).

10 seems to be the nomber of washing or imbibtions by the mercurial water (drops or Azoth), and Fire is also used (Ignis), in order to make a solve and coagula.

On the right we have a "key", the Caput in linked to Niter.

Under the Cap/ut, (Kaput in german mean dead, caput = head in latin), a black moon, saying that here the salt principle is impure. The fish/remora should be able to bear the Fire of the Salamander (see Cyrano of Bergerac, the Salamander is always defeated.

Fifth Picture of L'Hermetisme dans la vie de Swift et ses Voyages by Eugene Canseliet

Copyright, Fata Morgana 1983.

If you remember the first picture, you can see that the ground is the same than in the top left side of the image. This is the same rocky ground, with some grass.

Here we have a big triangle commonly seen as a symbol of Fire, but i see it here more like a triplicity, wich is in fact contained in the Caput Mortuum, the Dead Head. This head is hidding a moon containing a black sun, the idication here is : the moon is pure, but the sun is dead and contained in it.

Fourth Picture of L'Hermetisme dans la vie de Swift et ses Voyages by Eugene Canseliet

Copyright, Fata Morgana 1983.

We see here three levels. A black one, from where three arrows comes out (maybe by the multiplication of a same technique), a layered one, and a third one containing liggle flakes or stars.

If we look closely to the Star we can see that the Sun or Sulfur is in its center, because the star is on the top of the layered level - if we analyse this in an "antimony way" this layer is seen as the Bath or Antimony. The upper level shows the Flower of Antimony, its Mercurial part. It seems the Regulus is cold, because it is like mountains, flowers of antimony are also seen once it is cooling.