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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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

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This drawing seems less complicated in fact, all is in the details.

I recommend to read the paragraph on the Fountain of Vertbois in Fulcanelli in order to have a good explanation of this ship and of the cubic stone in it.

We see the Remora and the Salamander, Mercury and Sulphur, ready to meet and fight in the Philosopher's Sea.

The ship is like a bird, the flag is black, and the moon crescent is on the sail, a sail is used to capture the wind, or here, the spiritus, the Mercury, maybe coming from the South Star, a celestial representation of the Salamander (south pole, hot nature) and the north Star or polaris, celestial representation of the Remora, the cold nature.

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

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I see here four elements. First, a Mercury, as the Sea/Bath, containing the Antimony and Mars symbols, under them, the Star, symbol of the gate of the Spirit and also used for Purity. It can symply designate the Sea itself or being another elements. We have something hidden behind this Star, something rectangular containing also a cross (maybe) on it.
These Mars/Antimony conjunction seems to mimic the shape of a boat, a logical thing since they float on a sea.

FAIRE (doing) or Fer in french, mean IRON, and the lowest inner part of the circle contains vertical lines, maybe meaning it is "masculine", horizontal lines are in the TAIRE (stay silent, make silent) or TERRE, (earth in french). This is a conjunction, a marriage of two polarities into one, this is the REBIS allegory.
Put the FAIRE TAIRE upside down and you can see Venus and Mars, this is more explicit in this sense.

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Maybe the black moon crescent in the TAIRE indicates the next colour coming. I don't know what is this grey triangle in the FAIRE.

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

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I will try an analysis of this first image :

The symbols of Antimony and of Bismuth on the top.
Another symbol of bismuth is a "taurus" symbol, like this rock and crescent moon under it design.
A rod, perforate the rock, see the idea of the fountain and the Staff of Mose.
Note these three are in the "air".

On the right, a source coming out of the air, a spring, this is the Philosophical Mercury, it also seems to come from the conjunction of the sky and the earth, making a "black spot" from where it spring and go on the ground, in the ground via another hole, and out of the image.
Note the rising sun, under the moon.

A fire on the left, near a nail. The hammer is the power of the Fire. The top right side concerns WATERs, and the left top side, concerns FIREs.

An enormous symbol of venus hathed stars (mercury), and growing like a tree on a philosophic earth, surely nurturing itself from a philosophical sea, itself containg the Remora, this fish perforated of several arrows of martial/sunny (Sulfur) energy, it will be captured and surely put into the egg.


This part is not linear and is not a logical description of the process in my opinion. These are just peices of the Magnum Opus in disorder put together.

The symbol of niter and of the double mercury (maybe).

Crystals on the left side of the egg/venus symbol, can represent one of the multiple aspect of the fixation of the Spirit into the matter, on the other side, a cube, from where sprout something, directing to the double moon symbol.
I must admit that without the keys, it is very difficult to read something in this drawing.

L'Hermetisme dans la vie de Swift et ses Voyages - Eugène Canseliet

       This little book is now quite rare, I had the luck to get one . The author treats about the green language in Lilliput and other related subjects. The complete title is :

       "L'Hermetisme dans la vie de Swift et ses Voyages".

        I decided to deliver here the very curious, rich, and unknowned drawings, from this book.

         They are like that, in the text, with explanation at all.

         This author was very knowledgable, and loved the "bird language", for example, "FAIRE TAIRE", can be read as FER TERRE (Iron and Earth = 'antimony').

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Put the FAIRE TAIRE upside down and you can see that another angle is always interesting !

What do we have now ... Venus and Mars, Copper and Iron, united !

          Both were on a sea or bath, maybe their union make them "float", or makes them appear on the top of the Bath.
        And the Star makes me think about the Divine Dove, coming from above and diving into the Sea.