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Emblem of Johannes Philippus Papius; a heart with six eyes on a tree stump in a landscape, a branch growing from the heart, banderol with motto above Engraving
THE LAUGHING HERESIIARCH
Servitus Carnis, 1610/20 (Engraving) ~ by Egbert van Panderen
Athanasius Kircher’s pyramids
Athanasius Kircher, Sphinx Mystagoga, 1676 - I believe this was the account of the pyramids in Sudan not Egypt.
The Prodigal Dog, parts 4235 - 4238
one of the classic symbols of alchemy - the green lion devouring the sun. As with most of the striking, and to the modern mind, somewhat 'surreal' images which populate these works, they have a bewildering range of possible meanings.