The triple headed dragon of the transmutation of metals.
Digital illustration of one of the woodcuts from the book - Three Dreams on the Transmutation of Metals - Written by Italian alchemist Giovanni Battista Nazari.
Published in 1589.
Digital illustration based on a woodcut, by Robert Vaughan, printed in the book - Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum (1652), by Elias Ashmole.
The dragon represents the process of alchemy. Symbolically, the dragon
is action.
This alchemical process is an action that is influenced by the opposing forces in nature.
The Sun and the moon represent the opposing forces of heating and cooling.
The sphere at the bottom represents the cycle of transmutation in progress.
Digital illustration of the title page of the book - The Azoth of Philosophers - Written by German alchemist Basil Valentine.
Published in the 17th-century
Senior instructs Adolphus at the foot of the Tree of Metals. At the corners of the lower triangle are symbols of the alchemical tria prima, Sulphur, Mercury and Salt.
Rebis.
Digital illustration of the sixth woodcut from the book - The Azoth of Philosophers. Written by German alchemist Basil Valentine.
Published in 1613.
The Rebis (from the Latin res bina, meaning dual or double matter) is the end product of the alchemical magnum opus or great work.
Aum, written using the Devanagari writing system, used to write most languages of North India and Nepal.
Aum, or Om, is a spiritual symbol, mantra, and mystical Sanskrit sound, used in Buddhism,
Eroded, Distressed, Grunge texture.
