Fever Dreams

Only Blood Can Cleanse the Soil

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Claude Paradin - Symbola heroica (1600) [x]

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TheMacabreNBold

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Robert Fludd, Diagram of Sunlight in Various Stages Through a Prism, 1626

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Christelyke aandachten of vlammende ziel-zuchten (1735).

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Jack Wilson

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Jacobus Typotius - Symbola diuina & humana (1601) [x]

> Engraver: Aegidius Sadeler.

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More from Physica Curiosa

more plates are online at the John Martin Rare Book Room at the University of Iowa.

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Devious detail from

Rogier van der Weyden, The Last Judgment , 1445-50.

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“Systems of satellites.” An atlas of astronomy. 1892.

Rumsey

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Paleolithic hand stencils from the cave at Lascaux, France. 25-30,000 years old.

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Lyon - BM - ms. 0439 f. 014. Apocalypsis figurata. Northern France, c.1450.

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Vaticinivm (1601).

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“The Rose surmounts the thorny cross, the whole resembling the sign of Venus in which the solar circle triumphs over the cross of matter. We may interpret the motto as saying that “spiritual knowledge gives solace to souls,” of whom bees are a venerable symbol.“ - Joscelyn Godwin, in Robert Fludd: Hermetic Philosopher of Two Worlds

DAT ROSA MEL APIBUS - THE ROSE GIVES THE BEES HONEY

THE SOLAR CIRCLE TRIUMPHS OVER THE CROSS OF MATTER

Joachim Frizius’s Summum Bonum, adopted for Robert Fludd’s Clavis

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Satan organizing and monitoring the proper functioning of the 2021 Hell games. Vie de Jésus-Christ. Jean Pichore et Jean Colombe enlumineurs ~ 15th century. BnF • via Bibliothèque Infernale on FB

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Human anatomy cross section John Arderne, De arte et de phisicali cirurgia, England ca. In 1425. Stockholm, Kungliga Biblioteket, X 118 - Copy

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Philosophia imaginum id est sylloge symbolorum amlissima, 1695

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Michael Maier. Arcana Arcanissima hoc est Hieroglyphica Aegyptio-Graeca. 1614.