

Takes readers on a magical mystery tour from the medieval cosmogram and images of Christian mysticism, through the fascinating world of alchemy to the art of the Romantic era.

Macrocosm - The world Ptolemy, Brahe, Copernicus - Sun - Moon - Cosmic time - Lower astronomy - Stars - Music of the spheres - Genesis - Eye - Cosmic egg - Opus magnum - Genesis in the retort Elementa chemicae - Purification - Fall of Adam - Chaos - Saturnine night - Torment of the metals - Resurrection - Aurora Light & Darkness Jacob Bohme's system - Ladder - Ramon Lull's system - Philosophical tree - Sephiroth - Ab uno - Fortress - Animal riddles - Oedipus chimicus - Dew Mute book - Women's work & child's play - Vegetable chemistry - Serpent - Return Theosophical Society - Conjunctio Rosarium philosophorum - Androgyny - Separatio - Hermetic Yantras - Trinity - Fire Philosophical egg - Matrix - Fountain - Christ-Lapis - Blood - Microcosm - Human Form Divine - Brain & memory - Signatures - Script & seal - Apparitions - Rotation - Whirl & magnet - Divine Geometry - Wheel Winds, Gurdjieff's eneagramm, Colour wheel - Rose - Pilgrim.
