Work: 'Chymic Choir'-From Musaeum Hermeticum,1625 and Frankfurt,1749.
The 7 terrestrial metals are symbolized by 7 figures sitting in the cave or cavern.
Up between night and day-up and down- the 7 planets in continuous rotation of Elements.
Three figures = Sulfur = fire, jump = the stone and Mercury = water.
In the image you can see the salamander = Fire, the angels 3 = winds-Air, the boat = Water and the landscape = Earth. It is the union of the lower and higher = 'as above so below'.
Down in the cave the six Muses=metals surround Apollo in the alchemical hells.
In the center the figure has the Star of David or Alchemical Seal Solomonic = Combination of 2 Triangles that fuses symbolism.
The motto translated from Latin reads: 'The things that are in the realms above are also in the realms beneath; What heaven shews is often found on earth.
Fire and flowing water are contrary one to other; Happy thou, if thou canst united them: let it suffice thee to know this!' Victor. Arturo Cabello. Reyes.
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