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shows the full illustration from Schema FMC00.610 (see also variant B), taken from the book 'Laboratorium Chymicorum Vulgarium (1686) by an anonymous author. On the right English translations of the Latin texts.

The schema depicts

• above, Adonai, is ancient Hebrew plural for lord or master, used to refer to God (and appears hundreds of times in the Bible)
• underneath the mystical lamb and its sevenfold influence
• the angelic being blowing through a sevenfold trumpet, each one of the esoteric planets, represents the spiritual influences of the corresponding planetary spheres. Note the unusual location of Mars.
• from the sun trumpet comes flowing 'warm and dry', from the moon trumpet 'cold and wet' (see FMC00.300B and FMC00.300B); giving rise or linked to the hexagram of two opposing triangles (see FMC00.088 and FMC00.324)
• left and right middle, the two etheric streams or influences of sun and moon reference the emerald tablet (see Homer’s Golden Chain)
• below are shown various historical personalities, both famous (Hermes, Paracelsus, Flamel, Thomas Aquinas) as lesser known alchemists

FMC00.610A