Pegasus arises from the severed neck of the Gorgon Medusa, and Perseus rides on Pegasus towards Andromeda - Etching by T. Cook, after W. Hogarth (1808).
The River Nile, Vatican Museums.
This monumental Roman sculpture personifies the Nile as a reclining river god, surrounded by 16 children — a reference to the 16 cubits of water associated with the river’s annual flood. Around him, the sphinx, crocodiles, hippopotamus, pygmies, and wheat imagery turn the statue into a carved map of Egypt’s fertility and mythology.
THREE ARE REQUIRED TO MANIFEST THE ONE
Hermetic Christian diagram by Dionysius Andreas Freher, 1649-1728. The Three Worlds I, III and II refer to the Dark World of the Father, the Light World of the Son and the Outer (or mixed) World of the Holy Spirit respectively.
The Seven Spirits of Revelation are also shown - the three light planetary dyads above (Moon, Jupiter, Venus, linked with their complements) and the three dark planetary dyads below (Saturn, Mercury, Mars, within each of which is its complementary planet). In the centre is the Sun, mediating between the "dark" powers below and the "light" planets above. Together the seven spirits and three worlds form one whole.
These esoteric Christian ‘mandalas’ were carefully designed for study and meditation. Freher’s emblems are wonderful illustrations of the complex philosophy and visions of Jakob Boehme.
From: The Paradoxical Emblems of Dionysius Andreas Freher, 1649-1728. Edited from Ms. Add. 5789 in the British Library with an Introduction by Adam McLean,1983, 250 copies only
“There is also a square measure for the better proportioned body: when a man stands with his arms outstretched and feet together, it forms a square of equal sides, the center of which lies at the base of the sternum. »
From Occult Philosophy, c. 1533, by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa