Mercury conjoint the Sun - Blackness

"Likewise it is called a Stone found in every place, because of the true composition, when the Sun, the Moon and Mercury are conjoined together, the virtue of the Stone is wholly through the world, in mountains and plains, in bodies and Mercury, and in the Sea, that is in dissolved water, and flying things take help and nourishment of it. Things flying are quick Mercury and imperfect bodies which are converted into the Sun and the Moon, and it is called Scorpio, that is poison, because it mortifies itself and revives itself again, for that threefold thing being cast upon Mercury does revive it, because it makes a true body and thus it is called mineral Watersilver of the Philosophers. But the matter of the Philosophers Stone is water, and it is understood of the water of these three, as Hortulanus proves, neither ought there to be more or fewer. And he says that the Sun is the man and the Moon the woman, and Mercury the sperm. But that there may be generations and conceptions, it is meet that the man be joined to the woman, and so conception and Impregnation ought to be made before fermentation, and when the matter is multiplied and fermented, then it is said that an infant increases in the womb of the mother. Hortulanus and Arnoldus say that the soul is poured into the body and a crowned king is born. In the book of The Turba of the Philosophers these words are recited, "dissolve bodies and imbibe the spirit". They say bodies in the plural because there must be two, and they say spirit in the singular because it is meet there should be one. And there is no sperm without the matter of bodies unless Mercury. And when it is said, imbibe the spirit then that operation is understood which fixes Mercury and the Stone is multiplied. Multiplied, that is reiterated". Rosarium Philosphorum P. 19 (with adjustments on the English language)

Art: Anatomy of the Stone II. Made with the indications of the Rosarium. Original post on Instagram.