Title page - 1678 edition of the Musæum Hermeticum

[Paul Ferguson]

The title page of the 1678 edition of the Musæum Hermeticum is rich with occult and alchemical symbology, depicting the journey toward the Magnum Opus, or the Great Work of creating the Philosopher’s Stone. The complex engraving combines allegorical figures, alchemical principles, and cosmological concepts to illustrate the Hermetic motto, “As Above, So Below.”

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