Emblema XX. Naturam natura docet, debellet ut ignem. ‘Nature teaches Nature to vanquish fire.’ The w

Emblema XX. Naturam natura docet, debellet ut ignem. ‘Nature teaches Nature to vanquish fire.’ The way of Nature when it seeks the perfection of any work, consists in making one thing come out of another, the most perfect from the least perfect, and to activate its potential. This is exactly what we see in the gesture of the mercurial heroine speeding the Knight on his way to do battle against the tyranny of Fire. The Knight is the Fixed Sulpher that the flame can no longer vanquish.Michael Maier’s Atalanta fugiens -- source link

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