Hello dear community, at the beginning I would like to welcome you all to my new post and hope you had a day that has been full of positive experiences! In this post, I would like to talk a little about alchemy and hope you can expand your knowledge.
The Philosophical egg, which is also known by the Latin name Ovum philosophorum, has an important meaning in alchemy and the symbolism of it is relatively diverse and it is sometimes considered a vessel for the preparation of the philosopher's stone. In alchemy, mythological scenes were often used as metaphors and according to legends, there is a rare bird of an enormous size and this should be found just like the egg it breeds and then you should touch the egg with a hot sword and with the help of the the roman god of blacksmithing Vulcan and the war god Mars should hatch from the egg a supernatural bird that had unimaginable powers. In this context, the egg is also associated with chaos and prima materia and was also considered a typical sign of fertility and the basis of the emergence of nature and humanity and there are also interpretations that it should be a sign of the four elements and in addition it was also considered as the fifth being. The philosophical egg can be seen in numerous alchemical works of art and the most of them can be traced back to the 16th century and so it was also considered in the practice of alchemy as a symbol for the use of different shapes or colors and there are views that once the quintessence or aether was created from it and also with the rebis it is connected which is also considered as the union of two principles. It was also considered the guardian of life and was considered as a sign of the protector of the earth and is also associated with the matrix, which is associated with the Latin word for mother or breeding female and this egg appears in numerous old writings and is closely linked to mystical principles.
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