Heinrich Nollius, Theoria Philosophiae Hermeticae: Rebis

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Commentary on Rebis

  1. ambrose_mnemopolous Post author

    The rebis, or “double thing,” is an alchemical process relating to the union of opposites. Here, the alchemist is depicted as a philosophical hermaphrodite within the philosophical egg, integrating masculine and feminine energies.

  2. ambrose_mnemopolous Post author

    The figure of the rebis is surrounded by astrological signs, clockwise from the left: Venus, Mars, Sun, Mercury, Moon, Jupiter, Saturn.

  3. ambrose_mnemopolous Post author

    Note the pairing of opposites: Mars and Venus (male and female), Sun and Moon (day and night), Jupiter and Saturn (joviality and melancholy), and the male and female heads united in one figure.

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Heinrich Nollius (1590-1630) was an alchemist at the court of Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel.