Emblem of the Trinity: Threefold Solar Radiance

The print is divided into three horizontal registers. At the top (fig. 1), a simple concentric circle represents a singular point or essence. In the middle (fig. 2), a radiant sun with a serene human face serves as a central emblem of light and divinity. At the bottom (fig. 3), heavy, textured clouds emit powerful rays of light directed downward, surrounding a small, singular, seed-like form in the center of the emanation. The style is that of a 17th-century woodcut or engraving, utilizing high-contrast hatching to emphasize the intensity of the light.

This image appears in Robert Fludd’s 'Utriusque Cosmi Maioris scilicet et Minoris metaphysica, physica atque technica historia' (1617–1619). It illustrates Fludd’s Hermetic-Neoplatonic cosmology, where the divine essence is emanated through the cosmos in a threefold structure, paralleling the Christian Trinity with alchemical and metaphysical notions of light.