Amphitheater of Eternal Wisdom

The page shows significant age related browning and foxing. There are numerous handwritten calligraphic doodles and flourishes surrounding the central diagram. A modern blue ink stamp is present in the lower right.

A complex circular Kabbalistic and theosophical diagram, known as the Hermetic Circle. The diagram consists of several concentric rings. The outermost ring contains Latin and Hebrew text from the Great Commandment and the Shema. The next ring inward is divided into twelve segments. Each contains a cloud from which a Hebrew word for the Sephirot emerges, paired with Latin text. Further inward is a sunburst design containing various names of God in Hebrew, including the Tetragrammaton and Shaddai, and Latin. At the very center is a triangle pointing upwards towards the word All. Within the center of the diagram is a figure of Christ on the cross. He is surrounded by a radiant sun, with a dove representing the Holy Spirit descending below him. In the corners outside the main circle are symbolic illustrations: a sun in the top left and a skull in the top right. Multiple calligraphic flourishes or marks are scattered around the border of the circle. A blue circular institutional stamp in the bottom right reads: Library of the Higher School of Pharmacy of Paris. A small rectangular stamp with E P under a crown is located to the right of the circle.

Transcription of the Latin text in the outer ring: original: "DILIGES DOMINUM DEUM TUUM EX TOTO CORDE TUO, ET EX TOTA ANIMA TUA, ET EX OMNIBUS VIRIBUS TUIS, ET EX OMNI MENTE TUA; ET PROXIMUM TUUM, SICUT TE IPSUM."
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself. This is the Great Commandment, which Khunrath presents as the primary law encompassing his entire philosophical system.

The inner segments contain the names of the Sephirot, the ten attributes in Kabbalah through which the Infinite reveals itself:
Top Right Wisdom Hebrew: Chokmah
Right Understanding Hebrew: Binah
Bottom Right Lovingkindness Hebrew: Chesed
Bottom Fear Hebrew: Pachad, or Gevurah; represents divine judgment
Bottom Left Beauty Hebrew: Tipheret
Left Victory Hebrew: Netzach
Top Left Splendor Hebrew: Hod
Inner Upper Left Foundation Hebrew: Yesod

original: "Vincit in hoc signo." This adapts the famous vision of Constantine the Great to a Christocentric alchemical context.

original: "Vero filius erat ipse hoc." This refers to the centurion's realization at the foot of the cross in the Gospels.

The title Doctor of both Medicines likely refers to Khunrath's belief in healing both the physical body and the spiritual soul. Paul van der Doort was a noted engraver who collaborated on these complex plates.