The count of Gabalis, or the extravagant mysteries of the cabalists (1680) - Page 4

A square white label is pasted in the center of the page. It features an oval emblem with a blue background. At the top of the oval is a golden sun with radiating beams. Below it, a white pelican is depicted "in her piety" An ancient symbol of sacrifice and Christ, where a mother pelican is shown wounding her own breast to feed her young with her blood., wounding her breast to feed three chicks in a nest. The nest sits atop a plinth or shield decorated with five red roses. The entire oval is encircled by an Ouroboros A serpent or dragon eating its own tail, symbolizing eternity and the cycle of life and death. (a green serpent consuming its own tail). Faintly printed in a circular border around the Ouroboros are the words "Hermetic Philosophy" original: "PHILOSOPHIA HERMETICA"; a tradition of knowledge based on the writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus..

[ Montfaucon de Villars ] Henri de Montfaucon de Villars (1635–1673), the author of "Comte de Gabalis," a famous work on Rosicrucian thought and elemental spirits.

Library of Occult Sciences original: "Librairie des Sciences Occultes"

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