The Images of Philostratus

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A circular emblem is featured on a white rectangular slip of paper pasted onto the page. The emblem has a green circular border with the gold text "HERMETIC PHILOSOPHY" original: "PHILOSOPHIA · HERMETICA ·". The center of the circle shows a white "pelican in her piety," a mother bird wounding her own breast to feed her young with her blood. She is perched on a white cube. The front of the cube shows a red cross with four red roses, one in each quadrant. Golden rays shine down from the top of the blue background onto the bird.

original: "PHILOSOPHIA · HERMETICA ·"

Philosophia Hermetica Hermetic Philosophy, Rosicrucian a secret brotherhood using the symbol of the Rose Cross, pelican in her piety a symbol of self-sacrifice and Christ, often used in alchemy to represent the stage of multiplication, emblem a symbolic picture accompanied by a motto