Chorus

OF PHILOSOPHERS.

A complex circular diagram featuring three illustrative vignettes and concentric rings of Latin text. A winged Mercury figure and a solitary scholar occupy the top half, while a group of five robed men stands in a circle at the bottom.

Outer Ring Inscription (clockwise):
I confess to you, Master, Paranymph of Olympus & the Underworld; what do I ask, O most worthy of the Gods? Because you have hidden this from the glorious & have revealed it to the inglorious.

Inner Ring Border Inscription (clockwise):
Python is never more pleasing than the solitary & Philosophical life; let this be the conclusion: we therefore announce to the investigated from which you were made, to all * only * because * in traveling and evangelizing to the poor, it was given to me in commands. He is fed

Top-left vignette: An alchemical or mythological scene showing a winged figure (Mercury) holding a caduceus and wearing a petasos, standing over a reclining figure.
to be handed down
Safe
I concede
but here
Woe to me
is born
I am a man, a Euripus a turbulent channel; therefore I have led Earth, the Goddess,
To live is for me, to be able to consume my days like a hermit.

Top-right vignette: A scholar or philosopher in a study, seated at a desk with an open book and a lit lamp.
Nothing to me

Bottom vignette: Five robed figures standing in a circle, holding hands or a rope. Above them is a title and below them a curved line of text.

Magus of magi and Philosopher of philosophers.

Earth, in the grass, laying bare our Red feet, high in the Pole; but it is born in another way.