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Scorpio (the Scorpion)

Zodiac sign for Scorpio taken from The Zodiac [$]

A Laboratory.

A Laboratory
Shewing how a Simple Spirit may be extracted, to represent Flowers & Herbs, in Full Bloom. [more...] [$]

The Lapsed State of Man when contaminated by Lucifer, & under the Dominion of Sidereal & Elementary Influx (2 of 2)

“The fourth figure is intended to shew a faint resemblance of an abandoned and more degenerated state of fallen human nature, when the will and passions of man are given up to vice, and contaminated with the gross or bestial quality of deadly sin and wickedness. He is led captive by an evil spirit, the agent of Lucifer, having his will darkened, and every spark of light extinguished, that could flow from the intellectual faculties of the soul, or from the collision of virtue and sense. Such are the men described by St. Paul in his Epistle to the [...] [more...] [$]

21.—Armillary Sphere

“I have subjoined a plate of the Armillary Sphere, which is an artificial contrivance, representing the several circles proper to the theory of the mundane world, put togeher in their natural order, to ease and assist the imagination in conceiving the constitution of the spheres, and the various phenomena of the celestial bodies. For this purpose the Earth is placed at the center, pierced by a line supposed to be its axis, the upper point of which is fixed in [...] [more...] [$]

A View of Man in his Primeval State as invested With power by his Creator to rule & Govern gross Elements (Fig. 2 of 2)

“The second figure shews the elementary and astral influence in the prime-eval state of man, as having no action whatever internally, but falling on his exterior or back parts; whilst his face, turned to the light, received the beautific vision of [...] [more...] [$]