THE PILLAR OF MERCURY

PROMETHEUS

 ELEPHANT, religion and its myths, rites, ceremonies.

 HERCULES SHOOTING ARROW WITH THREE POINTS, all the sciences relating to the celestial world, to this world, and to the abyss; eloquence in prose: libraries.

 IRIS AND MERCURY, embassies, letter-writing.

 MERCURY AND THE COCK, trade and commerce.

 PROMETHEUS AND TORCH, art and artifice in general.

SANDALS OF MERCURY

. GOLDEN FLEECE, making heavy or light, hard or soft

 ATOMS, diminishing, discontinuing, dissolving.

 PYRAMID, raising, lowering.

 GORDIAN KNOT TIED, complicating, making intricate, knotting.

 GORDIAN KNOT UNTIED, untying, explaining, dissolving.

 JUNO AS A CLOUD, dissimulating, deceiving.

 IXION ON THE WHEEL, business, industry, labour.

PASIPHE AND THE BULL

 GOLDEN FLEECE, weight, lightness, hardness, softness of human body.

 ATOMS, discrete quantity in man.

 PYRAMID, continuous quantity in men as tall, short.

 JUNO AS A CLOUD, false, dissimultaing character.

 IXION ON THE WHEEL, mortal cares, business, labours.

GORGON SISTERS

 TORCH OF PROMETHEUS, human intellect, docility in learning.

THE CAVE

 GOLDEN FLEECE, weight and touch.

 ATOMS, discrete quality in things (Arithmetic)

 PYRAMID, continuous quality in things (Geometry)

 GORDIAN KNOT TIED, implicated continuous quantity.

 GORDIAN KNOT UNTIED, explicated continuous quantity.

 JUNO AS A CLOUD, false appearances.

THE BANQUET

 ELEPHANT, fables of the gods.

MERCURY - HOD

 Hermes, Nebu - Writing and Wisdom.Mercury - The MIND - Manjusri, Intellect.