SEE:
| CORVUS |
All refer to FEATHERS: |
| RAVEN |
i.e. SUBLIMATION |
| CAPUT CORVI |
|
All of the CORVUS/RAVEN/CAPUT CORVI symbols are BLACK into WHITE:
See the HERMES BIRD in the
Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz (Foxworth translation, 1690) the
Hermetic bird is described:
"Now he was wholly black, and wild, wherefore other meat was brought
him..., whereupon all his black feathers moulted again, and instead of them
there grew out snow-white feathers. ... At the third feeding his feathers began
to be so curiously coloured, that in all my life I never saw the like colours
for beauty."
Now
make it thus. Take in the name of God the aforementioned Mercury or the
naturall Water, the first matter of the Sages, Take of it as much as you will,
and putt it into its vessell which must be pure, cleare, and cleane, and Seale
it well above with the Sigills Hermetis, that the Mercury may not come out
above, and sett it in its prepared place, that it may have a moderate heate
every moment for a month. The naturall master saith That it may have its place
warme whereby it works it self up and downe, so long til it ascend no more in
the glasse, and begins to bee colle at the bottome, and becomes dry below in
the glasse without the least moistnesse, like a black earth, that is caput
Corvi, or an earthy dry element, for thus the true sublimation or exaltation
of the philosophers is perfected as is said before. And in this sublimation is
the true separation of the Elements, as the Masters say.