Postcard - ‘A lion and a lioness, the last one carrying wings’.
She symbolizes the volatile mercury, or the moon, which should be united with the male, representing solid sulphur, or the sun. Michael Maier (1568-1622) describes phases from the alchemical process in Atalanta fugiens, 1618.
EFM 0037
There is a brief explanation of the image on the reverse of the card.
Size: 105x150 mm
© EFM/Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica Collection