Postcard - ‘ Orion was begotten by Apollo’.
Orion was begotten by Apollo, Vulcan and Mercurius when they gathered their sperm in a bull's hide. Likewise, the Philosophers' Stone has a threefold origin: Sol, Luna and Mercury. Michael Maier (1568-1622) describes phases of the alchemical process in Atalanta fugiens, 1618.
EFM 0070
There is a brief explanation of the image on the reverse of the card.
Size: 105x150 mm
© EFM/Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica Collection