Atalanta FugiensMaier’s alchemical emblem book brings engraved images, epigrams, prose and three-voice music into a single sequence.Michael Maier’s Atalanta Fugiens (1618)
SourceBook of the DeadA variable collection of funerary texts rather than a single fixed book.Egyptian funerary religion
SourceEmerald Table in LéviThe Hermetic text used to connect upper and lower worlds through analogy.Éliphas Lévi, Transcendental Magic
SourceJataka TalesStories of previous births in which the Buddha-to-be develops his dedication.Buddhist traditions, Nivedita and Coomaraswamy
SourceUrizen’s Brazen Book in EuropeAn immense book associated with Urizen becomes an image of authority copied on Earth by kings and priests.William Blake’s illuminated mythology in Europe: A Prophecy
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