Occult Literature
Anna Kingsford’s Solve et Coagula Vision Drawing
A standing male figure raises one arm within a pointed starburst while the other arm extends outward. The caption gives the Hermetic formula Solve et Coagula, translated as Dissolve and Resume, or Project and Recall. In the adjacent account, Edward Maitland explains that Anna Kingsford attempted the sketch after a vision of Adonai. The reproduced drawing gives visible form to her visionary experience through the body’s opposing gestures and surrounding rays.
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Anna Kingsford. "Anna Kingsford’s Solve et Coagula Vision Drawing" [editorial title]. In Clothed with the Sun: The Book of the Illuminations of Anna Kingsford, Anna Kingsford; edited by Edward Maitland; popular edition edited by Samuel Hopgood Hart. Popular edition, 1912, 1912, John M. Watkins. Source scan leaf 342. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0079-0342
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Clothed with the Sun: The Book of the Illuminations of Anna KingsfordAnna Kingsford; edited by Edward Maitland; popular edition edited by Samuel Hopgood Hart1912More from this book
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Anna Kingsford. Anna Kingsford’s Solve et Coagula Vision Drawing. Clothed with the Sun: The Book of the Illuminations of Anna Kingsford. Scan leaf 342. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0079-0342