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Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2026 2:30 pm
Here I am asking the artificial intelligence about this picture, so that it would decipher for me what this is. It said that it is a picture from 1550, Frankfurt.
“This is one of the engravings showing the path of the Great Work, where the king in red-orange, with a golden crown, stands on the sun — he is sulfur, active fire, masculine, red, gold, spirit, will, heat, dryness. And the queen, she is in white, with a crown, often with a lunar motif, stands on the moon, she is Mercury — passive water, feminine, silver, soul, intuition, cold, moisture. They hold each other by the hand — this is the marriage, the union of opposites. In their hands they have crossed stems with flowers, usually lilies or roses, either white or red flowers. The king holds the white, lunar, silvery ones, and the queen the red, solar, ruby ones. This is an exchange — each gives his opposite, so as to merge. The stems cross in the centre, forming a cross or a point of joining. And from above, a dove descends — that is, the Holy Spirit, the mediator. The Spirit, the third element, which blesses and unite them together. The dove carries a third flower, a branch, the one that completes the triad. Body, soul, spirit; or salt, sulfur, mercury. Above the dove is a six-pointed star — the symbol of the unity of opposites, of the macrocosm, of the quintessence, of the perfection of the Philosopher’s Stone.
The meaning in one sentence. That is, the union of the red king and the white queen gives birth to the Philosopher’s Stone. When fire and water, spirit and soul, feminine and masculine cease to struggle and become one in love, blessed from above.”
And further on, what is most interesting is what they write to me: “The king within you is your active will, the fire of desires, the rational mind — that is, I act. And the queen is your receptive nature, your emotions, your intuition — that is, I receive.”
And here I underline the most important line: “They cannot live separately. The king burns alone. The queen drowns in chaos without him. When they take each other by the hand, exchange flowers and energies, cross the stems — the inner marriage takes place. The dove — your higher nature, the Holy Spirit, pure consciousness — descends and gives the third flower of unity.”
So look at this. What stole my attention here was that “the king burns alone, and the queen drowns in chaos.” That is how they feel without each other. And I think:
“This is one of the engravings showing the path of the Great Work, where the king in red-orange, with a golden crown, stands on the sun — he is sulfur, active fire, masculine, red, gold, spirit, will, heat, dryness. And the queen, she is in white, with a crown, often with a lunar motif, stands on the moon, she is Mercury — passive water, feminine, silver, soul, intuition, cold, moisture. They hold each other by the hand — this is the marriage, the union of opposites. In their hands they have crossed stems with flowers, usually lilies or roses, either white or red flowers. The king holds the white, lunar, silvery ones, and the queen the red, solar, ruby ones. This is an exchange — each gives his opposite, so as to merge. The stems cross in the centre, forming a cross or a point of joining. And from above, a dove descends — that is, the Holy Spirit, the mediator. The Spirit, the third element, which blesses and unite them together. The dove carries a third flower, a branch, the one that completes the triad. Body, soul, spirit; or salt, sulfur, mercury. Above the dove is a six-pointed star — the symbol of the unity of opposites, of the macrocosm, of the quintessence, of the perfection of the Philosopher’s Stone.
The meaning in one sentence. That is, the union of the red king and the white queen gives birth to the Philosopher’s Stone. When fire and water, spirit and soul, feminine and masculine cease to struggle and become one in love, blessed from above.”
And further on, what is most interesting is what they write to me: “The king within you is your active will, the fire of desires, the rational mind — that is, I act. And the queen is your receptive nature, your emotions, your intuition — that is, I receive.”
And here I underline the most important line: “They cannot live separately. The king burns alone. The queen drowns in chaos without him. When they take each other by the hand, exchange flowers and energies, cross the stems — the inner marriage takes place. The dove — your higher nature, the Holy Spirit, pure consciousness — descends and gives the third flower of unity.”
So look at this. What stole my attention here was that “the king burns alone, and the queen drowns in chaos.” That is how they feel without each other. And I think: