Teheuti
"The Tarot and Secret Tradition" continued
6. "Now Alchemy had two branches, as I have explained fully elsewhere, and the pictorial emblems which I have mentioned are common to both divisions.
7. "Its material side is represented in the strange symbolism of the Mutus Liber, printed in the great folios of Mangetus.
8. "There the process for the performance of the great work of transmutation is depicted in fourteen copper-plate engravings, which exhibit the different stages of the matter in the various chemical vessels.
9."Above these vessels there are mythological, planetary, solar and lunar symbols, as if the powers and virtues which—according to Hermetic teaching—preside over the development and perfection of the metallic kingdom were intervening actively to assist the two operators who are toiling below.
10. "The operators—curiously enough—are male and female."
Adam McLean's hand-colored emblems from the Mutus Liber: http://www.alchemywebsite.com/bookshop/prints_series_mutus.html
Original images, explanatory text in Spanish (use google translate):
http://www.odisea2008.com/2011/04/alquimia-mutus-liber.html
Mangetus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Manget