Alchemical Symbolism in the VMS

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bi3mw wrote:

I'll  try to open another path, starting from Clavis Artis.

The author of Clavis Artis is unknown. He claims that the German translation is based on an Arabic text from the year 1236. Bruno Nardini dates the Clavis Artis in the 17th century. The year 1738 is given in the printed Jena version of the work. The date 1378 in the title page is probably a print error. The seal in the title page clearly points to a rosicrucian provenance: "J.V.S.F.R.O" stands for "J.V.S Frater Rosae[crucis]  Ordinis.

This is not a mistake, 1378 is the claimed birth date of Christian Rosencreuz, an amusing trick with dates.