f86v3: A bird and a Mountain.

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One of the two birds on folio You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is apparently sitting on its nest. So it could well be the alchemical Phoenix.

The Phoenix completes this process of soul development. The Phoenix bird builds its nest which at the same time is its funeral pyre, and then setting it alight cremates itself. But it arises anew from the ashes transformed. Here we have captured the alchemists experience of spiritualisation, He has integrated his being so much, that he is no longer dependent upon his physical body as a foundation for his being. He now stands upon the sureness of the spiritual - he has in this sense attained the Philosopher's Stone, the Spiritual core of his being.

source: The Birds in Alchemy by Adam McLean

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