Atalanta Fugiens

Fugue 1: The Wind Has Carried It In His Belly

Fugue 2: Its Nurse Is The Earth

Fugue 3: Go To The Woman Washing Sheets, And Do Thou Likewise

Fugue 4: Join Brother To Sister And Hand Them The Cup Of Love

Fugue 5: Put A Toad To The Breasts Of A Woman, And Nurse It; The Woman May Die, But The Toad Grows Big From The Milk

Fugue 6: Sow Your Gold In The White Foliated Earth

Fugue 7: There Is A Chick, Flying Up From Its Nest, That Falls Back Into The Nest Again

Fugue 8: Take The Egg And Pierce It With A Fiery Sword

Fugue 9: Lock The Tree With The Old Man In A Bedewed House, And By Eating Of Its Fruit He Will Become Young

Fugue 10: Give Fire To Fire, Mercury To Mercury, And It Is Enough For You

Fugue 11: Make Latona White And Tear Up The Books

Fugue 12: The Stone That Saturn Vomited Up, After Having Devoured It In Place Of His Son, Jupiter, Has Been Placed On Helicon As A Monument For Mortals

Fugue 13: The Ore Of The Philosophers Is Dropsical, And Needs To Be Washed Seven Times In The River, Just As The Leper Naaman In The Jordan

Fugue 14: This Is The Dragon Devouring Its Own Tail

Fugue 15: Let The Work Of The Potter, Consisting Of The Dry And The Wet, Teach You

Fugue 16: This Lion Has No Feathers; The Other Has

Fugue 17: A Fourfold Wheel Rules This Fiery Work

Fugue 18: Fire Loves To Make Fire, But Not To Make Gold, As Gold Does

Fugue 19: If You Kill One Of The Four, All Will Be Dead Immediately

Fugue 20: Nature Teaches Nature To Overcome The Fire

Fugue 21: Make A Circle Around Man And Woman, Then A Square, Now A Triangle; Make A Circle, And You Will Have The Philosophers’ Stone

Fugue 22: When You Have The White Lead, Do The Women’s Work, That Is, Cook

Fugue 23: Gold Rains Down, As Pallas Is Born On Rhodes, And The Sun Lies With Venus

Fugue 24: The Wolf Devoured The King, And When Burned, It Returned Him To Life.

Fugue 25: The Dragon Will Not Die, Unless It Be Killed By Its Brother And Sister, Who Are Sol And Luna

Fugue 26: The Fruit Of Human Wisdom Is The Tree Of Life

Fugue 27: He Who Tries To Enter The Philosophic Rose-Garden Without A Key Is Like A Man Wanting To Walk Without Feet.

Fugue 28: The King Is Bathed, Sitting In A Steam-Bath, And Is Freed From Black Bile By Pharut

Fugue 29: Like The Salamander, The Stone Lives In The Fire

Fugue 30: The Sun Needs The Moon, As The Cock Needs The Hen

Fugue 31: The King Swims In The Sea, Crying With A Loud Voice: ‘He Who Rescues Me Shall Have A Mighty Reward!’

Fugue 32: As Coral Grows Under Water And Hardens In The Air, So Does The Stone

Fugue 33: The Hermaphrodite, Like A Corpse, Lying In The Dark, Needs Fire

Fugue 34: He Is Conceived In The Bath And Born In The Air, But When He Is Made Red He Steps Over The Waters

Fugue 35: As Ceres Accustomed Triptolemus To Stay In The Fire, And Thetis Achilles, So The Master Does To The Stone

Fugue 36: The Stone Is Projected Onto The Land, And Exalted In The Mountains, And Lives In The Air, And Feeds In The River, That Is, Mercury

Fugue 37: Three Things Suffice For The Mastery: White Smoke, That Is, Water; The Green Lion, That Is The Ore Of Hermes; And Foetid Water

Fugue 38: The Rebis, Like The Hermaphrodite, Is Born From Two Mountains, Those Of Mercury And Venus

Fugue 39: Oedipus, Having Overcome The Sphinx And Murdered Laius His Father, Takes His Mother To Wife

Fugue 40: From Two Waters Make One, And It Will Be The Water Of Holiness

Fugue 41: Adonis Is Slain By A Boar, And As Venus Runs Up, She Tinctures The Roses With Her Blood

Fugue 42: From Him Versed In Chemistry, Let Nature, Reason, Experience And Reading Be His Guide, Staff, Spectacles And Lamp

Fugue 43: Hear The Garrulous Vulture, Who In No Wise Deceives You

Fugue 44: Typhon Kills Osiris By Trickery, And Scatters His Members Far And Wide, But The Renowned Isis Collects Them

Fugue 45: The Sun And Its Shadows Complete The Work

Fugue 46: Two Eagles Meet, One From The East, The Other From The West

Fugue 47: The Wolf Coming From The East And The Dog Coming From The West Have Bitten Each Other

Fugue 48: The King, Sick From Drinking The Waters, Is Cured By The Physicians And Regains His Health

Fugue 49: The Philosophic Child Acknowledges Three Fathers, Like Orion

Fugue 50: The Dragon Kills The Woman, And She Him, And Together They Are Soaked In Blood