The Magical Gate - The Porta Alchemica

Saturn/Lead: “When in your house black crows give birth to white doves, then will you be called wise.”

Jupiter/Tin: “The diameter of the sphere, the tau in the circle, and the cross of the globe bring no joy to the blind.”

Mars/Iron: “He who can burn with water and wash with fire makes a heaven of earth and a precious earth of heaven.”

Venus/Bronze: “If you make the earth fly upside down, with its wings you may convert torrential waters to stone.”

Mercury: “When azoth and fire whiten Latona, Diana comes unclothed.”

Antimony: “Our dead son lives, returns from the fire a king, and enjoys occult conjugation.”

On the base, Vitriol: “It is an occult work of true wisdom to open the earth, so that it may generate salvation for the people.”

These seven keys unlock deep insight into the mysterious nature of life

the 7 esoteric aspects which manifest in all experience and correspond to all other mystical symbolism regarding the one plus six.

These mysterious messages are inscribed on the Porta Alchemica, a real physical location in Rome which I was lucky enough to visit. It is covered with alchemical secrets !

To every planet is associated a watertight maxim, to read from the bottom up to right in order to come down from above on the left, according the direction indicated from the Hebrew maxim "Ruach Elohim".

Around the circle at top: “The center is in the triangle of the center.” Also: “There are three marvels: God and man, mother and virgin, triune and one.” The Hebrew inscription, Ruach Elohim, means “Spirit of God.” Beneath it: “A dragon guards the entrance of the magic garden of the Hesperides, and, without Hercules, Jason would not have tasted the delights of Colchis.”

read more here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porta_Alchemica

or here

http://roma.andreapollett.com/S1/roma-c20.htm

(Saturn = lead)		(Jupiter = tin)
QVANDO IN TVA DOMO NIGRI CORVI PARTVRIENT ALBAS COLVMBAS TVNC VOCABERIS SAPIENS "when in your house black crows will give birth to white doves, then you will be called a sage"		DIAMETER SPHAERAE THAV CIRCVLI CRVX ORBIS NON ORBIS PROSVNT "the sphere's diameter, the circle's tau, the globe's cross, are of no use to the blind"
(Mars = iron)		(Venus = copper)
QUI SCIT COMBVRERE AQVA ET LAVARE IGNE FACIT DE TERRA CAELVM ET DE CAELO TERRAM PRETIOSAM "who knows how to burn with water and to wash with fire, can turn the earth into the sky, and the sky into precious earth"		SI FECERIS VOLARE TERRAM SVPER CAPVT TVVM EIVS PENNIS AQVAS TORRENTVM CONVERTES IN PETRAM "if you make the earth fly over your head, with its vapours you will turn the streaming water into stone"
(Mercury = mercury)		(Sun = Apollo = gold)
AZOT ET IGNIS DEALBANDO LATONAM VENIET SINE VESTE DIANA "as Latona will be whitened by mercury and by fire, Diana will come undressed"		FILIUS NOSTER MORTVVS VIVIT REX AB IGNE REDIT ET CONIVGIO GAVDET OCCVLTO "our dead son lives, he returns from fire as a king, and rejoices over the conceiled mating" All the mottos refer to the achievement of alchemic knowledge, and to the need of being initiated in order to discern (otherwise "is of no use to the blind"). Some of them use highly symbolic allegories and figures of speech, such as the last two, whose meanings are: "as matter (Latona) will be purified by mercury and fire, silver (Diana) will reveal itself", and "by being born again from their own ashes (the dead son that lives, returning from fire as a phoenix), spirit and matter come together as one, as a result of an alchemic wedding, i.e. the coming together of a natural principle and its opposite (the conceiled mating)". The lower part of the frame [8] bears the symbol of the monad, the ultimate unit of being, and a further text: EST OPVS OCCVLTVM VERI  VT GERMINET SOPHI APERIRE TERRAM  SALVTEM PRO POPVLO "it is the secret deed of the true sage to open the earth, so to make salvation germinate for the people"