Agrippa taught that the stars do not act on the world directly. Their virtues descend through the spiritus mundi, the spirit of the world, a subtle medium that carries the power of each celestial body into stone, metal and flesh. Lévi and Papus later called it the Astral Light: the great invisible agent in which all forms are written before they appear.
Here that medium becomes visible. Jeweled instruments hang through the three worlds, from the elemental, through the celestial, to the intellectual. A red sun and pale moon pour out their rays, and golden lines carry each influence across the dark. The relics catch it, as Paracelsus’s Archeus catches the stars and turns them into life.
At the centre, wreathed in flame, is the eye of the One, the point Fludd drew in his diagrams, where every ray begins and returns.
As above, so below.
