Atalanta Fugiens · 1618 · Emblem VI
Seminate aurum vestrum in terram albam foliatam.
Sow your gold in the white, leafy earth.
Gold kept in a box stays gold. Gold sown in prepared, whitened earth can multiply. The value has to be planted, and only after the ground is ready.
What are you guarding that needs to be planted?
Michael Maier, Atalanta Fugiens (Oppenheim, 1618). Engraving in the public domain. Motto transcribed from the 1618 edition; translation and reading by The Hermetic School. All the emblems.