Atalanta Fugiens · Emblem XXXVII
Tria sufficiunt ad magisterium, fumus albus, hoc est, aqua, leo viridis, id est, aes Hermetis, et aqua foetida.
Three things are enough for the mastery: white smoke, that is, water; the green lion, that is, the bronze of Hermes; and the stinking water.
Emblem XXXVII
Three ingredients, one of them foul. The work does not wait for everything to be pleasant.
A question to carry
Which unpleasant ingredient are you refusing to include?
Emblem of the day
Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens (1618), with the Latin motto, a translation and a reading for each plate.
Engraving in the public domain.