Oswald Wirth
THE ROYAL SIREN OF BASIL VALENTINE
Her breasts pour forth blood (column J)
and milk (column 
.
She swims in the Ocean of which she is the source.
(The Prime Matter from which everything is formed). [Le Livre de L' Apprenti, c. 1927 by Oswald Wirth]
"The reduction of bodies to the prime matter."
Thesaurus thesaurorum, ca. 1775. Yale University Library
The King and the Queen symbolize the male and female principles (sulfur and mercury) that must be united, while the bath signifies the process of dissolution or "washing" (solutio), and the descending bird (dove) typically symbolizes the spirit or the process of animation (quickening) of the matter.
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