Allegory and the Emerald Tablet
By Michael Pearce

Medieval and Renaissance-era alchemical imagery was often written and illustrated in the rich language of allegory. Allegories are strings of metaphors (a metaphor is a figure of speech or an image in which one thing stands for another) combined together to provide wisdom about a topic—frequently moral, religious, or esoteric. A painting or sculpture of a blindfolded woman holding a sword and a set of scales is an allegorical image of justice. Parables are literary allegories. The roots of the allegorical tree stretch deeply into the ancient, and even prehistoric, past.
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