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← ExitThe Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I
The Sun Moon and Mercury
mercury's sulfurous vapors. The ancients depicted these through riders armed with breastplates of fire, sulfur and hyacinth, mounted upon horses vomiting fire and flames, with lions' heads and serpents' tails. This single combat against this monster encompasses all the others because it represents the image of them all. Finally these troops of riders and this bloody slaughter of massacred people signify the extermination of foreign colors arising from mercury's remaining foreign moisture. For the color acting within it produces every color in the world, like a peacock's tail, and raises vapors more venomous and deadly than the monsters we have mentioned. At last, once the moisture is consumed, they are extinguished and end in whiteness, which we shall discuss sufficiently in the following chapter.
The Celestial Horsemen

Three mounted figures above an assembly below. Scan 247.
