Signum Praetiosissimum Rosea et Aureae Crucis
Front (in the four corners): God, Eternity, Man, Time
No. 1 (Front side):
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit — Is one single God an is so called. He has begotten for us Jesus Christ, from His own essence and eternal Light. He descended into this world, and His corporeal birth He Himself has ordained.
Fire (in hexagram) God
No. 1 (Reverse side):
God dwells in a light into which no one can come, whom no human being has seen, nor can see. (1 Timothy 6) No one has ever seen God, except for the Son; he has declared to us that God is Light and Spirit. (John 4 and John 1:6) No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son, and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him. (Matthew 11)
No. 2 (Front side):
Son, together with Father and with Spirit, He is called a single God and Man, because the Word was made flesh, and is triune in time, and also in eternity; He remains one single God and Man. (Colossians 2; John 10, 12, 14, 17)
Water (in hexagram) Word
No. 2 (Reverse side):
God, in Christ, reconciled the world to Himself. (2 Cor. 5) God has bought His church through His own blood. (Acts 20) God was put to death according to the flesh, but made alive according to the Spirit. (1 Peter 3 and 4) The Lord of Glory was crucified. (1 Cor. 2) The Prince of Life was killed. (Acts 3)
No. 3 (Front side):
God is an eternal Spirit, from whom all things flow; He gives His Son to the world in the flesh, and yet remains God for eternity, and rules over the heavenly and earthly kingdoms.
Quintessence (in hexagram) Tincture.
No. 3 (Reverse side):
He preserved what already existed, and took up what did not exist. (John, Matthew, and Luke 1)
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No. 4 (Front side):
Holy Spirit, together with Father and Son, both here and on the throne of Heaven, proceeds from the Father and Son, and is yet one Spirit, one God, one Father, one Christ, and the Son of Man, in time and in the eternal dwelling of Heaven. (John 14)
Air (in hexagram) Nature
No. 4 (Reverse side):
No one ascends to Heaven, except the Son of Man, who has come down from Heaven. (John 5) actually John 3 He who was also conceived by the Holy Spirit. (Matthew 2; Luke 1) For what is born of the Spirit remains Spirit. (John 3) All sins and blasphemies will be forgiven to men, but blasphemy against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven. (Matthew 12)
No. 5 (Front side):
A and O. Jesus Christ, God and Man, has come into the world from Heaven as Spirit, and in time became flesh, a new creature, as St. Paul says, through whom all is made new again, and who feeds us and our souls with His flesh for eternity.
Earth (in hexagram) Creature
No. 5 (Reverse side):
All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. (Matthew 28) In Christ dwells the whole fullness of the Godhead bodily. (Col. 2) This is my beloved Son; in whom I am well pleased; Listen to him. (Matthew 3)