Anatomia Auri, the anatomy of gold, the name Johann Daniel Mylius gave to his last treatise, dedicated to the concordance between the Sun of heaven and the gold of earth, and to the medicine that is derived from that metal. At the edge of the night, a hand enters, the rosy rim of gold and the white palm reaching down, the back of the palm facing the cup, and along its fingers the sign of Mercury is shown in gold. From the tip of the index finger a drop of blood falls. To the left the sun burns with a face, to the right the blue moon watches its rise, and between the two the drop falls, enters the mouth of the cup, crosses the neck and reaches the water, where it dissolves into two red threads that curl and disappear, the tinture giving way to the waters. Inside the frame, a golden fish with a golden crown on its head, the royalty of the metal alive and hidden in the wet, the king that breathes under the water and receives the blood that sustains him. The hand gives of its own, and from that drop the gold drinks. At the bottom of the cup, wild roses of five petals with their thorns are interwoven, the flower of the work kept among thorns, and in the middle the ribbon with its name. The whole blade shows that gold has body, blood and soul, that it can open and be known by inside as a living creature, and that no one can reach its crown without first dropping a drop of their own in the water where it dwells.
