Templar Degrees & Kadosh

This hand-colored emblem, titled 'PHILOSOPHIA HERMETICA', features the 'pelican in its piety', a powerful symbol of self-sacrifice and alchemical transformation. Below the pelican sits a square base adorned with four roses, suggesting a connection to Rosicrucian thought, which the author Karl Gottlob Anton explores in relation to the Knights Templar. The sun's rays descending from above signify divine illumination and the attainment of hidden knowledge.

This emblem, titled 'Philosophia Hermetica', displays central symbols of the alchemical and Rosicrucian traditions. The pelican feeding its young with its own blood represents self-sacrifice and the transformative process, while the four roses below suggest the intersection of the spiritual and material worlds.