Artwork Description:
By this point in the alchemical operation, the interaction of a symbol the seal with the light has retroactively affected both. This interaction has broken the seal causing a watery flux to issue from it. The watery flux which is draining away is the source for the blooming rose. Just as the flux affects the seal from which it issues, the seal affects the flux with its latent image (reflected in the squared base). The light is also taking on real form that of the rose which is central to this stage of the work.