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The 'Monas Hieroglphica' (one glyph) is an emblem proposed orignally by Athanasius Kircher and expnded on by Dr. John Dee for his sixteenth century treatise on the creation of a mystical symbolic language of the same name. The figure is based on the egyptian Ankh and contains symbols of the seven planets/alchemical metals:

The sign of Aries:

A cross representing the four primal elements:

The sign of Sol, the sun:

A lunar crescent:

The symbol appears in other places, notably, the "Speculum Veritatis," or Mirror of truth, an alchemical text.

Kircher's diagram of the Monad

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