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The Marriage of Philology and Mercury - Maid 6
Identifier
010692
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
It is quite fun to compare this picture with a similar picture in The Nuremberg Chronicles - see The Hairy woman! Here, in this picture, there is no doubt that the picture shows spiritual energy pouring forth in great abundance. As sexual energy was absolutely key to many forms of spiritual experience this may well be what is being shown - the build up of sexual energy ready for the final push [so to speak] via sex magick or sexual stimulation.
Even if this is not what is being described, then the figure is charged with a great deal of spiritual energy - the heat of the mystic.