Thuileur Thirty Three Degrees Scottish Rite Ancient Accepted

Thuileur Thirty Three Degrees Scottish Rite Ancient Accepted

A detailed alchemical or esoteric engraving featuring symbolic religious and mystical imagery arranged around a central pyramid. The composition includes various occult symbols such as a menorah, cherub figures, serpents, celestial bodies, vessels, and architectural elements rendered in classical woodcut or etching style.

engraving alchemy symbolism pyramid menorah serpent cherub mystical religious iconography occult
mysterious esoteric

General Description · Claude Haiku 4.5

The triangle at the top of the image reads 'Thuileur de l'Ecossisme', which matches the title of Delaulnaye's Scottish Rite degree manual. The engraving shows Masonic and esoteric emblems: a pyramid, the serpent on a tau cross (the brazen serpent), the sun and moon, a winged cherub with a caduceus, a menorah, a square and compasses, a molten sea borne on oxen, and a lamb on an altar. These emblems are consistent with the allegorical frontispiece of that work. The line-engraving style suggests an early 19th-century French print, apparently reproduced from a later secondary source. The Getty Images / Universal Images Group watermark and ID number 113629744 indicate stock-archive distribution. No plate number or page number is visible, and no publisher imprint appears, so the exact edition is not confirmed.

Thuileur des trente-trois degrés de l'Écossisme du rit ancien, dit accepté
François-Henri-Stanislas Delaulnaye · 1813 (original edition; later reprints 1821 and after)
Delaulnaye / Dufart, Paris
Frontispiece (allegorical plate)
Reproduction distributed by Getty Images / Universal Images Group (image no. 113629744)

Source Identification · Claude Opus 5