SYMBOLISM - The Green Lion devouring the sun was the alchemical symbol for the consummation of the Red Stone preparation for Prima Materia or symbol is a metaphor for vitriol (the green lion) purifying matter (the sun), so as to leave behind proposed that lions always represent primitive, turbulent, psychological states in the human life cycle or psyche.

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