Rerum divinarum et humanarum (“Of Things Divine and Human”) is a lost work attributed to Marcos the Mage, known through fragments. Its emblem: by it quills are dipped in Blood and swords in ink — writing and fighting as one craft.
| Type | Work (lost) |
| Spanish entry | Rerum divinarum et humanarum |
The emblem is pictured as a quill in a bowl of blood beside a sword wet with ink. It shares its opening prayer with the Ludus Umbrarum of Paulus of Alexandria: “The dead do not live, the shadows do not rise, though you played it and then living cut it from your memory.”
The fragment
- A sage from the East has an Egyptian priest explain the hieroglyphs of Memphis and Thebes, which remember Ramses of Africa and Graz’zt of Ethiopia, and founding heroes Elisteo of Greek Thebes and the Unnameable of deep Orcish Turkey.
- Two hundred years of wandering after the confusion of tongues.
- Two hundred Watchers descended to Ardis, in Antiterra, swearing under anathema on the summit they named Hermon.
- After the flood, Zeus or Jupiter, later Faragod “by Zaragoza,” is worshiped; sleeping gods wake on the Astral Plane.
- Prometheus, also Dou-Frome, steals the Sun’s fire and the secrets of duality.
- Knowledge passes from Zoroaster to the founders of the invisible cities; Hermes Trismegistus passed his to Diaprepes of Atlantis.