Filius philosophorum
The (Latin for "the philosophers' child", i.e. made by the true students of philosophy) is a symbol in alchemy. In some texts it is equated with the philosopher's stone (), but in others it assumes its own symbolic meanings. Other terms for the include ("child of wisdom"), ("our child"), ("sun child"), ("moon child"), and ("sun moon child"). There are several images that have been used to represent the . Among these are the transformed hermaphroditic Hermes, the child of the Red King and the White Queen (the Sun and Moon), the child of the egg, and the three-fathered Orion. The was also one of the Jungian archetypes analyzed by the Swiss psychologist. References Alchemical symbols