SYMBOLS - OCCULT ART - ROSICRUCIANS - THE FALL One of a series of influential occult engravings by William Law, in explication of the principles in the arcane thought of the Rosicrucian, Jacob Boehme, from The Works of Jacob Behmen, The Teutonic Theosopher, Vol 1, 1764. Plate 9 illustrates the Fall of Adam, into the darkness of Satan. The tie with Sophia (the upper S) is severed, because Adam has elected to forsake her: Sophia sends down a pleromic light, but is unable to save Adam. He has 'lost whatsoever was good and desirable both in himself and round about him. He lies as dead, on the outmost Borders of the Spirit of this World. Like Sophia, the planets and all the stars, pour down their radiance, as though to support and aid Adam, who is now in danger of being swallowed up in the belly of dark Satan. The quotations are from William Law's An Illustration of the Deep Principles of Jacob Behmen, the Teutonic Theosopher.